But, having used it for many 1000,s of hours since my purchase, it is well worth it. You can change the lighting to suit day, night, campfire or forest. You can add story, NPC's, Monsters, items, calendars, party pool, notes etc. You can easily upload images (often by drag and drop). You can get fantastic looking character sheets. Then i click on the "next character" button and it moves on in initiative order. It says if a Wound was inflicted, and whether the target is unconscious or dead. I drag the damage to the armour value of the target, it deducts armour and applies it to the target. If the character hits, the player clicks on the damage. The player clicks on his attack and it rolls the correct dice. I ran a 12 hour Earthdawn on saturday, and it was almost no work. That is to say that you see dice rolling on the desktop. I use Fantasy Grounds for almost all of my gaming now and i think it is fantastic: Not very customizable unless you go for the paid subscriptions. Somewhat limited in features, and it's unclear to me who quickly they add new ones. (This is the biggest drawback to me, but it's manageable if you have the tools to resample big maps - a lot of RPGNow's VTT maps are larger than that.) Note that this doesn't work worth a crap in Internet Explorer, though, or so they say. Includes video (and audio) conferencing (we use GoToMeeting for that anyway, but it's nice it's there). If dealing with large images (like the map), browsers are generally better at managing the downloads in a timely fashion.įree, and entirely usable if you carefully manage your storage space and get creative with your tokens. Outgoing connection on all ends, so there's no fiddling with port forwarding (or issues with ISPs that won't allow incoming connections). This means it is a lot more likely to work right. Runs in the browser, requires no installation of any kind. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages for me: Never looked at Fantasy Grounds, but I am currently getting ready to run my first big fight with Roll20 (after having MapTools fail miserably on me).