VTT Projection

VTT (Virtual TableTop) projection allows sharing and incrementally revealing hexroll maps with your players, as well as illustrating encounters and exploration with tokens.

As a referee you can reveal hexes or dungeon areas to your players. You can also add, delete and control PC, NPC and monster tokens. Players can only control PC tokens.

Starting a VTT session

To turn VTT mode on click the map toggles button and then click the Share button.

A window will them pop up with a link that you can share with your players.

Hex map controls

Revealing Hexes

To reveal or conceal hexes, hold down the Spacebar key and click any hex. Clicking a hex for the first time will partially reveal it, showing the players what kind of terrain is there.

Clicking the same hex another time will fully reveal the hex, including any settlement or dungeon symbol and any trail lines.

Indicating Hexes

It is sometimes useful to highlight, or indicate hexes to your players when guiding or delivering lore. To indicate hexes to your players, hold down the F key and click any hex you wish to indicate. Release the key to clear any indicated hex.

Dungeon maps controls

To reveal or conceal dungeon or cave areas, hold down the Spacebar key and click any area on the map.

To add tokens to dungeon maps, hold down the T key and click the position you would like the token to be added to. Some tokens will have a torch or a lantern symbol overlay.

This means that the token is also has a simulated light source. A torch symbol indicates a short range light source and a lantern symbol indicates a long range light source. You must have at least one light source token in the map for the players to see anything.

Note

Even after adding a token with a light source, you will still need to reveal or conceal areas. This is, for example, how you can emulate closing and opening dungeon doors.

To remove tokens, hold down the K key and click the token you wish to remove.

Disconnecting and reconnecting

Press the Share button again to disconnect from the VTT session.

Players can disconnect by closing their browser tab. The VTT session will clear only if everyone is disconnected.

Tip

If you accidentally closed one of the VTT participating browsers, even if it's the referee browser, you can still join the sandbox session if there's at-least one browser connected.