Category: Tokens and Assets

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BOATS!

So, I don’t know if ship tokens are actually a thing anyone uses or wants, but I hope they are because I made a bunch of them. If they’re not, well, they were only an hour’s work, so no big deal.

Originally, I’d planned to make tokens out of the ships from the Vlyn’darastyl map, but they were too small, so I used boats I drew for other maps instead. The only one I drew specifically for this was the Century Pelican, which I figured might be useful too.

Anyway, I’m about to start my first session on Roll20 later today. Thanks to everyone for the advice about how to get started! I’ve got everything set up: the maps, the tokens, the macros, the discord and all the rest. Let’s hope it goes smoothly. And good luck to any other first-timers out there as well! We will screw this up together.

The tokens are free, as is everything else this month. You can get them from this post on the patreon or from Google Drive.

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Thanks to everyone for the advice! Here are some more tokens I made for my game.

Here’s the link to download.

First of all, if you’re one of my players, go away. Stop reading.

Okay, so I’ve got most of the next map done, but I’ve been making these tokens for my game on the side and– NIAMH, STOP READING– I thought I’d share. We’ve got two different flavors of goblin, an orc, a hobgoblin which *ahem* may or may not just be a red version of the orc, a bugbear, a wolf, a grick and an owlbear.

It’s an odd selection, I know, but it’s what I need for my first online session, which is Cragmaw Castle in Lost Mine of Phandelver. Yeah, I know. I feel like a Scumbag Steve meme: Draws Brazenthrone — Runs LMOP for his friends. But I don’t have time to draw Brazenthrone and write material from scratch for it, so I’m running the game I’m able to run at the moment. And everyone seems to be having a good time, which is the main thing.

Anyway, thanks again to everyone for the advice you gave me on getting started with Roll20! So far, I’ve got the map set up for the first session and I’ve got all the necessary tokens in there. I just need to watch some tutorials on running combat, put the stats and HP on the tokens and program in the players’ sheets (unfortunately, everyone left their sheets at my place, ugh). Still, it’s going pretty well so far and we should be ready to go for next weekend!

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VTT DMs: I need your advice. I bring you this humble offering of character tokens in return.

 

First: your tokens.

For most people, D&D time is chill time and I don’t want to let The Stressful Topic You Can’t Get Away From intrude on that. So I’ll just leave it at this: my game needs to go online. And that means I need to learn to DM on Roll20. The question I have is: Where do I start?

There’s a lot out there to learn from, which is good, but it also means there’s a lot to sort through and, since we’re not talking about 5-minute videos, I’d appreciate any suggestions you might have on what video series or tutorials helped you learn the basics and got you to the point where you felt comfortable running a game.

While I’m sure there’s a strong case to be made for Fantasy Grounds, I’ve used Roll20 as a player, so I feel like it’d be easier for me to learn. Still, if you have suggestions for learning FG, please do post them. I’m far from the only DM looking to take their game online right now and some people might be more interested in learning Fantasy Grounds.

So, the tokens. They’re not the fanciest tokens out there, but I wanted to keep them simple so they’d look good shrunk down. The top row is my party. Starting from the left, there’s the gnomish druid, the dwarven paladin, the elven wizard, the monk, the ranger and the halfling rogue.

The second row is alternate versions for anyone who might need darker-skinned characters. Or, in the case of the monk, lighter-skinned (our monk is Zakharan). The third and fourth rows are drow/duergar and greenskins, which are the other two common D&D skin tones. These are super easy to recolor, so I thought I’d try to make them as flexible as I can. Anyway, I hope you like them and thanks in advance for any advice.

If you have advice but you don’t want to use the comment system here (because it’s stupid), you can just leave a comment on the patreon or email me.