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GreyOne
08-20-2007, 11:31 PM
Anyone here used it?

Dead|Hooker|Disco
08-21-2007, 12:10 AM
Yes, rather extensively. What do you want to know?

Pigs in Space
08-21-2007, 12:35 AM
Everything.

Is it any good.

Does it have issues that mean it sucks?

GreyOne
08-21-2007, 01:37 AM
Everything.

Is it any good.

Does it have issues that mean it sucks?

Yeah what he said, plus can it support non-d20 gaming effectively?

Bagpuss
08-21-2007, 03:46 AM
It has trouble with none D&D let alone none D20. But it does D&D well.

You can build separate rules sets for it, but there is a lot of work involved in doing them (I did one for D20 Modern and started one for Star Wars Revised), it isn't straight forward in the least.

I've no experience with FG2, however.

Features I like

- look and feel, it feels more like a traditional table due to the graphical layout and real rolling of dice.
- Customisable you can add your own counters and maps and create adventures pretty easily.
- dice roller roll dice openly or behind screen and then drag the results to the chat window.
- You can drag prepared text to the chat window, or make whole files visible to everyone like item descriptions, NPC pictures.
- Masking of maps is okay and they have added a zoom feature, but it doesn't do light sources like some other tabletop systems.
- Saves the mask as well so if you finish a session mid way through you when you load it up again it's all set.