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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rvalle" data-source="post: 3809176" data-attributes="member: 28272">I use it to run the Worlds Largest Dungeon!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I use Fantasy Grounds to run a game every Thursday night. We run Skype in conjunction with FG for voice communication.FG allows each person to log in with their character, to roll virtual dice, see the maps and images I share with them and to see what text and dice rolls others do.I use the built in masking of FG to run the WLD in 'real time'. Each person has their own token on the map and the move them around to where their character is at that exact moment. There is no question about where anyone is when the trap goes off or an ambush is sprung!  It does make for some fun jockeying for position as they move down a hallway into the unknown or get ready to open a door. The map can be zoomed in and out so while they are moving around exploring I'll have it zoomed out a bit to give them a wide view, when a fight starts I'll zoom in close to make the fight take up the whole map. If the players are talking about where they want to go next I'll zoom it out all the way so they can see where they have been and which parts are still unknown.I use the 'combat tracker' to keep tabs on init order, current hp's of bad guys and good guys, to roll attacks for the bad guys (drag and drop all the bad guys attacks as once!) and any funky per round status I need to keep track of. Each bad guy gets his own token which I either make from the srd monsters image from the wotc site or use one of the Fiery Dragon token packs I've bought. Or sometimes both so I can have a little variety of tokens on the map.The players setup hot keys to do their attacks, saves and common battle rolls. They can kick off all their attacks with modifiers in seconds and, as they go up in levels and get more and more attacks (12th level now) is quite nice.And lastly I'll use the software to share images with everyone. Usually a picture of what the current monster looks like but I've seen it used to show a wide variety of things... blimps flying though the air, what a trail in a forest looks like, some stairs in a castle... whatever you can find an image for.Edit: trying to add a screenshot. This is with my dual monitor setup:<a href="http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=123&d=1183826597" target="_blank">http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=123&d=1183826597</a>rv</blockquote>

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