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Professional Use of VTTs, Including Therapeutic TRPGs

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We are huge advocates for using technologies to improve lives and user experiences. Our founding goes back to the late 1970s, including being online since 1979, including using technologies to enhance the RPG experience, and researching the effects of role-playing games since 1983. VTTs are an excellent tool for enhancing the use of tabletop games for entertainment purposes (goal being to entertain an audience, rather than just the game participants). However, unfortunately for recreational use, we have found after decades of best-efforts trying to make technologies enhance the TRPG experience and efficacy, the overwhelming data keeps pointing back to the Keep It Simple (KISS) principle. The use of VTTs enhance entertainment of audiences, but reduces enjoyment for recreational participants, such as the actual players and GM in TRPGs for example. HIPAA Compliance and Lack of Privacy or Security We have found the most effective use of technologies for TRPG sessions in entertainment, education, recreation, and therapeutic programs, and the information below lays out where VTTs best fit into such programs. VTTs can be VERY helpful for various populations with special needs (such as Deaf and Hard of hearing, Aphantasia, etc.). Unfortunately current VTTs are completely lacking in this area, very weak (or non-existent) privacy or security designs. Regarding HIPAA (USA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and similar privacy protection laws around the world, except for the technologies that allow you to run and host yourself, there are no HIPAA-compliant VTTs.Įven the ones that you can host yourself need to be audited and modified to remove telemetry, enhance privacy and security settings, add layers of encryptions, etc.

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We have found that most VTTs do indeed send some kind of telemetry information, and, except for the ancient SuiteGM, we have not (yet) found a single VTT that can be HIPAA compliant without significant technical knowledge to shoehorn it into some form of compliance.Īs we raise awareness about this need for HIPAA-compliant VTTs, we hope that we can update this page with HIPAA-compliant VTTs in the future. Enjoyment, Immersion, Flow, and/or Efficacy Campaign cartographer 3 free download softpedia update# Regarding enjoyment, immersion, flow, and/or efficacy (the impact of noted effects from participation in the activity), mileage will vary with specific clients, programs, and goals, but overall in general we found that as we have experimented with a long list of VTTs over the decades (including building some of our own back in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s), ultimately we find that, on the average, the technologies interfere more often than help. Keep in mind we are strong advocates for using technologies to help improve lives whenever possible (see our Brain-Computer Interface Role-Playing Game Project, for example). Ultimately we keep finding that that for recreational, educational, and therapeutic programs, going back to basics and keeping it as simple as possible leads to better and more consistent overall results, more enjoyable experiences, and more frequent immersion and flow state experiences. One big exception is for entertainment programs, _then_ the VTTs are MUCH better for the enjoyment of the audience.This includes streaming and similar methods of delivery for audience enjoyment. After more than 25 years of using various VTTs on and off, with hundreds of groups, we have found the simpler approach best for anyone participation in the normal recreational use of tabletop games, especially RPGs. This is even more notable for therapeutic programs efficacy.

We have found the most effective and most enjoyable approach to delivering tabletop games, especially TRPGs, is just using multiple webcams with good lighting, bandwidth, video and audio, pointed at people's faces, and whtitboard/maps/battlemat and/or screen-shared maps/images through various video conferencing apps (we prefer Jitsi) ( BEWARE OF ZOOM AND THEIR LONG LIST OF VIOLATIONS ON SECURITY AND PRIVACY).

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