DualQuad
August 26th, 2010, 18:53
Guys,
I took the plunge and purchased FG Ultimate to assist in the DMing work and to provide a means for a friend (soon to be moving to other side of the planet) a means to continue to participate. We have our normal get together planned for Saturday. The plan is that I run the DM side and a separate laptop will connect as clients. This weekend will really amount to the client using the map to move tokens on their side, no formal characters have been input. Since there is only a single client planned, movement will be done via caller/hot seating.
I plan to track damage/wounds manually as DM and apply effects manually to NPCs using FG. Players will do as they have done for the last couple decades, verbally provide dice rolls and track their characters on paper.
So far I have done the following:
1) Prepared last 5 encounters of the adventure module -- we usually do 4 so perhaps we can finish up
2) Input all the common effects and modifiers
3) Found various portraits to use for players
4) Scanned various images to flavor up last encounters.
5) Connected a client to verify that things generally work
6) Loaded up various library resources using Tenians scraper.
Left to do:
1) Export campaign from desk top to laptop --- I think this will amount to moving the appropriate directory to the other device
Is there any important steps that I have overlooked for this first, partial attempt at using FG? Overall, the few stumbling blocks I have encountered while using the software have been extremely minor and inputting the encounters and maps has been extremely fast.
Any thoughts on things that may have been overlooked or should be in place to make this first outing sucessful?
Thanks in advance,
DQ
I took the plunge and purchased FG Ultimate to assist in the DMing work and to provide a means for a friend (soon to be moving to other side of the planet) a means to continue to participate. We have our normal get together planned for Saturday. The plan is that I run the DM side and a separate laptop will connect as clients. This weekend will really amount to the client using the map to move tokens on their side, no formal characters have been input. Since there is only a single client planned, movement will be done via caller/hot seating.
I plan to track damage/wounds manually as DM and apply effects manually to NPCs using FG. Players will do as they have done for the last couple decades, verbally provide dice rolls and track their characters on paper.
So far I have done the following:
1) Prepared last 5 encounters of the adventure module -- we usually do 4 so perhaps we can finish up
2) Input all the common effects and modifiers
3) Found various portraits to use for players
4) Scanned various images to flavor up last encounters.
5) Connected a client to verify that things generally work
6) Loaded up various library resources using Tenians scraper.
Left to do:
1) Export campaign from desk top to laptop --- I think this will amount to moving the appropriate directory to the other device
Is there any important steps that I have overlooked for this first, partial attempt at using FG? Overall, the few stumbling blocks I have encountered while using the software have been extremely minor and inputting the encounters and maps has been extremely fast.
Any thoughts on things that may have been overlooked or should be in place to make this first outing sucessful?
Thanks in advance,
DQ