Hi everyone! I'm trying to get the word out about a new VTT - Standard Action (I'm an admin on the project). I might be a little biased, but I believe it includes features and performance rivaling the best digital roleplaying platforms out there right now. As of today, it supports dynamic lighting, darkvision, drawing tools, customizable chapters, pages, and layers (on the map), live chat, dice rolls, a turn tracker, splitting the party, and much more! Not to mention, it is completely free and browser-based, no downloads. Easy to learn, very lightweight, but remains flexible.
The developer updates the site regularly too, and keeps up with the active community, especially on Discord. If I may humbly ask, if anyone knows of any other ways to expand our out-reach, like any podcasts, publications, content creators, or the like that would be interested in this kind of thing, please let me or them know! The team here at Standard Action sincerely hopes that you give it a try, and looks forward to any feedback!
Hrm, coming from Roll20 (which has its shortcomings), some quick impressions:
1) The starting page showcases a screenshot that demonstrates lighting well, but is quite unimpressive otherwise. If the platform can show more attractive tokens (for characters and room interior), I'd absolutely show them. Personally I don't really mind the uniformly rectangular grey room structure, helps to focus on creatures and object to interact with.
2) It took me a bit to find more information about the platform, since it's located behind the "About" button at the very bottom. Personally, I would move "Acknowledgements" to a less prominent place - sure there are people who deserve being mentioned, but for a new (potential) user other things are more important, like a feature list.
3) Information on individual campaigns is usually sparse, maybe they shouldn't get their own screen but get the details inserted into the campaign list (after clicking a campaign).
4) Personally I'd prefer a good old-fashioned forum over Twitter, Facebook and Discord. I know, different users, different preferences... With my own work I am currently at the point where I consider to offer several social channels, but to copy everything automatically into a single channel (likely a forum). So people can look up everything there, and I can link previous discussions. Maybe software for this already exists.
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Hrm, coming from Roll20 (which has its shortcomings), some quick impressions:
1) The starting page showcases a screenshot that demonstrates lighting well, but is quite unimpressive otherwise. If the platform can show more attractive tokens (for characters and room interior), I'd absolutely show them. Personally I don't really mind the uniformly rectangular grey room structure, helps to focus on creatures and object to interact with.
2) It took me a bit to find more information about the platform, since it's located behind the "About" button at the very bottom. Personally, I would move "Acknowledgements" to a less prominent place - sure there are people who deserve being mentioned, but for a new (potential) user other things are more important, like a feature list.
3) Information on individual campaigns is usually sparse, maybe they shouldn't get their own screen but get the details inserted into the campaign list (after clicking a campaign).
4) Personally I'd prefer a good old-fashioned forum over Twitter, Facebook and Discord. I know, different users, different preferences... With my own work I am currently at the point where I consider to offer several social channels, but to copy everything automatically into a single channel (likely a forum). So people can look up everything there, and I can link previous discussions. Maybe software for this already exists.
Thanks for the feedback! It is much appreciated. Will definitely be looking into these elements :)