Has anyone used Fantasy Grounds?

[TheYeti1775]

Wondering if anyone has used Fantasy Grounds and your reviews of it.

The good, the bad, and the ugly of it.

Some of my friends and are looking at it to revive an old group from down south with it.
We are all ok with the cost and all plan to buy the DM verision as we all have seperate campaigns that we can run at any given time.

But I want it from both a player's prospective and a DM's.

Speed?
Learning Curve?
And all that great junk.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Vonlok The Bold]

As a player I love it. I have never DM'd with it and don't have that version. I read about it in a thread on this sight. I investigated their website and liked what I saw. I sent out the e-mail and made calls to a very old gaming group and talked about putting the gang back together.

I then bought the lite version of the game and began playing in a group I heard about online. It is pretty intuitive, and easy to learn. After one or two sessions everyone will most likely be comfortable enough, that the game will flow fairly smoothely. It has been a blast.

The DM from the old group has gotten the full version and Dunjinni. He was been putting a lot of stuff together for a campaign, and at last we will probably start playing in about a month or so.

I think it is ideal for reviving a game involving people at different locations. The feel isn't better than a face to face pen and paper game, but the convenience of playing from your home is a plus even over the traditional game.

The maps look great, the miniatures are all 2D and free so if you used to use them that will be easy to do. The dice rolling is easy, the rulebooks are right there, as are the character sheets.

While the game is only 93% as fun as face to face pen and paper games, it has allowed me to play when I wouldn't otherwise be able to. For that reason alone it was well worth the cost.

 

[DMFTodd]

It's been discussed several times recently. Do a search on this forum. I preferred klooge and did a comparison.

the miniatures are all 2D

Fantasy Grounds got rid of those tokens and can now actually do minatures? Screenshots on the website still show tokens which was one of the major shortfalls of FG.

 

[Vonlok The Bold]

It's been discussed several times recently. Do a search on this forum. I preferred klooge and did a comparison.


Fantasy Grounds got rid of those tokens and can now actually do minatures? Screenshots on the website still show tokens which was one of the major shortfalls of FG.

They still have tokens, but you can download pics of miniatures, different portraits, or anything you want to use along with the tokens they have. You can actually use the pictures from the manuals if you want.

You could save files of miniature pics from any number of miniature websites and use them as the tokens in your FG game if you wanted. Our groups uses them. It may be possible because we use FG in conjunction with dunjinni, or perhaps it could be done anyway. I'm not the master tech person at it or anything.

 

[TheYeti1775]

Thanks for the Info

Thanks.

Mainly wanted to see how many have used it.

I did note on the E-tools (www.codemonkeypublishing.com) forum site they mentioned the new RPG Tools would have an export option for Fantasy Ground. So that made me very happy as well.

Bill

 

[Hand of Evil]

Here is a review & Thread by Doc_Klueless: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111066

 

[DMFTodd]

My comparison of klooge and FG here.

 

[Mr.Ice]

Check out maptool at http://rptools.net/