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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SJ" data-source="post: 690883" data-attributes="member: 6325">Wow, Dagda. I would really like to hear other war stories about using a computer at the game table. I've thought several times about doing this, and d/l'ed DMFamiliar, DMGenie, RPM, ScreenMonkey, etc. But I never put them to the test in a real game.What are other GM's (and players!) likes and dislikes on these tools? Not so much comparing the features of the tools, but during the game, does it make the experience better or worse?BTW, I use CampaignSuite (and love it) for preparing my games and campaigns. But I haven't tried a combat manager plus handy reference tool as I sit behind the hallowed screen.Larcen, ScreenMonkey is the only thing I know of that "reveals" the map. This might be your only choice since I'm not sure how multi-monitor support would work from a laptop, since that functionality usually requires 2 video cards. It sounds like your DM is using 2 pc's anyway, so 2 copies of the maps with tokens and a "reveal" feature on the one the PC's are viewing might work. (again, no software I know of designed for that purpose) I'm thinking building maps with the many dungeon tiles out there and then using a large monitor (or projector!) to do the battlemap instead of the chessex mat could be *very* cool.But, then, where would all the miniatures go? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> SJ</blockquote>

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