Pre made maps?

Hi there, Me and my group are new to the sight and half of us are new too DnD we've found multiple books and stuff. but we wanted to know if there some sort of way to simply download a map already made by someone, and play with it? Mainly were looking for an MLP based one, any help out there?

There are several ways. The GM can buy Maps or Map Tiles in the Roll20 Marketplace (link at top of page). This makes it easy. The GM can go to the Art search tab, in your game, and search for free maps there. Drag it onto the Map Layer and resize it with the corner-handles. You can also make your own maps on your computer or find them online, or draw a map and take a picture, whatever you do that leads to a JPG format map on your computer -- then the GM can go to "Upload" within the game, and upload the map JPG to their Roll20 account, and then place it on the tabletop. Note you can also play Roleplaying Games without any map, and it is really fun! It is sometimes called "Theater of the mind" or just using narratives and descriptions, and imagination --- ditching the map and figurines. If you're new this is what I recommend for starting into the game anyway, at least consider running part of your game session "off map". Roll20 has the advantage that you can use the Art tab to bring photographic pictures or illustrations onto the tabletop --- say, a picture of some dark and evil forest, rather than a map view from the top-down.

Hello Faith. Gold is correct on many ways but there is also another way. It is commonly known by most of the GM's here that the art library search in the game board uses google search engine. If you can find it on google then you can find it with the search. As a GM, you go into room and click on the second tab (above the chat area) then select search everything. If you know the title of the map or a keyword then type it into the search area and let it do the work. I did a search for Map_of_Equestria_April_2013.jpg and it showed up in the search area. I do recommend you do a google search to find the map you want then type the name of that map into the search bar in the game. This will speed your search up in it. After that you just drag and drop the map on to the map area. I would recommend you disabling the grid before you do this or it will shrink the map down to a 70x70 size token. Play around with it and let us know if you need more help.

As long as you're on the map layer I believe you don't need to disable to grid to avoid it resizing. I'm currently working on a website that will provide you with free resources to work on maps, and some already-made ones, but it's not ready yet. If Roll20 allows me to, I'll post it on the site soon. Nick.

Nick S. said: As long as you're on the map layer I believe you don't need to disable to grid to avoid it resizing. I agree. That is my experience as well, and just triple-checked it to make sure. As I posted earlier, "Drag it onto the map layer and resize it with corner-handles". If you drag it onto the Token layer, then it will smoosh into the grid, making a rectangular map into a disproportionate square, but if you flip to Map Layer before you drop the map, it will drop at the map's original size and aspect ratio. Pat's advice has been, "I would recommend you disabling the grid before you do this or it will shrink the map down to a 70x70 size token", but my finding is that it's easier to flip to Map layer and drop it there without disabling grid of the token layer. Krtistin answered, "Map Layer items snap to the grid" --- this is true for positioning and re-positioning your map on the map layer, of course, she's right. But Note: art does not actually snap to the grid size & shape when you drop new art if you drop it directly on the map layer. Only art dropped on the Token layer automatically resizes to grid size. Which is good.

And I didn't think about specifying switching to map layer first so thanks for the correction gold.