My Dungeon Maps

[RPMiller]

If you had versions of these maps without the grids on them, they would be perfect for a VTT. Do you have such a version?

[Turgenev]

If you had versions of these maps without the grids on them, they would be perfect for a VTT. Do you have such a version?

I do my work in photoshop and all the major features of the image are on their own layers and that includes the map grid. I could easily turn it off and then save the altered file as a new image.

Pardon my ignorance but what is a VTT?

[RPMiller]

Oh sweet!! Since you have it in PS already that is even better! If you could set the resolution so that 50 or 100 pixels equaled 5' we would be smoking!

VTT = Virtual TableTop. Also sometimes referred to as VGT (Virtual Gaming Table). It is an application that simulates the table battlemaps that we are all familiar with and includes chat, dice rolling, initiative tracking, etc. If you do a search on the forums for VTT, MapTool, Battlegrounds, VGT, etc. you'll find more descriptions and such.

I personally use MapTool, and there are several folks here that do as well, but there are others such as Battlegrounds and ORPG that some of our members use. If you follow the link in my sig below you'll see what MapTool is all about.

[Turgenev]

Thanks for the link. Let me look into this and I'll have to get back to you. I need to do some reading to learn more about this (hopefully I will have time this weekend to explore VVT a bit further). Cool.

[RPMiller]

Definitely! I would recommend that you join the MapTools forums as well. There are a lot of great people over there, many of them are now members here as well.

Here is a link to all the VTT goodness you could hope for:
http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/links.html#anchor6

Note that there is a lot of stuff on that page not just VTT stuff.

[Badger]

Great map ... and I second RP in that it would make an excellent vtt map... he however did it with much more enthusiasm and fervor ... VTT was never really an option before I got high(er)speed interenet... dialup and vtt (or any type of realtime anything) usually cause more frustration and aggravation than enjoyment... But I've since thought it might be a viable way to pass my time ...

RedRobes software ViewingDale which I bought recently for my own world mapping is also a VTT... I haven't checked out any other VTT's but will be scooting over to RP's suggestion soon to check it out... I personally would rather play than run anything at this point .. ya know .. to feel out the vtt experience... if you plan on running something in vtt let me know ... love GH I've a Suel Cleric named FIST of KORD that you would just love to meet

Love the setup you have for the ruins... Incabulos is one of my favorite cult-ish gods... pestilence and disease always strike fear into PC's ... especially at the lower levels...

[torstan]

It makes a lovely VTT map. Here's a screenshot after importing it into maptool with some basic tokens. The one on the right is what the players see (note the camouflaged spiders!), the one on the left is the GM view. I've also attached the campaign file if anyone wants to play with it (using the dev build 1.3b28 ). Before loading it up, rename it to spiders.cmpgn. Then it will load just fine.



spiders.zip

[Turgenev]

... love GH I've a Suel Cleric named FIST of KORD that you would just love to meet

Love the setup you have for the ruins... Incabulos is one of my favorite cult-ish gods... pestilence and disease always strike fear into PC's ... especially at the lower levels...

I was going to use the Cult of the Hopping Prophet (Wastri) but I decided I wanted to go with the pestilence route and decided on Incabulos instead. I like to set up my campaigns with several NPC factions and then drop the PCs into the middle of the mix and see how things turn out.

In this case, I have the 'Plague of the Blackhand' Incabulos Cult, Humanoid/Human Bandits (sponsored by several Noble families from the Hold of the Sea Princes - these bandits are basically slavers raiding Keoland), and any other ideas that come to me as I flesh out the campaign (I still have a lot of work to do on the local geography of the campaign). I also have to finish writing up the adventure before my (face-to-face) game tomorrow night.