Invites are going out some time today for the “friends and family” beta for Virtual Table, with D&D Insider invitations being passed out at an undetermined point in the future (aka, “later”). There’s a FAQ here, and a thread about it here. So far we’ve got this screen cap:
There are concerns about increased pricing, but given how long Character Builder was in Beta I wouldn’t expect to see it tacked on for more than a few months. Hopefully it’s not too much more, but given that I have a regular game it might be one of the few D&D things that I don’t buy.
For cynical readers, here is a flying pig:
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