Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Grounds Team Up for Virtual D&D
April 12, 2015 by stvitusdancern
Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Grounds, have teamed up to bring D&D to the virtual tabletop environment on Fantasy Grounds.
Now you and your friends can get together no matter where you are and have a few rounds of exploring and fighting your way to glory and riches! With the D&D module for Fantasy Grounds, you will have access to the rich environment that many people have come to love in the past 30 plus years, now you will be able to do it virtually.
Yes, I know that virtual tabletops are nothing new, but this is the first time that WotC have given this their blessing and are supporting the project with modules.
You can create custom characters and have your own DM guide you through strange and wonderful worlds, all the while trying to get your party into sticky situations and see how you all can get yourselves out. Another nice extra built into this, that no matter what edition of a player you are; 3.5, 4 or 5th you will have access to the rules within the program.
So, when your group of stalwart adventurers want to get together and play but are spread around the world, you now can have everyone sit at the table and play. The virtual table that is.
Will you gather your party from the four winds and take on a new adventure?
"You can create custom characters and have your own DM guide you through strange and wonderful worlds, all the while trying to get your party into sticky situations and see how you all can get yourselves out"
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Very Cool. I am into it, but the only problem I foresee… Kind of a steep price point for virtual books, and so many to purchase too. This is a great idea, and can bring back game groups who have moved across the country from one another to game together once more. I would like to see some Price reduction, considering there is a a lot to buy to get started, I fear they may price them out of business.
Wizards of the Coast have worked on D&D before in the 90’s with Baldur’s gate & Icewind Dale on the PC games.
You are correct, but those were stand alone PC games. This is just a tool so you can play pen & paper D&D virtually. It is not a stand alone game per se.
I’ve had Fantasy Grounds for a couple years now and it’s great. I only wish it had integrated voice chat (but you can get around that by running a chat server in the background). The reason the additional content packs are relatively expensive is because they have pulled apart the entire contents of the books and built them into the FG format. I’ve looked into 3 RPG clients currently available and here is a brief subjective comparison of the differences (as of a couple years ago). Roll20 is a free to use tabletop program that integrates video chat (uses google+… Read more »
Fantasy Grounds’ development language is LUA. Which in general if you want to mod it you have to be a decent programmer, but it is possible. That doesn’t mean that you have to be a programmer to add weapons and items or develop a module, only if you want to modify the mechanics of the system.