Mytherus
January 16th, 2019, 18:05
Good Afternoon All,
I'm getting ready to run my first gig as DM with Fantasy Grounds and I feel I have a decent handle on everything and I'm good to go *EXCEPT* one thing that eludes me..... tokens / portraits.....
First are tokens and portraits inter-changeable? (Can I use a token as a portrait, a portrait as a token?)
That might be my main issue is not understanding that simple fact alone.
I have several "sacks" (referring to how FG displays the collections) of tokens from my purchases of the PHB, DMG, MM, SCAG, Xan's, etc. etc. --- on my FG I have them all available for any mock characters I make and it seems to let me use them as portraits* (*this is why I was wondering if tokens = portraits and vice versa)
I have a separate test FG account (which is just the freebie version) and a second computer to simulate a player logging into my game -- on my "simulated player" workstation I have no access to the portraits I have on my GM station. The modules that have the "little bag icons on them" are shared to players, so I don't know what gives.
Right now any player that logs into my game -- will have only like 12 portrait options (the base ones that are built into FG apparently).
That's rather lame, so I was hoping there was some way to fix that. Ultimately my thought is "What's the point of having all these sacks of portrait options if my players have no access to them?"
Thank you.
I'm getting ready to run my first gig as DM with Fantasy Grounds and I feel I have a decent handle on everything and I'm good to go *EXCEPT* one thing that eludes me..... tokens / portraits.....
First are tokens and portraits inter-changeable? (Can I use a token as a portrait, a portrait as a token?)
That might be my main issue is not understanding that simple fact alone.
I have several "sacks" (referring to how FG displays the collections) of tokens from my purchases of the PHB, DMG, MM, SCAG, Xan's, etc. etc. --- on my FG I have them all available for any mock characters I make and it seems to let me use them as portraits* (*this is why I was wondering if tokens = portraits and vice versa)
I have a separate test FG account (which is just the freebie version) and a second computer to simulate a player logging into my game -- on my "simulated player" workstation I have no access to the portraits I have on my GM station. The modules that have the "little bag icons on them" are shared to players, so I don't know what gives.
Right now any player that logs into my game -- will have only like 12 portrait options (the base ones that are built into FG apparently).
That's rather lame, so I was hoping there was some way to fix that. Ultimately my thought is "What's the point of having all these sacks of portrait options if my players have no access to them?"
Thank you.