Using Fantasy Grounds II
Tue, 2011-12-13 19:37
Hello community!
I am considering trying to run an online table top game of EP. I would like to use Fantasy Grounds II, a VTT program to run it. I was wondering if anyone else uses this program or if any rules sets are developed for it. And to the EP Staff it would be a great way to market yourself to a growing online community of gamers!
Wed, 2011-12-14 15:20
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Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
There's been a couple of people ask about support for Fantasy Grounds on the forums in the past. There's nothing official (and not likely to be, at least in terms of distributing the rules through them -- being exclusive with Drivethru for digital distributions gets Posthuman a bigger cut of sales)...I'm not familiar enough with the software to know how easy it would be to put something like that together on the fan side, but there's certainly nothing stopping someone from doing so.
Wed, 2011-12-14 19:04
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Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
Thu, 2011-12-15 09:14
#5
Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
Sorry, it took me a little more to find the program I was talking about than I thought ^^U
The link is this: http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=12137
It's a quite complete virtual tabletop framework that has rules for Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader and Deathwatch, but I don't know if it's easy to add a new ruleset. I hope it will be usefull anyway ^^
Thu, 2011-12-15 22:04
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Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
I'll take this opportunity to pimp Infrno.
full featured game space with video chat capabilities.
Tue, 2011-12-27 16:13
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Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
Fantasy Grounds II would be an excellent choice for a VTT for Eclipse Phase. I've not seen a ruleset, but one shouldn't be too hard to adapt for someone who really groks the FG2 system. I tried hard to work with it to create some rulesets, but it just drove me a bit crazy.
And the previous poster is incorrect... there are no restrictions on non-commercial rulesets, and no reason an EP ruleset would have to be commercial.
Sun, 2012-01-01 04:26
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Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
If you managed to find someone who knows how to actually make that work, I've been doing some work on getting the raw data into a standard-ish format. They could scrape that data right into tokens (or whatever the nomenclature is) to use in FGII.
http://www.eclipsephase.com/standardized-item-data-format
Sun, 2012-01-22 19:44
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Re: Using Fantasy Grounds II
I'll take this opportunity to pimp Infrno.
full featured game space with video chat capabilities.
This VTT looks pretty good. This is my first time using one but I think I like Inferno better than the other ones.
I might be wrong (maybe I'm mixing this with another similar program ^^), but I think Phantasy Grounds 2 "owns" everything made under their system or something like that, so you can make the module for EP, but they are the ones that can distribute it legally (that's it, sell it).
Personally, I think there are other programs less graphically appealing but better on the other sides, there is one for Dark Heresy (that I also think its freeware) that I think could work great with EP. I'll look into it in a few hours when I get home and post the name/url.