A VTT is one of those online applications intended to allow people to play tabletop games remotely, the way a teleconference takes the place of a face-to-face meeting. It’s not surprising to hear similar comments about using a virtual tabletop (VTT) to play an RPG. The new thing is easy to regard as an ersatz version of the old. So movies started off being made like filmed stage-plays until cinematography developed its own technical idiom, early television resembled vaudeville, and even writing was suspect, at least to thinkers like Socrates, because in addition to potentially pernicious effects on memory, it mimicked the form of conversational dialogue without the same degree of responsiveness between speaker and listener. When a new medium–a new mode of communicating, I mean–begins to enter widespread use, people often start off by treating it as a special case of an older medium, and not necessarily a better one.
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