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What VTT are you using? If its Roll20, I can help.

Alfray Stryke wrote:

Steel_Wind wrote:

Alfray Stryke wrote:

I'm planning on running the AP via a VTT, all I've done is right-click on the map in Adobe Acrobat Reader -> Copy Image -> Paste into Paint.net and I have the map without any labels.

Yeah, you need to do more than that with these maps to get them optimized for VTT use.

I guess a video tutorial would probably be welcomed...

I've done the same with previous PF adventures and never had any complaints from the players :)

It depends which "previous PF adventures" you mean Alfray. The devil is in those details.

Where there has been an interactive map prepared (and in many cases before that, too, though not consistently) the maps have been reviewed by a Paizo IT/Web artist and are technically in compliance with the resolution and grid needs for VTT use. They are in technical compliance within the PDF of the AP - never mind in the interactive map book,too. They are both correct, because somebody has done their technical art job to make sure that they are.

So yes, in those circumstances, where somebody at Paizo has already done the technical work to prep the map for you, a copy+paste will (mostly) work.

Now, go try your approach with the map for the Fusion Queen in Dead Suns Vol 1.

See the difference?

Not the person that you replied to, but I've got similar experience with turning PFS maps into Roll20 maps. I tested this on the Fusion Queen, and it works the same way as for PFS maps. Just click a few times on the map and Acrobat will select it without the labels. From there bring it over to your VTT. I don't know how your VTT works, but this doesn't add any difficulty to Roll20 for me.

Unfortunately the Sunrise Maiden doesn't quite work for this; it is unselectable in Acrobat. Instead you just take a screenshot into paint and port it over to Roll20 from there. You'll still have the numbers and the map guide, but as its the PCs ship still having the labels isn't a problem IMO.

If you need help, send me a PM. I'll send you a roll20 link and a discord link and I can show you.

The people you seem to hope to influence would not count as 'lay people' of that religion. I think you would absolutely qualify for the +2 Diplomacy and Intimidate, but not the 'automatically set to helpful.'

Or at least, the people that you'd set to helpful would not be in positions to make influential decisions. They would be the greeters and janitors.

Secretaries. Need a meeting with a random higher-up? "Mr. Moneybags has a hole in his schedule in half an hour."

Or those janitors you mentioned? Janitors have keys to every place they are expected to clean. "Excuse me, my son. I met with Mr. Moneybags earlier in his office, but I forgot my personal datachip. But Mr. Moneybags has gone home for the evening; could you let me into his office? I'd be just a moment."

You see a tall man in a heavy black cloak. His face is obscured by a silver and ivory mask. You cannot tell his race from his build, though his occasional clumsiness quickly rules out elf or half-elf. "Hello, I am Fargus, Initiate of the twenty-fourth step of the Path of Razmir," he says in a nearly emotionless tone of voice. "As some of you may already have inferred, I am a priest of Razmir, the Living God. Do not expect healing from me unless the situation has become truly dire." Fargus then lapses into silence. Fargus rarely speaks up without being directly asked a question, and none of you have seen him without his mask. He doesn't seem to eat. He doesn't sleep much, and has an uncanny way of being awake (and making it known) if people talk about him while he is thought to be asleep.