Dungeon World/PbtA assets

I've set up my Roll20 account and set it first of to Dungeon World and then Apocalypse world. I've been watching some of Adam Koebel's youtube videos where he writes the fronts directly onto a page in the app. The front template is preloaded and he just fills in the text. How do you do this? Are the templates included somewhere. All I have is blank pages. Thanks

writes the fronts directly onto a page in the app Could you explain in greater detail what you mean by this? I think Roll20 has a character sheet for both systems, but only a integrated rules compendium for Dungeon World.

Can you link a video and a timestamp where he does this?

Sure. Take a look at this clip&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-7SuYsFXU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-7SuYsFXU</a> &nbsp;from 29:00 on.. Adam is talking about creating fronts and as he creates them he types them directly into roll 20 on a digital template. Where is that coming from. How do you do this?

Wow that video is 5 years old. He's just using the map background as an improvised character sheet? Some old school improvising, gotta say.

He's using an image as a background, and is using roll20's drawing tools to draw on top of that map. There's a text tool that allows you to write on the map.&nbsp;

Thanks for the help. I was digging through all the menus trying to find that same sheet and now I know it was just a background image. Andreas you say it's old school. Is there a better way to do the same thing now then? Sorry if this is obvious. I'm totally new to roll20. Thanks.

Honestly there might not be a better way, if you want something that other people can look at. It's nicely laid out.

As another person brought to Roll20 by Adam and having done some tinkering around to figure things out, I've discovered a few ways to do what he does. If you drag a PDF to the Map &amp; Background Layer of a Page, it will prompt for which page of the PDF you want to import as an image. After a bit of quick resizing, you can then use the Text option in the Drawing Tools to fill in the various areas. Players will not be able to see the Page unless you move the Players Bookmark to it. Even then, you can control what text is visible to them by putting text you want them to see on the Objects &amp; Tokens layer. Secret information can be kept hidden on the GM Info Overlay. There's more info, including how to split the players between Pages, on the Roll20 Wiki. Hope that helps!

RayRay.. thanks! That's exactly what I was after. Only one problem though.. I upload the pdf and nothing happens.. page remains blank except for the grey background grid. I set the layer to Map &amp; Background and still nothing. Do I have to enable something else? Edit - The PDF is tiny btw, just 200k, text only

Ok I got it to upload. I really don't know how. I tried uploading an image instead and all of a sudden 8 pdfs suddenly appeared in my assets folder. Not really making any headway though. When I drag the pdf onto the page it appears as a tiny thumbnail, I upscale it but because I can't lock to the original dimensions I'm just guessing how far to enlarge it, and with text that means all the text is very blurred. Being able to import the image at original size is really what I'm looking for.

Is there a reason you want to use PDF? Roll20 is not built for PDF import.

HI Keith. I'm only using pdf because most of my docs are in pdf format and there is a roll20 import pdf function. Now I could of course screen shot the relevant page and turn it into a jpg or something but then I'm guessing I would run into the same issue upon importing... that the image will import as a small thumb nail for me to manually size up. Which will probably lead to blurred text again. Thing is... i can see from the youtube vid I posted that it is being done... I just don't know how.

Sorry, I should have phrased that differently. To say Roll20 supports PDF import is true, but in a very limited fashion. It converts it to an image, with almost no control over resolution. You might get better results by converting the pdf with almost any paint-style program to jpg for a map, or png for anything requiring transparency, and then uploading.

Thanks. I think I've figured it out. Convert image to jpg, and upload. Then right click on image, select advanced, and then set dimensions. If you know the dimensions of the original image (photoshop will tell you), you can lock the imported image to the exact same resolution. This is vital for reproducing unblurred text.&nbsp;