I guess my question is, if WotC wants to keep this momentum going of finally entering the digital era in a meaningful way (your acquisition) can you all please ask them to also acquire, "Tactical Adventures" immediately (https://youtu.be/sdfl9SsixUU?t=244)?
I think it would be a huge mistake for WotC to squander years trying to write their own VTT this late in the game when Solasta already has 95% of what Wizards needs right now...a remarkable recreation of 5e (better than Baldur's Gate 3 imo), co-op multiplayer, a dungeon builder, quest builder, etc. Can you imagine mapping all that dndbeyond data over and importing it into Solasta as new character options, creature stat blocks, items, spells, etc? With their native tools, they could easily release a Curse of Strahd type campaign as subscription-based DLC every other month for years and people would eat it up. Throw in some NPC voice acting by the Critical Role cast and fans would be whipped up into a frenzy, paying whatever Hasbro asked.
I personally would love to see a resurgence of the Bioware/Neverwinter Nights persistent world era, running on modern hardware and rules with all that amazing DDB data. Solasta would just need to extend the number of concurrent players (currently 4 max), and add a new gamemaster login role. And once under Hasbro's wing, why stop at a campaign setting nobody's heard of...the Solasta engine could be used to create Abeir-Toril, Exandria, Ebberon, Greyhawk, etc.
So, please tell your parent (and grandparent) companies to seize this very rare opportunity. Finally give your tens of millions of adoring fans what they've been waiting to play for two decades now before a competitor does.
I want to strongly upvote this! Solasta is what my TTDnD group plays when we can't meet in person and it is an amazing recreation of the TTDnD experience. It just needs all the official WOTC content! How amazing would it be if Solasta pulled your purchased content from DnDbeyond for character options just like AboveVTT does!
I feel like there's going to be a lot of questions about how Wizards is going to integrate books etc. with dnd beyond.
I guess my question is, if WotC wants to keep this momentum going of finally entering the digital era in a meaningful way (your acquisition) can you all please ask them to also acquire, "Tactical Adventures" immediately (https://youtu.be/sdfl9SsixUU?t=244)?
I think it would be a huge mistake for WotC to squander years trying to write their own VTT this late in the game when Solasta already has 95% of what Wizards needs right now...a remarkable recreation of 5e (better than Baldur's Gate 3 imo), co-op multiplayer, a dungeon builder, quest builder, etc. Can you imagine mapping all that dndbeyond data over and importing it into Solasta as new character options, creature stat blocks, items, spells, etc? With their native tools, they could easily release a Curse of Strahd type campaign as subscription-based DLC every other month for years and people would eat it up. Throw in some NPC voice acting by the Critical Role cast and fans would be whipped up into a frenzy, paying whatever Hasbro asked.
I personally would love to see a resurgence of the Bioware/Neverwinter Nights persistent world era, running on modern hardware and rules with all that amazing DDB data. Solasta would just need to extend the number of concurrent players (currently 4 max), and add a new gamemaster login role. And once under Hasbro's wing, why stop at a campaign setting nobody's heard of...the Solasta engine could be used to create Abeir-Toril, Exandria, Ebberon, Greyhawk, etc.
So, please tell your parent (and grandparent) companies to seize this very rare opportunity. Finally give your tens of millions of adoring fans what they've been waiting to play for two decades now before a competitor does.
Thanks!
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I want to strongly upvote this! Solasta is what my TTDnD group plays when we can't meet in person and it is an amazing recreation of the TTDnD experience. It just needs all the official WOTC content! How amazing would it be if Solasta pulled your purchased content from DnDbeyond for character options just like AboveVTT does!
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