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4 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2009 - 5:20AM
#361
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2007
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Can this program facilitate remote gaming in and of itself (ala Fantasy Grounds or MapTool), or is it just a cool way to plan campaigns?
Not by itself (yet) but an easy way to do this is to use Masterplan's player view screen with some sort of application sharing program (Messenger, Skype etc).
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4 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2009 - 5:25AM
#362
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2007
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For PCs, adding conditions and applying damage is greyed out. Is that normal behavior or am I doing something wrong? Tracking conditions has never been our strong side, so it'd be nice from time to time.
This is as designed. Due to the complexity of modelling PCs, Masterplan assumes that players are capable of tracking their own characters' hit points and so on.
On the same token, could there be a warning displayed when you start the turn of a creature that is stunned, dazed or suffering from another condition that affects the number of actions to take? It got late yesterday and I had already rolled the attack of a creature that I then realized was stunned.
I'll put that on the list.
One question regarding maps. I set one up using Dungeon Tiles, only to find that I had no way to tell the program which tiles grant cover (statues and the likes). We sometimes use a different tile system with cardboard-made walls (which are a square wide), so I'm wondering whether there's a way to tell the mapper to consider some tiles blocking. The same would probably apply to squares that provide cover and block line of sight as effect of a power (I notioced the overlay-function, and I loved it.).
This isn't in the current version, but it's coming.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2009 - 9:17AM
#363
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Date Joined:
Mar 24, 2008
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This isn't in the current version, but it's coming.
Very much looking forward to it, thanks  .
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4 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2009 - 12:53PM
#364
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Date Joined:
Feb 28, 2002
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Can this program facilitate remote gaming in and of itself (ala Fantasy Grounds or MapTool), or is it just a cool way to plan campaigns?
Yes you can use it to do gaming.
But
To make it work well, imo, you need a second monitor and then something like TightVNC, which is free, a remote viewer. That's what I do in my weekly game and it works GREAT! Further, multiple people can connect to it, so you can have more than one site see it.
turlough
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4 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2009 - 3:41AM
#365
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Date Joined:
Mar 24, 2008
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To make it work well, imo, you need a second monitor and then something like TightVNC, which is free, a remote viewer. That's what I do in my weekly game and it works GREAT! Further, multiple people can connect to it, so you can have more than one site see it.
I havn't used the PlayerView yet, but that sounds like a great solution for a problem my group has been facing, and using a webcam to cover the map never really cut it.
Another question, unrelated: do you have the possibility to run skill challenges with the tool, or at least have the apropriate DCs displayed in list view and not only when editing it? Even better would be a way to tick off certain rolls and get the additions to other chesks automatically added. And what about a combination of skill challenges and combat encounters? Or multiple challenges in parallel, as per the recent RSC article... Or... yes, shutting up now.
One last thing, the possibility to arrange plotpoints vertically, i.e. form different rows despite links.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2009 - 3:50AM
#366
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2007
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Another question, unrelated: do you have the possibility to run skill challenges with the tool, or at least have the apropriate DCs displayed in list view and not only when editing it? Even better would be a way to tick off certain rolls and get the additions to other chesks automatically added. And what about a combination of skill challenges and combat encounters? Or multiple challenges in parallel, as per the recent RSC article... Or... yes, shutting up now.
You can add skill challenges to encounters, yes.
The rest is in the works.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2009 - 4:40AM
#367
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I'm trying to put master plan on my laptop, I downloaded 6.7 off the website, got the DT1 library and uploaded my monster manual library, but when I try to make a map it says I have no libraries available, and when I check libraries its not registering either of them.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2009 - 4:50AM
#368
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2007
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I'm trying to put master plan on my laptop, I downloaded 6.7 off the website, got the DT1 library and uploaded my monster manual library, but when I try to make a map it says I have no libraries available, and when I check libraries its not registering either of them.
Make sure the libraries are in the same folder as Masterplan. The next time you run it, it should pick them up.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2009 - 4:57AM
#369
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They're in the same folder, but libraries says no libraries are installed.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2009 - 5:08AM
#370
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2007
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They're in the same folder, but libraries says no libraries are installed.
Even after restarting Masterplan?
Since the forums are being taken offline, might be best to take this to the Facebook page.
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