Recent content by Hiruma Chico

Hello and thank you for your answers to my questions @JohnnFour! You nailed it, I'm still a bit confused by this part, but I'll research it on my own for a bit. I'm brand new to CL, so that's my main stumbling block, but I think the most confusing bit that you wrote is that there are multiple...

So in CL, are "bucket"s Pages or Logs?

Also, I've used the Sources section in the old tool RW, to put my pre-mission briefings, post-session recaps, plus links to rulebook PDFs, etc. Sounds like these would be separated with the first items in Johnn's Timeline bucket and the rulebook links going to "Files". Would I be correctly...

Hi. I am doing the Day 1 Create Buckets exercise and I have an existing tool (Realm Works by Lone Wolf Development, no longer actively supported), but I am keen to try Campaign Logger as a possible replacement. So I have created a free CL account and now I am ruminating about my own buckets...

My rule system is WOIN so it's hard to find VTT's with decent built-in support for WOIN. Roll20 has worked adequately, though more character sheet and rule system support would be very desirable. Otherwise, for mapping and general game play, I'm very pleased with Roll20. I am a pro...

True, my maps are no works of art, everything looks two dimensional, but I use the Dynamic Lighting features of Roll20 to give the flat objects (trees, boxes, barrels, etc.) the ability to block movement, line of sight, cast shadows, etc.

No problem. Yes, those old battlemap photos look a lot like how we used to play on tabletob pre-VTT, when mine and my players' expectations were lower. Now that I have created some nicer looking grid maps with a collage of images as the background, the old way seems bland. It's as much my...

Also, they were going to be on the train for 3-5 days, so it was important to populate the train with a full cast of NPCs -- crew, other passengers, and their eventual opposition who would board later. The agents' mission was to get a pair of Chinese defectors out of Russia.

Again, adding all of the Dynamic Lighting layer details to appropriately restrict line of sight and movement was a lot of work.

Here's a Roll20 screenshot of the last mission, which was on a luxury Trans-Siberian train:

Include the time to create the Dynamic Lighting stuff in Roll20 (the agents of course infiltrated at night), plus a map of the interior of that building in the lower left corner, and it starts to add up.

Took me many hours to find the location and then find the images I wanted to use to create map and put them together. I enjoy this process, or at least the research part, less the GIMP image manipulation part, but it is very time-consuming. That's because I'm a bit particular that the overall...

Not sure why that appeared 3 times, sorry. EDIT: I've fixed it, think I know what I did wrong.

And here is the mission map that I created by mashing together multiple other images in GIMP (scaled it and added Roll20 gridlines after):

So I like to find actual places on Google Maps to use as the target locations. Here is the actual view from Google Maps (terrain view):