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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9433387" data-attributes="member: 6804070">see text after Reynard's quote...The "Beyond Trilogy" specifically Storm Lord's Wrath, Sleeping Dragon's Wake, and Divine Contention. But note that these are also available on Fantasy Grounds. I don't know about other digital outlets.So both are created to be used with the VTTs. Different than how DDB was created as an online reference. I know FG intimately but not Foundry so I will just speak about FG from here.I think FG is good for prep work for use outside of FG. Not stellar because export is difficult. Taking your example of finding monsters. I can open an FG campaign and load in the "books" or resources I own. Open the NPC list and you can sort by CR and Type, and search by name. There is a community extension that adds all the other fields to the sort list, but I don't use it.You can then turn them into encounters that will tell you the XP total and rate them (hard, deadly, etc) based upon the characters added to the party sheet. It does other things if playing in the VTT world, but not for external prep.Export as non-images is the challenge. You can export them to XML, but then you have to convert the xml to a formatted manner. Not hard if you do that kind of thing, but challenging if not. They do provide an XML to html converter (which I then convert to Word) for characters and campaigns. But it's really a beta tool for developing your own exports. I have it working pretty well and have shared it with the community, but it may be too many steps for your preferences.You can also create some pretty impressive maps as well, even with animation etc. But again the export is second hand. Because they are designed to be used in the VTT. You can export into XML, but not a overall image. You have to screen capture that.Speaking for FG, yes. All content is downloaded directly to your computer. FG's licensing agreement with WotC specifically says that purchases are irrevocable and that SmiteWorks can keep them on their server for purchasers to re-download indefinitely. They can't be taken away.If SmiteWorks were to go out of business, the two things that would be lost is the optional (preferred) connection brokering provided by SmiteWorks for FG games (you would have to know IPs and do port forwarding etc like the old days) and Ultimate licenses are validated against the FG server when free users connect. Though SmiteWorks has said they would remove this check if they ever do go out of business.Do note, that the 'books' are encrypted and in an FG proprietary format, so you can't use them outside of FG. But they can't be taken away and are yours for life.</blockquote>

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