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You can also look in the 5E forums. Since launching on Tuesday, there are a flood of new users who have come to Fantasy Grounds and picked up both of the Complete Core modules and the Lost Mine of Phandelver. I'm not sure how long it will take these new users to get comfortable enough to host...

It may be a barrier to some, but it's due to providing more options. Sales people will tell you to limit the options to two or three things. If you look on our store page, we've framed it as Option #1 Subscriptions or Option #2 Lifetime License and then Show the small # of options underneath...

Those replies are both correct. Some historical context (since Fantasy Grounds has been around since 2004): We used to have - a Lite license which was cheaper but only let you do player stuff - a Full license which let you use all the DM features of Fantasy Grounds, build your own rulesets and...

It includes the full text and images from the PHB or MM. Wherever possible, that "text" is converted into an appropriate VTT record, such as a Class, an NPC an Item, a Spell., etc. The images are normally linked in relation to the text, so a picture of an NPC would get set up as a link from the...

The drawing tools inside of FG are extremely light and not really suitable beyond a quick one-time map every now and then. The primary usage is to create or find an image outside of FG and then save and drag the image onto FG's image & maps window. The campaign will update in real-time to make...

We have nearly finished modules for Hoard of the Dragon Queen and The Rise of Tiamat. They need a little more quality checking before we send them to Wizards for review and approval. I would guess 10-15 business days. As for cutting words, your DM may want to change their preferences to set...

I posted some videos up-thread that show what it is like to enter your own data. You now just have the option to have all that professionally done for you.

This was just answered a few posts above, but the DM can share purchased content with players who connect to their game. If they want it while offline from the DM, they need to purchase it as well. The 5E ruleset is included with all licenses -- but it has zero data pre-loaded, much like what...

If the DM has them, (s)he can share them with the players that connect to the game. Players can't share with other players though.

That is somewhat hard to say for sure. We often do fairly large dungeons and we pre-place all the tokens as part of our building of the encounters. Even though they are pre-placed, they aren't actually placed onto the map until you decide to launch that encounter. Doing that keeps it from having...

Thanks for the kind words. I lurk here quite often. There are only two of us in the company and one other official developer, but thankfully we are also supported by an active and helpful fanbase. It's our passion, for sure.

If a DM has the modules, the players don't need to buy them to access them while connected to the DM. Only in the case of 6 DMs all playing who want to own all the options does it start to add up there, since there isn't an option for DM's to share the content among themselves. Many DM heavy...

It includes those.

I thought it might be helpful if I posted a quick video walkthrough of what the Core Monster Pack or smaller $4.99 Monster Packs actually look like. Since you can still key all this info yourself, you'll have to decide if the data entry and indexed lists plus the images and tokens are worth it...

Our base install comes with just a subset that was there when we first built it. It has grown tremendously since then, so our fans have compiled their own modules which contain pretty much everything that is freely available. You can customize further from there, although applying templates is...

Okay, so we normally opt to link those pushpins to a story entry that may have boxed text and other links to encounters, treasures, etc. Click the encounter link from the story entry and it will open the encounter with the list of monsters. You can decrease or increase the number of monsters...

There is rule mechanic support for 3.5, 4E, 5E and Pathfinder out of the box. 3.5E and Pathfinder come with some lists of monsters and spells from the System Reference Documents available to use as-is or customize. You can also create your own items. See the video posted above for creating an...

It fills the dice into the various slots as they are rolled but stops after each roll to calculate the final tally. Some people like to roll each die separately. You can make a 4 dice bucket and click it 6 times to roll them quickly. We have been discussing that sort of thing for magic items...

I recommend that DM's run with two monitors and stretch the screen across both. If you have a laptop, most of these support connecting a second monitor side by side with it. One tip is to drag items you frequently need to your various hotkey slots on the bottom of the screen. These hold anything...

Here is a new video showing how you can enter in your own NPC records. Remember that if you get the data packs, you'll get all those monster already entered along with their full descriptions, their image you can share with your players and the tokens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-POluSDHAc