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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2275577" data-attributes="member: 12966">As a DM...Combat management is not as useful for the player as it is for the DM, though.&nbsp; I'm not saying it's USELESS, just not as useful. <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=":)" />I use DMGenie (as linked by Delak, above) and I love it.&nbsp; I've tried DMF, OpenRPG, and RPM.&nbsp; I'd try Kloogewerks if the stupid thing would actually let me put some of my data into it to try out!&nbsp; (I spend a lot of time traveling and what better use of hotel room time than trying out demos?&nbsp; But if I want to try fog-of-war features or combat tracking, I want to use a recent game session from a real campaign and try out spells, feats, and so on, and the inability to save my own data and reload it means I won't even try it.&nbsp; DMGenie let me fully populate my campaign for 60 days (!) before requiring a registration fee.&nbsp; So I now have it installed on desktop, laptop1, and laptop2. <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=":)" />)&lt;rant&gt;As a DM, I'm still looking for the perfect mapping tool -- there is something missing in every program I've tried.&nbsp; Some don't do fog-of-war at all or very well.&nbsp; Some, like TMapper, requires that I put little icons on the screen for each PC/NPC and move them around on the map one at a time, but they don't enforce movement speed. :\&nbsp; Some do line-of-sight calculations and can brighten up dark areas as creatures approach based on the visual range of the creature, but configuring them to do so is time-consuming and tedious.&nbsp; Some can handle area effect spells easily, others are a pain (why can't fireball be represented using the grid instead of just a circle?).There are so many more of these, that I have plans to write my own tool (yeah, yet-another-DM-tool!).&nbsp; If/when I get something workable, I'll make it available as open source so that others can build off what I accomplish.&nbsp; I don't like the idea of paying money for an &quot;almost complete&quot; program and then having the author(s) decide to give up and I'm SOL without any way to continue building the project. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> &lt;/rant&gt;(PS: Is it just me or does Preview Post fail for other people?&nbsp; I get an error about REG_EMPTY in function_spamkill.php...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 2275577, member: 12966"] [b]As a DM...[/b] Combat management is not as useful for the player as it is for the DM, though. I'm not saying it's USELESS, just not as useful. :) I use DMGenie (as linked by Delak, above) and I love it. I've tried DMF, OpenRPG, and RPM. I'd try Kloogewerks if the stupid thing would actually let me put some of my data into it to try out! (I spend a lot of time traveling and what better use of hotel room time than trying out demos? But if I want to try fog-of-war features or combat tracking, I want to use a recent game session from a real campaign and try out spells, feats, and so on, and the inability to save my own data and reload it means I won't even try it. DMGenie let me fully populate my campaign for 60 days (!) before requiring a registration fee. So I now have it installed on desktop, laptop1, and laptop2. :)) <rant> As a DM, I'm still looking for the perfect mapping tool -- there is something missing in every program I've tried. Some don't do fog-of-war at all or very well. Some, like TMapper, requires that I put little icons on the screen for each PC/NPC and move them around on the map one at a time, but they don't enforce movement speed. :\ Some do line-of-sight calculations and can brighten up dark areas as creatures approach based on the visual range of the creature, but configuring them to do so is time-consuming and tedious. Some can handle area effect spells easily, others are a pain (why can't fireball be represented using the grid instead of just a circle?). There are so many more of these, that I have plans to write my own tool (yeah, yet-another-DM-tool!). If/when I get something workable, I'll make it available as open source so that others can build off what I accomplish. I don't like the idea of paying money for an "almost complete" program and then having the author(s) decide to give up and I'm SOL without any way to continue building the project. :( </rant> (PS: Is it just me or does Preview Post fail for other people? I get an error about [b]REG_EMPTY in function_spamkill.php[/b]...) [/QUOTE]

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