Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2020
Posts: 20
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Hello fellow HLO users,
I just had an exchange with support since I thought players not being able to do character profession is a bug but it seems to be an intended limitations for Demo accounts even in a campaign shared with Patron sharing. I would like to ask for suggestions of how to make a point for players why they should pay for HLO. Let me start with a bit of background, I as a GM enjoy HLO, it's a nice interface, as I'm working in software myself I can stomach the bugs and where there are missing features I see a potential of what HLO can become when it continues to grow. So I got a Patron subscription bought the CRB and suggested my players to make a account and join the campaign - that's a easy sell, yes it's a new account no one lines that, but it makes my life as GM easier to be able to quickly brows peoples Sheets and I hope that with time HLO can replace tools like roll20. Turns out I was wrong, you can't invite players "for free" into a Patron campaign, I mean you can but even for campaign owned characters their abilities are limited to creating a character but not adding journal entries or other progression tasks. Now I got to have the discussion with my group why they should pay money for HLO. And if I put myself in the shoes of a player I come up blank. I tried to argue this out with myself and It pretty much goes like this: GM (me trying to argue for HLO): + I can look at your sheets easily. + It looks nice? Player (me imagining I'm asked to pay money as a player): - I got to pay money. - Not using HLO I could save one login since still got to have a roll20, and a discord account anyway. - Genesis lets me build characters for free with a nicer final sheet. - I need to buy the CRB anyway. - It's beta software why do I need to pay money for that? - You can also just look at PDFs if you want our sheets. - HLO is quite buggy. So I hope to outsource some ideas to improve this conversation to the favor of why HLO for a player? |
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