We're sure there are many different ideas out there, but we'll just tell you what it means to us. As Gamers ourselves, we've seen time after time members of our game groups move out of town, go into the military, get so busy they can't even make the trip from across town, have family responsibilities that keep them home, etc., etc., etc. One by one the group dwindles and eventually dies. We'd be willing to bet you've probably seen the same thing happen in your groups at some time or another.

So for us, an Online Virtual Tabletop first and foremost allows folks to play their tabletop games with their group, no matter where they are or when it's happening. Of course there are a few more things that we think are important for an Online Virtual Tabletop:

• It has to make you feel like you're really there,in the same room, with the other players
   
• The software has to take a back seat to the group interaction - meaning its so simple, easy to use and non-distracting, you pretty much forget it's there
   
• It's preferable if it's Game Rule Agnostic, meaning you can play any kind of tabletop RPG you want

Now to make software simple and non-distracting while giving you a sense that you're physically with your group, it actually takes more complex programming - and that's just what we've done with iTabletop Pandoren.

• Use iTabletop Pandoren because it lets you connect with your group, whether all the members are connected virtually from separate locations, or whether you're connecting to a group of folks in a local game sitting around a real table. 
   
• Use it because it offers a face-to-face web cam connection, so you can see your group and joke around and have fun the same way you'd do it if you were there. The only thing you can't do is pass the pizza but we're working on that.
   
• Use it because you can easily upload your maps, PDF rule books, character sheets, character tokens, creepy music and sound effects, and even video cut scenes - and keep them securely on the iTabletop Pandoren cloud servers. Your files load lightning fast because they're cached in the United States (Virginia, Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, Washington and Missouri), Europe (Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt and London), and Asia (Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.)
   
• Use it because iTabletop Pandoren is not peer-to-peer - so it punches easily through firewalls, and streams fast using Amazon.com's state-of-the-art Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure, with available video streaming servers in the US, EU and Singapore.
   
• Use it because everything about it is both powerful and flexible. Take our tokens for example: each one you create can hold an unlimited number of state images, overlay images, music and sound effects, videos, PDFs, and journal chapters. The tokens themselves are little powerhouses waiting to be used in ways we haven't even imagined.
   
• Use it because iTabletop follows a simple, rules agnostic mechanic where you have a map, add graphical character and NPC tokens, move them around, play music and sound effects to create a rich immersive mood, and just play the game like you would if the map and tokens were sitting on the table in front of you.
   
• Use it because we've built in a sharing system so people can easily share images, sounds, PDFs, videos, tokens, and even entire games with the rest of the community. This makes it so when you need that cool Wizard token - you can find one, duplicate it and modify instead of creating it yourself from scratch.
   
• Use iTabletop because it's free for a basic version, and very inexpensive for the big feature packed versions.

There are plenty more reasons but we think you get the picture.