Rainshine
2011-02-20, 11:24 PM
As mentioned in the topic title, I'm looking for suggestions. For running your average RPG, you've got a couple different areas you operate at; the city/countryside/planet, where the players have a static map, and they say There, that's where we're going. If you're running a game online, this map can be a simple .png or whathave you that they can all see. For social interaction scenes, a map is rarely necessary, just describe it with words for the most part. For combat though, having some sort of central representation that everyone can see is extremely helpful.
Specifically, I'm looking for something that everyone will be able to see, and maybe even move their tokens on. Preferably something that allows maps to be saved in advance then loaded up. I don't need something that creates really pretty maps, we're not against imagination, but something that allows them to see: it's a circular room with a twenty-five foot radius, doors here and here, a high window on this wall, and there's what appear to be four unlit braziers on the floor at these four places; there's also five monsters waiting for you inside.
Something that doesn't take too much time to create a simple map like the one described above. If they stumble into a wilderness encounter, or I have to come up with something from the top of my head, no more than five minutes to throw together a simple scene. I don't want something that require learning what eighty different buttons and how to script this and that to do; here's the button that lets you pick which kind of tile you're laying down.
So, all that said... any suggestions? Realtime online combat map system?
Specifically, I'm looking for something that everyone will be able to see, and maybe even move their tokens on. Preferably something that allows maps to be saved in advance then loaded up. I don't need something that creates really pretty maps, we're not against imagination, but something that allows them to see: it's a circular room with a twenty-five foot radius, doors here and here, a high window on this wall, and there's what appear to be four unlit braziers on the floor at these four places; there's also five monsters waiting for you inside.
Something that doesn't take too much time to create a simple map like the one described above. If they stumble into a wilderness encounter, or I have to come up with something from the top of my head, no more than five minutes to throw together a simple scene. I don't want something that require learning what eighty different buttons and how to script this and that to do; here's the button that lets you pick which kind of tile you're laying down.
So, all that said... any suggestions? Realtime online combat map system?