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Progress Timers How-to

I recently purchased the Time of tyranny progress clocks and I don't know how to set it up.  The Roll20 wiki link included on the store page (which is the same link in other topics of this nature) does not have anything on setting up a progress clock. Any help here would be great. Purpose: 2 clocks 1 that counts down to the next random encounter roll. 1 that counts down until night falls and the dungeon returns to the Abyss (and auto kills every PC still inside).
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Gold
Forum Champion
Hi, can you link to the Marketplace page of the product? I couldn't find it with the name "Time of Tyranny". 
Gold said: Hi, can you link to the Marketplace page of the product? I couldn't find it with the name "Time of Tyranny".&nbsp; <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/gameaddon/149/a-time-for-treachery" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/gameaddon/149/a-time-for-treachery</a> Here you go, sorry for the late reply, went to bed early last night.
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Scott C.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Compendium Curator
The marketplace page has instructions for how to use them at the end of the description. This is pretty much how I'd describe how to use this too. Instructions: The clocks are rollable-table tokens. In order to change the faces, right-click a clock, select Multi-Sided, and Choose a Side. A horizontal scroll bar will allow you to choose a side. I suggest copying and pasting clocks as you need them to keep the appropriate formatting.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Rollable tables are found in the Collections tab at the top right. There's a button next to them that says "Token". If you click that, it will make a new token on the current map page that has all the images for the table.&nbsp;
Scott C. said: The marketplace page has instructions for how to use them at the end of the description. This is pretty much how I'd describe how to use this too. Instructions: The clocks are rollable-table tokens. In order to change the faces, right-click a clock, select Multi-Sided, and Choose a Side. A horizontal scroll bar will allow you to choose a side. I suggest copying and pasting clocks as you need them to keep the appropriate formatting. Right, but how does it change? Do I have to change it manually? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a clock?
The Aaron said: Rollable tables are found in the Collections tab at the top right. There's a button next to them that says "Token". If you click that, it will make a new token on the current map page that has all the images for the table.&nbsp; Thank you, but how would it count down/count up?
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
OldWanderer said: The Aaron said: Rollable tables are found in the Collections tab at the top right. There's a button next to them that says "Token". If you click that, it will make a new token on the current map page that has all the images for the table.&nbsp; Thank you, but how would it count down/count up? Hi OldWanderer! They don't. These are incremented manually. In order to have them increment automatically would require a pro subscription and a custom script. If this is not what you were looking for, I'd suggest using Roll20's liberal return policy sooner rather than later.
keithcurtis said: OldWanderer said: The Aaron said: Rollable tables are found in the Collections tab at the top right. There's a button next to them that says "Token". If you click that, it will make a new token on the current map page that has all the images for the table.&nbsp; Thank you, but how would it count down/count up? Hi OldWanderer! They don't. These are incremented manually. In order to have them increment automatically would require a pro subscription and a custom script. If this is not what you were looking for, I'd suggest using Roll20's liberal return policy sooner rather than later. Hi Keithcurtis Thank you for the advice, I think I'll follow it.
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Gold
Forum Champion
But, finally, as-well..... If you're looking for a Clock that automatically counts-down in Near-Realtime in Roll20 like a stopwatch, then you'd want to try an Animated Clocks product from Roll20 Marketplace, such as: <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/7553/animated-countdowns" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/7553/animated-countdowns</a> <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/6322/animated-clocks-1-dot-0" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/6322/animated-clocks-1-dot-0</a> <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/35518/animated-countdown-timers-rotating-overlays" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/35518/animated-countdown-timers-rotating-overlays</a> &nbsp; This one has a 30 minute countdown that's designed to work in Roll20. Note: I am still not convinced these are the best method to track real-time for gaming, but, they are the best way to do it ON the VTT without another timer running on the side (like your smartphone or another website). Longer animations (like counting down an Hour) gets to be a larger-and-larger animation file with potentially a lot of frames. I'm not sure it tracks very accurately with real time (1 second = 1 second), it probably drifts more and more, this is worth testing if anyone knows for sure. I also suspect they may show different times on different user's computers that are viewing it (this also needs testing to prove it). Especially if anyone has frame-drops or loads-in after the animation is already going. If these kinds of issues are a problem for you, consider trying an online stopwatch website running on the side:&nbsp; (( Google for countdown stopwatch timer to get a lot of websites that do this ))