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• gamedeal user

  Nov 29, 2021

  I use it and I dont think its horrible, but my god is this software user unfriendly, its unreal. Cant recommend something that gives me so much trouble, work and agony. I love to play Pen and Paper RPGs. FGU is a good solution to buy something once and gather around strangers or friends to play. As an Ultimate license GM I cant recommend it though. Everything needs to be coded.....even such simple things like themes are a hassle. There is no easy or quick solution to implement the stuff you absolutely need. A background image for a thematic evening is going to make you tear your hair out. - You have a PDF rulebook and want to use it in FGU? Nope, unless you screenshot every single page and clutter together some Frankenstein Image folder. Trying to copy the text and paste it in blocks to FGU? All the text is now misaligned and unreadable. Even the in-app bought rulesets have unreadable text and weird glitches. - Easily implement rules or easy dice strings like - sixes are successes? Nope. Hope there is a mod that includes your favourite ruleset or otherwise its almost impossible or waaaaaay too much work to create one (its coding, like I am coding my own game!!!) Fuck, look at Sophies Dice here on Steam, you can easily set up specific dice rulesets and use them quickly. That is Unity too!!!! - Special dice are almost impossible to implement, want to play Shiver RPG? Cant do, because of the special dice and unique faces. Its easier to set this up in 10min in Tabletop Simulator, where you can import the rulebook PDF as well! - The rulesets you can buy here are so broken, never patched and lackluster. The great artwork that is in these rulebooks is completely butchered here and lost. Plain text only with single img files inbetween....lifeless and an insult to the creators of those books. Often times the FGU version costs more than the rulebook itself.....some systems although present, are in such a low quality its baffling, like in the ALIEN RPG, the map is so low res....it cant be played. - charactersheets are so friggin hard coded its almost impossible to create something workable for anything else besides DnD. MoreCore mod helps, but is also not a great solution, why is it so complicated to include an easy "Create-a-sheet" mode? Why is it not as easy as dropping an img file onto a dice to make a custom dice? - made a complicated map with line of sight and lighting options in a ruleset and tried to export it to another rulesystem....nope! Cant do that, cant export to another dice system! - if the ruleset you wanna use uses cards, like poker cards.....forget it! Only the bought Savage Worlds has a card system, that absolutely sucks and makes no fun. You cant implement your own cards. FGU is almost exclusively designed for DnD. After years of trying to adept and to create stuff for it, I give up. I give up and returned back to Tabletop Simulator.....and oh my god is it so much better! If you plan on to play anything else other than DnD or Pathfinder, forget it!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 10, 2021

  DRM Nightmare. Like you have to sign up in multiple places. So the a * * hole design goes. (1) Purchase Fantasy Ground from Steam. (2) Sign up for a Compulsory account through FantasyGrounds.com (3) Get a Key from Steam to put into the FantasyGround launcher (4) THEN you have to link the your steam account through FantasyGround. Enjoy the suckage because you cant access the content you paid for. Seriously, I can't access 30 modules. Some person told me how to "access my" paid for content. You can't not with out a monthly subscription. So I have to pay a monthly subscription to access the stuff I bought and paid for. Just going to call a turd what a turd is.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 28, 2021

  Couldn't really form an opinion, as I could never actually get into the product. Stalled on login every time. Even with customer support involved. I'd enter the username and password set up externally on the game website, the message at the bottom says, "Logging in." And, that's it. I could login to the website, sync with Steam, etc. But could never get the product itself to login. The entirety of the "85 minutes" Steam says I played, was all waiting for logins to complete. None ever did.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 25, 2022

  If you buy this buy it through their website not here.. I spent quite a bit of money on this and the automation was not quite as fleshed out as one would hope. So many things that you have to code yourself or purchase extensions to do it for you. It is nice once you get the hang of it but it is by no means effortless. I have spent 28 hours in this program so far and at around hour 13 i wanted a refund. Steam wont refund this so im married to it. I dedicated more time and i feel like im getting a grasp on everything that i need to run a campaign with i hope to be minimal hiccups and pauses to fix stuff. I am still not all that happy with it but the program itself is rather nice but you have to get a masters degree from fantasy grounds academy to actually run a successful game. Features like lighting and line of site are really nice and what it does automate it does it well. You should only buy this if you have hours upon hours to dedicate to learning the system and how to use it with your chosen tabletop game and also have players that are willing learn as well. It is way to easy for a player to destroy their character on accident to the point where they have to make a new one because you cant fix it lol. Hope this helps.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 24, 2022

