Battlewear
September 19th, 2018, 15:54
Good Day to all..
Ok, so I know that there have been a number of questions on how to do spell effects and things of that nature but I havent seen any posts (I will be honest, I might of missed it) for the situation I/we are having.
Let me start of by explaining the set up. First, Im new to Fantasy grounds :D
We are a in person group gathered around the table, we use an overhead projector putting a digital map on the table. We use encounters to determine initiative and I personally use tokens for players and monsters so that on my 2nd computer screen I can very easily see where people are vs the environment (we have a very large table/projection/etc and it can be hard to see EXACTLY where people are).
The characters and monsters while tokens are also minis, the players move the minis to where I move monster tokens and the a couple of the players have laptops and login so that they can move the player tokens.
This past week while doing a epic battle with over 40 monsters and 8 players we ran into a situation where a player wanted to drop a fireball, but to better reflect it on the map he wanted to show radius. My player was unable to do the circle. When he would click on the (The double mouse button click) nothing would happen, but I as the DM could.
How do I allow the players that ability?
I as the DM and to save time, made up very basic characters and gave them an icon. Its really so that we can put them onto the table top easy and move them around. As the DM I have my laptop and a 2nd monitor. The 2nd Monitor is mirrored to the Overhead projector and runs a 2nd instance of FG.
So that was first question..
Time for 2nd Question..
Some Oddness..
So this past weekend while playing in that epic game I had over 20 magmin and a large number or Orogs (Running the attack on Triboar from SKT).
I imported the encounter.. I placed the tokens for the attacking force on the map. When I shared the map, the tokens appeared for a brief moment and then disappeared. Thats when all insanity broke out.. So while attempting to bring them back, I somehow caused the game to DOUBLE all entries of characters in the combat tracker.. Of course I had no idea who was who because I had turned off monster numbering (Yes, thats been turned back on because I dont want to go through that pain again!, nothing like having 20 magnin on the table and then trying to click on each one to figure out if they are on the table, where they are located, etc).
Anyways, any idea while they would go invisible when I shared the map with the players? They were not set to be invisible (at the top of the encounter table I saw an eye, it was fine (even clicked it trying to fix my issue)..
Ok, so I know that there have been a number of questions on how to do spell effects and things of that nature but I havent seen any posts (I will be honest, I might of missed it) for the situation I/we are having.
Let me start of by explaining the set up. First, Im new to Fantasy grounds :D
We are a in person group gathered around the table, we use an overhead projector putting a digital map on the table. We use encounters to determine initiative and I personally use tokens for players and monsters so that on my 2nd computer screen I can very easily see where people are vs the environment (we have a very large table/projection/etc and it can be hard to see EXACTLY where people are).
The characters and monsters while tokens are also minis, the players move the minis to where I move monster tokens and the a couple of the players have laptops and login so that they can move the player tokens.
This past week while doing a epic battle with over 40 monsters and 8 players we ran into a situation where a player wanted to drop a fireball, but to better reflect it on the map he wanted to show radius. My player was unable to do the circle. When he would click on the (The double mouse button click) nothing would happen, but I as the DM could.
How do I allow the players that ability?
I as the DM and to save time, made up very basic characters and gave them an icon. Its really so that we can put them onto the table top easy and move them around. As the DM I have my laptop and a 2nd monitor. The 2nd Monitor is mirrored to the Overhead projector and runs a 2nd instance of FG.
So that was first question..
Time for 2nd Question..
Some Oddness..
So this past weekend while playing in that epic game I had over 20 magmin and a large number or Orogs (Running the attack on Triboar from SKT).
I imported the encounter.. I placed the tokens for the attacking force on the map. When I shared the map, the tokens appeared for a brief moment and then disappeared. Thats when all insanity broke out.. So while attempting to bring them back, I somehow caused the game to DOUBLE all entries of characters in the combat tracker.. Of course I had no idea who was who because I had turned off monster numbering (Yes, thats been turned back on because I dont want to go through that pain again!, nothing like having 20 magnin on the table and then trying to click on each one to figure out if they are on the table, where they are located, etc).
Anyways, any idea while they would go invisible when I shared the map with the players? They were not set to be invisible (at the top of the encounter table I saw an eye, it was fine (even clicked it trying to fix my issue)..