Revision as of 08:13, 3 August 2016

Misc Tips and Tricks

To allow all players to see each others character sheets, but not to see "through each other's eyes" for dynamic lighting, make a copy of each character sheet and give edit privileges to all players.

Use a bright color for your dynamic lighting lines. They'll be much easier to see.

To simulate the glint of light off reflective surfaces, like metal, or animal eyes, give your monster tokens 1' of light with *all players see light*

To allow players to see doors, pillars or rooftops while still blocking vision past the object, use the dynamic lighting polygon tool to draw an X through the object instead of going around it.

To make sure you can select doors later, draw their dynamic lighting line in a different color. Also, include a handle (shaped like a hockey stick) extending outside of the map.

To make it easy to adjust later, make separate dynamic lighting segments for each room. (ie: Don't try and make one super long polygon shape around everything.)

An easy way to add notes to a map is by placing tokens on the GM layer. Grab free tokens from game-icons.net. Use the title for essential info and the notes for detailed info.

A quick and dirty way to add NPCs: Create a token macro to output the text of the red bar: "@{selected|Bar3}" and put their attack roll in the red bubble. eg: "[[1d20+5]] to hit [[2d6]] damage"

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 * To make sure you can select doors later, draw their dynamic lighting line in a different color. Also, include a handle (shaped like a hockey stick) extending outside of the map.
-* To make it easy to fix errors. Make separate dynamic lighting segments for each room. (ie: Don't try and make one super long polygon shape around everything.)
+* To make it easy to adjust later, make separate dynamic lighting segments for each room. (ie: Don't try and make one super long polygon shape around everything.)
 == Annotating Maps ==