Roll20 Crash Course: D&D 5e Combat for DMs 

@Trenton Nico nice advertising

From the future: If this doesn't work and the grid overshoots or undershoots the roll20 grid, use the "set dimensions" option to nudge it. (By Stretching/squishing it) Just be sure to line up the top corner with the grid every time you change the dimension

Thank you. This helped a lot!

You can separate / remove it, and reapply an new one.

what I found helps is just not setting one of the circles to hp and just write out the hp, and hp wont be shared between monsters

Definitely outdated. I need to re-learn through the updates and perhaps make some updated versions soon. Very busy with work at the moment.

@@SilverDragonAcademy No problemo. I know it's there and yet I still miss it sometimes.

Yes! It is a a common issue I'm sure. So strange you have to have the "Goblin" stat block in the character section be represented by a generic token....

That'll get you to the bio page, alt + double click goes directly to stats page.

@@SilverDragonAcademy In this situation, the party isn't surprised as all of their passive perception are higher than the lowest stealth, so they all know their is a threat. If the Fighters Passive Perception was 8 then he would have been surprised but the rest of the party wouldn't have been. However the other goblins are hidden so they will still have advantage. As you say this can get complicated though and a lot of rolling, I tend to roll a single stealth per creature type for the ambush so it's either a surprise or it isn't which is simpler although not correct as raw. nice video's I'm doing some checking to make sure I haven't missed any roll 20 features.

Aside from paying for modules there isn't much you can do.

Thats fantastic. Yea, I have even learned some things since this video that I will be updating in the near future. I'm glad these have helped you :)

There is also a little "INIT" die across from their armour class that rolls their initiative.

Mack D Also just came back to this video again because I’ve got a couple hundred hours on roll20 but there are still many things I’m unsure about. While rewatching it I found that when you were rolling initiatives you didn’t see but across from there HP on the NPC sheet towards the right is a dice icon that says Init that is the initiative button for NPCs Also I was also unsure about the linking of HP as I have also struggled with the problem of all the enemies taking damage because they are linked to the same sheet. The best way I found to do it is link them all to the character sheet, set up the other bars (I use blue as AC and red as Passive perception) and then leave the HP bar as ‘none’ and instead when you place the monster roll for its HP and then manually add its specific HP to the bar that way the HP isn’t linked and won’t change all of them at once. Thanks for this video though it helped me a bit, although it wasn’t fully what I was looking for but nice tutorial anyways :)

Yea I made a mistake there. The website recognized them as all being the same character, I had to have them represent generic characters instead in the token settings for them to have individual health pools.

I knooow haha the joys of laziness and doing it all in one take.

@@SilverDragonAcademy It's almost the exact same thing. A creature that is surprised still gets their turn, they just don't get to do anything ON the turn other than remove the surprised condition. For example, a third level Assassin Rogue would not gain the benefit, by RAW, of their Assassinate feature against an enemy that rolled higher than them in initiative, even if the enemy was surprised. At the end of the day, it's up to DM interpretation anyways, so really it's up to the group to find a method that works. Thanks for the videos! I learned a lot and you definitely cleared up a lot of roll20 questions I had.

😂 No doubt. I generally like to use the Pathfinder 2e secret checks now. Do hidden rolls for them on the VTT. Much easier to do than in person.

Definitely. I rarely use macros to be honest, but they can be game changers.

Things have updated since.this video. I'll have to record a new one.

@@SilverDragonAcademy Chrome

Huge game changer when I learned this.

You need to make sure the tokens are "generic" when you open the default token. Roll20 thinks that one monster and that one token are like a PC. Where only one of them can exist at a time. Drop the monster down and open the token settings. Make sure it represents "None / generic) instead of that monster.

Do you have it set to play D&D 5e in the game settings? You might not have NPC sheets enabled.

Haha! You could have time travelled to warn me!

@@SilverDragonAcademy very good videos for beginners. better than reading wiki pages...

Great tutorial btw! Made the whole process simpler ☺

I'm on chrome

When it shows up in the chat box you mean?

Silver Dragon Academy yes thank you there are the two numbers then if you click attack there is a third number next to damage but I don’t know what each number means

@@SpiffyWilly I'm still a bit confused, but the two numbers are usually rolled automatically with advantage. So it is d20 + the attack bonus of the attack. It should usually only show one. When you click on the damage it should show one number which is the amount of damage inflicted. It might show a "+ X" if the attack was a critical hit. It automatically rolls the critical bonus damage for you sometimes.

@Silver Dragon Academy sorry for the confusion I understand how to read the damage I think but just when there are two numbers next to the word attack but under the name of the enemy and weapon in the chat I’m just confused which number is to hit and what the other one is for, this is also from when you use the macro from the compendium of a monster by clicking the weapon in the character sheet of the monster

Make sure your game settings have the sheet set for D&D 5e.

@@SilverDragonAcademy thank you, I’ll try it tomorrow

It's a website called Token Stamp. You upload an image, move it to where you want, and it saves it as a png file. rolladvantage.com/tokenstamp/

@@SilverDragonAcademy Thanks man and great tutorial

Sorry about that

@@SilverDragonAcademy yes I failed at fully comprehending the instructions! I am a clown...

I use Vivaldi. vivaldi.com/ It can run google chrome extensions without giving google all your data.

​@@SilverDragonAcademythank you

Thanks for the feedback. Would it be beneficial to show a mock combat video? Or start from scratch using Roll20 for combat? The reason I taught it this way because I already have a video on how to use Roll20 and didn't want to repeat myself or have too much irrelevant information at the start.

@@SilverDragonAcademy thanks for the reply. As someone trying to use Roll20 for the first time, the thing that has frustrated me, is that all the videos on YT either spend all their time on map design\ and or they gloss over actual play. So I figure out how to make really cool places for my guys to go through, but I have no idea how to make them attack something, or how to make the cool grey bars over the top, or I have no idea how to write the macros. (etc, etc) It's as if they all assume that everyone knows how to create Roll20 macros and plug characters into a campaign. All the macros I have are from IRL friends who in turn got them from other IRL friends. I realize it is harder for me because I am initially running 1e, but it would be so nice to see a video that is dedicated to setting up the combat macros and actually running a mock combat

@@shdwhealer Cool! Then I'll do a more dedicated combat macro video. I made a basic one for using them, but I could do a more advanced macro video perhaps? I'm unfamiliar with 1st edition.

I'm not sure what you mean...

@@SilverDragonAcademy lmao exactly

@@Bondanalloy ok.

The tokens?

Haha nice catch. I did all of this in one take, so many mistakes were made. Soon I'll be making an updated video for this.

@@SilverDragonAcademy Nps. Pretty new at this thanks for the vids! I saw both the old and new one :)

@@SilverDragonAcademy I cant argue with the reasoning and honest acception of criticism. Well, your idea of putting things out there isnt really bad for a session or two, but after that the GM will want to improve themselves after running into some things or realising that one or the other could be done more efficiently. For a starter its pretty clear, so I can give you that.