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Greetings,
I currently run a game using Fantasy Grounds ( www.fantasygrounds.com ). I almost exclusively use Dungeon Magazine as a source for my adventures specifically the downloadable content for maps, portraits, and images.
For those of us that use a virtual tabletop emulator (Fantasy Grounds, OpenRPG, Battle Grounds, Kloodge, etc) would you find it beneficial to have the maps that are distributed with the downloadable content to not have numbers, secret door indicators, etc. so you could share them without having to mock them up?
I know I use the GIMP to smudge the room numbers and remove any secret door notations but it'd be a real boon to have them supplied without (picky picky I know).
Since I'm in the asking mood I'd also love to see counters provided for the adventures in pdf format. I know a few years ago cardboard counters were supplied using art from the MM's so it'd be outstanding to see that process continued but in electronic format.
For those readers of the board and/or Dungeon staff I'd be happy to demo what I do with the adventures from the magazine. I'm kicking off a new campaign this evening using issue #130 -Within the Circle as our starting point. IM me on Yahoo at naturaltwenty or Skype me at naturaltwenty.
Thanks,
Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Gaming
www.naturaltwenty.com
I'm playing a Shackled City campaign on Klooge.werks. It works great and we're having a good time. Yes, downloadable player view maps would be great especially since my gimp-fu is weak. For Shackled City, there's a whole website of fan-created materials including cleaned up maps.
I though at one point Dungeon was doing this for the downloads? It has some fancy name, but it was maps without numbers & secret doors. Since I'm playing Shackled City, it haven't been looking at the map downloads.
Tokens for creatures aren't as critical. As long as there is a picture, I can use my screen capture software to grab it and use that as my token. A nice, round token would be nice but not needed. I do this with the headshots in the downloads.
Google search for Tokentool, which is handy for making tokens for virtual tabletop systems.
As for maps, Age of Worms web supplements all have unmarked maps, handy for Three Faces of Evil where there are things you want hidden :)