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Andy Collins on linkedin - 90% of developers of the project sigil VTT laid off (www.linkedin.com)
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I posted a rumor link on this last night, and removed it because I wasn't sure of the source; looks like we have a firm source about it now, though, guess project sigil is effectively dead.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I believe you that it could have worked. Many people seem happy to go with easy even if it's worse in many ways. Sometimes that's fine and the trade-off is worth it. I don't compile all my software from source.

Making DND more like a video game seems really sad to me, and I wouldn't want to take the poison pill. But I guess that's like looking at the Internet and longing for when it was free hobby stuff while most people just want Facebook.

I like to think people would be like "wait, this sucks, we can't go off the rails?" but I think most people's expectations are lower. They'd be happy with DND as board game.