I've been using minion for our last few sessions.
Really really useful. We're all playing online via skype so I can't even imagine how we would of pulled this off without minion.
3 quick points
1. When manually entering special crits, slaying etc, I notice the entry box is case sensitive. The severity must be all caps and the crit code must be lower case. Not a problem, but maybe worth mentioning on the notes as it took me a while to figure out what the problem was when I was manually entering codes, not adhering to this and getting error messages.
2. I'm convinced it would really add to the experience to allow my players to see my combat minion screen. One the one hand, there is a Russian roulette quality to rolling on attack tables and especially crits that is somewhat lost with you having to convey results to them rather than them being able to see for themselves. Also I miss the assistance of players with respecting to tracking whats going on, assisting me when I may have overlooked something, yes the software is tracking, but there still so much going on, stun, no parries, pens etc, and as it stands, since we are using minion, like it or not they are now hands off, and very passive, and its all down to me with nothing I can farm out/get a bit of help on in the heat of combat that can sometime involve lots of participants. I hope this makes sense? - not sure how well I expressed myself on this point but I hope other GMS take my meaning. Just wanted to raise this in case there was any chance of enabling players to have view only access to my live instance of RM combat minion.
I appreciate there is some kind of google hangouts work around that was previously mentioned. I have yet to try this, but if it means them viewing my screen, I'm not sure this is the solution giving all those things on my screen as a gm I don't wanted them seeing, i.e floorplans, gm notes etc.
3. Finally, any idea when the fumble tables are going to be updated? Just curious.
