Showing V2 of my (compressed) roll20 backgrounds for the awesome crew “Deveras Wille” along with some insight of what is useful from my POV:
– In the old version I had two seperate pages for the players and their stats and the Doskvol map. Don’t do that. You (=GM) has to switch the view all the time which is pretty anoying during play. Better is to have them on one page because now the players can navigate by themself.
– Make it as big / small as us like because players are free to zoom in/out and move it as they like
– Don’t use too complicate photoshopped background pictures. Instead use seperate png-based tokens (= transparent background) to import into roll20. It’s better to arrange them in roll20 because you’re more flexible.
The Faction clocks and the net of NPC/Faction connections are single tokens arrangend in roll20.
– GM Layer (semi-transparent in the picture) is great for GM-only clocks: You (=GM) has them in sight and they are hidden from the players.
– Rollable tables with tokens are awesome. I use them now for clocks, stress tracks and action dot tracks. They worth the effort because you’re full flexible during play: Just click them chose the next value and you’re done. Great.
Mind that the stress tracks and action tracks are not linked to the Character Sheet. I are updated manually which is a bit of hassle but ok.
We’re having 14 sessions now with this crew and it runs really smooth. Pretty proud of the result.
