I think this is the right forum for this...
I'm considering starting up a Play-by-Post Pathfinder game, over in the gaming section on this site. I'm fond of high-level play, and it doesn't look like high-level offers come around all that often here. So that should be a treat to those interested. (If I get it off the ground, that is.)
So my question. What ways do people on here use to illustrate the playing field? Tactical movement, terrain, and area spells can be integral to strong high-level play. (Can be. We can fall back on Save-or-Dies and trading full attacks, if we prefer.)
I'm not especially experienced with any methods of illustrating terrain and moving characters around. Can anybody point me to a good, easy-to-use program?
The only method I've seen is the DM had plenty of dwarven forge terrain and miniatures, and would set everything up then take pics and post them on some sort of online album. I'm sure there's better ways, but it's what I've seen...
I think this is the right forum for this...
I'm considering starting up a Play-by-Post Pathfinder game, over in the gaming section on this site. I'm fond of high-level play, and it doesn't look like high-level offers come around all that often here. So that should be a treat to those interested. (If I get it off the ground, that is.)
So my question. What ways do people on here use to illustrate the playing field? Tactical movement, terrain, and area spells can be integral to strong high-level play. (Can be. We can fall back on Save-or-Dies and trading full attacks, if we prefer.)
I'm not especially experienced with any methods of illustrating terrain and moving characters around. Can anybody point me to a good, easy-to-use program?
For the PbP Arena I am playing in at the moment, we use Google Docs to run our map. It really works quite well actually. If you talk to DM Barcas or Wraithstrike I'm sure they would be willing to show you how to set everything up.
P.S. can't wait to see what you come up with for the arena. Any idea what you'll go with yet?
For the PbP Arena I am playing in at the moment, we use Google Docs to run our map. It really works quite well actually. If you talk to DM Barcas or Wraithstrike I'm sure they would be willing to show you how to set everything up.
Hmm. Thank you, I'll be sure to ask one of them about it.
P.S. can't wait to see what you come up with for the arena. Any idea what you'll go with yet?
I'm working on a Paladin right now. You? Do we have a deadline?
It's really not particularly difficult. All you have to do is set the area of each square to 1/2" by 1/2", color as you see fit, and add the figures via "Insert Drawing". It isn't the most attractive of choices, but it is extremely useful. If you give edit privileges to the PCs, they can move themselves around as needed.
I agree. Google docs is great. Do up a spreadsheet with a grid of the right size, a key to the left and fill it in with coloured squares for terrain, borders for walls and letters/numbers/symbols for creatures and objects.
Not only that, multiple users can log into and edit the same document at once and there's an inbuilt chat. You could even put a dice roller and character sheet record into a single document.