"First Time DM" and Other Short Questions Megathread

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Shmeppy Landing Page

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Shmeppy

Your wet erase mat. Online.

#Game Engine #Gaming #Maps 22 social mentions
Cityographer Landing Page

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Cityographer

A city map creation tool for RPG fantasy games

#Maps #Game Engine #Mapping And GIS 1 social mentions
Obsidian.md Landing Page

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Obsidian.md

A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

For a world map I use this site, just hit random a bunch until you find one you like. For battlemaps I go to r/battlemaps r/FantasyMaps or r/dndmaps. Not keeping I used to use onenote but ive moved over to obsidian.md because the spiderweb thing is really cool:).

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions
Owlbear Rodeo Landing Page

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Owlbear Rodeo

Owlbear Rodeo is an attempt to make a web app to run tabletop encounters without the complicated setup process needed for other VTTs.

Owlbear.rodeo is a really easy to use VTT (virtual table top). Go to the link and click "start game." Upload a map. There are some tools you can use to obscure the map so the players can't see. You can add tokens to the map (monsters and players) and easily hide some of the tokens from the players. When the map is set up, just copy the link and share it with the players (or, if you are in person, open an incognito window or a different browser and use the link yourself to join as a player and cast that window to your tv). You can make changes to the fog of war on the "dm window" to change what is visible on the "player window." I like owlbear a lot because it is free, doesn't require any account or password, and there is not much to learn. It doesn't do a lot more than display a map, but that's all I need it for. There are some easy youtube tutorials and there is a good subreddit if you want more info.

#Game Engine #Gaming #Online Games 209 social mentions