The Road Ahead: Join Our Journey to Improve the Maps VTT

I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

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I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

 I second this. I think it used to be like this in the past as well.

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I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

 This was fixed?

https://dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/46363811293332-Can-I-access-and-use-content-shared-by-other-players-in-the-campaign

It seems to come down to what type of account everybody has. From what I can see, if the DM has a full, top-tier account then sharing isn`t a problem but issues could arise if they don`t, even if other players do. I guess its just a "you get what you pay for" situation.

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I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

 This was fixed?

https://dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/46363811293332-Can-I-access-and-use-content-shared-by-other-players-in-the-campaign

 

 Ah I think i misunderstood. It works if the player are in the same campaign, but if they are in another campaign you cannot access monster tokens from them, but you can access their books and maps within. I guess this is intentional, but I miss being able to use monsters from players in other campaigns.

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I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

 This was fixed?

https://dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/46363811293332-Can-I-access-and-use-content-shared-by-other-players-in-the-campaign

 

 Ah I think i misunderstood. It works if the player are in the same campaign, but if they are in another campaign you cannot access monster tokens from them, but you can access their books and maps within. I guess this is intentional, but I miss being able to use monsters from players in other campaigns.

 You can only access materials for the campaign that is sharing it.  You can see the books because they are shared with you, but you can't use them in any campaign, in the same way you can't build a character in one campaign with materials only shared in another campaign.

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It seems to come down to what type of account everybody has. From what I can see, if the DM has a full, top-tier account then sharing isn`t a problem but issues could arise if they don`t, even if other players do. I guess its just a "you get what you pay for" situation.

 Content sharing inside a campaign requires only one member (player or DM) to have a DM-tier account.  I've shared content in at least one campaign that I am a player, and the DM can use all of that data.

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I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

 This was fixed?

https://dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/46363811293332-Can-I-access-and-use-content-shared-by-other-players-in-the-campaign

 

 Ah I think i misunderstood. It works if the player are in the same campaign, but if they are in another campaign you cannot access monster tokens from them, but you can access their books and maps within. I guess this is intentional, but I miss being able to use monsters from players in other campaigns.

 You can only access materials for the campaign that is sharing it.  You can see the books because they are shared with you, but you can't use them in any campaign, in the same way you can't build a character in one campaign with materials only shared in another campaign.

 But he is in the same campaign, and I still can't reach them. 

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I would like for shared content to be able to be used in Maps VTT, right now I have a player sharing for example Wild beyond the Witchlight, but I as a DM for the campaign can not use the tokens? This is so unnecessary, as I reach all the statblocks anyway, so just add the tokens too. :/

 This was fixed?

https://dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/46363811293332-Can-I-access-and-use-content-shared-by-other-players-in-the-campaign

 

 Ah I think i misunderstood. It works if the player are in the same campaign, but if they are in another campaign you cannot access monster tokens from them, but you can access their books and maps within. I guess this is intentional, but I miss being able to use monsters from players in other campaigns.

 You can only access materials for the campaign that is sharing it.  You can see the books because they are shared with you, but you can't use them in any campaign, in the same way you can't build a character in one campaign with materials only shared in another campaign.

 But he is in the same campaign, and I still can't reach them. 

 We solved the issue, he left the campaign and re-joined, now I can reach both tokens and reveals :-)

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Please stop tying EVERY tool in to maps. Make them available in maps, and out of maps. many of us need an encounter builder without the entire maps shell, for example. We would like a rules consultant, but don't need maps. Stop trying to funnel everything through maps. Funnel it through DDB, and make it work with maps for those who need maps, but work without for those of us who don't need maps. 

I play in person with a digital tabletop. Maps will never be my choice of VTT for that as it's online only and I don't want to deal with loading, wifi is down, etc. But I do need a great encounter builder. Which we had before you moved it all into maps. 

Make me a tool similar to https://obsidian.md/, but designed for DND from the ground up and use THAT as a hub for maps, encounter builder, etc. Stop making Maps the hub. 

