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<blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 7861189" data-attributes="member: 6998052">It is amazing at the table. MapTools requires little prep time. I download maps off the Net, there are thousands on DeviantArt alone, all free from their creators. Loading a map is a couple mouse clicks, adjust the scale, and then populate it with pogs; I recently set up three maps from the Storm King's Thunder in about an hour. You don't have to worry where the party is going, because everywhere they can go is already present and populated. You don't have to stop the game to draw, or waste time explaining what something looks like; they can actually see what their PCs see, so all you have to do is make the NPCs/monsters appear with the click of a mouse, and add key descriptive filler. Fireball cast? Drop a fireball image, to scale, on the map. I have pogs for noises, pogs for movement...you can really draw the plapers in.Last campaign was an occult-ish Old West; my players got caught in a zombie outbreak in a small town. Thanks to Oones, I had not just every room in the town detailed, but the countryside for a considerable distance.My players love it. I've done the minis and battle mats and all that sort of thing, but nothing tops VTT. You get far more gaming from your time at the table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jd Smith1, post: 7861189, member: 6998052"] It is amazing at the table. MapTools requires little prep time. I download maps off the Net, there are thousands on DeviantArt alone, all free from their creators. Loading a map is a couple mouse clicks, adjust the scale, and then populate it with pogs; I recently set up three maps from the Storm King's Thunder in about an hour. You don't have to worry where the party is going, because everywhere they can go is already present and populated. You don't have to stop the game to draw, or waste time explaining what something looks like; they can actually see what their PCs see, so all you have to do is make the NPCs/monsters appear with the click of a mouse, and add key descriptive filler. Fireball cast? Drop a fireball image, to scale, on the map. I have pogs for noises, pogs for movement...you can really draw the plapers in. Last campaign was an occult-ish Old West; my players got caught in a zombie outbreak in a small town. Thanks to Oones, I had not just every room in the town detailed, but the countryside for a considerable distance. My players love it. I've done the minis and battle mats and all that sort of thing, but nothing tops VTT. You get far more gaming from your time at the table. [/QUOTE]

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