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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7580249" data-attributes="member: 6796661">RealmWorks is the way to go.Too tired to go into detail, check out the website and ask questions in the Lone Wolf Development forums. Or post any questions here and I'll try to answer them. Happy to take screenshots and table photos. Basically, I have same set up. I have display enclosed in a case created by <a href="https://www.collabrewate.com/blog/2018/3/6/portable-tv-case-tabletop-games" target="_blank">Collabrewate</a>.  I connect my laptop to it by HDMI cable.Realmworks is a great tool for world building and campaign management, but even if you are not interested in that, I think the Smart Map and "Fog of World" features make it worth the cost. There is a player view and you can display maps, images, etc. to it, while keeping DM stuff on your screen.The maps can be revealed as the party explores using rectangle selections, polygon selections, or paint brushes. If you have a touch display (on your laptop, not the player display), you can use your finger to smudge away the fog of world and reveal the map. You can overlay a GM map over the player map so you see secret doors, room numbers, etc, but the players do not.You don't need a lot of prep. If all you want are to throw up maps, you just need to load the image (and maybe an overlay image). You click to reveal it and right click to send to player view. Fog of World is already applied.  You just reveal as you go. You don't get lighting effects, movable tokens, another advanced features of a VTT, but we use minis on top of the display. I use as a digital battlemap and content sharing tool for in-person games.I've played with Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 but was always put off by the amount of work I have to do up front.  I might use them for adventures that I buy on their stores that have everything done for me.I know some DMs that use RealmWorks for campaign management and Fantasy Ground for battlemaps at in-person games, but I've never felt the need for this. Nor would I want the extra prep time and having to manage even more software at the table. RealmWorks requires no Internet connection to use.</blockquote>

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