1000% this. It's so hard to use any of this for a real-life game due to the map shell.

need to add my own "stickers" - any art I want.

need to be able to grow or shrink any token (Duergar that grows to Large or shrinks to small) .

I use my VTT for the same way, with 

I love using the maps function, but there are some things I miss in it.

1. Condition tags for every enitity. No need for rings, cause you should be able to add multiple to each creature, even that of players should be visable and linked to the sheet.

2. A random name generator for the creatures, cause I don't want the players to know what creature I am using and to distinct them feom eachother. It can't be with numbers or they know how many enemies there are.

3. Custom sticker import, for easy pointing things out on maps. 

4. Add a grid to a map and scale it.

5. Possibility of map import with lightning and walls, so we can see the vision from each character.

There are probably a lot more possibilities, but I feel like these things are more needed, certainly 1 to 4.

Keep up the good stuff 👍

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I've asked this before in your multitude options for feedback, but it's very important to me as a DM who uses Maps regularly (multiple times per week) in our in-person sessions. We have a setup where a TV is used as another screen and the Maps display nicely on that screen. As a DM who uses the pre-made adventures (mostly), I loved the fact that the maps are already available to us in Maps. However, many of the maps from the pre-defined adventures are developed in Portrait mode (understandably) to fit the published books. This causes a lot of scrolling on our screen of the map and makes it HARDER to play using our miniatures. If there was a way to make those maps from the pre-made adventures able to be displayed in Landscape mode (since that is the way most screens are), it would make make life 100% easier. IMO - that is the last REQUIRED change that needs to happen. Everything else is just candy.

 

 I'm a tad confused if your TV is upright or you are playing on top of it? Mentioning the miniatures implies you're playing with the screen flat as a table and putting them on top of it. If you're playing this way, you could consider rotating your monitor settings by 90 degrees, getting a portrait mode monitor.

I don't think that works like you are suggesting.  It's a TV.  Not a monitor. You can't change it.

I don't see why they can't put an option to display the map in landscape mode.

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I don't think that works like you are suggesting.  It's a TV.  Not a monitor. You can't change it.

I don't see why they can't put an option to display the map in landscape mode.

 You can definitely switch a TV into landscape mode when it's connected via a HDMI cable, because it's acting as a monitor.  The PC input controls where the pixels go.

A simpler solution would be to allow the DM to rotate the maps in D&D Beyond, This would be very useful where the uploaded maps are geomorphic. As it is, once a map is uploaded the top is fixed.

Exactly

Zac,

Thanks for asking for feedback.  I figure a lot of this has already been said, but here is my wishlist...

Basics:

• Roll from companion blocks in charactersheets
• Token Status Markers
•  full range of conditions - linked back to character sheets
• AC, HP, passive perception displayed
• Monster Bloodied conditions
• Player text’ing in the game log
• Player group skills/saves
• Select Group Monster saves/checks
• Standard content integration
• Roll from source books
• “Show in VTT” blocks or display Spells to VTT
• Token move permissions for players - default is character and companions only
• Proper grid movement (lock minis to grid)

Advanced

• dynamic customization of tokens
• Size (For stuff like enlarge/reduce)
• Flip player token artwork
• Custom Stickers and reveals
• dynamic Lighting system
• Allowing advantage or disadvantage on monsters auto roll initiative from the combat side bar for Surprise etc.
• Allowing rulers to be visible to all players.
• Pre-planned movement routes - tied to player move speeds
• Allow party inventory to be accessible on the DM end from the campaign page or within Maps.
• Edit token's avatar images. (Some monsters have the default silhouette image of their creature type)
• Overwrite token's AC and Ability scores just like you do for HP.
• Automation -  high-level automation in combat.  allowing a token to target another and then click an attack/spell/whatever.  Do some very basic math and indicate if the attack hit or missed.   Then, when damage dice are rolled, allow one click adjustment of HP.
• Layers - Map, DM, Player

Thanks Rob