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Battlegrounds hosts a table comparing popular virtual tabletop software. One of the comparison lines is whether it's "Suitable for offline use".
Based on the comparison, the best bet is MapTool since it explicitly notes that it supports dual map windows so that the player map can be moved onto an external monitor. The other entries indicate support for ...
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Roll20 is another online tabletop - recently out of kickstarter - that operates with Google+ Hangouts. It's got good card support, including recently added hands and more features. The changelog has more details, including:
Better support for multiple decks.
Switched from the "drag upward" draw motion to just "click" to draw.
You can now deal ...
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The Tabletop Forge hangout app includes what they call a "table" - this is something you can roll random results from. It includes a default table that doesn't replace items rolled called Card_Deck-Default, which contains a standard 52-card poker deck plus 2 jokers.
You can draw publicly from this deck with /table Card_Deck-Default, and draw without ...
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It just occurred to me you could use yEd, if you want simple diagrams.
It's designed to draw flowcharts and other sort of ordered diagrams, but it allows you to add labels to connections (called edges) and it has a very nice auto-arrange feature.
And it's free!
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Take any virtual tabletop tools, setup a GM instance, and a player instance on the laptop and use the localhost address, 127.0.0.1, to connect the player instance to the GM instance. The localhost address doesn't require a network to be hooked up. I have done this on Fantasy Grounds. I believe Maptools can do this as well.
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I think what you're talking about is a classic "mind map" situation. There are a number of tools that can help organize something like this, many of them free, though of varying capability. Since you're mapping a campaign, you'll want something that supports cross-linking of branches, so that will narrow things down a bit. It's been a while since I was ...
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I wrote an application for doing this kind of thing: RPG Ambience. It's an HTML5 app that works in at least the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
At this point it's intended to be controlled with the keyboard, which is pretty handy and fast if you have a limited selection of sounds. I'm working on a visual playback interface that ...
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WFRP 1E - Games Workshop and Hogshead Productions
WFRP 1E comprises 3+ printings.
GW 1st Printing, Hardcover. Major errata issues
GW 2nd Printing, Softcover. Minor errata issues; most of the 1st ed 1st printing errors got fixed. GW may or may not have run a 3rd printing, but if they did, it was using the same plates.
HHP Printings, softcover. Exact ...
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Warhammer Fantasy RP First Edition is called Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay or, retroactively, Warhammer Fantasy RP First Edition. As such, including First Edition is likely to be your best bet. The Hogshead edition is merely a reprint by a separate company.
It's worth knowing that second edition was a change on the level of D&D 3.0 to D&D 3.5, a lot of ...
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I never needed more than a slightly expanded version of the shot counter they print in the book (just so you could stack up plenty of tokens next to each number). basically that down the middle of an 8 1/2x11 sheet of paper so that I can get a line of 6 or so tokens lined up out to the side of each number. I used shell casings (for flair) or dice with a ...
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Perhaps try downloading FMOD Studio? It's a middleware tool designed for developing and mixing audio in electronic games, but it can easily be used to control audio for tabletop RPGs, as well.
After all, it's designed for the task: It can design, mix, and control game audio on-the-fly, and (more importantly) it allows you to audition what you create, so you ...
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You might want to check out a new product called Realm Works. It's going to be releasing soon and has a Kickstarter associated with it as well. The video shows off features that sound like what you're asking for. Here's the link to the Kickstarter, which also has a link to their website with more info.
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You could use a wiki (say ikiwiki since it can be used from vim and git) and image map tags with mouse-over notes/hints. Anyone in the group can then link NPCs, locations, history, game journal, and all those things. Of course, setting the map is hassle.
Note that mouse-over will not work on mobile devices.
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Honestly, for AD&D 1E and 2E (And 3.x!) I never found any better method than creating your own character sheet in Excel (preferred) or Word (if you don't know Excel). The easiest way to do it is to take one of the existing PDF character sheets you can find out there and roughly copy the layout in Word. It gives you the chance to add extra rows where ...
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All editions are known as Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. The first edition, hereafter 1E, is often seen using a separator is logos for "Role•Play". Online resources will often make the distinction for you with numerical notations.
Online 1E CharGen and resources
While I'm unsure of online 1E character generators, 1E was ...
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One I've played (but never actually engineered myself) is called VASSAL. A guy I know playtests his card games using this program which includes your standard two deck versus and even deckbuilding games. We are in two different countries so it definitely has networking capability. You create a module and set all the card properties (where they go, ...
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You may like to participate in testing Dungeon Pilot. Contact them via the contact form to get a free test account. The tool is entirely browser-based: no need to install software or plugins, you just need a decent browser with javascript enabled.
Dungeonpilot is an online tool to paint dungeon maps and to explore the dungeons during a role playing session, ...
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Its hard to argue "forever" but the company have cut its cord with the printing company that made the tiles for them. They still own the rights, so unless they sell those rights off, we can only hope for someone making a DTiles-like product.
My guess would be to look into some of Paizo publishings latest project. They seem stable in their economy and have ...
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