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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5739202" data-attributes="member: 75065">Howdy, I have a few questions about maptool, as I gear up to carry  on my tabletop campaign online after a move from  one side of the earth to the other. Many are system generic so I decided to post here in the general forum rather than the 4e forum, though I do have one system specific question. I have posted on the rptools.net forum but my thread never appeared. SO here goes:1) How do you deal with campaign/encounter/NPC/Organisations etc notes, or jotting down ideas during the game etc. There seems to be no function for this built in to maptools. Do people use sites like Obsidian Portal or programs like masterplan and just flick from screen to screen or am I missing something?2) How do you give your players a handout during the game, an image of a city, dungeon, or object, or just a picture of an NPC that you don't want to make a token for? Do you have to send them via another method (eg email) or is there a feature that can handle that which I have also missed? 3)What if I want to give the players a handout that I expect them to use during the course of the game for reference, like a regional map, or an image of a puzzle that needs solving. This goes quite closely with question 2 but differing slightly by the fact that I want my players to have a way to pull it up quickly and refere back to it as need be. How do people deal with this? Again ... have I missed a feature?4)This one is perhaps too system specific, but you never know ...I use the framework DN Character Sheet (latest version). I chose this because I thought it was the most atttractive character sheet, which I felt was the most important feature for my players. Much of the other stuff we can manage manually like when we played at the table, I reckon. But from what I see there is no 'import monster stats' function which means monster statting is quite time consuming. Is it possible to include features from other frameworks? This is probably quite tricky isn't it? Is there a 'best combination'? Opinions on the three major frameworks? Rumble, Veggians? DN Character Sheet? 5) If I can't stat monsters quickly I want to create a resource where I can pull up tokens I have already statted up again. Is this possible? How do I tackle this or do I have to remember which map each token was left on and drag them onto the new map?6)How do you jump from map to map quickly? Is there a fat way to get tokens (especially PC tokens) from one map to the other or is it copy paste?Hopefully someone can answer one/some/a few/all of my questions. I really appreciate any help and tips in general on how best to run things in a smooth organised awesome way! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> CheersJEdit: My post has arrived on RPTools.net, there must have been a delay while they checked content before allowing it to surface (I'm guessing). Still, two heads are better than one. So please any help on this is still massively appreciated! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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