(new player) how to find free items

I literally just signed up 5 minutes ago. My gaming group and I are looking for a way to do more gaming and not have to spend a TON of time. I am testing out this site to see if this would work for us, but I cant seem to find a way to only look at free items. I am trying to build a basic dungeon first to play around with before I invest in anything more costly. Can someone let me know if there is a way to find free things.... or do I just have to bumble blindly through till I find something?

Hello and welcome Stuart L. You can use your art library inside the campaign itself to find free art assets. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library</a> Read the crash course also as it has lots of information about roll20. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Roll20_Crash_Course" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Roll20_Crash_Course</a>

Don't forget you can also just drag any image you find online (google images, etc) onto the Roll20 map and use it that way. Not everything has to come from the market. (just be aware as a free user your storage space is probably enough for a single campaign using this method)

Mark, the reason I suggested the search inside the art library is because it is powered through Google and if you use the assets found that way, they do not count against your storage quota.

The problem is that inside of the art gallery I cant seem to identify what is free or not without going through each item individually That is such a pain in the ascot and honestly isnt worth the time to see if I like the system

If you mean the Marketplace ( <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/</a>) then yeah, 95% of the time it's paid so don't even bother. What Pat S is referring to is the free searching within the Art Library, once you've created a campaign. 1. Create a (test) campaign 2. Launch the campaign 3. Go to the Art Library tab ( <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library</a>) 4. Type in something ("forest") 5. Roll20 will spit out a bunch of results. At the top it'll first list results " From the Marketplace " that are typically highlighted in yellow; ignore those because those will involve money. Look down to the part that says " From the Web " (which is powered by Google). Use those by dragging and dropping them onto the map (on the correct layer preferably, ie images for tokens on the token layer and background tile images on the map layer, etc). Later, if you like roll20, you can consider purchasing things from the marketplace, but you definitely don't have to pay just to test roll20 out!

Great explanation Toboe ! That's a helpful followup to the earlier answers in the thread. Stuart I think the "From The Web" results in the art library tab are what you are looking for (for now, for free).

Thank you Toboe for detailing what I was trying to say (got busy at work then was exhausted when I got home). There are free marketplace assets also. The easiest way to do is search the marketplace and tag them for your game. It does take some time to do it that way but you do get free art assets then. I usually do a google search outside roll20 to find what I want then go into the art library tab and put in the art asset name in the search box. This usually brings up the image I found and allows me to drag it to the map area while it doesn't use up any storage quota either. There are limitations such as if it is on a private server (passworded or such) it won't show. Play around with it and if you need help then just ask. Many people will help with advice or suggestions.

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks man.