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<blockquote data-quote="skelekon" data-source="post: 8648665" data-attributes="member: 6776310"><p>Agreed.</p><p></p><p>I went on this same journey about 6 months ago, and ended up going with Fantasy Grounds.</p><p></p><p>I tried Roll20, but found the manual construction of powers for players & NPCs very time consuming, even with macro builders.</p><p>I also found the storage and automation options quite limited in the free version, and there is no lifetime purchase option for a paid option.</p><p></p><p>Then I watched Matt Colville running 4E 'Dusk' on YouTube and it looked pretty good, so I downloaded the demo version and built and demoed a test campaign.</p><p>That worked very well, so I bought a lifetime license at the 'Ultimate' tier, which allows all players to join my games for free.</p><p></p><p>Dissatisfied with the existing community-built app to import 4E Portable Compendium content, I ended up building my own (which is linked on the FG 4E message boards).</p><p>This allowed me to create FG modules containing all NPCs, Powers, Feats, Rituals and mundane and magic Items.</p><p>I am currently adding a Race importer so that race (non-power) features can be dropped on PC sheets (race powers are already included with other PC Powers).</p><p>FG works differently to Roll20 in that it parses the text of powers to automatically create clickable attack, damage and effect expressions, which works for probably 95% of cases or more.</p><p></p><p>That said, the UI for FG can most kindly be described as 'quirky'.</p><p>It is relatively consistent, in that most operations that are not actual buttons are either drag-and-drop or right-click radial menus, but it's still pretty clunky .e.g.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">click and drag the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) to move the map around</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">on the PC sheet you double-click a dice symbol to roll, but single-click an attack, damage or effect expression</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">to draw a square zone on the map you hold Shift while clicking both the left & right mouse buttons and dragging (in FG's defence you can also draw by right-clicking the map for a radial menu)</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>I briefly tried MapTool, whose main selling point is that it is free, but I couldn't see anything it did that FG didn't, and it seemed to just do combat and lacked campaign management tools.</p><p></p><p>Foundry also looks good, and comparable to FG in the level of automation provided. I'm not sure whether any 4E game content is available, or needs to be manually entered.</p><p>It is currently on sale for a couple more days for 20% off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skelekon, post: 8648665, member: 6776310"] Agreed. I went on this same journey about 6 months ago, and ended up going with Fantasy Grounds. I tried Roll20, but found the manual construction of powers for players & NPCs very time consuming, even with macro builders. I also found the storage and automation options quite limited in the free version, and there is no lifetime purchase option for a paid option. Then I watched Matt Colville running 4E 'Dusk' on YouTube and it looked pretty good, so I downloaded the demo version and built and demoed a test campaign. That worked very well, so I bought a lifetime license at the 'Ultimate' tier, which allows all players to join my games for free. Dissatisfied with the existing community-built app to import 4E Portable Compendium content, I ended up building my own (which is linked on the FG 4E message boards). This allowed me to create FG modules containing all NPCs, Powers, Feats, Rituals and mundane and magic Items. I am currently adding a Race importer so that race (non-power) features can be dropped on PC sheets (race powers are already included with other PC Powers). FG works differently to Roll20 in that it parses the text of powers to automatically create clickable attack, damage and effect expressions, which works for probably 95% of cases or more. That said, the UI for FG can most kindly be described as 'quirky'. It is relatively consistent, in that most operations that are not actual buttons are either drag-and-drop or right-click radial menus, but it's still pretty clunky .e.g. [LIST] [*]click and drag the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) to move the map around [*]on the PC sheet you double-click a dice symbol to roll, but single-click an attack, damage or effect expression [*]to draw a square zone on the map you hold Shift while clicking both the left & right mouse buttons and dragging (in FG's defence you can also draw by right-clicking the map for a radial menu) [/LIST] I briefly tried MapTool, whose main selling point is that it is free, but I couldn't see anything it did that FG didn't, and it seemed to just do combat and lacked campaign management tools. Foundry also looks good, and comparable to FG in the level of automation provided. I'm not sure whether any 4E game content is available, or needs to be manually entered. It is currently on sale for a couple more days for 20% off. [/QUOTE]
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