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I agree, FG's animated dice rolls are very cool. If you could hear the dice roll, it would be perfect. The dice in Battlegrounds are photographs of real dice, not 3D renders. Battlegrounds, since it's created in Adobe Director, could theoretically support realtime 3D rendering and even do some...

Free Use Promo Battlegrounds: RPG Edition is free for anyone to use from August 7th until August 16, 2008. BRPG Player Clients and free Demos are temporarily considered to be licensed GM Clients during this time. The free Demo's 45 minute timeout period and other restrictions have been...

BRPG v1.3 beta released The BRPG v1.3 beta has just been released. This is a major update, which brings some long-awaited features. Download v1.3 and read more about it here.

$35, actually.

I believe a full set of such tokens can be found on the RPTools site, in the Gallery section, and another such set has recently been posted on the new Gametable forums. IMO, these are not OK to distribute online, even for free, as the source images used to make them are not in the public...

If you can get the projector to act as a 2nd independent display, rather than just mirroring what's on the computer's monitor (as azhrei_fje suggested), you may also want to take a look at Battlegrounds: RPG Edition (see my sig for the link, there's a free demo you can download to try out). My...

BRPG v1.2g beta released This "maintenance" release fixes a number of bugs reported or discovered since v1.2f was released. Download v1.2g and read more about it here. Note: Just the patch version is available right now.

I would ask Steel Wind, the expert on projectors in gaming, on this thread. And yes, you could shoehorn a high-priced graphic editing program into handling Fog of War in an RPG game. Apparently, a number of people do. :D And I suppose you could use a media player like iTunes to play sound...

Some maps you'll want to make by hand, but there are plenty of generic encounter maps that are available for free download from the DJ forums or sites like rpgmapshare.com. Yes, it's time-consuming, but not as much as if you had to print and cut out the maps. FOW may not require any setup...

Combining a projector with a virtual battlemat (i.e., a virtual tabletop program, like the one in my sig) is the way to go for the ultimate gaming setup, IMO. Given that a serviceable projector can be had for around $500, a 5-person gaming group could each chip in $100 to buy it. Then you...

Campaign Cartographer 3 has been out for a good while now, in case you haven't heard. It's still the reigning champ (learning-curve-wise, that is).

BRPG v1.2f is now out of beta, and has become the new official release on the Downloads page, supplanting v1.1b. :)

I remember that ad. Given that heat rises, the ceiling is probably the worst place for a plasma screen, assuming heat really is an issue with these things.

You're right. Videos are a great learning tool, and I should make more use of them. Especially since many people are loath to read User Manuals. For now I just have one tutorial video, which walks you through the Dice Macro features: Small Version Large Version It's around 16 minutes long. I...

BRPG v1.2f beta released This "maintenance" release fixes a number of bugs reported or discovered since v1.2e was released. Download v1.2f and read more about it here (<--click).

Have you heard of the dozens of other VTTs that are already available? Some are free and some are commercial, but even the commercial ones cost less than the gasoline needed for that 6-hour round trip to play just one session. ;)

If you don't need visual links, try OmniOutliner.

Sneak Preview of a new feature in BRPG v1.3 BRPG v1.3, due out in June, will have the ability to attach multiple token images to a unit, and then easily swap out one token for another as needed. This new ability to swap token images will come in very handy, especially for wargames (e.g., think...

Released an updated version of "A Simple Plan", a free user-created adventure for BRPG v1.2e or higher. Read about it and download it here.

Freebies like these are good for getting people to register on the site. Worked on me, anyway.