TaleSpire

The concept is great. The map building is something you could do just for fun-- and spend hours doing it. Which, if you are actually building maps for a campaign (and not just for wow factor) is a massive time investment. Playing a game on it is rather clunky - no fog of war, awkward camera navigation, and forget players going off script -it is nearly impossible for a DM to improvise a new 3D scene in the middle of a session. While Talespire wins on visuals, it lacks the integration of a 5e system available in other VTTs. Unlike others, which have deep library of systems (D&D, Pathfinder, etc.), TaleSpire is a "dumb" sandbox. It doesn’t know your AC, your feats, or your spell save DC. The WORST thing is --TaleSpire requires EVERY SINGLE PLAYER to buy their own copy! Unlike others where only the DM needs to pay. And everyone will need a high end PC to handle the graphics. No tablet or low-end laptops will do. Talespire is a massive financial investment for a group compared to other online D&D programs (many of which have free tiers), and you're paying more for less functionality and more manual math. Lastly, TaleSpire will not integrate with other games as a mapmaker. There is no official "Export" button in Talespire. Meaining, If i build a fabulous map, I cannot import it to other online platforms natively. I have to use plug ins, or take a top down screenshot, and even then, they do not animate (unless you use a video on loop as a .webm file). There is also the issue of violating TaleSpire's Terms of Service if you attempt to export a 3d model for use elsewhere. Bottom line, this is an expensive "art tool" to make your map's background. There are other map making programs right here on steam that will allow me to build a great animated map, and click "export". The developers made TaleSpire to be a closed system rather than a map-making utility, which prevents it from integrating with industry-standard VTTs. If you are a real TTRPG DM/player, this is not for you. If you just like making pretty maps, cark dungeons, and cool castles, maybe you will like it.

Seats cost way too much. great toolset, but a party of 4+DM pay at least 70€. that's a lot of money for software that has no ruleset integration from any ttrpg.

Pro's: - The medium is cool and pretty simple to use. The 3D aspect is so fun especially if players are not super into theater of the mind. The strongest feature this game has is that assets can be uploaded from things like Heroforge and blender and they become published so even if you don't know how to use that stuff you can use community uploaded assets to make maps. - Cinematic mode where it freezes everyones control, then you can make the players see a preset, pre-setup camera angle and the GM controls the minis for the "cinematic" is just so fun to use. -GM control blocks invisible to the players to quickly control, time of day, music, atmosphere, fog, ambience the whole 9. - If you lack creativity or just don't want to go through the effort of making your own map. There are THOUSANDS of uploaded dungeon pieces, buildings, floors, layouts etc you can just pick up and plop into your game in a pinch. - There is in-game dice that you literally throw and the game logs your rolls. You can save dice combos so if you know you're doing to be using firebolt a lot and are sick of clicking 2 d10's all the time you can just move it into the action bar at the bottom and just click it, dice preloaded. This is helpful later in the game when you're chucking lots of dice. - There are also free in-game plugins called symbiotes and some of them are quite powerful, my personal favourite is the 5e ruleset that allows in-game character sheets and auto rolls when you click on spells just like roll20 and D&D Beyond. Your friends can play in your campaigns for free with the Guest edition. Cons: - Maps take forever to make on your own, - It is quite a pricey entry fee with the game itself being 25 dollars and then to host 4 seats it costs 8-12 dollars a seat. So either your friends can buy talespire themselves or you're forking it out for seats and to be honest, for a player only type of person, it's not really worth buying it themselves, they should just paypal the GM the 12 dollars for their seat. Thankfully the seats can be moved from campaign to campaign and its not restrictive. - The UI is a little unintuitive in a lot of spots but is definitely not impossible to learn - Occasional bugs - can't upload your own soundtracks or sounds like roll20 it's a solid way to play, especially for one-shots with community assets.

Этому приложению нужна возможность подгружать свою собственную музыку, или хотя бы запускать для всех музыку с ютуба.

Foundry VTT is better because you don't to buy "Seats" to play with your friends. Also it's been 5 years and still no native character sheet and 3D model creator.

Pros === Fun to build with, if you like legos or 3d modeling. Visuals and atmosphere keeps players engaged. Talespire makes it possible to build maps a DM could only dream of. Massive, moody sets with way more options for vertical environments and all the possibilities of tactics in 3D space! Changing the "weather", because ramping up the tension with a shift in the atmosphere creates more impactful moments.. Volumetric fog is cool. Cons === Getting all your players to make the purchase is rough. Personally, I think they should have a free "spectator" version, to get people intrigued.

Just use Foundry VTT instead. Didn't realise I would have to pay for each player I want to play with. Greedy devs. Map maker is good. Community content is good. Other useful features are non existent.