First time playing with Roll20's dynamic lighting.
First time playing with Roll20's dynamic lighting.
Neato.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
+10 for using Morgan. :)
ReplyDeleteBill Willingham is one of my favorites. She was a henchie in the party for a bit.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing stuff in roll20, Casey? No mas irc?
ReplyDeleteI do all my gaming in roll20 these days.
ReplyDeleteIn-person gaming is a special treat.
ReplyDeleteI want to start using Roll20, but I hesitate with concerns about prep time. Is the set up a pain and about how long does it typically take you before a nights game?
ReplyDeleteIt depends what you want to do with it. If you don't want/need maps you can use it as a shared dice-roller and use it to easily show handouts and such.
ReplyDeleteI do maps and tokens for dungeon-crawling, so depending on what I'm prepping, it can take a bit more time.
One simple way to do it if you don't need tactical combat is to make a page with a nice evocative background image for each location your players might visit.
I should really make up a tutorial for how I use it.
Roll20 is awesome because:
ReplyDelete1. It scales to your needs. At its simplest it is a shared whiteboard with a shared dice roller. Think of it as a virtual piece of graph paper and pencils and bag of dice. You can add in maps that you drag and drop from any JPEG of PNG type file, tokens to represent characters, macros, dynamic lighting, etc. But you don't have to, which is the best part of these features!
2. It is web-based, which minimizes connection/version/general IT connectivity issues. Once you have the link it is just always there and stays that way indefinitely. No having to save a file to come back to the game next week, just click the link.
3. It is integrated with Hangouts so you can see all of your friends faces when you drop that Dragon token on the board!