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<blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 4767976" data-attributes="member: 79670">I don't much like it. I haven't even tried MapTool because everyone in the group I'm in long ago decided it 'sucks' and pirated Fantasy Grounds, and later FGII. I can't say I like either much. FGII even less so since when I'm DMing it eats so much resources I can't have browser windows or anything else up. It's a massive hassle to track things, entering in NPC stats and such is a mess to the point where I don't even bother anymore and I do everything from my books or printed sheets of paper. It makes for massively slow combat as everyone goes searching for their modifiers every single round so they can roll the die 'right', types out what they're doing, finally moves their token, rolls...So I find it a big hassle and a mess and terrible for immersion. Especially my immersion as the DM as I'm so busy trying to fiddle with stuff I barely have time to type stuff out at the players.Plus the nature of online gaming, tied to a computer, has led to things like people doing other stuff during sessions and actually telling me off for trying to get them to pay attention when they're 'working'. Which, argh, we have a set meeting time once a week that usually turns out to be once a month. One of the players doesn't believe in messengers or telling me in advance if he won't be able to make it, so I can't get in contact with him most of the time and can't find out if he'll be there until it's time for the session to actually start. Which, clearly I need to ditch them all, find another group where I can be a player instead of the only guy still willing to DM, and switch to something less annoying to play.But yeah, the way it's currently going, it is not at all doing it for me and only my desire to play D&amp;D is keeping me actually doing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nai_Calus, post: 4767976, member: 79670"] I don't much like it. I haven't even tried MapTool because everyone in the group I'm in long ago decided it 'sucks' and pirated Fantasy Grounds, and later FGII. I can't say I like either much. FGII even less so since when I'm DMing it eats so much resources I can't have browser windows or anything else up. It's a massive hassle to track things, entering in NPC stats and such is a mess to the point where I don't even bother anymore and I do everything from my books or printed sheets of paper. It makes for massively slow combat as everyone goes searching for their modifiers every single round so they can roll the die 'right', types out what they're doing, finally moves their token, rolls... So I find it a big hassle and a mess and terrible for immersion. Especially my immersion as the DM as I'm so busy trying to fiddle with stuff I barely have time to type stuff out at the players. Plus the nature of online gaming, tied to a computer, has led to things like people doing other stuff during sessions and actually telling me off for trying to get them to pay attention when they're 'working'. Which, argh, we have a set meeting time once a week that usually turns out to be once a month. One of the players doesn't believe in messengers or telling me in advance if he won't be able to make it, so I can't get in contact with him most of the time and can't find out if he'll be there until it's time for the session to actually start. Which, clearly I need to ditch them all, find another group where I can be a player instead of the only guy still willing to DM, and switch to something less annoying to play. But yeah, the way it's currently going, it is not at all doing it for me and only my desire to play D&D is keeping me actually doing it. [/QUOTE]

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