This thread will detail the ongoings of a new campaign. The campaign is using the 4e core rules, but not the published adventures. The players are some old college buddies of mine, and we've all at this point gone down our separate paths, two to different grad schools, a third to grad school then an out of state job, and two others to jobs....so there is no way we could hope to play D&D...unless we had some way of playing online....wahey! Maptool, to the rescue!
So that will be the first major credit to the RPTools team: Without your hard work, we would not be playing today.
The second major credit, is the speed at which I can create maps of a large scale is really impressive. Once I learned the tools (thanks Brad!), and learned about not using ginormous images (thanks community!), putting together a decent looking forest-leading-to-a-cave and inside-the-cave was hardly any effort. I say decent looking compared to the battle-maps I used to draw by hand back in college, they look like garbage compared to the work I've seen on these boards, but then again, my players don't need much
One thing I am especially excited about is the use of fog-of-war and vision. Previously I used to draw out the battlemats on 8x11 pieces of paper, which would then get put together using hinges made of tape, so I could flip out the appropriate pieces as the players discovered them. Not a perfect solution by any means, so I'm obviously looking forward to using some technology there! Also we've never really used vision rules, because it takes too much time to do all the measurements properly, so we're super excited to use that. Well, _I'm_ super excited...we'll see how they feel about being attacked from the darkness
I'll post the maps and results after this first adventure is run, but I wanted to establish the thread while it's on my mind. Thanks everyone, for allowing me this opportunity to play D&D
