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<blockquote data-quote="Griogre" data-source="post: 3688614" data-attributes="member: 21138"><p>I've been playing and running some online games for almost two years now. I also alternate running a Face to Face game. I have tried several VTTs. I mostly GM and VTTs have allowed me to just play for once. I love GMing but I like to play too. One of the nice things about playing over the Internet is there are lots of "fish in the sea." It may take a while but you can almost always find a game or players. By the same token you may need to churn through some before you can find a game that suits your or players that show up. One of the best things about running over the net is that if you run a mainstream game you can always find players. Always. That's hard to do in a face to face game. It took close to a month to find enough players for my face to face game after half the group left/moved ect. It seldom takes more than a few days to fill an opening in a D&D game with FG.</p><p></p><p>I think if you are running D&D or d20 it's hard to beat Fantasy Grounds. It has the most intuative interface to anyone who has played face to face. This is important because most VTTs have horrible documentation.</p><p></p><p>MapTool is a VTT I haven't seen anyone mention. I would probably recommend this to people who don't play D&D. It has a steeper learning curve than FG but works very well at displaying a map and moving tokens around and generating random numbers.</p><p></p><p>I tried OpenRPG and didn't like it. Interface felt klutsy to me and it crashed alot.</p><p></p><p>Whatever VTT you end up with you want to use voice IMHO. It *greatly* speeds up combat if you can just say: "Roll initiative." "Kinkaid is lighty wounded." "Tell me how you got a +14 mod?" You can have you players type out "in character" chat if you want for the roleplaying but get voice for combat.</p><p></p><p>Here's a screen from a FG game I play in: Note I'm linking to a thumbnail on the FG board because Photobucket is doing maintainance - <a href="http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15&d=1179101757" target="_blank">http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15&d=1179101757</a></p><p></p><p>Here's a link to a thread with screenys in a Savage World "Aliens" Bug hunt I played in using MapTool. That was my Grenade in the second screen - LOL. <a href="http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?t=2318" target="_blank">http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?t=2318</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Griogre, post: 3688614, member: 21138"] I've been playing and running some online games for almost two years now. I also alternate running a Face to Face game. I have tried several VTTs. I mostly GM and VTTs have allowed me to just play for once. I love GMing but I like to play too. One of the nice things about playing over the Internet is there are lots of "fish in the sea." It may take a while but you can almost always find a game or players. By the same token you may need to churn through some before you can find a game that suits your or players that show up. One of the best things about running over the net is that if you run a mainstream game you can always find players. Always. That's hard to do in a face to face game. It took close to a month to find enough players for my face to face game after half the group left/moved ect. It seldom takes more than a few days to fill an opening in a D&D game with FG. I think if you are running D&D or d20 it's hard to beat Fantasy Grounds. It has the most intuative interface to anyone who has played face to face. This is important because most VTTs have horrible documentation. MapTool is a VTT I haven't seen anyone mention. I would probably recommend this to people who don't play D&D. It has a steeper learning curve than FG but works very well at displaying a map and moving tokens around and generating random numbers. I tried OpenRPG and didn't like it. Interface felt klutsy to me and it crashed alot. Whatever VTT you end up with you want to use voice IMHO. It *greatly* speeds up combat if you can just say: "Roll initiative." "Kinkaid is lighty wounded." "Tell me how you got a +14 mod?" You can have you players type out "in character" chat if you want for the roleplaying but get voice for combat. Here's a screen from a FG game I play in: Note I'm linking to a thumbnail on the FG board because Photobucket is doing maintainance - [url]http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15&d=1179101757[/url] Here's a link to a thread with screenys in a Savage World "Aliens" Bug hunt I played in using MapTool. That was my Grenade in the second screen - LOL. [url]http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?t=2318[/url] [/QUOTE]
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