Yeah.
Ooh! The another “tip”:
Draw the dynamic lighting lines either very thinly along the walls or recess them a bit behind the walls so that the players can see the walls and the rooms don’t just abruptly end in stark blackness.
I’ve been using Roll20 since before the pandemic and I still feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.
Or at least that there have to better ways to do what I’m doing.
I have found that a lot of purchasable maps/adventures are overzealous in their use of dynamic lighting walls(like for bolder...
So if I’m describing a room that the players aren’t “in” I will totally drop one of my little Scry-eyes in it so the players can see the entirety of the room.
The dynamic lighting is, to me, neat but unnecessary. My players however really seem to like it.
You can also create a token with vision and make hay emits light that is controlled by all members of the party. This allows the group to drop a little token behind them that provides light(i set mine to dim light) and grants vision to everyone in places that the heroes have been.
The advanced...
Time for her to find a new group. This group may have been great for a while but even the best teams/groups/bands sometimes grow apart.
Edit: or excise this guy. At least for a bit. I have a feeling he’d be a petty player in someone else’s game right now. You don’t want “locker room poison”.
Who does this though? This doesn’t sound like something real people do. And if you game with people who would... why?
The issue here isn’t one of “where does authority lie?” Its “why are you playing with people that make you ask that question?”