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…
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…
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…
The RPTools Staff and Community are proud to announce the release of MapTool 1.5.1. This release contains bug fixes as well as a few functional bits that didn't make it into 1.5.0. #vtt
Windows introduced DPI scaling to help with readability issues on monitors with high resolution. This appears to occasionally cause problems for some applications like MapTool.
As part of the 1.5.0 release, MapTool included a popup window to allow for multiple-line editing of properties. Prior to this release, you would need to copy a long properties entry to another editor, make your changes, then copy it back. With 1.5, you can simply click into the properties field, then on the down arrow next to the property value…
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…
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…
New in MapTool 1.5, the ability to temporarily center and zoom your players to a GM-desired location on the map.
New in MapTool 1.5, the ability to name drawings in the Draw Explorer.