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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5257549" data-attributes="member: 90804"><p>Most of my DMing so far has been online using MapTool - no muss, no fuss! </p><p></p><p>The first time I ever ran a session, I used a hand-drawn grid on letter paper for the battlemat, coins to represent the PCs, and little dried fruits for the bad guys (bonus - the players could eat the enemies that they killed!). More on that <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/eat-what-you-kill/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>Just today I ran another in-person session - my first real in-person session with preparation. I had a wet-erase battle map handy in case I needed to improvise some maps, but that ended up not being necessary. I had <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/living-forgotten-realms-dm-preparation-maps/" target="_blank">created the main encounter maps in advance</a> using MapTool. I converted them to the proper scale using Photoshop then made them into poster PDFs in PosteRazor, which I then printed out in color and taped together. They looked pretty slick.</p><p></p><p>For minis, I used <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/creating-tokens-for-in-person-gaming/" target="_blank">homemade tokens</a> - circular images of bad guys printed on photo paper, punched out using a one-inch circular hole punch, then glued onto fender washers from the hardware store. They looked and worked great, and it was a cinch to transport a couple of dozen of them in my dice box. I could also write numbers right on the tokens to denote which bad guy was bandit #1 and which was bandit #2 (important when keeping track of their hit points and conditions). If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't bother with printing the bloodied versions of the images on the backs of the tokens, as it was easy enough for me to just drop a little red rubber band on the token to show that it was bloodied (and the rubber bands are also great for putting on minis that the players had brought for their characters).</p><p></p><p>The full details of my prep for today's session are <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/running-my-first-in-person-living-forgotten-realms-game/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5257549, member: 90804"] Most of my DMing so far has been online using MapTool - no muss, no fuss! The first time I ever ran a session, I used a hand-drawn grid on letter paper for the battlemat, coins to represent the PCs, and little dried fruits for the bad guys (bonus - the players could eat the enemies that they killed!). More on that [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/eat-what-you-kill/"]here[/URL]. Just today I ran another in-person session - my first real in-person session with preparation. I had a wet-erase battle map handy in case I needed to improvise some maps, but that ended up not being necessary. I had [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/living-forgotten-realms-dm-preparation-maps/"]created the main encounter maps in advance[/URL] using MapTool. I converted them to the proper scale using Photoshop then made them into poster PDFs in PosteRazor, which I then printed out in color and taped together. They looked pretty slick. For minis, I used [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/creating-tokens-for-in-person-gaming/"]homemade tokens[/URL] - circular images of bad guys printed on photo paper, punched out using a one-inch circular hole punch, then glued onto fender washers from the hardware store. They looked and worked great, and it was a cinch to transport a couple of dozen of them in my dice box. I could also write numbers right on the tokens to denote which bad guy was bandit #1 and which was bandit #2 (important when keeping track of their hit points and conditions). If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't bother with printing the bloodied versions of the images on the backs of the tokens, as it was easy enough for me to just drop a little red rubber band on the token to show that it was bloodied (and the rubber bands are also great for putting on minis that the players had brought for their characters). The full details of my prep for today's session are [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/running-my-first-in-person-living-forgotten-realms-game/"]here[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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