I have posted a description of Landing pages in the Stupid Tricks thread, but this is a place for people to share their creations and how they use them to make a better Roll20 gaming experience. Here’s the spiel from the Stupid Tricks post, just to keep this contained. Please share here, rather than there.
Roll20 allows players to log on, even when unattended by a GM. Unless the GM changes the ribbon at the end of a session, this merely takes them to whatever page they were last on, usually the last combat. The idea here is to give them something more useful, and to give your campaign an identity.
Enter the Landing Page.
Also referred to as a Home Page or a Splash Page, the Landing page is the entry point to your campaign. People have come up with some clever uses for them in the past, but at a bare minimum, the Landing Page should have tokens out for all active characters, so that players can easily work with them in the down time. Other potential elements:
- A campaign map
- A map from the recent adventure
- A text area detailing the last adventure or xp award
- The latest treasure that has not been divvied up (useful if you use cards for inventory)
- Clues to follow up on
- A Notice Board of quests in the area
- A Rogues Gallery of the BBEG and his/her lieutenants
- An area for players to scribble on with the drawing tools (some people gotta)
- Images of prominent NPCs or locations
- A Kill Record— X-ed out tokens of defeated adversaries
