Desperate for assistance. PLEASE HELP

I just signed up for Roll20, never used It before, but for obvious reasons (during these strange times) my group has decided to attempt running games remotely with Roll20. So I subscribed, and purchased the Starfinder Against the Aeon Throne game package, and I am having a heck of a time figuring this program out. Where I am stuck now is using the included map pages with Dynamic lighting, I think. In this pack there are a few map pages with multiple little maps on them. I watched a reviewer reviewing this particular package and in his video he easily was able to have a single map appear for a player while all the other little maps were blacked out. I for the life of me cannot figure out how this was done. It’s very frustrating. I have tested with a couple of my players, as well as using the “Re-Join as Player” feature to open Roll20 in another monitor for me to see what players see, and whenever I move the player ribbon to a map with Dynamic lighting enabled, its just black, for the player as well as me on my second monitor. I cant figure this out. I need help and we are playing tomorrow!

you need to assign tokens to players, and tun on sight on them so anyone sees anything. when you have a working token for them, connect it to their character sheet by going to the "edit" section of the character sheet.

Ok, so I have uploaded what I think are "Tokens", basically just round images I found to represent the characters. This pack also includes some pregen characters. I have created character sheets and assigned those to the players so they can fill out and their character. On one of them I took the uploaded "token" or image, drug it to a map, I was then able to assign that "token" to the character in the "Default Token" area when editing the character. Is this what you're talking about, or are tokens managed elsewhere? I cannot see where I turn on sight for them though.

Here are some links and videos that might be helpful: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dynamic_Lighting" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dynamic_Lighting</a> <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dynamic_Lighting_Examples" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dynamic_Lighting_Examples</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNOqNcufTKk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNOqNcufTKk</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQfLVd66fFs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQfLVd66fFs</a>

Thank you Teller. So I found out I need to use CTRL+L to click on a player token and test. When I do this, it all goes black, cant see anything. Any ideas? Were playing in a couple hours and I cannot figure this out!

Have confidence, it's going to be great! It will be a new platform for everyone in your group today. Dynamic Lighting is super cool but pretty fancy also. At the worst, you could turn OFF the dynamic lighting for (just for today), and give yourself next week to figure out those settings. DL can complicate things on your first few days of learning Roll20. GM Grant said: Any ideas? Were playing in a couple hours and I cannot figure this out!

Send me the game invite and I would have time to take a look and help a bit. Procedure: Go to your game's Details webpage, click Invite Players, copy that invite link. Click my name GOLD, press send Private message, send me a message and Paste in the game join link. Once I get there... Go to your game's Details page again, mouse-over where you see my avatar in the players, and press PROMOTE TO GM. That would allow me to adjust your characters' tokens' Sight and Light settings. Once I get one token set up and confirmed to see properly, you can replicate those settings. If this helps, go ahead, up to you, just an offer.

Gold said: Send me the game invite and I would have time to take a look and help a bit. Procedure: Go to your game's Details webpage, click Invite Players, copy that invite link. Click my name GOLD, press send Private message, send me a message and Paste in the game join link. Once I get there... Go to your game's Details page again, mouse-over where you see my avatar in the players, and press PROMOTE TO GM. That would allow me to adjust your characters' tokens' Sight and Light settings. Once I get one token set up and confirmed to see properly, you can replicate those settings. If this helps, go ahead, up to you, just an offer. WOW! Thanks so much, I am so taking you up on this offer!

We done fixed it. Grant needed to give Sight to a PC token, save that as the Default Token, and he needed to re-enable Global illumination setting which had came turned ON with the Starfinder module, but he had turned it off while trying to figure out Dynamic Lighting. Happy adventuring

Gold said: We done fixed it. Grant needed to give Sight to a PC token, save that as the Default Token, and he needed to re-enable Global illumination setting which had came turned ON with the Starfinder module, but he had turned it off while trying to figure out Dynamic Lighting. Happy adventuring Thanks a ton Gold! Wouldn't have figured it out without your help!

The forum member named Gold truly is golden from what I just read. Wow, what a great guy. ;-) No sarcasm here, I mean it.

Hello helpful community members! I was about to make a post with the exact same title! I hope you can help out a DM in a similar predicament. Since my D&amp;D group can no longer meet IRL, I thought we'd try this online platform, but I am so in over my head! I was running the Lost Mine of Phandelver, which i saw is available for purchase - so thinking I'd save myself the hassle of building all the maps (which I did learn how to do to a very basic extent through the ROLL20 tutorial) as they've already been built, I purchased the module. Now I guess I need a tutorial in how to interact with a pre-built module in ROLL20! I can't even figure out how to look at the maps :(&nbsp; This is mostly all I can manage: I just... have no idea how to proceed.&nbsp; Eventually I'll have to figure out the problems GM grant was working through. But if I can't actually even see the dungeons, then my next step will be to screen cap the images I do have and upload them into paint and do a profoundly basic game over skype. &gt;_&lt; (I did not finish the tutorial, as soon as I realized I could purchase the module I switched into trying to figure out that out - so if I ought to go back to that if it has my answers please let me know. And if it is not appropriate tag along in this thread, let me know! And If there's some basics that might help me more specifically than the tutorial, in another thread or video you know of, feel free to point me to those resources! ) Grateful for any help!&nbsp;

Hi Chaire. What you're looking at in the screen cap isn't actually a "map" in the virtual tabletop sense. It's a handout, or a simple visual aid. To access your actual VTT maps, click on the little blue page icon to the upper right of the Phandelver Locations handout in your screen cap.

Oh my goodness thank you so much Aardwolf! (i have since finished the tutorial and hopefully have enough knowledge to get something running... however clumsily!)

DH Cross said: The forum member named Gold truly is golden from what I just read. Wow, what a great guy. ;-) No sarcasm here, I mean it. 100% agreeance!

I am actually having this same issue again in game right now with the actual players. Gold helped me earlier this morning and I was able to simulate what the players should see with CTRL+L, and still can, but when I put the players tokens on the map, they are all seeing black. If anyone can assist I would appreciate it.

GM Grant said: I am actually having this same issue again in game right now with the actual players. Gold helped me earlier this morning and I was able to simulate what the players should see with CTRL+L, and still can, but when I put the players tokens on the map, they are all seeing black. If anyone can assist I would appreciate it. Double-check that you do not have the fog of war enabled. It can cause the players to see black even if everything else is correct.

Pat S. said: GM Grant said: I am actually having this same issue again in game right now with the actual players. Gold helped me earlier this morning and I was able to simulate what the players should see with CTRL+L, and still can, but when I put the players tokens on the map, they are all seeing black. If anyone can assist I would appreciate it. Double-check that you do not have the fog of war enabled. It can cause the players to see black even if everything else is correct. It is not enabled

Make sure the red players ribbon is on the proper page.

Vince said: Make sure the red players ribbon is on the proper page. Yup, it is, funny thing I figured out, creating all new characters and tokens works, even though the pregen character/token settings are identical

hmmm

Also the lag today is unreal...just saying...

My guess is that half the planet has decided to give Roll20 a try for some "reason". An unscheduled stress test. ;-)

OMG, I figured it out. I needed to set "Represents Character" to the players in the token settings. Boom!

Congrats.

GM Grant said: OMG, I figured it out. I needed to set "Represents Character" to the players in the token settings. Boom! awesome, I didn't even think of that one. Sometimes you just have to click-around various settings. Good find.