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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8451201" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I have a good deal of experience with MapTool. It has its good (great!) points, and in other ways it is truly hideous. The scripting is just a nightmare. If building a web page that does what you want is a 5, then building a maptool macro that is non-trivial is an 11. The actual map display part of the thing (albeit it has its own UX issues) is second to none, but from what I hear it is also pretty much dead in terms of any kind of further development. Its a shame, the thing really does kick ass. It was like 90% of the way to nirvana and then they just ran out of steam. I think the version that they they are on now is the same version that was current EIGHT YEARS AGO. lol. There was a fork for a while that looked promising, but...At some point I just tire of all the hard to work around stuff, and I'm not that confident in any of the other offerings. The MAIN problem is, they all want to lock you in. Its like Roll20, even if you pay the $100/yr 'pro' license fee there's no such thing as character import or export, nothing. At least I can make a character sheet that in some sense works with outside data. Maybe we will need to use roll20 for whatever, talking, rolling dice, showing an image of a map, whatever. It does that OK. The problem I have now is, just to make one character takes an hour of building attributes and setting them and whatnot, and even then the result isn't great. I just want type it in a text editor and be done with it! lol.</blockquote>

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