We sat at our respective tables failing to get the voicechat to work for everyone while I desperately typed up their Character sheets, slowly uncovering all of the errors made in their creation, at least a year ago, and how it made putting them into roll20 impossible, until it all started to truly fall apart, ending with me walking away to make a cup of tea, one leaving to look at porn, one asking questions over voicechat despite not being able to hear us, completely oblivious to the chaos, half the players took part in a heated shouting match over something not related to the game whatsoever, and we haven’t scheduled the next session. Further roll20 testing, methinks, will be done with a different group from now on.
My experience wasn’t much more than an hour of pain, but from that pain was born two pillars of wisdom: write up the players’ character sheets into roll20 as far beforehand as possible, and make sure everyone’s voicechat works beforehand too. Other than that, I’m afraid I’m not much help.
I’m just upset that we have to RE purchase content we already own the physical books of for campaign maps. That’s what we were told by several players.
@@TheGamingWarriors125I like to have my players use their actual character sheet and just use their roll20 sheet/token as a way to decide where they are, enemies are, and when enemies die. I use statblocks from my monster manual for non-pc's still and just subtract health from my tokens. It's not super annoying to do imo, but it is annoying.
Roll 20 really needs to make more of these videos for dms. This shit is super complicated to draw maps and stuff in roll 20 and Idk how to hide rooms and stuff. like if i have a hallway, and theres a secret passage but i don't want the players to see it its like... how do i dentify something as a wall and should be hidden. how do i make sure my dynamic lighting stuff doesn't go outside the room? etc
In the current version of the app you apparently do it with layers. There is a layer for DM only stuff and if it becomes visible you move it to the common layer.
Hands down the best organized and executed tutorial of any of the VTT demos online Nov 2020. Thank you for showing what the product can do, for having smart pan/zoom during the tutorial, and for clear audio. Really well done definitely makes me think favorably of Roll 20 for its ease of use.
This was by far the best tutorial I've watched tonight. I love how you jumped right in and got to it. I feel much more confident building now! If I could like this more than once I would!
I am running a game over the Corona virus outbreak from home and this is really gonna help out. This is a lot more then I thought there was gonna be with this site.
I had a friend wanting to get into Roll20. I use it a lot, but I wanted to find a tutorial that he could follow. I found this, and though it's good it is also old and could do with updating with some of the latest screenshots with the new content. Might be worth doing Roll20!!
Nice video. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I just signed up and can't wait to get started. Big thanks to the entire Roll20 crew!
I made my one-shot session by going to pinterest and other image hosting sites (deviantart, photobucket, etc.). Also a simple Google search also helps.
@@mcdirty764 hey for some reason the jukebox seems really different now did something happen? Or is not included in the free version because its not entirely working for me?
Is it at all easy or posible to do a full campaign of 4 to 5 players using the free version? Or just the gm paying for it... None of us have the money to each buy the membership right now due to nature of world
My advice would be to allow at least an hour for everyone to sort out their audio issues before the game. For some players accustomed to playing at a table with people in the room, the switching between character sheets and the map is very jarring. Remember to click your "token" and then your character sheet, then finally your spell or attack or check. For people onna small screen, moving back and forth takes getting used to.
Make video for new player user and what needs to be done.use own character or use GM charActer only? What cost to start as player, what equipment needed? PC, Mac, iPad -i am disabled using 9yr old iPad with 9.3.5 OS.
When I try to move tokens or images the controls invert and I can't do it, it always goes wonky and all I want to do is move or rotate a token. Frankly I haven't been able to find any help with this and it makes the whole system unusable.
And the tutorial instructions sometimes appear OVER the thing that you're supposed to be looking at. And you haven't updated the tutorial since the hotkeys were changed. Why not? :/
Hi Folks. I am a bit of a boomer when it comes to this stuff. I've been playing since I was a kid, so I went through basic D&D, then AD&D 1st, 2nd, 3.5 ed, and then I missed 4rth, and went straight to 5th ed. Now I realise I have to change with the times and start using the this system. I'm a very accomplished DM/GM, but when it comes to using Roll20, I am a newbie. OK, my question for you is that I have a ton of material in pdf files. I have loads of pathfinder stuff, such as packs of different monsters. I would like to use these tokens in my rolld20. How do I import these token files into my game? Thanks for any help, and I hope to see some of you in my new campaign.
For those that play this online, is a laptop ideal or can this be run on a tablet type system, looking at getting into this but as a console (ps4) gamer I have no idea what I'll need.
Once you've invited folks to the game, you can let them see any map or page you create by dragging the red PLAYERS bookmark in the Page Toolbar over to the page you want. Players will only ever see what's on the Map and Objects & Tokens layers on the page their bookmark is on. Let us know if this answers your question!
When I try to drag a map made in campaign cartographer or dungeon designer into roll20, I either get a box saying it may take several minutes (it never loads in at all) or the box doesn't even bother to appear
Also, your in-app tutorial is borked. There is no way to move backwards through the tutorial, so if you misunderstand something you need to start the whole section over again. I just clicked in the wrong place, which removed the "gear icon" that I need to click on in order for the tutorial to move forward. So now I need to restart the section, again. Have you peeps really not done any UX feedback processes? This is basic stuff :/
+Ross McDowall you mean like online editable character sheets? There is nothing stoping you though from uploading scans of a character sheet as another option.
yeah I seem to be having issues to where my players cant move their characters when I give them permission or even wont be able to seem name and some players tokens I have put down, and idk how to fix it.
hey does anyone know how he got the tokens to look so big in the search area? i can only gettiny pictures and a link so i have to go through each and every one of them, its very tedious, any tips? 0:55
Maps can be found free online in various places. I use: www.reddit.com/r/battlemaps/ You can also buy them from various places for cheap as dirt, including Roll20 marketplace and others.
Actually yes! If you create a Rollable Table with one item being "Heads" and the other being "Tails", you can then create a macro that will roll it for you. Like this -> &{template:default} {{name=Coin Toss}} {{Coin=[[1t[Heads-Tails]]]}} You can learn more about making rollable tables and macros over on the Help Center -> help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039178754-Collections
Yeah I can't do any of this. I guess I just have no idea what I'm doing. Can't add any tokens and I saw that this was a bug from like 10 years ago and this guy said it should be fixed but I don't think it is.
