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<blockquote data-quote="Nilbog" data-source="post: 7645890" data-attributes="member: 98183"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>So after 30+ years of using various tools and methods for recreating combating at the games table (everything from graph paper to a dry erase battlemat) our group has acquired an LCD TV that we plan to use. </p><p></p><p>Looking around the night I've seen various ways people have physically built this into the gaming table and I'm reasonably happy with our design, however its for the actually gaming side I was hoping for advice. I was wondering what tools people use, both to create the maps (or any archives of maps we could use) and to actually display them on the screen. My current line of thinking was to use Roll20 with one laptop plugged directly into the TV to display what that PC's see and the DM's laptop controlling all the background stuff, is there a better way of doing this? </p><p></p><p>We don't really plan on using tokens in any software package, as we have miniatures that we will use (the TV screen is protected by a layer of perspex that sits a few millimetres above the screen, can this cause issues on the screen?) </p><p></p><p>Also any other gotcha's and pitfalls we should be wary of using this approach? </p><p></p><p>I'm hoping it leads to a more immersive experience without too much extra overhead on DM prep time.</p><p></p><p>Thank you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nilbog, post: 7645890, member: 98183"] Hi So after 30+ years of using various tools and methods for recreating combating at the games table (everything from graph paper to a dry erase battlemat) our group has acquired an LCD TV that we plan to use. Looking around the night I've seen various ways people have physically built this into the gaming table and I'm reasonably happy with our design, however its for the actually gaming side I was hoping for advice. I was wondering what tools people use, both to create the maps (or any archives of maps we could use) and to actually display them on the screen. My current line of thinking was to use Roll20 with one laptop plugged directly into the TV to display what that PC's see and the DM's laptop controlling all the background stuff, is there a better way of doing this? We don't really plan on using tokens in any software package, as we have miniatures that we will use (the TV screen is protected by a layer of perspex that sits a few millimetres above the screen, can this cause issues on the screen?) Also any other gotcha's and pitfalls we should be wary of using this approach? I'm hoping it leads to a more immersive experience without too much extra overhead on DM prep time. Thank you [/QUOTE]
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