Not being great with hardware, I had a hell of a job getting Gametable (or any of the other virtual tabletops to work). There are also some beautiful paid-for applications like Fantasy Grounds but I didn’t want players to have to reach into their own pockets or stump up for a quite expensive master license for everyone. The more technically advanced who want more functionality in return for a steeper learning curve would be advised to check out either MapTools or OpenRPG. But the advantage is that, because of it’s quite ‘bare bones’ nature, it’s easy to figure out how to operate for players and GMs alike. In fact I can categorically say that it is not as there is a lot of room for improvement in many areas. I am certainly not claiming that Gametable is the best Virtual Tabletop program out there. The software we use for running the online games every Sunday. While I can see that it has its uses for face-to-face games, it really comes into its own for online games where the GM and players are spread across different continents and timezones. I don’t know of any other site on the Web that offers so many tools for GM’s and players in such a user-friendly way. Well obviously you know about this site as you are already here! I am delighted that I stumbled across this site right in the very early days when I decided I would like to get back into roleplaying.

Just in case anyone might be interested, here is a list of tools and resources that I’m using: The Basics I have spent an unhealthy amount of time searching for Traveller ‘stuff’ online in order to put this game together.

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