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Welcome to Roll20, this wiki page serves as a 101 course for a GM who's looking to move from the physical table to the virtual one. Moderator, Kristin, will guide you through how she sets up a tabletop campaign. Each video is accompanied with relevant info about the subject covered and includes links to wiki pages that flesh out topics only briefly mentioned in this video series. This crash course is specifically designed as an overview of how to get around Roll20 and what features are available in the application. For the nitty gritty details, we recommend topic searching within our wiki for more information.

Course Overview

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Roll20 is an easy-to-use system agnostic virtual tabletop. It's flexible to handle most Tabletop RPGs as well as simulate popular board and card games. Don't let our product name confuse you. Roll20 can run more than just d20 systems! We have players from around the world who commonly play games such as Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, Fate, GURPS, Fiasco, World of Darkness, Savage Worlds, Dungeon World, and many, many other official and homebrewed games.

Here's what you can expect to see on our virtual tabletop:

• Video and Voice Chat (VOIP) capabilities as well as a robust text chat room
• Character Sheets
• Battle maps that can use square or hex grids (both vertical and horizontal) or no grid at all - You also have several means to hide terrain and objects from the PCs as they play
• PC and NPC Tokens that can be linked to character sheets and be set up with their own rolling macros
• Several methods of dice rolling, including the ability to build macros for ease of use
• An initiative tracker
• A media player for sound effects and background music
• Create custom card decks, counters and dice
• A Looking For Group system to match up players with GMs

In this video series, Kristin will be building a basic Pathfinder campaign. This won't be a system specific tutorial, so if you're not familiar with Pathfinder, you should be able to still follow along just fine. If you are a Pathfinder player, there's a wiki guide dedicated to detailing tips and tricks to setting up a Pathfinder campaign in Roll20.

Creating Your First Campaign

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Designing The Tabletop

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Managing Character Sheets and Handouts

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Creating Minis

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Working With Dice

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Campaign Extras

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Inviting Players

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Playing A Session

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