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brown_ant

MapTool Mini Review

Jul 30, 2008 10:04

I took MapTool for a shakedown cruise last night. I (mercifully) survived my first time GMingSavage Worlds! Call me a 'believer' - MapTool is a great virtual gaming table. Add in the other RPTools then you've got a truly kick-ass set of tools for an online RPG game. InitTool came in handy for managing combat and has built in support for Savage ( Read more... )

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jordangreywolf August 6 2008, 18:10:23 UTC

I've only dabbled just a little bit with MapTool. I gather that in order to use it properly, I'll really have to build up a library of markers and maps. Did you end up making your own custom maps for this? (I had originally thought that perhaps MapTool would let me make maps that looked like the samples, dragging and dropping various map elements into place, but it looks like that's not quite how it works ( ... )

Mapping Resources brown_ant August 7 2008, 05:27:53 UTC

I made my own maps, because I like making maps. I created a subway station map, , subway tunnel and sea-side cargo unloading area. I'll put them up in a respoitory in a few days if anyone's interested.

That being said, one doesn't really have to make maps from scrach. I've run two sessions and haven't used any of my own maps (as the characters had no reason to go to those places.. yey). I've plundered and resized WotC's Urban Arcana maps. I also found a bunch of modern maps and lots of objects over at RPGmapshare.com.

And there's another WotC page for the Menace Manual maps.

On the Fantasy end of things, there are plenty of maps around the Dundjinni forums.

And other folks made pretty maps for some Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classic adventures.

And A Token Gallery is never a bad thing. :)

Re: Mapping Resources jordangreywolf August 7 2008, 13:32:57 UTC

Cool subway map! You know, if you broke that up into 8"x10" sections and put all the resulting pages in a PDF, that map would be a useful resource for miniatures gaming, too. (For instance, for people playing "Crime City" or other modern settings. Or, for that matter, it'd probably work for post-apocalyptic settings like DL:HoE.)

Anyway, thanks for all the resources!

VTT Feature Comparison Chart heruca February 8 2011, 18:51:11 UTC

The VTT feature comparison chart you mentioned is no longer available at the link you provided. It can now be found here, instead:
http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/links.html#anchor8

heruca March 13 2011, 13:38:59 UTC

The chart has now been updated with new info for MapTool, Fantasy Grounds 2, ViewingDale, and Battlegrounds. Info for the other VTs will be updated if the developers respond to the request for update info.