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My husband adores Tabletop Simulator for D&D, especially because you can import every model under the sun.

He has little Dorito bags and tiny Shrek figures. Seriously, wide selection.

On the flip side, we tried it, and it was a huge hassle for our DM to create levels every time, to the point where we couldn't meet as often because of how fiddly creating the levels was. On the players' side, it the UI was dog-slow and clunky as well, so we went back to Roll20.net, though that's not great either.

Check out Foundry VTT[0] -- I've been using it since release and so far it has been a much better experience than Roll20. Plus it has a pay-once-and-own-the-product-forever model, and you can easily self-host your own server.

[0] https://foundryvtt.com/

That looks great, thanks! Our GM wanted us to use a VTT that was in development a few months ago (saw it on a reddit announcement), not sure if it's this one. I think his was 3D, but this looks great, thanks again.

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