So not sure how other people handle it, whether it be via map tool, roll20 (one screen shows player view one is DM view) or what I use personally, a GREAT little app called DungeonBoard (https://github.com/McAJBen/DungeonBoard) But it would be great (down the road of course) to have something like this integrated.
What I love most about dungeon board is that it has 4 "modes". Image (plays any picture you point it at), Layer (lets you layer images one on top of another, great for adding labels etc etc), Paint (lets you reveal the map "fog of war" style as you go, but it's not designed for moving the minis like you would in an online game, it's designed as a tabletop viewer or how I use it, As a screen next to my DM screen to show the players where they are roughly) and "Loading" which is an incredible feature that acts like a video game loading screen with tips!
It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn good.
Some caveats that I'd love to see in a DDB version, would obviously be campaign tie ins, the ability to show pictures of monsters ON TOP of maps (it's a pain to do it in dungeon board), but retail that same, "erase" the fog over where you're going. Typically I use the paint function for things like world maps or any map i need to hide elements on, I use the Image function for monster pictures (simply to keep them in a separate place), and the layer function as a village map/Scenery thing (once again, not to layer, but more to separate.
I figure you could just use a separate browser window for the player map in full screen/presenter mode, and then have the DM view integrated into the DDB campaign page. This is basically how I did it with roll20.
Additional to tabletop play, this could be a great feature to add to twitch streams, so you can show maps on the stream, and dynamically reveal/show etc. Overlay monsters (ala Dice, Camera, Action) etc all without any video production software (It could be a twitch feature already I've never streamed)
If I'm not being clear I'm sure I can elaborate more, it'd just be awesome to get DDB a bit of a one stop shop!
So not sure how other people handle it, whether it be via map tool, roll20 (one screen shows player view one is DM view) or what I use personally, a GREAT little app called DungeonBoard (https://github.com/McAJBen/DungeonBoard) But it would be great (down the road of course) to have something like this integrated.
What I love most about dungeon board is that it has 4 "modes". Image (plays any picture you point it at), Layer (lets you layer images one on top of another, great for adding labels etc etc), Paint (lets you reveal the map "fog of war" style as you go, but it's not designed for moving the minis like you would in an online game, it's designed as a tabletop viewer or how I use it, As a screen next to my DM screen to show the players where they are roughly) and "Loading" which is an incredible feature that acts like a video game loading screen with tips!
It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn good.
Some caveats that I'd love to see in a DDB version, would obviously be campaign tie ins, the ability to show pictures of monsters ON TOP of maps (it's a pain to do it in dungeon board), but retail that same, "erase" the fog over where you're going. Typically I use the paint function for things like world maps or any map i need to hide elements on, I use the Image function for monster pictures (simply to keep them in a separate place), and the layer function as a village map/Scenery thing (once again, not to layer, but more to separate.
I figure you could just use a separate browser window for the player map in full screen/presenter mode, and then have the DM view integrated into the DDB campaign page. This is basically how I did it with roll20.
Additional to tabletop play, this could be a great feature to add to twitch streams, so you can show maps on the stream, and dynamically reveal/show etc. Overlay monsters (ala Dice, Camera, Action) etc all without any video production software (It could be a twitch feature already I've never streamed)
If I'm not being clear I'm sure I can elaborate more, it'd just be awesome to get DDB a bit of a one stop shop!
Bump this thread! Yes!
Cheers,
The Narrator