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D&D Bastion Building: A Complete Dungeon Scrawl Guide

Bastions offer a unique opportunity for D&D players to build their own home base for research, crafting, lucrative business opportunities and more! While Roll20 offers a beautiful sheet for tracking your Bastion’s development, Dungeon Scrawl let’s you visualize your base, expand it with continuous changes, and prepare for when the action follows your adventurers home! Our newest blog features instructions for how to: Draw Maps Use Layers Export Dungeon Scrawl Maps to Roll20
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Thank you for the instructions guide. As the GM, I'm working on mapping the party's bastion now. It would be a fun interactive gameplay experience if the Players could collaborate on co-drawing a shared Dungeon Scrawl, the way that we can collab using Roll20 Drawing Tools on a map Page, like all scrawling together at the same time on the same map. Is that a feature that might come in the future of DS development?  With the Bastion rules encouraging the Players to draw their own facilities map, it would be so useful to enable co-drawing mode.  EDIT to add: I asked about this on DS discord and was given the workaround method --- although not drawing simultaneously, we can go in a chain. The first player draws their bastion then Download the .DS file and send it to Player 2, who adds their bastion rooms, download the .DS file and send it forward in a chain through the group until everyone has contributed. 
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I hope they make this easier to use and especially from within R20, directly...I know of a competitor VTT where I can get an extension (for free) that allows everyone in the game to draw a "dungeon" simultaneously and the walls and doors automatically bring in the configuration for dynamic lighting...
If I remember correctly this was the premise when it was announced that Roll20 bought Dungeonscrawl... But to be honest I have little to no hope this will ever be possible... and IF, then maybe in a few years... Finderski said: I hope they make this easier to use and especially from within R20, directly...I know of a competitor VTT where I can get an extension (for free) that allows everyone in the game to draw a "dungeon" simultaneously and the walls and doors automatically bring in the configuration for dynamic lighting...
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I am learning so much about using DungeonScrawl with this contest. This Help page is essential and contains some hidden tips-and-tricks that can work wonders for a DS mapper, <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/sections/16979502679447-Tools" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/sections/16979502679447-Tools</a> Albeit the layout of that Help page is so generic / template / mobile, just be sure to click into every DungeonScrawl Tool link and read the details. Some of them have little surprises in what it can do, that (for me) was nonobvious in the DungeonScrawl interface but I'm able to learn it by reading the Help wiki's.&nbsp;
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Is there a Post on the Roll20 Community Forum announcing the Dungeonscrawl Bastion mapping contest?