The Wayward Traveler General Store

[jpstod]

Great map John Paul! Very playable / useful map. Looks wonderful.

My one minor nit pick is that the tables look a tiny bit small for the scale. See how they look to you if you increased them about 25% larger. About 7.5' x 4' instead of 6' x 3'.

There is a VTT that uses 50 dpi, it might be Fantasy Grounds, but I'm not sure. However, Roll20 is 70 dpi. Some of the mapmakers for Roll20 provide their maps at 140 dpi so that when they are sized down for the 70 dpi, you can zoom in extra close and get great detail that can be lost at 70 dpi.

I tried to scale them to approximately 5 foot... And then Varried the Sizes of the items on each table.

[jpstod]

I play in person so My Pet Peeves about VTTs....Having to have two systems and two liscenses to run it for effective Game play...One running the GM Version and a Player/Client Version.

In Our style of play a Fog of War is not that Important when viewing the Map. The Map serves only as an Overall Visual Aid...We still map on a Gamemap and draw out the rooms as needed. Now someday I do dream of a Digital Table with a map display for Gameboard

Profantasy could make a fortune off me releasing new art packs on a regular basis. I hate mixing and matching art styles in Maps. Why I stick with one Artist mainly. However there are times when you can't resist snagging a certain art piece and using it.

[Bogie]

I play in person so My Pet Peeves about VTTs....Having to have two systems and two liscenses to run it for effective Game play...One running the GM Version and a Player/Client Version.

With Roll20 you would not need 2 licenses. When I play with my local friends but want to use a digital map I use Roll20. The setup is 1 laptop and 1 32 inch flat panel LED TV ( got a used one at a pawn shop for $70 ) I just lay the TV on its back with some Styrofoam blocks to level it up. I set up my laptop to run Extended Desktop. I load Roll20 onto the TV then in the Roll20 settings I hit the button for "Re-Join as Player". Then I start a new internet window on the laptop and log into Roll20 again this time I stay as the GM. So from the laptop I control the map and what the players see as well as add tokens for monsters if I want to use them. The TV shows the players at the table just what the Fog of War reveals, and they can move their real figurines right on top of the monitor. If you are worried about scratches you can get a thin piece of plastic to cover the screen, but for a $70 used monitor I don't care. A lot of the figurines are light plastic anyway. I've been told that the monitor could overheat laying on it's back but the foam leaves room for airflow and I've never had a problem.

Anyway, I run both the player screen and the GM screen off 1 Laptop and 1 GM license, with a cheap used "monitor" . Plus my son can join in from California using a free Roll20 player account and we can talk to him and see where he moves his computer token character on the map. We don't use the video so we can't see his face, but that helps with bandwith issues.

[jpstod]

Well....still simpler to just open Windows Picture Viewer and display whole map. either on a wall or on a monitor.