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What's your favorite internet RPG app?

Lasher Dragon

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I'm going to try to set up online gaming in the near future, and I would like to hear some selling points of various applications. The two I seem to hear about the most are Klooge and Fantasy Grounds. What is your favorite online roleplaying setup, and why?
 

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Fantasy Grounds has got a pretty face but there's not much brains behind that smile. I prefer kloodge.

Take the battle map: With FG, you placed a letter ball on the map to mark characters and monsters. With Kloodge, you have icons with pictures. In FG, the map knows nothing about distance. You have to use a map with a grid on it. In Kloodge, you can measure a distance on the map and tell kloodge how far that it. It can then scale the map for everything. It tells you how far you moved a figure, how far away an opponent is, and you can draw, say, a 20' fireball radius to see who it gets.

Or take attacks. With FG, you type a modifer into a box and then pick up the d20 and drop it to make an attack roll. And do that again for the second claw. And then change the modifier and do it again for the bite. And then do it all over again for the damage. It's going to take a long time.

With kloodge, you have a character sheet where you can enter the attacks. To make an attack it's one click. To roll damage, it's one click. Kloodge is also smart enough to do all of the math for you. Tell kloodge that you're raging, blessed, and bull strengthed; and it can make all of the adjustments for your attack and damage rolls on the fly.
 

Yes, I must say after trying both demos, IMO the only thing FG has going for it that Klooge doesn't is the dice in FG are so darn cool. It doesn't make up for all the handy things Klooge can do though.
 


After trying Klooge, Fantasy Grounds, Screen Monkey, RPM, OpenRPG, we settled on build it ourselves.

We have a long way to go with features we'd like to add, but what we have is a reasonable replacement of the battlemap.

Check it out:

http://rptools.net/
 

Well that depends on what you are looking for. Are you looking to totally replace the tablegame, or for something to add to a table game?

If you want to replace the tablegame I would have to say Klooge or Fantasy Grounds. If you are looking for more of a DM aid then I would go for DM's Familier, GM Genie or PCGen (it has a network program buried in it called GMGen).
 

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