  Takes ALOT of effort to learn how to use, but is the best program for DND once you've got it all figured out.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 18, 2022

  "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy (grounds)?" -- Freddie Mercury, level 20 bard
• Taste My Bootheel

  Aug 4, 2022

  If you can buy it on sale, it's the most cost effective option for VTT. The published campaigns are normally $15-20 less than Roll20. The modules go on sale for even less during the steam seasonal sales. One of the best things about Fantasy grounds unity is that it is backwards compatible with all the original fantasy grounds content which is a massive catalog. A lot of the modules are free and you can find a ton of self published modules on the fantasy grounds forge. I would highly recommend the free modules that are popular as most of them are made to handle 5e mechanics that aren't programmed in the vanilla version. Also you can use it offline. When running campaigns for my local hobby shop, I run two instances: one as GM, and a second as a player which I display on a widescreen TV with dry-erase Plexiglas over the top. It allows the players to enjoy using their miniatures, without me having to spend money on a bunch of miniatures.
• ocaron

  Jan 1, 2023

  bought books are unavailable, cant rescale the display
• Nocturnal Gamer

  Jan 11, 2023

  I heartily recommend Fantasy Grounds. It is the best and most powerful Virtual Tabletop in production today, and I am a proud supporter and user. However, there are some unsettling things happening in the industry right now, and VTTs are in danger of becoming obsolete. I'm a Dungeon Master, and I have been looking long and hard at publishing my own intellectual property and my own supplements for a game that has been open source for the last 22 years. Open source means that no one has the right to it, and everyone can benefit from it. It has taken me years of research, rote memorization, musing, and digging deep and hard into myself to perfect a craft that I have come to love. I love it because it is one of the best mediums of self-expression that there is, and because it can be a deeply intimate and spiritual experience with people who you care about in a story where people overcome their problems and good overcomes evil. Now a greedy corporation called Wizards of the Coast wants to update this Open Gaming License to flip the tables. This new agreement would require me and all content creators who use any part of their system, or anything too similar to it, to pay huge royalties and sign away the rights to their intellectual property. Any custom characters, places, nations, cultures, entire campaign settings written for such a system and marketed as compatible could be taken and reprinted, redistributed, and resold without paying the author a single penny. And to add insult to injury, this new agreement allows Wizards of the Coast to terminate the license at any time, yet they retain all rights to the author's intellectual property. Finally, the previous Open Gaming License is terminated, and any content made under it is retroactively brought under the umbrella of this new license. And that means that Wizards of the Coast owns most of the intellectual property in the Tabletop Roleplaying Game industry, because Dungeons and Dragons is the biggest game in that sphere by far. Even worse, it means they can terminate the sale of competitive product lines by terminating the license that the product is built upon. This is a grab for a monopoly, make no mistake. Wizards of the Coast may legally have the right to do this because of how the original Open Gaming License was worded, but it was not the intended spirit of that document. Any nerds reading this post, I call upon you to vote with your dollars and exercise your right to boycott Wizards of the Coast if they confirm and enforce the new OGL that is now in circulation as it is presently. It is an unacceptable change in the structure of the hobby, and it will lead us down a path of exclusive microtransactions, skins, proprietary virtual tabletops, and phasing out the tradition of pen and paper over playing from a phone. To allow this to happen will irrevocably damage the gaming community. Don't go down this path with them. If you have any sympathy for the countless artists who earn their livelihood from this industry, please leave a like and share this post, and then head down to this link and sign the petition: https://www.opendnd.games/ Thank you for reading, and may you have success in every check.
• codenothing

  Jan 21, 2023

  I find Fantasy Grounds features to be far more trouble than they are worth. We generally spent more time trying to trouble shoot our character sheets than we did playing the game. It was a constant cycle of: "Do you see the map?" "How about now?" "Can you see the monsters? no?...oh.... let me try this... Oh your character icon disappeared?" "Ok I rolled damage on the monster. wait did you also remove damage manually? did it take double damage? how to we add health back?" What can easily be done with pencil and paper is shoved inside a wildly complex interface that creates a hundred problems while trying to solve 1. I know other people swear by this software and it may be your thing, but it was not mine. I feel like if you want to play remote with friends over the internet, there are simpler solutions than this.