It seemed like a simple problem, but one with surprisingly complex solutions. There were various programs out there that worked well with things like digital maps and fog of war, but none of them were really aimed at a local playing space. I could just mirror my screen and show all of the map at once, but then games that benefited from tactical exploration (like dungeon crawls) didn’t feel quite right. I could load them up into photoshop and add a fog of war layer, erasing as I went, but then I had to remember exactly where the areas were. I could use a program like Roll20 and have a second player that ran the map, but that was a hassle. I could use something like the wonderful RPTools suite and have a local second player, but then I couldn’t control the player map with ease. Finally, the answer came in a program I backed a long time back but somehow never managed to do a deep dive into –
Infinitas DM.
