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<blockquote data-quote="Nilbog" data-source="post: 7646606" data-attributes="member: 98183"><p>Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated. </p><p></p><p>We did trial the system earlier in the year with a very basic setup, and it did encourage us enough to go with it permanently. We never had issues with the resolution (we never used printed maps just markers on a white grid, so anything will be a step up on that), however the parallax and heating issues are my two biggest concerns around the physical set up of the screen. I suspect we will put as thin a layer of perspex as we can a few Millimetres above the screen to allow the heat to escape while minimising the parallax effect as much as possible, I suspect it will be a bit of a compromise.</p><p></p><p>From the software point of view, we will be taking that on a per DM basis, the current DM does a lot of online play so is very familiar with Roll20, and has a lot of his campaign in that, so it makes sense to start with it. The difficulty will come in finding the balance between features and simplicity, like [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] said to use a lot of the fog of war/LoS features we will need to use tokens, but I don't think the group would all want to have to login and move everything as it takes away attention from the adventure and was starting to feel more like a LAN party for the original Neverwinter Nights. When we trialled it, we had one player who loves gaming and PC's in general control a 'light' token that he moved around as required to reveal new features on the map. It worked ok, but still tended to distract a little. I suspect ultimately we will just use it to display the battlegrid minus fog of war/LoS.</p><p></p><p>My only worry was how to easily create the maps, I'm not great with computer art packages, so I was using the original Neverwinter nights level creator to throw a few maps together (I'd export them to a graphics file) I was wondering is there any good software out there for creating battlemaps? </p><p></p><p>Someone mentioned arkenforge, but its not free and I don't want to spend money if its not a good product, does anyone use it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nilbog, post: 7646606, member: 98183"] Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated. We did trial the system earlier in the year with a very basic setup, and it did encourage us enough to go with it permanently. We never had issues with the resolution (we never used printed maps just markers on a white grid, so anything will be a step up on that), however the parallax and heating issues are my two biggest concerns around the physical set up of the screen. I suspect we will put as thin a layer of perspex as we can a few Millimetres above the screen to allow the heat to escape while minimising the parallax effect as much as possible, I suspect it will be a bit of a compromise. From the software point of view, we will be taking that on a per DM basis, the current DM does a lot of online play so is very familiar with Roll20, and has a lot of his campaign in that, so it makes sense to start with it. The difficulty will come in finding the balance between features and simplicity, like [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] said to use a lot of the fog of war/LoS features we will need to use tokens, but I don't think the group would all want to have to login and move everything as it takes away attention from the adventure and was starting to feel more like a LAN party for the original Neverwinter Nights. When we trialled it, we had one player who loves gaming and PC's in general control a 'light' token that he moved around as required to reveal new features on the map. It worked ok, but still tended to distract a little. I suspect ultimately we will just use it to display the battlegrid minus fog of war/LoS. My only worry was how to easily create the maps, I'm not great with computer art packages, so I was using the original Neverwinter nights level creator to throw a few maps together (I'd export them to a graphics file) I was wondering is there any good software out there for creating battlemaps? Someone mentioned arkenforge, but its not free and I don't want to spend money if its not a good product, does anyone use it? [/QUOTE]
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