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General Category => General Chaos => : Setherick February 04, 2010, 11:25:44 AM

: Fantasy Grounds: Virtual Tabletop
: Setherick February 04, 2010, 11:25:44 AM
Anyone know about this, I ran across it by accident: http://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/

The screenshots make it look interesting, but who knows what the interface is actually like.
: Re: Fantasy Grounds: Virtual Tabletop
: Tadanori Oyama February 04, 2010, 11:36:18 AM
I'm always willing to test out something that'll let me game more.

Unfortunitally this looks like it might be one of those things where everybody needs a copy so it'll cost more than a little to get a full group outfitted.

On the other hand, the forums appear to be populated so finding people who already have the program would be simple enough, though one would have to sift through the collected gamers to find the good ones.

I might try this out.
: Re: Fantasy Grounds: Virtual Tabletop
: Mckma February 04, 2010, 01:40:32 PM
Looks nice, but don't know if it would really be worth it, especially considering the number of good free things out there.  I've personally used Maptool (http://www.rptools.net/) in conjunction with Skype and it works really well (two other great things, cross platform and free).
: Re: Fantasy Grounds: Virtual Tabletop
: Setherick February 04, 2010, 06:07:46 PM
Looks nice, but don't know if it would really be worth it, especially considering the number of good free things out there.  I've personally used Maptool (http://www.rptools.net/) in conjunction with Skype and it works really well (two other great things, cross platform and free).

I was kind of thinking that too. But I thought I would share. The prices on it seem outrageous right now, but maybe they'll drop considerably. AIM had a built in dice roller in its older version, but I don't know if it's on the new version or was ported to Trillian. Because, seriously, AIM as a standalone sucks.