First game session

[pyremius]

We just finished up our first session where I used RealmWorks to run everything. Currently I'm running Pathfinder's Serpent's Skull AP, and the party is in Tazion (end of book 2). About 6 hours total between last night and this morning for creating HeroLab profiles for encounters, stripping maps, and pasting in data. I missed a few odds and ends such as text blocks and one encounter where I used the wrong number of opponents (on the plus side, when I looked at the text I noticed it referenced 4 monsters while the HeroLab description mentioned 2, so I could fix it pretty quickly).

Overall, things felt like they ran a bit more smoothly than normal, even though I lost a monitor - used it for the Player View so they could see maps and NPC artwork. My wife felt the biggest issue was the size of the information on the Player View, but she was fairly far from the monitor and I was trying to keep multiple windows open at once for them to see. On the positive side, she felt I was working much more smoothly, as I was no longer trying to flip between location writeups and the map in the module's PDF.

Next step is for me to start figuring out the journal capabilities.

Overall a very positive experience, especially given the fact that the software's not even finished yet.