Rison
November 26th, 2018, 02:37
Howdy all
New to FG, looking to purchase. Played RPG's in the 80's and early 90's (Twilight 2000, Hero's Unlimited, Star Wars, ect.) and my kids have expressed interest in playing. Played the starter kit of DnD 5ED and had a lot of fun with them. Found this software and have been reading up on it and it looks like a great way to visualize what we are doing. Outside of my experience playing other RPG's 30 years ago, none of us have experience with DnD or RPG's.
I play Advanced Squad Leader using VASSAL and so I am very familiar with the function and theory of the FG software - its here to aid you, not run the game for you. VASSAL has been great for ASL (ie. allowing us all to play even though we are separated by hundreds of miles), and looking to do the same for DnD with my kids.
Heres the particulars of what we would be doing:
-Everyone who is playing would be face to face here at our house
-Our play will be limited to the core DnD 5ED experience
-My thought is to HDMI our laptop to our TV so we would have just one screen that everyone could look at
-Obviously we would not have the same level of 'fog of war' as a true DM/Player expereince, but this would allow us to keep track of everything
-Similar to above, right now I want to focus more on the core gameplay experience at the expense of some of the DM/Player experiences since we are all learning together
-We would purchase everything through Steam
Now my questions:
1. What do I need to purchase to do the above? From my reading, looks like we could do all of that with the $40 of FG on Steam.
2. Would we be able to keep multiple characters in the system for each of my kids with a single seat of the $40 version on Steam? In other words, with what we are looking to do, will having only one seat limit us in anyway?
3. What would be the benefit of purchasing the DnD Players Handbook expansion? Just that all the characters, and their abilities, are preloaded into the system? Seems like a big deal though that will save significant time on our end. We have a hard copy of this book already. In other words, how would it function/look without this expansion, ie. with just the base game?
4. What would be the benefit of purchasing the DnD Monster Handbook expansion? Just that all of the monsters, and their stats, are preloaded into the system? Seems like a big deal though that will save significant time on our end. We have a hard copy of this book already. In other words, how would it function/look without this expansion, ie. with just the base?
5. What would be the benefit of purchasing the DnD Dungeon Master expansion? This is the one where I am not sure what we really get that would be of a lot of value for our situation. We have a hard copy of this book already.
Thanks in advance. Any other advice on how to get going would be appreciated!
Chad
New to FG, looking to purchase. Played RPG's in the 80's and early 90's (Twilight 2000, Hero's Unlimited, Star Wars, ect.) and my kids have expressed interest in playing. Played the starter kit of DnD 5ED and had a lot of fun with them. Found this software and have been reading up on it and it looks like a great way to visualize what we are doing. Outside of my experience playing other RPG's 30 years ago, none of us have experience with DnD or RPG's.
I play Advanced Squad Leader using VASSAL and so I am very familiar with the function and theory of the FG software - its here to aid you, not run the game for you. VASSAL has been great for ASL (ie. allowing us all to play even though we are separated by hundreds of miles), and looking to do the same for DnD with my kids.
Heres the particulars of what we would be doing:
-Everyone who is playing would be face to face here at our house
-Our play will be limited to the core DnD 5ED experience
-My thought is to HDMI our laptop to our TV so we would have just one screen that everyone could look at
-Obviously we would not have the same level of 'fog of war' as a true DM/Player expereince, but this would allow us to keep track of everything
-Similar to above, right now I want to focus more on the core gameplay experience at the expense of some of the DM/Player experiences since we are all learning together
-We would purchase everything through Steam
Now my questions:
1. What do I need to purchase to do the above? From my reading, looks like we could do all of that with the $40 of FG on Steam.
2. Would we be able to keep multiple characters in the system for each of my kids with a single seat of the $40 version on Steam? In other words, with what we are looking to do, will having only one seat limit us in anyway?
3. What would be the benefit of purchasing the DnD Players Handbook expansion? Just that all the characters, and their abilities, are preloaded into the system? Seems like a big deal though that will save significant time on our end. We have a hard copy of this book already. In other words, how would it function/look without this expansion, ie. with just the base game?
4. What would be the benefit of purchasing the DnD Monster Handbook expansion? Just that all of the monsters, and their stats, are preloaded into the system? Seems like a big deal though that will save significant time on our end. We have a hard copy of this book already. In other words, how would it function/look without this expansion, ie. with just the base?
5. What would be the benefit of purchasing the DnD Dungeon Master expansion? This is the one where I am not sure what we really get that would be of a lot of value for our situation. We have a hard copy of this book already.
Thanks in advance. Any other advice on how to get going would be appreciated!
Chad