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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 7667117" data-attributes="member: 20307">First, let me join the choir praising [MENTION=87795]smiteworks[/MENTION] for his appearance here and his willingness to answer all of our questions!Coming from (and still using) MapTool and 4e, my questions regarding they way spells are implemented are based on experience. In my weekly use as player and DM I find it hard to memorize the border between automated actions and manual ones. We actually toned down our MapTool automation to make it more clear. But of course it feels weird to manually set a status effect and apply the appropriate rules when playing at a computer.Regarding the price one might consider the history of FG. I don't know exactly when it was published, but it has a long history of being continually developed. Compared to MapTool, which has been pretty much dormant for years, this is a big plus IMHO. Plus the fact of licenses being lifetime makes the price much more palpable in this context.Yes, you can do - and many people do so - achieve a lot of these things in MapTool as well, and there are many frameworks around to get you started. In a way, FG provides a convenience you pay for, but regarding the hassle to get MapTool - with its but ugly scripting language - to comparable functionality, the price seems fair to me.Okay, so if you get me either shared DMing with a single ultimate license or dynamic lighting, you'll have won a customer! <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" /></blockquote>

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