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I believe you don't need to use D&D rules I'd be down to use it with any NON Scatchiverse games. I believe those games have far too much of s tradition to be played on anything that it isn't Fabletop! Though I'm always open to Roll20

I already have a Roll20 acct. I made one real quick almost a year ago just to see how it was. It's okay.

You don't need to use established rulesets. There is a chat in the program that uses any Dice Macros you want to set up. I think all the basic ones are already set up.

Archiving the chat log is a big concern for me. As long as whatever we use can do that, I'm pretty much good with it.

There needs to be made a differentiation between "system" and "interface" here. Fabtletop is both. Roll20 is an interface by default that you can plug systems into. Games that are already running using Fabletop rules should obviously be kept there. Otherwise, in theory, I don't see much of a problem with using another interface for games that use different systems. Particularly if that interface is more robust.

That said, I can't be sure R20 is more robust until we've playtested a session or two in it. It seems like it is. I don't care about Freemium. I have no particular hatred against the model and I don't have any particular temptation to buy in. The free account seems more than adequate. There's a big shared player space where you can chunk down images and minis and track changes to them with flyouts and all that but you don't necessarily HAVE to use every option. So, like, I don't see planning as a big issue either. It's just an extra option, I think.

To be clear, I love FT. So I think, going forward, it should be our default. If you don't already have another system in mind.

Christ, that's all very rambly.

Erm...

Concerns: Chat Archival, Player Slots.
FT games using FT rules stay FT.
R20 or other interfaces are fine for games using a diff system if they meet concerns.