First D20pro pathfinder game yesterday...results

Worked out great. From a GM perspective, it was FAR easier than pen/paper resource tracking (how many monsters, which one has which hps, initiative order shifting, status tracking). Players got the hang of it very quickly (only consistent bugaboo was hitting spacebar to finish off a turn). Voice was conducted using Ventrilo. We had 2 full combat sessions in a roughly 1.5 hour session (1 test/tutorial, 1 'in game').

Some things that were marginally difficult (aside from the spell handing which is already being addressed):
1) premade maps (we were playing Council of Thieves/Pathfinder). The preruled lines just do not line up exactly right in most cases. We had to fall back on 'ignore the map lines, pay attention to the d20pro grid lines'.
2) Using 'push to talk' under ventrilo didnt' work unless the ventrilo window had active focus. I know in other games this isn't the case. Perhaps d20pro is catching all keystrokes and throwing away unrecognized ones? (the ~ in this case) . Not removing unrecognized keystrokes from the queue would be great to let other apps running pick up the remaining keystrokes (I didn't see the ~ being used for any d20pro functions).
3) Mapping: the tile mapper in d20pro doesn't allow the flexibility I would expect. Tiles can't be rotated, and 'send to front/back' doesn't work with a mixture of tiles and grid painting (eg. I paint a river using the grid painer, drop a bridge on the painted area, and it goes 'to the back'. Using 'front' and 'back' on the tile doesnt bring to the 'front' of a painted grid tile).

 

Oh...and I need a bigger monitor...tabswapping got old quick!

For $29.99, could you include a free 32" LCD TV/Monitor?