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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8199518" data-attributes="member: 6796661">MapTool was the first program I used when I had to start running games online. This was more because of work travel and I started before COVID, so I used it for quite some tie. But I only used it for loading maps, putting on tokens, and manual fog of war.&nbsp; I didn't even bother trying to host it given low bandwidth, I just used two screens and loaded two instances of Map Tool, a GMs instance and player's instance, and shared the players instance via Google Meet. What I loved, and most miss, is how quickly I could filter through hundreds of maps and and thousands of tokens and throw something up on the fly with fog of war and all the options for manually erasing the fog as the players explored.&nbsp; I never bothered with placing walls and using line of sight or lighting with Map Tool. But I got tired of lugging around a second, personal laptop when working overseas, so I need to switch to something that could be fully hosted and managed via the Web without having to install anything locally.&nbsp; If it wasn't the need to have a fully online system, I likely would have moved to Fantasy Ground Classic. FGC isn't perfect but I liked the interface and being ablve to have all the official content all properly setup, plus all the automations and quality-of-life features it offers the DM, would have been nice.&nbsp; Fantasy Ground Unity was unusable for me. It was unreliable, sluggish, hung all the time, and was overall a frustrating waste of several months worth of $10/month subscription.&nbsp; FGC, however, always ran well for me as a DM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8199518, member: 6796661"] MapTool was the first program I used when I had to start running games online. This was more because of work travel and I started before COVID, so I used it for quite some tie. But I only used it for loading maps, putting on tokens, and manual fog of war. I didn't even bother trying to host it given low bandwidth, I just used two screens and loaded two instances of Map Tool, a GMs instance and player's instance, and shared the players instance via Google Meet. What I loved, and most miss, is how quickly I could filter through hundreds of maps and and thousands of tokens and throw something up on the fly with fog of war and all the options for manually erasing the fog as the players explored. I never bothered with placing walls and using line of sight or lighting with Map Tool. But I got tired of lugging around a second, personal laptop when working overseas, so I need to switch to something that could be fully hosted and managed via the Web without having to install anything locally. If it wasn't the need to have a fully online system, I likely would have moved to Fantasy Ground Classic. FGC isn't perfect but I liked the interface and being ablve to have all the official content all properly setup, plus all the automations and quality-of-life features it offers the DM, would have been nice. Fantasy Ground Unity was unusable for me. It was unreliable, sluggish, hung all the time, and was overall a frustrating waste of several months worth of $10/month subscription. FGC, however, always ran well for me as a DM. [/QUOTE]

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