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New Art Packs in Library

Four Art Packs from Kristian Richards of Crooked Staff Publishing added to Resource Library Go to the File menu in MapTool and select Add Resource to Library. On the dialog that opens, click on the red gear icon to see the packs that you haven't downloaded. New Art Packs Extending the existing CSP Dungeon Geomorphs pack. The four new packs are:…

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Blast from the Past: Interview with RPTroll

R. K. Athey, aka RPTroll, is the RPTools Bard and a member of the RPTools Staff. As Bard, RPTroll manages the social media sites for RPTools as well as other marketing tasks, such as interviews. He's also responsible for managing and providing content to the rptools.net site. The video interview below is from 2014. It's a wide-ranging discussion about VTTs featuring…

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Blast from the Past: Interview with Craig

Craig 'no avatar' Wisniewski is a current member of the RPTools staff and its lead developer. Craig writes most of the design documents we use behind the scenes to determine how features will work within MapTool and is active in release automation and release management. He's one of the primary review gates for new code coming into the tools. This interview…

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Blast from the Past: Interview with Dorpond

Bill Hart, aka Dorpond, is a member of the RPTools staff who provides guidance and support for new features in MapTool. While not as active as he once was, he still supports us as needed. Dorpond was the driving force for much of the Light and Sight capabilities in MapTool today. He drove home the point that an elf with lowlight…

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Blast from the Past: Interview with Azhrei

Frank Edwards, aka Azhrei, is one of the RPTools staff who does the hero's work website upkeep. He's also heavily involved in the current GitHub automation and past build automation. Perhaps most importantly to the end-user community, he serves as the main review gate/sanity check for new code and concepts entering into RPTools products. The interview below is from February, 2011…

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Blast from the Past: Interview with Trevor Croft

Trevor Croft was the original developer for MapTool. He's listed as Coder Emeritus in the credits and is one of the 3 founders of RPTools. Trevor left active development at RPTools to concentrate on family and career. He, more than any other person, made the beginning days of RPTool a success. It wasn't just due to his enormous technical talent, drive…

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Devin Night’s New Token Packs

Devin Night is a freelance artist/illustrator and a long time friend to RPTools. He kindly donated art packs available for download in MapTool. Outside of MapTool, you've likely seen his work in products from Rite Publishing, Grey Matter Games, White Haired Man, and many others. Devin has his own online VTT token store and recently released six new $5 token packs.…

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