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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7850914" data-attributes="member: 6796661">[USER=53980]@Fanaelialae[/USER] Thanks for responding. What I'm really looking for is something that will let me progressively review maps. I'm not just throwing up an occasional battlemap. I'm running a massive mega-dungeon, many locations of which are complicated and I want to show the players the map as they explore it. The more I've looked into online tools the more I'm convinced that I'll need to stick with software running on my computer. For one, I have a LOT of maps. The nature of the dungeon and style of game I'm running makes it hard to know exactly which maps I'll need during the session. File-size and overall space limitations are an issue with the online tools I've looked at. The next challenge is having an easy way to reveal portions of the map as the party explores. Roll20 seems to need far too much prep and the reveal tools are hard to use when you need to reveal anything not in straight lines. What RealmWorks has been brilliant at is that I can load two versions of a map, player and DM. I see the the DM version but the player window shows the players version. When I reveal a portion of the map, I can do it on the DM version and the same area will be revealed on the player version. Also the reveal tools include the ability to not only select areas with rectangles, but I can also click multiple points to review irregular areas or use a reveal paint brush. This is especially useful on a touch-screen computer as I can just use a finger to wipe away areas of the masking layer to reveal areas, even twisty, bending natural caverns. At this time I think I'm stuck with RealmWorks. I'll either buy a new personal computer or I'll set up a VM on my work computer. Streaming a shared window on Google Meet can still suffer performance issues though and I'm wondering if there is a way to share just a snaphot of a window or my screen that I can continually update. In prior jobs I used web conferencing software and educational software that would do this with slide shows but those were pre-prepared.  Anyway, I'll update this tread with my experiments.</blockquote>

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