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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 6926043" data-attributes="member: 65151">I'm staring a 5e campaign - haven't run D&D since 3.5. I don't have a lot of prep time generally plus with being new to the rules I'm looking around for tools to help me. I found Fantasy Grounds from the links on the WotC site and it looks pretty impressive. But it also seems geared towards online play and we will be doing tabletop. So my first question is does anyone use it here as an aide to actual tabletop play and how much do you find it helps with that? Or are there any alternatives I might have missed (very possible) that would fit the bill? Primarily I want to be able to quickly build encounters and have the stats there at my fingertips along with an ability to track combats, initiative, et al.I guess the other concern is the sheer cost of the data packs for it. It seems very high one-off costs for something that I have to also pay a subscription to also actually access that content (if I'm reading it rightly?). I get that it pretty much contains all of the actual book but I can't actually read it as a book so I would seem to end up having to buy both book and the data pack? If it were a combo pack or something for a little extra that would make sense, but it seems to be pay twice for the same content is that right?Anyway, any and all suggestions welcome. Apologies as this probably gets asked periodically.</blockquote>