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Best way to create an easily accessible "map" page

I am planning to start running a Dungeon World campaign, and one of the things I am trying to do is drawing the map as more of the world is revealed. Now the obvious was to do this is to make a page that has hex tiles that get filled in as we go, but how do I make that easily accessible? I don't want to have to move every player to that page if only one person wants to look at it, and it doesn't look like roll20 supports "open" pages that players can browse to. I also don't want to make every player in the campaign a GM. Is there a better way to do this?
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Gauss
Forum Champion
I'm going to start with saying that I am might be misunderstanding what you need so please forgive me if I am. You can use fog of war to conceal the map and then reveal pieces of it. Alternately, if you have a supporter or mentor account you can use dynamic lighting and then remove the pieces of dynamic lighting that block the visibility as they see each new hex. - Gauss
No, what he's asking is say you have one page that represents a whole city and he wants to reveal parts of it as they get discovered, but since it's a map he wants it accessible to all players independently so they can check it out as they want. If it's a full-on page, they can't look at it without moving the page bookmark over to that page and transporting all the players to that page. He wants a way to make that map available more freely to players, which would actually be pretty cool.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Ahhh, thank you for clearing that up dails08. That would be a very nice feature. I could use it in my SFB games too. One possible workaround would be to open up a second game so that people can switch to that game whenever they want. - Gauss
Ah, so there is no real way to do it that isn't a hack. Is there a place I can make a feature request or is that a mentor only thing?
It seems to me that you could just put it in the journal as a Handout. As the map updated you'd have to update the Handout, but so long as you aren't updating the map too often I can't imagine that would be a huge hassle.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
TheOneTrueDevo: You can post a suggestion in the suggestion forum. - Gauss
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Keith
Pro
Marketplace Creator
You might consider starting a second campaign that they can have open in a desperate tab.