Dungeon Tiles Reincarnated

**Danimal66** · February 23rd, 2018, 02:46

Just curious why these are available on Roll 20 and not on Fantasy Grounds it is an official WOTC product.

**LordEntrails** · February 23rd, 2018, 03:50

Interesting observation. It will be interesting to hear.

I suspect the answer will be in part because FG is not setup to use map tiles, a map of 8x8 squares (I don't know what size these actually are) or such is not very useful in FG.

**Nickademus** · February 23rd, 2018, 05:14

I wasn't impressed with their quality. I don't think we are missing much.

**leozelig** · February 23rd, 2018, 16:23

I emailed the FG team about that a few weeks ago. Since maps do not support multiple layers, map tiles in general are not offered for purchase. I hope I am not totally mis-quoting the FG team’s reply. I expect that layers will eventually be a part of the basic package, so maybe we will see these in the future.

Isn’t there a layers extension that would make it possible to use map tiles, or am I imagining that?

**LordEntrails** · February 23rd, 2018, 16:32

Originally Posted by leozelig

Isn’t there a layers extension that would make it possible to use map tiles, or am I imagining that?

Their is, but it is a community extension. I wouldn't expect any official products sold that require a community extension.

I think one of the FGU demo's shows the use of tiles. So, maybe when FGU is released.

**leozelig** · February 23rd, 2018, 17:55

I don’t know how complicated the extension is, but it would be great to see layered maps in the core ruleset and map tiles in the store before FGU. But of course I can respect the devs judgment on these things.

**Zacchaeus** · February 23rd, 2018, 18:07

FG currently can't handle any kind of layering even with the layers extension. To work with the layers extension the tiles would need to be made into tokens; massive memory hungry tokens.

**gwhitneyy2k** · February 23rd, 2018, 18:19

If you own tiles from Roll20 you can download them, place them in something like gimp or photoshop, and create a map to import as a graphic

**Trenloe** · February 23rd, 2018, 18:41

Originally Posted by gwhitneyy2k

If you own tiles from Roll20 you can download them...

Not always, it depends on the particular product. This one states "These tiles are for use with the Roll20 platform only, and are not available for download."

**Danimal66** · February 23rd, 2018, 19:41

All that makes sense, I only glance but I thought I saw besides the tiles, maps with the tiles in Roll 20 but maybe I am mistaken. I could always buy and scan the actual tiles. In fact i think I have a bunch of the original sets I could do that with.

I hope that I'm still alive when FG for Unity is released and it has a feature for making maps with tiles. One of my biggest issues in DM in my style which is often spontaneous is maps.

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