I’ve demo’d quite a few programs designed to make it easier to play paper-and-pencil role-playing games over the Internet, but Fantasy Grounds is certainly the best looking of the ones I’ve tried. It has a very appealing visual look to it, as well as a pretty thorough featureset.
About the only drawbacks I can see are the weak manual (read it and support forums and still have a dozen questions I could not find answers to), and the fact that it is clearly geared toward D20 games. The software can be modified using XML for other systems — and many users have done so — but either way, someone’s going to have to put in a lot of work to convert your favorite system to work with this software. Then again, D20’s probably the only system that’s actually explicitly legal to convert for use to Fantasy Grounds.
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