Looking for suggestions regarding using monitor as table for FG IRL

[Myrdin Potter]

Just be careful when you pass the laptop around to have changed the owner of all of the characters to the account that logs in. Otherwise the players will constantly be logging off and on again. You can just type the user name over the standard one in the character sheets and then change it back when you are done.

[Gwydion]

Yes, great point. I plan to have the one laptop log in to take ownership of all of the characters.

[Fatherdeath]

you can use any flat monitor you want.. just take an appropriate sized piece of plexiglass and lay over top of it so nothing actually touches the screen... we do the same thing for our biweekly family game of heroclix

[Gwydion]

A few more shots as I get ready for Sunday. The first shows the DM elevated nest with my laptop and resource material. The four players will sit at the green table and pass around the laptop and wireless mouse. The maps will be projected on the big screen. Ready for Sunday!Attachment 15183Attachment 15184

[rob2e]

Ok, so I've been playing on FG for the last few months now. I'm running a group of co-workers, friends and my wife. It's all been online so far. For this Sunday, though, we are holding an IRL session at my house. I'm still tinkering with the setup, but right now I plan to run FG with my laptop and connect the second instance (localhost) to my projector screen. I've then set up my texas holdem table, which can seat 8-9 comfortably in front of the big screen with the players sitting at the table. The players will have their character sheets and one very small laptop with a wireless mouse that they will pass around when it is their turn. The "chip holders" built into the table will function as dice holders. I plan to have the players manually roll checks and perhaps saves, but run actual combat through FG in the combat tracker.

The attached screenshots still aren't the best, but I'll try to post more later when I have it set up for Sunday. The laptop in the pictures is larger than the one the players will use. I set it up to test the setup and played my last session of Rob2e's Unknown Whom on it this past Sunday. It worked great! I love all the setups I've seen on this thread. Very creative group!

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I wanna move to your town and be your friend.

[Trenloe]

A few more shots as I get ready for Sunday. The first shows the DM elevated nest with my laptop and resource material. The four players will sit at the green table and pass around the laptop and wireless mouse. The maps will be projected on the big screen. Ready for Sunday!Attachment 15183Attachment 15184

Looking very cool. Game on!

[damned]

Just be careful when you pass the laptop around to have changed the owner of all of the characters to the account that logs in. Otherwise the players will constantly be logging off and on again. You can just type the user name over the standard one in the character sheets and then change it back when you are done.

Clear the owners on the Characters before you start.
Whoever logs in grabs all the characters.
At the end of the session you can clear all the owners again.

[damned]

Just be careful when you pass the laptop around to have changed the owner of all of the characters to the account that logs in. Otherwise the players will constantly be logging off and on again. You can just type the user name over the standard one in the character sheets and then change it back when you are done.

Clear the owners on the Characters before you start.
Whoever logs in grabs all the characters.
At the end of the session you can clear all the owners again.

[Gwydion]

Clear the owners on the Characters before you start.
Whoever logs in grabs all the characters.
At the end of the session you can clear all the owners again.

Nifty tip that I haven't had to use yet. Thanks!

[Talen]

Trenloe, with the tv that you are using, in practice, what is the length and width of the map measured by 1 inch squares that you are able to use?