Fantasy Grounds Now Offers Free Trial; Plus D&D 5E Basic Rules Now Included In All Licenses

Yea!

Very cool!

Very cool. I guess the high price was really keeping people away; kudos to the company for listening to complaints.

This is awesome! I'm going to have to try it. Does the basic book come in the trial?

The basic player's guide and DM's guide modules come with the trial as well. There is a bit of a learning curve, but we hope that with 30 days, it should give people more than enough time to get in, build a few characters, build encounters and stories and run through some game sessions with friends or with other people in the FG community. Unlike the demo that we still have available, this trial will let you save any campaigns you run. If you maintain the subscription or move to a permanent license, you can continue where you left off or pick it up after a hiatus as long as you keep the files on your computer.

Finally, while it is meant for online play, some users use it as a way to build characters and then create printable character sheets using a fan-made utility that reads in the XML and generates a PDF. You can get that here:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?22440-5E-Character-sheet-from-XML

The thanks go out to Wizards of the Coast as well since when I brought up the suggestion of including the modules for all FG users, they immediately thought it was a good idea and gave it their full support.

The biggest difference between the D&D Basic Rules version of the Monster lists and the full MM packs is the additional description, artwork and tokens. Similarly, the player packs beyond the basic rules also include official portraits. It's not a major difference, but worth pointing out.

I am not really interested in this product, but I am curious about one thing: if they just added Basic to all their versions of the VTT, what material did the VTT included until yesterday? Was it just empty?

Yep, empty for 5e, but a ton of other RPGs were included. Basic cost $3 IIRC.

It had A character sheet game mechanics for 5e.

Jester Canuck said:

Very cool. I guess the high price was really keeping people away; kudos to the company for listening to complaints.

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Yeah except it's still expensive after you decide to continue with the service after the free trial is up.