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Here There Be Dragons… Dungeons & Dragon that is… as well as lots of articles on Fantasy Grounds Unity and other virtual DM related tools & topics. I try to do my best to post something new every week. Mostly videos, but I toss in a blog post every now and again when I find a little extra time.
Please let me know what you think about the posts in the comments. Good or bad, the feedback helps me improve. Happy gaming!!
In this video, we will look at the Combat Groups Extension from Silent Ruin and Grim Press. This extension is incredibly useful for managing multiple combat encounters during your session by allowing you to preload NPC groups onto the combat tracker and hide them until needed. It is much easier
In this video, we will be looking at the Fantasy Grounds Unity dice packs and how you can use those dice packs to customize your dice rolls for damage and healing. This is a great way to add excitement and impact to your dice rolls. Check it out! Welcome to
In this video, I will be looking at how to prepare an animated map for use in Fantasy Ground Unity. Animated maps look fantastic and really add another layer of immersion into the scene during combat. If you would like to start using them in your sessions, there are some
In this Fantasy Grounds Unity extension review, I will be looking at the Fantasy Grounds Automatic Sneak Attack and Turn-Based Effects extensions from Kent McCullough and Rob Twohy. These two extensions working together do a fantastic job of automating your rogue’s sneak attack. Check it out! Welcome to The Virtual
In this Fantasy Grounds Unity tutorial, I will be looking at how to get the most out of the quick bars. These quick bars are an excellent way to give you quick and easy access to all kinds of tools and information you use while running your session. Welcome to
In this Fantasy Grounds Unity Tutorial, I will look at how to upload, prep and share a map. Having a great map for your combat sessions really helps with player engagement. Check it out! Welcome to The Virtual DM, and thanks for watching. If you are a DM looking to
In this Fantasy Grounds Unity tutorial, I will show you how to easily draw arrows, squares, circles and cones on your maps. They are excellent tools to help you determine distance and area of effect (AoE) for spells. See just how easily it can be done. Welcome to The Virtual
In this Fantasy Grounds Unity tutorial, you will learn how to create and load custom tokens for your campaign. It is so easy and will add great customization to your PCs and NPCs. Check it out! Welcome to The Virtual DM, and thanks for watching. If you are a DM
In this Fantasy Grounds Unity extension review, I will look at how you can use the Fantasy Grounds 5E Indicators extension from John Waite and Rob Twohy. This extension is a fantastic addition to your campaign combat sessions, allowing for greater visibility on your maps of whose turn it is,
If you want to understand how to play D&D and other tabletop RPGs online, you have come to the right place. I have been deeply entrenched in playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) online for the past five years, and I am a massive advocate for playing this way. Playing D&D
If you use Fantasy Grounds, you are no doubt aware of the amazing new dynamic lighting tools that are now released in Unity… and I mean AMAZING!! In my quest to learn how to use these better, I have found what I believe are the two best resources currently available
Syrinscape is a leader in the TTRPG sound FX department. Fantasy Grounds is a leader in the Virtual TTRPG department. Being able to use these two incredible products as part of your virtual gaming sessions is great. Being able to use them together is AWESOME. Thanks to two products created
Syrinscape is a leader in the TTRPG sound FX department. Fantasy Grounds is a leader in the Virtual TTRPG department. Being able to use these two incredible products as part of your virtual gaming sessions is great. Being able to use them together is AWESOME. Thanks to two products created
Being able to add your voice, sound FX, and music to Discord and Zoom for your virtual tabletop sessions help you to immerse your players in their current game environment. Whether they are walking through a crowded city street, climbing through a desolate mountain range, or crawling through a deep,
I am always on the lookout for tips and tricks that I can use to improve and simplify my Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) experience for myself and my players. This includes trying out new modules and extensions. For this Fantasy Grounds – Tips and Tricks post, we are going
I often see folks frustrated when they are trying to learn how to use Fantasy Grounds. I get it. I really do. Fantasy Grounds does have a steep learning curve, BUT… I am fairly sure that most of these folks did not use all of the available resources to help
A few sessions ago in my current campaign, there was a discussion about how we could bring real-time gambling to Fantasy Grounds. After some quick research in the Dungeons and Dragons 5e core books, I concluded that the reference materials did not offer much to work with. The Player’s Handbook
In last week’s article, I discussed how you can add music and sound effects to your RPG virtual tabletop sessions. This week, I am going to discuss how to play music and sound effects on Discord along with your regular voice chat. As you can probably guess, I use Discord
I am going to start by saying that once you begin you are going to wonder why it took you so long to add music and sound effects to your RPG virtual tabletop sessions. It adds to the atmosphere and helps draw the players into the story and the
I began this review of the Top RPG Virtual Tabletops for 2020 with a comprehensive search for potential VTTs to consider. I found well over 60 possibilities with the vast majority of them having closed the doors on their projects. At first, this surprised me a little, but I needed
