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<blockquote data-quote="Pygon" data-source="post: 3743477" data-attributes="member: 42242">I use my own little homebrew tabletop emulator with icons I scanned from books or grabbed off Wizards' site.&nbsp; I figure it's not a problem since I don't distribute it, and the other guy I play with has the same books <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It serves the purpose well enough, and even helps me to track hit points, initiative rolls, advance combat turns, and lets me know when spell effects wear off.&nbsp; After I tweaked it for functionality, frankly I prefer it to tabletop.&nbsp; Our last big encounter lasted 30 rounds with over 60 combatants, and the emulator tracked things wonderfully.&nbsp; I'm not looking forward to have to track things on paper again!The downside is I have to prepare maps beforehand because it doesn't support drawing maps freestyle (yet).&nbsp; It also only supports rectangle shapes to hide and reveal sections of the map, so rooms with diagonal walls are a pain to reveal.&nbsp; Oh, and if a second machine on the same network somewhere tries to connect while the program is maintaining a connection across the inet, the network portion locks up - pff.We play with Ventrilo as well so at least we can hear each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pygon, post: 3743477, member: 42242"] I use my own little homebrew tabletop emulator with icons I scanned from books or grabbed off Wizards' site. I figure it's not a problem since I don't distribute it, and the other guy I play with has the same books :) It serves the purpose well enough, and even helps me to track hit points, initiative rolls, advance combat turns, and lets me know when spell effects wear off. After I tweaked it for functionality, frankly I prefer it to tabletop. Our last big encounter lasted 30 rounds with over 60 combatants, and the emulator tracked things wonderfully. I'm not looking forward to have to track things on paper again! The downside is I have to prepare maps beforehand because it doesn't support drawing maps freestyle (yet). It also only supports rectangle shapes to hide and reveal sections of the map, so rooms with diagonal walls are a pain to reveal. Oh, and if a second machine on the same network somewhere tries to connect while the program is maintaining a connection across the inet, the network portion locks up - pff. We play with Ventrilo as well so at least we can hear each other. [/QUOTE]

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