Can I host a Standard Game for friends but not be the GM?

[Proudofthefish]

So My friends and I are looking into options to game while away from each other. I have a Standard License. Can I host a game and share books but another person be the GM? Can The GM use the demo version?
Thanks

[damned]

Hey Proudofthefish
No you cannot. The host is always the GM.
The GM can be on Demo if there is only one other player and you are running a demo campaign.

[Proudofthefish]

Thanks!

[antdread]

Hey Proudofthefish
No you cannot. The host is always the GM.
The GM can be on Demo if there is only one other player and you are running a demo campaign.

Fantasy Grounds Unity Ultimate. I have purchased a few bundles, books, tokens, maps, etc from the store and we are two DM's in the group with the Unity Ultimate account, it's there a way for sharing the content between us? I know we could share if I'm the one hosting a game but what about if it's the other way around, could we still share? If the answer is no, it's there another method or option for doing this?

[damned]

No. Sharing of your license and/or content is a breach of the license. There is no option to do this.

[antdread]

Thanks for the quick reply, I understand. We are coming from D&D Beyond and there you could easily share everything between players and DM's. The thing is we are in the middle of a campaign (Lost Mine of Phandelver) and I'm a player not the DM. We are trying to migrated to FGU to continue the adventure remotely. With all this thing of the Coronavirus and not being able to play in person, we are trying to make it posible virtually via this kind of software and the fact that I'm the one with all the licenses for all the modules and not the other players/DM's, It's a shame though.

[LordEntrails]

So if you have rotating DMs, what is common for folks to do is everyone buys a Standard license (then anyone can host and everyone can connect). Then the DM who is running the adventure buys the adventure. Things like the PHB, Volos etc can be bouhgt by the GM that needs it. You might end up needing some extra copies of a few things, but you want have to have every buy copies of everything.

Remember, things like classes races etc can all be entered manually, so it's not like you need to buy SCAG in order for someone to manually enter the info into FG for that use case.

[Nylanfs]

You can also zip up and email the campaign folder to share with the other DM if running in the same universe.

[antdread]

So if you have rotating DMs, what is common for folks to do is everyone buys a Standard license (then anyone can host and everyone can connect). Then the DM who is running the adventure buys the adventure. Things like the PHB, Volos etc can be bouhgt by the GM that needs it. You might end up needing some extra copies of a few things, but you want have to have every buy copies of everything.

Remember, things like classes races etc can all be entered manually, so it's not like you need to buy SCAG in order for someone to manually enter the info into FG for that use case.

Thanks for your reply and your suggestion on manual data entry. It's time consuming, but still a valid option.

[antdread]

You can also zip up and email the campaign folder to share with the other DM if running in the same universe.

Thanks, I didn't knew that was possible.

[LordEntrails]

Thanks for your reply and your suggestion on manual data entry. It's time consuming, but still a valid option.
Be aware, if you plan ahead, then you only have to enter any data once. You can then turn it into a module for use later on. See the Best Practices on my siganture for some hints. Also Mr. Z and others have YouTube videos on how to create races, classes, etc.