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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMFTodd" data-source="post: 2834218" data-attributes="member: 1202">I thought Skype was limited to 5 people at a time? I'm using Ventrilo, it works fine. For gaming, I'm using Klooge. I was impressed with all of the advanced features it had in comparison to the others. In Klooge, you have a character sheet where you can enter your dice rolls. In game, you double-click your icon to bring up the dice roller, it shows you all the stuff you entered, and you just click to make your roll. 15th level fighter with improved two weapon fighting? Click, click, click, click. You're made your attacks. Roll damage? Click, click, click. You're done. Same for spells. Setup your spells with a dice roll and just click to use that spell. Klooge makes the dice roll (no more waiting around for the wizard's player to find 8d6), plays a sound, shows a graphic, and move on. Klooge also can handle modiifers easily. You can enter that your STR is up 2 points and all your attacks and damage is adjusted on the fly. You can setup the effects of your barbarian rage and turn that on/off during game and have everything adjust on the fly. For higher level play, I'm finding klooge to be faster play than paper & pencil.On the DM side of things, you still have the character sheets with all those advantages. You select targets in Klooge so the program can apply damage for you to the right target (with DR or 1/2 damage reductions on the fly). Klooge's map features were also better than the competition when I looked, don't know if they have caught up or not. Use any graphic file you want as the map (I scan in Dungeon or use Dunjinni to draw) and then set the scale on the map (here to here is 5 feet, or 500 feet). Klooge then adjusts the size of all icons on the map to be to scale. You can zoom in and out on the map. When you target a creature on the map it tells you how far away the creature is, tells you how far you've moved when moving a character, etc. So now you can have battles on a large scale, something that is very difficult to do on a battlemap.</blockquote>

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