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Virtual Tabletops/ Online Gaming

Started by IceBlinkLuck, October 02, 2010, 02:26:21 AM

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Jarulf

#15
October 05, 2010, 04:41:51 AM
I haven't tried it but Scenegrinder looks like a cross between PbP and a VTT.
From what I gather you prepare a scene in much the same way as in a VTT with nice looking maps and tokens, but since the game is hosted on a server it stays live at all times.  When you log on to the site (with a normal browser) you make your moves but won't see the results until the GM oks them.
If everyone agrees to go online at the same time, it probably plays much like a VTT.
There are on-line dice rollers, Line of Sight, fog of war  and the usual bells and whistles. The people behind it have made some sort of deal with ICE, so a lot of their content will be available.

Lawbag

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October 06, 2010, 05:16:37 AM
with all these programs around, I do hope they eventually amalgamate, that way you have one program which covers:
 
mapping
dice rolling
character and monster databases
GM notes and player handouts
chat and a master narrative (akin to Google Docs collaborative word documents)
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Drohem

#17
October 06, 2010, 11:57:13 AM
MapTools by RPTools is really the way to go for me.  We tried Gametable and it worked fine if you didn't load a crap ton of tokens into it.  Once we loaded into it, it chugged and died all the time.  We moved onto MapTools and have never looked back.

Werekoala

#18
October 11, 2010, 10:54:21 PM
Question for Maptools users - how can you (or can you) scale tokens to be larger than one square on the map (for large creatures for example) and can you create a token that is elongated(to represent a dragon, for example). I've got the token tool as well (making my own in fact) in case that helps.
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Grymbok

#19
October 12, 2010, 04:53:24 AM
Quote from: Lawbag;408281with all these programs around, I do hope they eventually amalgamate, that way you have one program which covers:
 
mapping
dice rolling
character and monster databases
GM notes and player handouts
chat and a master narrative (akin to Google Docs collaborative word documents)

MapTool can do all that already bar the master narrative. You can do notes and handouts via extra "map" screens. The only problem is that for databases of course you need to key in the info yourself...
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