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ARGH! My post was lost! Okay, I'll try again... (Disclaimer: I'm a site admin and moderator at RPTools.net and I've contributed code patches to the MapTool project.) Here are some keywords/phrases I would use to describe MapTool: free, game system-agnostic with support for multiple game...

If you're truly concerned, start by visiting wikipedia and learning how to use the terms correctly: you're using "copyright" and "trademark" inappropriately. Until you understand what they mean, discussion using those terms is pointless.

I would recommend using a web browser to display the page and grabbing the XML data with javascript. There are already XML parsing routines in javascript so that should be easier. And if you use a javascript framework, such as jQuery (my favorite!), they have simplified ways of reading the...

Targeting was never an issue. The issue is that the rules don't allow for AOEs to damage specific body parts on a creature. Your hair is not singed when you fail a Reflex save against a fireball any more than it isn't singed if you succeed. Stop trying to divert the discussion away from your...

I see that you've just joined ENworld, so perhaps you're not familiar with the way discussions here are typically held. An individual (such a yourself) postulates a theory about why something should work a certain way. Then others post either (a) opposing theories that produce the same result...

I've always played the monsters appropriate to their Int and/or Wis scores in my campaigns. Every once in awhile when the party is up against a bad guy, I'll mumble something under my breath about, "oh hey, he could do such-and-such. No, wait, he's not smart enough for that. okay he'll just...

We've had a few more sessions now. Tiffany had to miss a couple (work-related stuff) but she's back. So that gives us 3 local, 2 remote. So far the online sessions have worked pretty well. I'm much more familiar with MapTool than with Vent (the Vent client on the Mac is pretty basic) but I...

I'm not currently looking to be involved in a local group (I'm DM'ing a 3.5E campaign on Sundays and an online PF game on Tuesday nights), but I thought we should connect and see if any "cross-pollination" would be appropriate. It's always better to have a larger gene pool... ;) I'm also on...

You should consider posting on the RpTools forum. We have a very active community there and there are people posting LFG and LFP in the appropriate forum all the time.

Here's the link to the RPTools forum thread about the torrent. He's posted to that thread once or twice. Check the post dated Aug 7th, 2008 for the torrent link. There used to be a reference to it from the main RPTools web site under FAQ or the MapTool docs, but I can't seem to find it now...

Yep. Which is why a system that allows the GM to pre-upload his images would be ideal. With the proper setup, he might not have to upload anything. If he visits the RPTools forums he'll find a user there who is hosting the 2GB+ torrent of "dungeon dressing" images on his web site. If you...

Recap of how it played out... I apologize to the community for resurrecting such an old thread, but I promised Mark I would post a reply with the results of this encounter. Our group disbanded last year before I got a chance to run this and a new group of players has recently picked up the...

No, I think he meant Betamax. ;)

I generally go with more, less-powerful monsters and use reinforcements to ramp up the combat. In some situations this isn't possible, but in a dungeon setting it's very possible for one bad guy to run off to get his friends while the others fight a holding action. My RttToEE players started...

Looks very slick. Thank you for sharing. :)

When I'm running an intelligent NPC/monster, at the beginning of the turn I will often ask my players about their PCs: "So tell me again what you're wearing?" or "You just tumbled through that area, right? How good are you at that?" This gives the players ideas that the NPCs are gauging them...

A very reasoned statement. But I wonder if the GM needs to be more involved in your game? For example, I played some 3.5E about a year ago in which the players didn't need/use character sheets. The GM had all the information and number crunching and the players simply stated what they wanted...

It took you this long to figure that out? You're right though, you should upgrade. Install Firefox.

Hey, Dave. We've had two sessions so far. For the first session I had two local players (Ed and Tiffany) and one remote (I was expecting a second remote player). For the second session, I had one local player and three remote. (It was known in advance that Tiffany wouldn't make it.) I've...

Yep, this is my take on it; aiming a ranged touch attack is part of the somatic component of the spell casting. And if the spell doesn't have a somatic component, I'd probably add one. ;) Problem solved. :)