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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9021335" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>I currently use Foundry. I pay to have it hosted with The Forge, but you can self host. If you want line of site and like to tinker, it is great. Incredibly expandable and customizable. Two drawbacks for you may be: (1) Customizing character sheets is not that simple, especially if you want to build them from scratch. (2) No official manual fog-of-war-support. There is a community mod, but its been flaky. Generally, if you use Foundry you are <em>at least </em>tracing the walls for lighting and line of sight and fog of war. </p><p></p><p>Before that I used Map Tool. I used it for in-person games, not for online games. I can't speak to how easy it is to set up for online gaming. But no storage limits other than the storage on your computer or external hard drive. Very nice manual fog-of-war reveal. I played around with tracing walls for line of sight and lighting, but never really bother with it at the time. What I loved about maptool was that I search and open a battlemap image, apply the grid, apply fog of war, and drop tokens in minutes. It was great for low prep, sandbox, play. I ONLY used it to display maps. I'm not sure about its character sheet features or how easy it is to customize them.</p><p></p><p>I also like Role (app.playrole.com). It is primary and audio-video conference system for gaming. The audio and video is quite good. The charactersheets and dice rolling are easy to set up and use. It is quite easy to create custom character sheets for most systems. I created charactersheets for World of Darkness: MAGE the Ascension. The battlemap features are basic, but a good replacement to att-table Chessex mats or dungeon tiles. I doesn't support fog of war, though, so it is really best used for set-piece combats. No automations other than dice-roll calculations you build in the character sheets. Tokens are just images you can move around. I feel Role is best for more theater of the mind style games. I like that with Role you can have your audiovideo, character sheets, rolls, and battlemap all in one environment. You can with Roll20 and Foundry as well, but neither has been great for me and I use Discord for voice/video when I run games on line when using Foundry. </p><p></p><p>I've test many other VTTs, but the three above are the ones I have the most experience with. I recommend all three, depending on how you like to run your games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9021335, member: 6796661"] I currently use Foundry. I pay to have it hosted with The Forge, but you can self host. If you want line of site and like to tinker, it is great. Incredibly expandable and customizable. Two drawbacks for you may be: (1) Customizing character sheets is not that simple, especially if you want to build them from scratch. (2) No official manual fog-of-war-support. There is a community mod, but its been flaky. Generally, if you use Foundry you are [I]at least [/I]tracing the walls for lighting and line of sight and fog of war. Before that I used Map Tool. I used it for in-person games, not for online games. I can't speak to how easy it is to set up for online gaming. But no storage limits other than the storage on your computer or external hard drive. Very nice manual fog-of-war reveal. I played around with tracing walls for line of sight and lighting, but never really bother with it at the time. What I loved about maptool was that I search and open a battlemap image, apply the grid, apply fog of war, and drop tokens in minutes. It was great for low prep, sandbox, play. I ONLY used it to display maps. I'm not sure about its character sheet features or how easy it is to customize them. I also like Role (app.playrole.com). It is primary and audio-video conference system for gaming. The audio and video is quite good. The charactersheets and dice rolling are easy to set up and use. It is quite easy to create custom character sheets for most systems. I created charactersheets for World of Darkness: MAGE the Ascension. The battlemap features are basic, but a good replacement to att-table Chessex mats or dungeon tiles. I doesn't support fog of war, though, so it is really best used for set-piece combats. No automations other than dice-roll calculations you build in the character sheets. Tokens are just images you can move around. I feel Role is best for more theater of the mind style games. I like that with Role you can have your audiovideo, character sheets, rolls, and battlemap all in one environment. You can with Roll20 and Foundry as well, but neither has been great for me and I use Discord for voice/video when I run games on line when using Foundry. I've test many other VTTs, but the three above are the ones I have the most experience with. I recommend all three, depending on how you like to run your games. [/QUOTE]
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