Fantasy Grounds (Steam) - virtual online gaming table for D&D

Started by Mr. Analog, November 08, 2017, 12:07:44 PM

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Mr. Analog

QuoteFantasy Grounds is an application acting as a virtual online gaming table primarily intended for pen and paper style narrative role playing games. It is designed to perform many of the things you can do while playing at a conventional gaming table and move it online.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252690/Fantasy_Grounds/

QuoteFantasy Grounds is a hybrid application which allows you to play and create your own RPG games. It facilitates this play and provides some optional add-on Adventure modules which can be loaded and played with very little preparation. Each game will require a GameMaster (GM) and one or more players. Games may be played in a session as short as a few hours or continued with multiple sessions over a series of days, weeks, months or years. A GM will typically install the application and choose their game-system of choice, which we refer to as a Ruleset. Fantasy Grounds comes pre-loaded with Rulesets supporting compatible play for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, Dungeons & Dragons 4E, Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (R). Additional Rulesets are available for free and for purchase from our Workshop. The 3.5E, 5E and PFRPG rulesets are good places to start for new GMs and for people new to Fantasy Grounds. These Rulesets come pre-loaded with some basic Library modules full of abilities, spells, monsters and items that have been marked as Open Gaming Content (OGC) by their respective copyright holders. The 5E ruleset contains all the content from the D&D Basic Rules for D&D fifth edition. Additional rulesets, such as that for Call of Cthulhu or Savage Worlds are fully licensed versions and contain otherwise closed and proprietary content that we've licensed from those publishers. As of April 2015, Fantasy Grounds acquired an official license from Wizards of the Coast for D&D fifth edition. This means that the 5E ruleset supports basic understanding and gameplay for D&D fifth edition but you can also buy fully preloaded data packs and adventures that are licensed from Wizards of the Coast as DLC here on Steam.
By Grabthar's Hammer

Thorin

Pretty neat tool, much like Roll20.net, clearly set up for online play.  It might not be very useful for in-person play, unless there's a separate GM computer, and even then, you kinda have to hand the mouse around to whoever's turn it is to do things...
Prayin' for a 20!

gcc thorin.c -pedantic -o Thorin
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Mr. Analog

Yup, this looks to be set up mostly for online pen & paper gamers. Also the price is kinda painful ($30 for the BASE 5e character classes)
By Grabthar's Hammer