A fog-of-war option is also available for those of you lucky enough to have a projector or other dual screen system. There is also game support for the Paizo Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 and 5th Edition rulesets.
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Finished maps can be printed scaled down or full size for easy use in your gaming sessions. The tile images are provided by the user and can be any jpg or png format image.
I also found this: "Pymapper is a map making utility used for role-playing games. MapTool lets me prepare the maps, vision blocking, fog of war and monster tracking in advance helps me keep the game moving in the short game sessions. I am running Curse of The Crimson Throne Adventure Path for an average of 3 short (2.5 hour) sessions a month. This process has worked well for 2 years now. , and read some posts on the MapTool forums.
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To learn how to use MapTool I watched the video series from Thomas Chapman. As it is now, I don’t need internet access, but I still need a network to connect the PC instance to the Raspberry Pi instance. Or perhaps I will build a tripod elevated mirror and use a short-throw projector to project up to the mirror and down to the table top to make the idea portable and completely eliminate the need for a network connection. I play Pathfinder and use the Pathfinder macros in MapTool that allows me to import the all the monster’s stats and hit points.Įventually, I will replace the non-smart projector with a smart network projector and eliminate the Raspberry Pi from the setup, and just run MapTool in two instances on my PC, one for GM and one for PC on the extended desktop which will be the projector. I zoom the player’s map to 1” squares and the players put their minis on the displayed map. My Laptop shows me the GM’s map and the Raspberry Pi displays the player’s map with fog of war, vision blocking, light sources, etc. Then I VNC into the Raspberry Pi over the local network and run MapTool as a client. MapTool runs on my PC and I enable the MapTool server.
A large piece is white artwork paper is the screen. So I use a Raspberry Pi 3 B and Raspbian connected to a projector mounted on the ceiling and facing down onto the table. I use MapTool (also a Java program) for the game map during a game.
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