What software do you guys use to run your games?

[Reptilian Monk]

Just saw this on another forum:

Quest Kick founder talks in depth about app features. Listen to the podcast:
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[SkidAce]

Tinalles wrote:

I'm GM'ing three games at the moment, 2 entirely pen-and-paper.

The third is a solo campaign where I use:

- Hero Lab (for building stat blocks; expensive but excellent)
- MapTool (virtual table top; free)
- TokenLab

I just want to sing the praises of TokenLab, by the way. It lets you generate super-useful Maptool tokens from Hero Lab stat blocks. They have buttons built in for practically EVERYTHING -- attacks, saves, spells prepared/cast, feat reference, the works. I no longer need to have umpty-dozen character sheet PDFs open all at once. It's made my life so, SO much simpler.

I also make heavy use of Photoshop for making custom maps. Maps take time. Lots of time.

So pre-made maps like the ones in Paizo's APs are dead handy. To get those out, I use Nitro PDF Reader. It has a very handy 'Extract Images' button, which will pull all of the images out of the PDF and dump them into a folder for you. Transparency preserved (where available) and map labels omitted (barring the occasional S for Secret Door, which are sometimes annoyingly baked into the image).

Those three tools are exactly what I use.

Plus Obsidian Portal to host a wiki and forums. (We play by post)

[Siltyn]

I use this to track the various modifiers from buffs, judgements, haste, etc on my Inquistor. Fantastic app!

[KK]

Combat Manager for combat. Hero Lab for character creation. Roll20 for virtual table. Obsidian Portal for campaign wiki and management.