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Battlegrounds has a growing number of artpacks available for it, some for sale, some for free, that make a GM's life a lot easier. They no longer have to go hunting around for a lot of commonly-used things, or resize them in a graphics app prior to use to conserve bandwidth. Just look at this single artpack and how much content it has. Would you want to spend untold hours trying to find all that yourself?

And the quality of the artpack content is top-notch, since it's created by well-respected digital artists like DevilDan, Alynnalizza, Kepli, BluDragn, Iron Dwarf, and more (all of whose names you should immediately recognize if you frequent the Dundjinni forums).

One nice thing about artpacks is that all their content is immediately available on demand during a game session. You don't need to wait a few minutes for the Colossal Dragon token to transfer over, for example, because the players already have all the content locally, on their computers.
 

Those are prety sweet heruca. I'm personally not a huge fan of the top down view - I like tokens better, but, these are nice.

As someone who has spent untold hours finding all that by myself, I can say that yup, buying packs like this is nice.

My only real beef with programs like Battlegrounds and FantasyGrounds is that the DM gets shafted by having to pay as much as double (not that BG does this, it's only a bit more) for the license. I loathe this pay scheme with a passion. And, the fact that my entire group also DM's means we'd all need DM's licenses which would make this a pretty expensive proposition.

I will never understand why the DM client is more expensive.
 

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to bump or not, but I saw that they are definitely moving to integrate the Adventure tools from D&D Insider with the Virtual Table.

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I may have missed the appropriate thread, if so I apologize and would happily see this post deleted or moved.

I hadn't heard from any of the beta testers on the virtual table in a while. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it all goes well and will be available to the public soon.
 

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