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New DM need help with NPC tokens, stats, and character sheets!!!

Good afternoon fellow gamers. I'm new to roll20 but an avid tabletop gamer. I have my whole campaign set up except for the NPC tokens, characters, and stat sheets. Is there anyone DM that would be willing to walk me threw creating my monsters tonight for my campaign? I would greatly appreciate it. We could do it over Google hangouts and I could show you my campaign. Thank you!
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Nick S.
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I don't think I'll be able to join, but I can try to help a bit here. I don't know what you'll be playing, but as a regular member you have two options to go about it: 1. Use the character sheet for your system. If you fill everything on the sheet, most of them have the rolls ready for everything. If you'll be using a few things very often (like attack rolls), you can use the sheet to roll, and after that press the UP key on the chat, and that'll bring out the command used for the roll. You can copy that and create an "Ability" on the sheet with that information, and set it as Token Macro. That way you'll have them ready to use as soon as you have the token selected, without the need to open the sheet every time. 2. Copy the stat block to the Bio & Info tab, and create a few macros on the Abilities tab. This one might be a lot quicker if you only need to create a few macros for each NPC / Monster, and to create the macros you'll have to do it the usual way with something along the lines of "/em attacks for [[1d20+X]] vs AC to hit for [[1d8+2]] Slashing Dmg" Or using the token name attribute and other many things you can do. Once you have the character sheets ready for your NPCs and Monsters, create the tokens taking special attention to set the values linked to "None" for HP, AC or anything else for the Monsters only . That'll make so every one will have their own HP if you add several, otherwise if you reduce the HP on one of them, it'd be reduced on all the tokens. There's of course a lot more information on the wiki regarding the rolls and character sheets you can use to customize a bit more, but to start that should be enough. Hope that helps, Nick EDIT: Apparently Benson will be running a game to teach how to DM, and as far as I can see will include some Roll20 tricks. Check it out here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1894559/5-slash-2-slash-15-or-5-slash-3-slash-15-want-to-learn-how-to-dm-sharpen-up-your-existing-skills-join-in-with-toothless" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1894559/5-slash-2-slash-15-or-5-slash-3-slash-15-want-to-learn-how-to-dm-sharpen-up-your-existing-skills-join-in-with-toothless</a>
Hey Judd, what time (and time zone) are you thinking? I work until 5:30 PDT (8:30 EDT) so I wouldnt be available to after that, if that works for you, I might be able help out a little today.
I'm in the central time zone. I can hop on about 8:30 pm central time after I get my daughters to go to bed. I would be forever in your debt if you had a few minutes to spare. Let me know Jake M! Nick thank you for the pointers I will test some of these out step by step.
Alright, I will contact you (or better yet, remind me) around that time. Ill PM you my skype name if you have skype
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Nick S. said: EDIT: Apparently Benson will be running a game to teach how to DM, and as far as I can see will include some Roll20 tricks. Check it out here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1894559/5-slash-2-slash-15-or-5-slash-3-slash-15-want-to-learn-how-to-dm-sharpen-up-your-existing-skills-join-in-with-toothless" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1894559/5-slash-2-slash-15-or-5-slash-3-slash-15-want-to-learn-how-to-dm-sharpen-up-your-existing-skills-join-in-with-toothless</a> Thanks for the advertisement Nick! xD Yup, I'll be running some training sessions, and a good HALF of it will be dedicated to learning Roll20 as a GM. We'll be going over character journals, tokens, the jukebox, as well as macros. The other half will be more universal DMing, dealing with plot, story, NPCs, yadda yadda yadda, it'll be tons of fun, trust me. I'm glad ya snagged Jake to help ya though! Hope ya two get it working! ^.^