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In case you didn't know I now have a place at the Roll20 marketplace and you will be able to buy all my map bundles there. Right now all the collection of desert battlemaps are available as well as the giants maps so far. I will be sumbmitting more in the following weeks, so please check them out!

GAME NIGHT IS STILL ON

Staying in? It doesn't mean you have to cancel game night. As your virtual tabletop, we are here to help make sure you can still connect with your friends and family... And loot those dungeons, fly your starships, run away from eldritch horrors, or even just doodle together.

Below are some helpful pieces to get you started. Happy adventuring!

FOR FREE USERS

Play From Home pack of tokens and maps FREE until July 14, 2020

Call of Cthulhu Quick-Start Rules FREE

Call of Cthulhu: The Lightless Beacon FREE

D&D 5e: The Master's Vault FREE

The Strange: Starter Pack FREE

If you’re looking to play right away, check out the ever popular Lost Mine of Phandelver for only $14.99 USD

FREE FOR PRO SUBSCRIBERS

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage Adventure Preview

Rrakkma - Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes Introductory Adventure

A ton of map and art packs, both in the Art Library and as Addons to existing games

These links will take you to the Marketplace listing for these products. If you’re a subscriber - they’re already in your account!

To use the free content:

Create a new game and see the free modules on the right hand side of your screen while creating a game.

After creating a new game, check out the Game Addons section to add in free addons like the Roadside Ambush Map.

Inside any game, check out your Art Library to see the tokens available for you to use!

ADAM KOEBEL HELPS YOU DM

Learn more about prepping your tabletop games and how to play on Roll20 with the Roll20 Presents Waterdeep Dungeon of the Mad Mage DM Prep overview video.

Looking for more free resources? Check out our other blog posts in the Stay at Home, Play at Home series!

Stay at Home, Play at Home: Round 2

At the start of 2019, we helped Roll20 Get a New Look with an update to Advanced Fog of War. While our data showed that the changes made the system run faster for many users, it also highlighted structural problems with the original design and architecture of that feature.

It became clear that we couldn’t bandage up this feature. We needed to rebuild it from the ground up, leveraging modern tools and designing with an eye towards our users' needs. Thus began work on the project we called “A New Light.”

Today we’re ready to unveil the results. Meet Updated Dynamic Lighting, a completely refurbished Plus and Pro subscriber feature which integrates all the functions from our existing lighting system with one streamlined name and future-ready code. It runs faster, supports more use cases, and represents the single biggest Roll20 upgrade since… well, the original Dynamic Lighting.

The old system (Legacy Dynamic Lighting) will run alongside the new system (Updated Dynamic Lighting) at first, to give you time to adjust, and then the old system will be retired later in 2020. We’ll give you lots of advance notice when its retirement party is coming, but for now, just know that you can switch between systems when you’re ready to try out the new update.

Because of its size and importance, we have a lot to say about Updated Dynamic Lighting. We front-loaded the features list for those of you who want to get right to the point, but read beyond that for a more robust explanation of what changes we made and why.

Overall Features:

Performance boost

Plus and Pro subscriber only

More robust technology that will work with modern hardware and browsers more efficiently

Change in tech will let us deliver more, highly requested features

New Lighting Features:

Light radius and Vision radius are now two separate settings

Dim Light and Bright Light are individual settings

All Light can be seen by all players' tokens with Vision

Tokens can now have “Night Vision” that doesn’t require light

Explorer Mode Features:

Replaces “Advanced Fog of War” with a toggle

Reveals in a radius around a token (no more grids!)

Saves revealed areas that a user has seen for all tokens they control

Visit the Roll20 Forum Bug Thread for more details and known issues about Updated Dynamic Lighting! We’d love to hear your feedback.

Get ready adventurers-- Wildemount awaits! That’s right, the official setting made in collaboration with Critical Role will be released on March 17 in the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount. Preorder your copy now to not waste a moment diving in at launch. 

The Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount will have everything you need to craft your own stories, discover secrets from Matthew Mercer, as well as uncover new subclasses, items, spells, and more. All we can ask is: How do you want to do this?

Preorder your copy on the Roll20 Marketplace today!

Hey Pro subscribers-- you can now play around with Custom Token Markers on the Dev Server!

As the most upvoted open suggestion from the Suggestions Forum, we suspect more than a few of you would like to test out the new feature. So, time to customize your games (even more) and please give us your feedback! 

Roll20 is officially in winter mode now that December is here and that means a few things - time to cozy up, play some games, and hopefully spread some cheer! 

We thought we’d give a little something to our Roll20 community so we present to you a beautiful Cozy Cabin Map Pack from David Hemenway to set the mood for your next game. David has created a winter forest featuring a cozy cabin, a sweet sled and lots of other fun items and it’s available for free to all Roll20 users!

Our annual Holiday Charity Art Pack is also launching today and in the spirit of all things cozy, our marketplace creators have developed a pack centered around this years’ theme of “hygge”. A donation of any amount to Take This through the Roll20 Marketplace will earn you all the goodies inside.

If the gifting spirit moves you, don’t forget about your game group and GM - maybe surprise them with a gift subscription to Roll20? **hint hint!**

Yesterday, we released an update to the Zoom tool on Roll20. Our intention was to address user requests by simplifying the existing tool and more closely aligning with modern standards.

Unfortunately, the update missed the mark - and more critically, created usability issues for users. As a result, we've decided to roll back the update and revert to the previous version while we continue work on the new Zoom. The code released yesterday is still available on the Dev Server, including yesterday’s hot fixes, for your continued input. 

We apologize for the inconvenience to our players and GMs, and are grateful to our community for the quality and volume of constructive and passionate feedback we received.

Update: we’ve rolled back the Zoom update. You can go here for more information on that.

We pulled out the magnifying glass and leaned in for an examination of.. well, another magnifying glass. The Zoom tool is up for renewal, and today we're releasing some changes that will make it much simpler and more useful!

Our first step when enhancing a tool is to look for user feedback, and many of you told us that you found the Zoom tool clunky and difficult to use. You needed the tool to move more smoothly and interact more naturally, so here's what we did:

Changes

Added a + and - Button to the tools on the VTT, replacing the Zoom Slider and giving better information about your current zoom setting

Added Hot Keys to zoom in (+) and out (-)

Mouse Scroll Wheel now controls zoom by default

Right Click quick selects the Pan Tool from all other tools

AND you can control where you zoom by pointing your mouse

Because rolling the mouse wheel will zoom you in (or out) on wherever your mouse is pointing, you can now move around and explore the page with just one action. Gone is the Zoom Slider that many found difficult to control, replaced with a simple + and - that you can access either from the Toolbar or through Hot Keys. And wherever your mouse is pointing, that's where you will zoom.

All that work gave us an opportunity to smooth the Pan Tool as well, adding a shortcut to Pan Tool by right clicking with any other tool selected.

The new Zoom tool released today after a week of testing on our Dev Server, integrating the feedback we received there. Put it under your own magnifying glass and let us know what you think in the forums!

Legacy Option

Prefer the old way of doing things? You can revert the functionality with a checkbox under game settings.