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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7968226" data-attributes="member: 6796661">After a couple months and many many many often frustrating hours testing MapTools, Roll20, d20pro, Fantasy Ground Unity, Astral VTT, and Foundry, including paying a for the Foundry Patreons for two months, and now into my second month of FGU Ultimate subscription, I am running my games in Map Tool.&nbsp; It is the only tool that I am easily able to search through over a hundred map images, select one and open it as a new map with FOW, throw the party tokens on it, and progressively reveal the map using rectangular, diamond, polygon, and freehand reveal. I have hundreds of monster tokens that I can easily search through and throw on the map. I run two instances on my laptop that has an extra screen connected. I run one instance as DM and the other as player. I share the screen showing the player view with Google Meet. I don't both with combat macros, or connecting with players over the Internet. Too much work and data entry to set up for having all the monster stats and combat automations set up. Also, trying to do the networking with Map Tools is not easy, especially if you are not always playing in a location where you have admin access to the internet router and firewalls. But for simply displaying a map with fog of war, progressively revealing it, and moving tokens around, Map Tools is great. It is stable, responsive, has reveal tools that none of the paid options have, and Map Tools is free.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7968226, member: 6796661"] After a couple months and many many many often frustrating hours testing MapTools, Roll20, d20pro, Fantasy Ground Unity, Astral VTT, and Foundry, including paying a for the Foundry Patreons for two months, and now into my second month of FGU Ultimate subscription, I am running my games in Map Tool. It is the only tool that I am easily able to search through over a hundred map images, select one and open it as a new map with FOW, throw the party tokens on it, and progressively reveal the map using rectangular, diamond, polygon, and freehand reveal. I have hundreds of monster tokens that I can easily search through and throw on the map. I run two instances on my laptop that has an extra screen connected. I run one instance as DM and the other as player. I share the screen showing the player view with Google Meet. I don't both with combat macros, or connecting with players over the Internet. Too much work and data entry to set up for having all the monster stats and combat automations set up. Also, trying to do the networking with Map Tools is not easy, especially if you are not always playing in a location where you have admin access to the internet router and firewalls. But for simply displaying a map with fog of war, progressively revealing it, and moving tokens around, Map Tools is great. It is stable, responsive, has reveal tools that none of the paid options have, and Map Tools is free. [/QUOTE]

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