Roll20 Prepping a game Tutorial
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Setting up a D&D 5e one shot in roll20
A practical example in Dungeons and Dragons 5 edition system of how to get started with your session one shot prep in Roll 20. The video doesn’t contain information on actually running a session. If this video does well, I would consider making on for running a game in roll 20.
Links to the module that was used for demonstration www.dmsguild.com/product/1703...
www.dmsguild.com/product/1717...
Time Stamps
Setting Up
Pages 1:32
Getting the map setup 3:06
Switching pages 7:07
Gm Layer 8:29
Visibility (fog of war) 9:06
Adding a token from the compendium 11:40
Modifying a compendium token 13:19
Moving tokens to another layer 15:40
Creating you own Creatures/NPCs 17:00
Adding custom tokens 21:54
Folders 24:40
Handouts 25:00
Adding player character sheets 27:05
Adding to your character sheet from the compendium 30:16
Adding a custom spell to a character sheet 30:45
Setting your players up 33:19
Included tips
Alt + mouse wheel zooms.
Hold alt to place an art asset exactly without snapping to a grid.
Keep the players on a “safe” page in case they come to your game while you are setting up.
Right click to finish the Polygon reveal tool.
Reveal/hiding and any changes in general happen in real time.
always double check what layer you are adding assets to.
Take the time to set up NPCs attributes not just attacks.
Look for green and reds in dice rolls (critical successes and failures)
Tip: Don’t set the bars to hp on creature tokens. Do set Hp on PC tokens.
I use handouts in three ways, as handout to players, as notes to myself (the gm), and an in-game location for players to use notes. Also be careful where you add notes.
Make sure the player has gone to your landing page at least once. Make sure the character sheet is in the player’s journal and the player can edit it. Make sure the token is tied to the character sheet.
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This is so much better than the Roll20 tutorials
@edwinburns3888
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks I am glad it's still providing value a few years later.
This was a great tutorial. You hit the right level of detail, didn't get bogged down in minutia, conveyed a ton of content in an easy, organized way. Thanks very much for putting this together.
I've watched a lot of tutorials, but yours was easier to comprehend than most of them. Thank you.
Extremely helpful tutorial for Roll20, and just the thing I needed to see before setting up my first game
So glad to have this. I was creating all my spells manually, not realizing I could drag and drop.
THANK YOU finally a tutorial that doesn't go into all the details right from the start but just explains the basics. Very useful, will be referring back to it often. Thank you!
I’ve watched a few roll20 tutorials, and yours is the clearest and most helpful. Thanks!
@KevinBibeault
4 жыл бұрын
Not sure why character ( player) avatar isn't showing the full character sheet other then when I go into journal and open. Would you happen to know what I may not be doing proper? Thank you!
Thanks! Buddy and I were having a hard time getting started with Roll20. This was a very helpful tutorial. I'll be watching your combat tutorial next. :)
This was AMAZINGLY helpful! Thank you soo much!
Exactly what I was looking for
This is really good stuff. We need to get this out there!
Nicely done with appropriate pacing.
Hey you’ve got 2 really well made videos :) hope to maybe see more!!
Thank you for this video!
There is also an align to grid option in advanced when u right click on map whilst in map layer, after a minute playing with it you will understant how it works
@edwinburns3888
4 жыл бұрын
I discovered that after I made the video. It is a very useful tool and works pretty well.
Another great video. Really.
nice video! The whole toolbar was a little intimidating when i went in blind. Feel a lot better about it now
This was great - thanks for putting it together. There seems to be no recent tutorials for Roll20 - they're all several years old - so I was pleased to find this.
Thanks Edwin!
there's an autoalign function, you drag a box the size of one square on the map and it will resize it to match the size of the grid
@edwinburns3888
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I didn't know how to use that feature when I made the video it is a very good feature.
Thanks for the tutorial. Please help: you said you bring up the character sheet by clicking on the token (about 13:20) but I just get the edit token page. How do you pull up the stats?
@edwinburns3888
3 жыл бұрын
Hold shift when you click.
Great video. Having a hard time seeing the full character sheet from the player view from the avatar. How do I go about fixing this? Thank you!
@edwinburns3888
4 жыл бұрын
If you hold shift on and double click your token it will bring up the character sheet assigned to that token (if there is one, if not politely ask your gm to assign your sheet to the token). If you are a player you can only open character sheets the DM has given you access to. If you mean the player image/name at the bottom of the screen I don't think you can get to the character sheet that way. You can also access the character sheet from the journal menu in the right toolbar. The character sheet has three tabs bio&info/character sheet( which also has three tabs core/bio/spells) /attributes & abilities if you don't see the info you are looking for try switching tabs.
@KevinBibeault
4 жыл бұрын
@@edwinburns3888 Players cant independelty build characters and then import or build them inside the game you host?
@edwinburns3888
4 жыл бұрын
@@KevinBibeault The is no tool outside of a game to create characters that I know of. You can make your own game as a GM and build a character inside there; for free, you will only have access to the material you bought or the open gaming licence material. Then you can import it to the "character vault". Then if the game you are joining has "all access vault" (a paid feature) enabled you can export into that game. Here is the specific help document roll20.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037258594-Character-Vault
My compendium monsters dont have tokens. Is that a paid feature or do you add tokens to every monster you chose?
@edwinburns3888
3 жыл бұрын
You can bring the token onto the page for any creature in the OGL. The token doesn't have the image of the monster unless you buy the specific book I believe is how it works. And yes you can always create your own but they are specific to specific games to transfer custom ones across games you need the paid monthly plan.
Does Roll20 still need to have discord audio in order to have good audio or has than been fixed?
@edwinburns3888
2 жыл бұрын
There is built in audio/video. So other tools aren't required but my group prefers discord. So I can't speak for quality of that part of roll20 as I have very little experience with it.
take me back to 4 years ago these buttons look so much fucking simpler than what roll20 is like now man the barrier of entry is absolutely insufferable for this damn program