I tried to look over these forums, but the quantity of threads on D20 pro is overwhelming.
I already watched the tutorials on the site and would like to try it,but also like to know something before handing out the money.
It looks good from the videos,but i haven't got if a guy can use more than one char with a single 10$ licence or not.
Any info or advice will be useful.
Hail Gandal,
A Player (10$) License lets you connect to any game run by a Judge (assuming you have the right IP and optional password of course). Once connected to a game, the Player may control any number of player characters (minis). So one person can control a bunch of PCs, or several people can sit in front of the same computer and take turns controlling all their chars.
Hopefully this answers your question. Let me know if you have any others. =)
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Best regards and good gaming,
Mat Morton aka @thraxxis
d20Pro Lead Developer
Hail Gandal,
A Player (10$) License lets you connect to any game run by a Judge (assuming you have the right IP and optional password of course). Once connected to a game, the Player may control any number of player characters (minis). So one person can control a bunch of PCs, or several people can sit in front of the same computer and take turns controlling all their chars.
Hopefully this answers your question. Let me know if you have any others. =)
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Best regards and good gaming,
Mat Morton aka @thraxxis
d20Pro Lead Developer
Yes thanks, me and a mate were considering trying the trial version,but that would mean already having a GM with opened slots if i understand correctly.
I'm intrested in the full license (it never expires right?) and even if i have only one guy to play with he can control any number of char ?And can i do the same while also being a GM ?
I think i mispelled ; a guy has to have the player license,than he can control any number of PCs ; so someone with a full license can host a game and control any number of PCs ?
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To host a d20Pro game as GM you will need the $30 Full License, which will never expire. The $10 Player License only lets you join a game. The Full License includes two Guest Slots though, so two computers can connect for free to that game. The person running the game and anyone playing in the game can control any number of PCs.
So for your scenario it would be $30 for the software, one time. And you can test it out with the free 30 day trial as well. The Trial License allows you to host a game as GM.
There is some good info here in our quick start guide. I recommend you read it before installing d20Pro.
http://d20pro.com/help/GetStartedwithd20Pro_V3_3.pdf
Let me know if you have any more questions. =)
Thanks,it looks pretty interesting :)
Thanks for the link! I probably should have read before installing, but this will help!
my group uses D20pro and Ive never bought a player license.....there are typically at least 4 people connecting each week (with 2 more connecting on the GMs home network) and I don't know if any of them have bought a license. I also know that one of them is a ranger and controls himself and his animal companion so yes you can control multiples.
As a player the system is pretty cool, fairly flexible and I like how it remembers 99% of my stuff so I don't have to. Our big pet peeve is the lack of player ability to edit. Maybe thats part of the player's license, but as it stands now when we level up the GM has to make 100% of the changes b/c we can't touch anything.
Silly example: our cleric can't change his spell lists, so on Sunday he tried to cast Prayer on the party....he had to use the Speak With Dead from the software and adjust the affect because he didnt have Prayer on his list.
Puts more of a burden on the GM, and sometimes during a session we have to manually roll stuff (ie, I picked up a new weapon last session so it wasnt in my inventory, had to manually roll and add the bonuses myself), but overall I like it
I read on Herolab you can update your sheet there and then export it to D20pro.
Still saying what i read, haven't tried myself thought.
GM does the importing, thats true.....we just wish we could help out a bit more I guess. its not 100% perfect - Herolab recognizes my Heresy Inquisition but D20 doesnt, silly things like that.
Well, i just bought a 30$ license for hosting games with 2 guest slots,so now will have to learn.
Excellent Gandal. There is the quick start guide linked above and also much info on help.d20pro.com.
Let me know if you have any questions and hope you enjoy power gaming with d20Pro. =)
P.S. Deylinarr: glad you are enjoying 99% of d20Pro. The PC editable character sheets are a highly requested item and we will be adding that soon.
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Best regards and good gaming,
Mat Morton aka @thraxxis
d20Pro Lead Developer
My GM will be thrilled to hear that!
It's been a great tool for us playing via Skype......we're in Trial of the Beast right now and last session was all battle: we were on the ground with 6 archers and an alchemist 20' above us on a catwalk. Our sorcerer cast Web.....
between the party buffs, the area effect spell, the grapple conditions, and all the other craziness going on as characters climbed ladders etc, we were pretty happy to have the software doing so much of the work for us!
I have been trying all tabs editing options for the last two days, and read through the guide, but i cannot find a clue on how to edit spells.
I imported a magus from herolab, and she has Acid Splash : when i try to cast the spell on a foe i get this tab
effect - inert
target - click to target
i click in the blank field sayin inert and i get the editing menus.
We all know the spell targets touch AC, but i don't find the option to tell that to the program,and there is no spell already defined.
How can i tell the program what spell has what effects?
Gandal, the relationship between Spells and Effects they can apply is still rather rough in d20Pro. What you can do is create the effect in the menus and then save it. Then when you cast the spell, click on the effect (inert) and load Acid Splash. It will populate the fields. It's an extra step still, but speeds things up.
You can then trigger a touch attack by right-clicking on the character and if it succeeds the DM can apply the affect.
This IMHO is the biggest improvement spot for d20Pro and we are working diligently to bring it all together so that spell casting is as smooth as melee attacks are.
Gandal, the relationship between Spells and Effects they can apply is still rather rough in d20Pro. What you can do is create the effect in the menus and then save it. Then when you cast the spell, click on the effect (inert) and load Acid Splash. It will populate the fields. It's an extra step still, but speeds things up.
You can then trigger a touch attack by right-clicking on the character and if it succeeds the DM can apply the affect.
This IMHO is the biggest improvement spot for d20Pro and we are working diligently to bring it all together so that spell casting is as smooth as melee attacks are.
Thanks, i'll try to do with what i have next time,still trying to get into the program,as the people i'm supposed to play with want me to do the GMing.
Gandal, sounds good and we will support your game however possible. The d20Pro team are all longtime gamers ourselves.
One quick advice is to let d20Pro do what it does well and if something isn't working smoothly for you, just do the rolls as a GM yourself and apply things like damage directly to the creatures. Any one (GMs or Players) can create custom dice and then roll those and the GM can apply that damage/healing by selecting the creatures and right-click or press D for damage or H for healing.
OK, needed a lot of time to set the software and figure how to start a campaign and accept players (my stupid modem/router was not permitting access to players), but that is fixed as well,now i can host games.
Still need a lot of things : maps/plots/adventures/tiles/creatures and so on ; already saw the market place and bought some stuff,other i can arrange when needed so i'm almost good to go.
One of my players says he cannot run D20pro because he is on windows8 and that OS doesn't allow for JAVA to work in off-line mode.
Is this going to be fixed?