Okay, so I used to do comics, and for a while I did Magic cards...but now apparently I collect sadly-lacking or discontinued software for D&D.
My favorite was and is DMGenie, but now it's dead due to lack of interest by the creator, and the 4E "No Software" nonsense.
I own Fantasy Grounds, which is fairly decent. I also own Klooge, which MIGHT be decent but I'd never recommend it in a million years because they decided that actual user Help and documentation was just SO 1993. So it might be the pinnacle of power, but it's useless and no one should bother with it unless they like banging their heads against the wall.
So now I see Battlegrounds, and I think "Hold on...we've been down this road before"....
Any advice? I don't like PCGen, and in fact I don't want anything Excel based or super-computer-y....I don't want to think about Linux while playing D&D. I want a nice graphical user interface, and the ability to move little dudes around on a map with conceal/reveal ability. Ideally it could measure distances, and allow for graphical tokens.
I don't need it to calculate hit points, attacks, or anything as DMGenie still works for me.
Fantasy Grounds map utilities are too funky - the only way to get a grid is to manually edit out all grid lines from your map...Klooge is slightly better, but only because I got lucky enough to find someone online who felt it was their duty to document some things for these jokers.
Is Battlegrounds just more of the same?
My favorite was and is DMGenie, but now it's dead due to lack of interest by the creator, and the 4E "No Software" nonsense.
I own Fantasy Grounds, which is fairly decent. I also own Klooge, which MIGHT be decent but I'd never recommend it in a million years because they decided that actual user Help and documentation was just SO 1993. So it might be the pinnacle of power, but it's useless and no one should bother with it unless they like banging their heads against the wall.
So now I see Battlegrounds, and I think "Hold on...we've been down this road before"....
Any advice? I don't like PCGen, and in fact I don't want anything Excel based or super-computer-y....I don't want to think about Linux while playing D&D. I want a nice graphical user interface, and the ability to move little dudes around on a map with conceal/reveal ability. Ideally it could measure distances, and allow for graphical tokens.
I don't need it to calculate hit points, attacks, or anything as DMGenie still works for me.
Fantasy Grounds map utilities are too funky - the only way to get a grid is to manually edit out all grid lines from your map...Klooge is slightly better, but only because I got lucky enough to find someone online who felt it was their duty to document some things for these jokers.
Is Battlegrounds just more of the same?
