

You can install several " frameworks" or collections of scripts which will let you import/export DDI power cards, monsters, and character sheets. Our remote player(s) dial in and see the same map and tokens as everyone else. Another player connects his laptop to a projector and displays the players-only view. So once a map is ready, I set up my PC as a server, and keep a small laptop behind the screen with the DM view.

MapTools also works as a virtual tabletop. My approach is to sketch the rough map on graph paper, scan or photograph the sketch to a JPEG, and then use it as the blueprint for the rest of the map.

MapTools comes bundled with a variety of nice set-piece tile graphics for things like walls, stone floors, furniture, torches, and so on.
