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Message: <blockquote data-quote="msd" data-source="post: 2504164" data-attributes="member: 19974">I love Fantasy Grounds...huge fan.Now for the disclaimer.  I haven't really tried the others so you'll have to put my comments through the proper filter.A random list of things that I really like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A really great version 1 of the product.  Compared to other "version 1" RPG products, this is great which instills a lot of confidence that this will be around for a while</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the same vein, the developers are very accessible on their boards...features which I have personally asked for have been implemented in patches and I am not close to alone in that regard.  The devs are first and foremost players and are looking for player feedback.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Very extensible system.  The system is all XML based so basically any changes you might want to make are pretty easily made</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Great effort at making you feel like you are "around the table" - the dice rolling is awesome, the sound of the dice is right on, and the general look of the app put you right there</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Just an overall very simple and easy, intuitive interface - learning the app couldn't be easier</li> </ul>Some negatives (just to be balanced)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It is a good version 1, but it is still a version 1 - there are sometimes unexplained application crashes.  Nothing drastic, but I don't want to suggest that it doesn't happen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No voice or sound - for me this is no big as we use Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Skype, etc. but some people are bothered by this</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Editing and entry of data is not always as easy as it could be - this mainly impacts the DM and is something that is definitely being addressed in an upcoming version</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compatibility with other apps - again, the entire system is XML based and at present, for instance, the format of a character file is a basically proprietary XML structure.  The community has asked the developers to at least allow interaction with things like e-tools so that you can generate that NPC and boom...he's in FG.  Not quite there yet but supposed to be coming soon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lack of documentation about the workings of the system under the hood.  Don't like d20?  Want to somehow customize the character sheet or NPC sheet to add some piece of data?  You can do all this and its all a matter of modifying XML definition files but there is no real documentation as of yet and you have to rely on the community knowledge of the forums and the occasional posts by the developers pointing you in the right direction.  This too is supposedly being addressed.</li> </ul>Two other things.First, and despite by sig <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> , in the spirit of making a truly informed choice you should also check out <a href="http://www.ghostorb.com" target="_blank">http://www.ghostorb.com</a> - they also have a new product in this space and are worthy of being on your list.Second, while I have tried to be objective in this post, I am definitely a partisan player in this one and would love to win more players to the FG side of the fence.  FG has a freely downloadable demo.  I would love for you and your players to download the demo and give you a cook's tour (i.e. you would connect for a demo session and we could go through the functionality together).  PM me here if interested.Hope that helps!</blockquote>

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