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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 6926327" data-attributes="member: 6804070">Hey [MENTION=65151]knasser[/MENTION], First, yes it aids in playing face-to-face. Myself and others use FG regular for F2F games. If you search their forums, you will find several threads with more examples and such on using FG at the tabletop. In short, my players love it (for 5E) as it speeds up combat, provides access to the PHB in a searchable database type format, and takes care of combat tracking.Next, I find it shortens prep time a great deal, and lets me create more content than I otherwise would. Though FG is the only VTT I'm competent in, I have heard from many others who have used both FG and Roll20 that from a DM perspective, FG is much better for the DM especially in terms of prep time.Cost you have a bit mixed up. There are two categories of cost, one for the application and one for the DLC (Player's Handbook, adventures, etc). For the application, you can either purchase a subscription OR a permanent license. Each of these you can purchase a Full or an Ultimate license. The difference is that a Full allows you to play in any game or host others with a Full license. With an Ultimate, you can play in any game and players can play in games you host and they don't need any license (they can install the free demo). As for the DLC, all of this is optional. You can play 5E without any of it. A Full or Ultimate license both include all of the game mechanics (for 5E plus a host of other game systems), the Basic Rules and the 5E SRD. It's easy for you or your players to add things from other sources you have (such as a hardcopy of the SCAG, or from these forums). But, you can also choose to buy the DLC so you don't have to enter it. This is how I generally do it, I don't buy hardcopy anymore (I don't have any 5E hardcovers) I just buy it all on FG instead.So, cost is simple; you can get a Full subscription for $4/month or $39 for a one-time license. Ultimates are $10/month or $149. You can also buy a 4 pack of Full licenses on Steam for the price of 3. Then you can buy the DLC as you want and need. I create a lot of my own adventures so I've purchased the PHB, DMG & MM on FG. Note, if you are a completionist and want to buy everything 5E on FG, you can get a 25% bundle discount (and you get the discount on all new WotC 5E releases, which usually get released at the same time as other preferred stores).Do note, if you go the subscription route, you will need to keep the subscription current if you want to access your DLC. But if you buy the one-time license, then you don't have to worry about that. (But the subscription is useful if you are not sure, so is the free 30 day trial.) As for buying both the hardcover and the FG conversion. No need. I never have (as I said). It is a little bit different than reading a PDF, but you can still read it all. Also, the next version (3.2) which is already in public beta and should be released to live/production in the next few weeks has some new reference formatting which you might like even more as it is more like a PDF than the current linked environment.You can read a bit more about it in the review I wrote some time ago, plus what others have said as well; <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?386930-Fantasy-Grounds&p=6750807&viewfull=1#post6750807" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?386930-Fantasy-Grounds&p=6750807&viewfull=1#post6750807</a></blockquote>

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