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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7973161" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I used Microsoft Excel.</p><p></p><p>Opened up a blank sheet and imported a map (been playing Lost Mines, so it was Cragmaw Castle). Excel allowed me to enlarge and shrink the map image to size it correctly to my laptop screen. Then for tokens I used the Shapes option in Excel to just create a whole bunch of filled colored circles and squares the size of the grid on the map to use for PCs and monsters. They don't have pictures in them, but we didn't care.</p><p></p><p>Then in Zoom I just left everything in Share Screen mode-- map within Excel on left side of page and the Gallery view of my players on the right side. That way everyone could see their tokens and the monster tokens and decide where they wanted to move. And because they are just individual Shapes, I can grab them and move them around on top of the map image to their places on the map with ease.</p><p></p><p>Now granted, because it was a Share Screen the players weren't able to move their own tokens, I had to move them all for them... but it was easy enough for them to say "move up to the castle wall and as far left as possible" and I could do it with little issue. And what was nice was that if I needed more tokens I could just highlight one then copy/paste and a new one would appear. And on top of that, Zoom's pencil drawing options work on the Share Screen too... so I was able to draw on top of the map as well (when I needed to circle areas of effect.)</p><p></p><p>It worked exceedingly well and cost me or my players nothing. And if I ever want one with "fog of war"? I would just use the Free Shape tool in Shapes and create black-filled shapes that cover parts of the map, then when PCs enter those areas I just click and delete those shapes to reveal the map underneath. So long as the circle and square tokens are "Bring to Front", they never get lost under the shapes or the map.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7973161, member: 7006"] I used Microsoft Excel. Opened up a blank sheet and imported a map (been playing Lost Mines, so it was Cragmaw Castle). Excel allowed me to enlarge and shrink the map image to size it correctly to my laptop screen. Then for tokens I used the Shapes option in Excel to just create a whole bunch of filled colored circles and squares the size of the grid on the map to use for PCs and monsters. They don't have pictures in them, but we didn't care. Then in Zoom I just left everything in Share Screen mode-- map within Excel on left side of page and the Gallery view of my players on the right side. That way everyone could see their tokens and the monster tokens and decide where they wanted to move. And because they are just individual Shapes, I can grab them and move them around on top of the map image to their places on the map with ease. Now granted, because it was a Share Screen the players weren't able to move their own tokens, I had to move them all for them... but it was easy enough for them to say "move up to the castle wall and as far left as possible" and I could do it with little issue. And what was nice was that if I needed more tokens I could just highlight one then copy/paste and a new one would appear. And on top of that, Zoom's pencil drawing options work on the Share Screen too... so I was able to draw on top of the map as well (when I needed to circle areas of effect.) It worked exceedingly well and cost me or my players nothing. And if I ever want one with "fog of war"? I would just use the Free Shape tool in Shapes and create black-filled shapes that cover parts of the map, then when PCs enter those areas I just click and delete those shapes to reveal the map underneath. So long as the circle and square tokens are "Bring to Front", they never get lost under the shapes or the map. [/QUOTE]
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