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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4945168" data-attributes="member: 41321">My group uses <a href="http://www.rptools.net/index.php?page=maptool" target="_blank">MapTool</a>.&nbsp; It's a very generic VTT but it allows a heck of a lot of customization and automation so folks have made &quot;frameworks&quot; for a variety of different games.&nbsp; <a href="http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&amp;t=5475" target="_blank">Here's one for 3.5e.</a>&nbsp; If you don't like that framework there might be others on the <a href="http://forums.rptools.net/index.php" target="_blank">RPTools forums</a> in the <a href="http://forums.rptools.net/viewforum.php?f=33" target="_blank">User Creations/Campaign Frameworks</a> section, or if you're willing to put some work into it you can look into the macro &quot;language&quot; they have and build your own logic into the game.Using a framework should be able to get you points 1, 3, and 4.&nbsp; MapTool can do 2 by itself without any extras.&nbsp; It can do unbounded maps, maps from one huge image, and maps built from &quot;stamps&quot; (smaller images that you can use to build larger maps).You can drag any image you want into MapTool straight from your desktop or whatever file structure you have.&nbsp; If you have the token layer selected when you do this it'll create a token with that image.&nbsp; If you want to be able to crop images and give them a nice border before you tokenize them you can use <a href="http://www.rptools.net/index.php?page=tokentool" target="_blank">TokenTool</a>, made by the same folks.Two of the things I like most about MapTool is that it's free and is almost constantly being updated.&nbsp; They're very close to finalizing the 1.3 version.&nbsp; The most recent version is 1.3.b59.&nbsp; B60 is due out soon, and there's some talk that this could be the last version in the 1.3 chain before they move onto 1.4 (where they can start drastically changing things without worrying about maintaining compatibility with older versions), so what's out now is very stable.It's built on Java, so it'll run on just about any operating system you can think of (if it supports Java, MapTool should work on it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4945168, member: 41321"] My group uses [url=http://www.rptools.net/index.php?page=maptool]MapTool[/url]. It's a very generic VTT but it allows a heck of a lot of customization and automation so folks have made "frameworks" for a variety of different games. [url=http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5475]Here's one for 3.5e.[/url] If you don't like that framework there might be others on the [url=http://forums.rptools.net/index.php]RPTools forums[/url] in the [url=http://forums.rptools.net/viewforum.php?f=33]User Creations/Campaign Frameworks[/url] section, or if you're willing to put some work into it you can look into the macro "language" they have and build your own logic into the game. Using a framework should be able to get you points 1, 3, and 4. MapTool can do 2 by itself without any extras. It can do unbounded maps, maps from one huge image, and maps built from "stamps" (smaller images that you can use to build larger maps). You can drag any image you want into MapTool straight from your desktop or whatever file structure you have. If you have the token layer selected when you do this it'll create a token with that image. If you want to be able to crop images and give them a nice border before you tokenize them you can use [url=http://www.rptools.net/index.php?page=tokentool]TokenTool[/url], made by the same folks. Two of the things I like most about MapTool is that it's free and is almost constantly being updated. They're very close to finalizing the 1.3 version. The most recent version is 1.3.b59. B60 is due out soon, and there's some talk that this could be the last version in the 1.3 chain before they move onto 1.4 (where they can start drastically changing things without worrying about maintaining compatibility with older versions), so what's out now is very stable. It's built on Java, so it'll run on just about any operating system you can think of (if it supports Java, MapTool should work on it). [/QUOTE]

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