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I wanted to update this thread with my experiences running the Blight Levee adventure path. But after compiling everything I wanted to comment on, I decided it would be easier to do some videos. These are completely unedited and were done in a single take. But they compile most of my thoughts on...

New Jersey - Group seeking player for 5E Our current group is looking for 1 additional member. We play a weekly game mostly on Facebook Rooms and Fantasy Grounds with an occasional live game on weekends. We usually play live games once every two or three months on a Saturday when all group...

I was really surprised at how reasonable/generous the license upgrade pricing turned out to be. I was in no matter what, but that really made me happy to see how nicely they are taking care of their user base.

Honestly, I have seen this in other threads, the whole debate between Fantasy Grounds vs Roll20 vs other. It’s a silly debate because all of these are just tools. Each GM and game group will have a different work flow, preferences, etc.. The style of GM and group often will be what dictates the...

I am a Fantasy Grounds user. Previously I used roll20 and just paper and a webcam. In my opinion, Fantasy Grounds is just a better vtt and worth the price of admission. Game prep is equitable across platforms. Just different. You save time in some places but loose it in others. Where it shines...

So this is a fairly mature group of players and I’ve been GMing most of them for over 7yrs. So they know me to be story/narrative focused. I have also prefaced this campaign (with houserules) to make it deadlier and more dangerous than the 5E RAW. Now I am admittedly a little more conscious of...

I love that idea of flashbacks! That really is the best of both worlds. All the advantages and none of the drawbacks of forcing them to be captured to start.

Hoping to get some advice regarding the start to my new campaign and the issue of player agency. So I am going to be running an AP where the game starts with the players as prisoners following a raid on their home village. So I was originally planning to run it as written with them starting off...

I wish I could get away with that for my group. I’ve run encounters at them from other modules and with unmodified stat blocks and they eat it up. They are good at optimizing their characters and strategy. It was getting to a point where I had to throw what in the book is a deadly encounter...

Yeah, I paid for the ideas and content more that the 5E crunch. I’ve run and played in A LOT of the official published content from Wizards and even with the wonky crunch this still beats it all hands down for me. I have both the City of Splendors and Eberron Sharn 3.5 books and this has more...

Well, certainly the 5E conversion could be better and I am glad for the heads up on the stat blocks. I haven’t really looked at that aspect of things much. But to be honest the crunch is the least important part for me. It is all the setting information, adventure plot points and NPCs. I think...

So sorry you had that experience. To be honest, I haven’t even noticed. But I am more focused on the fluff than the crunch.

Thanks for the link! I will definitely check it out.

Running Frog God’s Blight I am prepping to run Frog God Games Levee adventure path from 5E “The Blight” book they released. Normally when I run a prewritten AP, I scour the internet for other peoples’ experiences in running it and any changes or enhancements they made. I did that and found...

I can only speak to FG. When I used roll20 I only used it to share pictures and as a combat map. FG isn’t beholden to a system. Even using 5E, you apply the rules as you see fit as GM. You can automate combat as much or as little as you want. You can let the program calculate things or you can...

I can only speak to FG. When I used roll20 I only used it to share pictures and as a combat map. FG isn’t beholden to a system. Even using 5E, you apply the rules as you see fit as GM. You can automate combat as much or as little as you want. You can let the program calculate things or you can...

Yeah, that (port forwarding) was annoying the first time during set up. But I haven’t had any problems since (two moves, two service providers and two new routers in that time). Plus the folks on the forum there are immensely helpful with getting it set up. One of the moderators even helped a...

Hosting an image on FG is not at all hard or as complicated as you are making out to be. Now I guess some of this will depend on a GMs organizational style. But it is easy on FG. If I am in my campaign, I go to my maps/pictures tab. Create a folder for whatever adventure I am running. Then just...

That’s a bit of an overestimation. The FG ultimate license frequently goes on sale for about $113. The core 5E books are $30 each and frequently go on sale. So it’s reasonable to get the license and the core books for under $200. My group actually pooled funds so we could get it. As GM, I...

Fantasy Grounds does have a higher up front cost. However they do have pretty frequent sales which includes for the licenses. I think I got mine for 25% off. Their forum community also produces a lot of mods for the program which makes using it even better. There is also a demo version you can...