I feel like if I ever dm'd, that I would want to flesh out everything, every scenario, because when I do things, I tend to throw myself in fully and be a perfectionist.
Fantasy Grounds Curse of Strahd campaign
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Hatorade
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I tried that style for a few years and more often then not something would happen I didn't plan for which then caused all my other plans to fall apart. Nothing beats experience but best practice is have a rough draft in your brain, an outline on paper and a list of random NPC names on hand.
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Before I forget again:
If you play in Thursdays campaign please let me know what city/area you are from along the sword coast(if it applies)
List of Forgotten Realms cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also good idea to learn a little about your characters home town if you have the time.
If you play in Thursdays campaign please let me know what city/area you are from along the sword coast(if it applies)
List of Forgotten Realms cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also good idea to learn a little about your characters home town if you have the time.
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I'm not promising anything, but I'm experimenting with roll20 right now. If I can get it down I'll be looking at running modules on Saturday nights/mornings.
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Awesome, put me on the list as a potential for that. I'd love to play again if I can make the time.
I stream our M/W game for a friend of mine who has to work but enjoys watching me play. Will add my twitch info to my sig.
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Does anyone happen to know of a good method of creating my own (obviously digital) maps for my FG campaign I've started? I'm taking them through LMoP but I'll be branching off to my own content after that. Ideally I'm looking for a program that will let me draw/paint terrains or whatever (for outdoors), or wall creation for indoor stuff, and then drag in modular objects/stuff like trees/bushes/whatever for outdoors, various crap for indoor stuff...
I've found a program called MapTool, and it seems to have some basic terrain painting, but very little in the way of existing modular pre-made pieces to drag into the maps. It seems to support a library of pre-gen content, but I'm having a hard time tracking down an existing library of stuff, and I'd rather not have to create stuff myself, because I'm pretty terrible at actual artistic creation stuff on a computer, not to mention that'd take me a ton longer. I'm also aware of GIMP, which seems to be basically a free photoshop? But again, it seems if I went that route I'd have to create my own shit from scratch, whereas I'm really just wanting a program to facilitate modular map creation from existing libraries of assets.
-Oh, and I guess I'll add, I like the general theme/style of the official WotC adventures, so I hope to keep as close to that theme/style as possible.
I've found a program called MapTool, and it seems to have some basic terrain painting, but very little in the way of existing modular pre-made pieces to drag into the maps. It seems to support a library of pre-gen content, but I'm having a hard time tracking down an existing library of stuff, and I'd rather not have to create stuff myself, because I'm pretty terrible at actual artistic creation stuff on a computer, not to mention that'd take me a ton longer. I'm also aware of GIMP, which seems to be basically a free photoshop? But again, it seems if I went that route I'd have to create my own shit from scratch, whereas I'm really just wanting a program to facilitate modular map creation from existing libraries of assets.
-Oh, and I guess I'll add, I like the general theme/style of the official WotC adventures, so I hope to keep as close to that theme/style as possible.
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You can import any image to use for a map or whatever, you can purchase or torrent just about any map these days. I'm sure you will find what you are looking for already premade somewhere.
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Yeah, I've downloaded a ton of maps and that's what I'm doing in the mean time, but they vary wildly in style, scale, etc. I'm a picky motherfucker, so ultimately I'd like control over exact details of the encounter maps. Just hoping someone has a tip for this, because these people who create these maps must have something like this, right? An asset library of some sort? I'm pretty sure that's what people use for MapTool, but I just can't seem to find any good leads toward an asset library for it.
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If you want to get into it join this forum:
Cartographers' Guild - a community for maps of fantasy, sci-fi and real world locations
Cartographers' Guild - a community for maps of fantasy, sci-fi and real world locations