Kingmaker via MapTool

[GentleGiant]

David McFarland wrote:

Ran my last Kingmaker session with maptool and really loved it.(I am an old school Table top battle person so I love the battle maps!) When I ran the game I used a 27" flatscreen for the group of players and it worked well but I am really wanting to take it to the next level and get a projector for a much larger presentation. I was looking at some affordable projectors that are 800 x 600 native resolution. Is that enough resolution to project a nice maptool image. Also will it be annoying to the players to have a fan running all the time in the projector? Can anyone who has used a projector let me know.

Wanting BIGGER in Dayton.

A whole ENWorld tread about using projectors at the gaming table. Happy reading. ;-)

[Warforged Gardener]

Bampf wrote:

I'm having trouble extracting images from my PDF for use with Maptools. I am pulling them out with Acrobat 8 and plugging them into GIMP but it keeps squishing the image up. Any tips?

The best way to get the images is through a separate program. Adobe is fine for cutting images out, but there are better programs. I'm a bit spoiled though, since my GIMP is in Linux and lets me open PDF files and extract the images directly. You might want to check if gimp lets you do the same.

[NeoFax]

Warforged Gardener wrote:

Reposted from another thread(this seemed a more appropriate place):

If there are any Maptool users running Kingmaker(and there would not be an issue posting them), I have been working on some macros to handle the phases of kingdom building. So far, I've automated consumption and the three kingdom checks, including generating/reducing BP and Unrest. If Paizo doesn't object to sharing macros that use their kingdom rules and there are Maptool users interested, I will post them in a separate thread.

One of the biggest hurdles to using the new rules in an online game is keeping track of all the numbers in a way that everyone can see without slowing the game to a crawl. Macros are a huge help with restoring real world speed to online kingdom building.

If you still have these macros, I would love to get a copy.

Spoiler:

neofax99 <AT> gmail dot com

[nicklepaper]

@Warforged Gardener Any interest in selling your Kingslayer campaign for MapTools? I can buy the PDFs myself, but would love to save all the set-up time as a GM if someone has already done the work.