Andramelech
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Edit: Sorry, didn't see the software board.
I wondered what kind of setups and software you guys might use to assist your 4E games. Not talking about DDI tools in this case. I'm hoping to share, or gain some ideas here.
My main tool is called maptool : RPTools - Downloads
A lot of you guys already know about this. It's basically my rpg fantasy come true. It has a drawing program that lets you make easy maps, or you can just use a picture. You then use tokens you create to keep track of position. You can use it bare bones to replace dungeon tiles and minis. They also have user made frameworks specific to different rpgs, that can automate a number of functions to make it easy for the dm and players.
I use "[D&D 4E] Dorpond's Face to Face Framework" because it's easy and doesn't try to handle everything. Rumble's combat framework is more popular, but is way more time consuming to setup, and handles stuff you wouldn't believe.
I was looking for a good program to keep track of marks and conditions. Dorponds framework can handle initiative, and will mark conditions on your tokens that are easy to read. It doesn't handle Marks well though.
I found another program called DnD 4e combat manager : http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DnD4eCM#Introduction to keep track of initiative and conditions. I tried Virtual combat cards but it seemed full of bugs from just the few imports I tried.
These two programs seem to go together well, but I wondered of any of you have found something better. I think that rumbles framework is supposed to have some kind of condition tracking feature, but as I said, I haven't experimented with rumples because it seems so complicated. Do any of you have good experiences with rumple's?
Some stuff I like to keep old school, like dice and such. It wouldn't feel right to be playing d&d without dice to me. I don't mind automating the monsters initiative though.
There's an alternative to maptool called rpg tabletop, but It seems a step below maptool.
rpgdeck is great for music.
What you want is the least amount of memory being used to get the results you want, unless you have an uber powerfull pc.
I have a big HD screen where the players can move their tokens, and I use my laptop as the maptool server. I also have a dm screen (need a better one) and some PDFs.
Has anyone taken this further? I don't think there's a better alternative than maptool for me, but maybe there's other software that could supplement it. What do you guys think?
I wondered what kind of setups and software you guys might use to assist your 4E games. Not talking about DDI tools in this case. I'm hoping to share, or gain some ideas here.
My main tool is called maptool : RPTools - Downloads
A lot of you guys already know about this. It's basically my rpg fantasy come true. It has a drawing program that lets you make easy maps, or you can just use a picture. You then use tokens you create to keep track of position. You can use it bare bones to replace dungeon tiles and minis. They also have user made frameworks specific to different rpgs, that can automate a number of functions to make it easy for the dm and players.
I use "[D&D 4E] Dorpond's Face to Face Framework" because it's easy and doesn't try to handle everything. Rumble's combat framework is more popular, but is way more time consuming to setup, and handles stuff you wouldn't believe.
I was looking for a good program to keep track of marks and conditions. Dorponds framework can handle initiative, and will mark conditions on your tokens that are easy to read. It doesn't handle Marks well though.
I found another program called DnD 4e combat manager : http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DnD4eCM#Introduction to keep track of initiative and conditions. I tried Virtual combat cards but it seemed full of bugs from just the few imports I tried.
These two programs seem to go together well, but I wondered of any of you have found something better. I think that rumbles framework is supposed to have some kind of condition tracking feature, but as I said, I haven't experimented with rumples because it seems so complicated. Do any of you have good experiences with rumple's?
Some stuff I like to keep old school, like dice and such. It wouldn't feel right to be playing d&d without dice to me. I don't mind automating the monsters initiative though.
There's an alternative to maptool called rpg tabletop, but It seems a step below maptool.
rpgdeck is great for music.
What you want is the least amount of memory being used to get the results you want, unless you have an uber powerfull pc.
I have a big HD screen where the players can move their tokens, and I use my laptop as the maptool server. I also have a dm screen (need a better one) and some PDFs.
Has anyone taken this further? I don't think there's a better alternative than maptool for me, but maybe there's other software that could supplement it. What do you guys think?
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