I would rather them make a functional import tool for monsters and PCs before they bother with older edition material. I want it for my 4E games, not for older stuff that isn't particularly relevant to what I'm trying to do with the system: Run two games of DnD online. If they made a tool that could import a monster and turn its traits/powers and such into macros, I would not hesitate in buying it. The most time I spend in my maptools games is macroing monsters by far. If they cut that time out and make it simple, with reasonable functionality I would get it.
DDI VT Beta thread
IronWolf
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Thanks for the link, I had not seen that thread yet. Helped provide a bit more info that I had been looking forward to.
Even though the extra systems are listed the FAQ seems to indicate the character and monster information storage in the tool will be 4e geared (to be expected of course). But if that is the case there are other VTTs that would likely be more useful for players of older editions that can handle their system of choice.
Of course if you just wanted the VTT without the need of the mechanics being handled then it would likely work just fine for that.
renau1g
First Post
I'm sure that it would help as I can see a lot of old school players having moved away from their teenage/younger adult groups and spread out throughout state/province or country and this helps them get back together.
More Screenshots:
Monster creation!!
Click on new
Choose your token
Give the data you want. The Max HP, Initiative, AC, Fort, Ref and Will are entered manually for the time being. I imagine that once they get an online MB, they will be auto-populated when you import a monster
Click on New Power and fill in the relevant data. As you enter data, you tab to the next field, and the next line automatically is generated.
When you are done, click Save at the top of the monster sidebar, and you get the following:
Then, to use it in combat, just click on the dice icons beside each entry, and the roll is automagically done.
And, should the monster impose a condition, you can simply add a damage line, but put text instead, like I did below:
Monster creation!!
Click on new
Choose your token
Give the data you want. The Max HP, Initiative, AC, Fort, Ref and Will are entered manually for the time being. I imagine that once they get an online MB, they will be auto-populated when you import a monster
Click on New Power and fill in the relevant data. As you enter data, you tab to the next field, and the next line automatically is generated.
When you are done, click Save at the top of the monster sidebar, and you get the following:
Then, to use it in combat, just click on the dice icons beside each entry, and the roll is automagically done.
And, should the monster impose a condition, you can simply add a damage line, but put text instead, like I did below:
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Let the cavalcade of screenshots continue:
Basic Window (starts out small, but can be stretched in the normal way)
The sidebar can be minimized
Here is a close-up of the buttons across the top:
From Left to right they are:
Normal mode (for interacting with non-map objects)
Map Drag Mode (for movingthe map around)
Line of sight mode (Looks like this is to determine whether one square has LoS to another)
Pointer Mode ( to point at something, probably more useful with players/DM)
Area of Effect mode (for drawing AoEs, zones, etc on the map)
Make map visible
Make map invisible
Drawing mode (if your players go off the map and you want to freehand it)
Zoom in
Zoom out
Toggle token names (doesn't seem to work so far)
[sblock=Menu options]
[/sblock]
[sblock=sidebars]
Dice roller
Monsters sidebar
Initiative sidebar
Map sidebar
Character sidebar
Journal Sidebar
[/sblock]
Basic Window (starts out small, but can be stretched in the normal way)
The sidebar can be minimized
Here is a close-up of the buttons across the top:
From Left to right they are:
Normal mode (for interacting with non-map objects)
Map Drag Mode (for movingthe map around)
Line of sight mode (Looks like this is to determine whether one square has LoS to another)
Pointer Mode ( to point at something, probably more useful with players/DM)
Area of Effect mode (for drawing AoEs, zones, etc on the map)
Make map visible
Make map invisible
Drawing mode (if your players go off the map and you want to freehand it)
Zoom in
Zoom out
Toggle token names (doesn't seem to work so far)
[sblock=Menu options]
[/sblock]
[sblock=sidebars]
Dice roller
Monsters sidebar
Initiative sidebar
Map sidebar
Character sidebar
Journal Sidebar
[/sblock]
ArcaneSpringboard
First Post
Is it just me, or can anyone else see using this for face-to-face games?
OnlineDM
Adventurer
That's certainly my hope. I use MapTool on a projector right now for my in-person games; if I can't do something similar with Virtual Table it would be far less interesting to me.
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