Stickers and Drag and Drop Come to the Maps VTT

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The D&D Beyond Maps VTT allows you to create strategic and dynamic battle scenes using the monsters and maps from your digital library. But what if you want to do some interior design—a bed here, a pool of bubbling lava there?

Well, that's where Maps' newest feature—Stickers—comes in. With Stickers, you can place various props and effects directly onto the map, and Master Tier subscribers can start playing with a collection of 75+ stickers today!

Decorate Your Maps with Stickers

A gif of adding a sticker to D&D Beyond's Maps VTT

If you've ever seen a map and thought, “This would be perfect if only there were a dragon statue in the middle of the room,” you're in luck. Stickers on D&D Beyond's Maps VTT allow you to tailor any map to your unique situation.

With these generic environment additions, you could cover a grove in trees and shrubs to create cover, add a bridge across a raging river, or include a sewer grate that allows your party to escape a battle!

This can also help you create dynamic environments during an encounter. Maybe the red dragon that your players are confronting in its lair can expose pools of lava that the party has to navigate around. With Stickers, you can just drag in a lava pool, rotate it to fit, and scale it to the size you need!

The Sticker Browser

To access the stickers available on Maps, you'll need to open the Sticker Browser. This can be done either by clicking the bottom-most “Sticker” button on the side menu or pressing the “S” key.

Clicking a sticker will display a slide-out menu with all the sticker’s associated tags and a “+” button." You can search for stickers using their tags and add them to your map using the “+” button.

Manipulating Stickers

A gif of manipulating stickers on D&D Beyond's Maps VTT

Much like overlays, stickers can be rotated and scaled. To rotate a sticker, you drag the rotate handle in the direction you want to turn it. For scaling, drag any of the four corner markers to increase and decrease the sticker's size.

While resizing a sticker, a handy scale indicator will be displayed so you know its size in the illustrated direction.

If you select a sticker, the familiar context menu will appear, giving you three options: toggle the sticker's visibility, lock its position, and delete.

If you select multiple stickers, you'll see a fourth option to group them, allowing you to manipulate them as a single object—you can even group stickers with overlays and tokens.

Drag and Drop Tokens and Stickers

Drag-and-dropping tokens and stickers on the Maps VTT

Drag and drop functionality has made its way to Maps for both stickers and tokens! You can now drag any asset from its menu onto the map and drop it exactly where you want it.

Stick At It With Maps

With the addition of stickers, D&D Beyond's Maps VTT continues to grow as a streamlined and robust virtual tabletop for all your D&D needs.

Adorn your maps with decorations, details, or deadly traps to make the perfect encounter for your players. Start your free trial of a Master Tier subscription and explore Maps today!

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Davyd is a Dungeon Master living in the south of England with his wife Steph, daughter Willow, and two cats Khatleesi and Mollie. In addition to D&D, he loves writing, 3d printing, and experimenting home automation, often combining all four with varying degrees of success.

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