I have long been looking for such an opportunity for Roll20. Thanks for the great video. Your videos are always well explained with all the important information without dragging it out. Just great!

This was absolutely fantastic. I love it, and will be using it for everthing!

I love this, I learned so much with this video. I see a couple small issues. 1) Players can move the tokens around. I see them doing this by accident not on purpose. "Hey why are the ruins way over here?" 2) The Gather Intel macro is available for all tokens, if you select say a player token and click on gather intel, then select the link for more information you get jumped out of roll 20 to a 404 error page. I still plan to use the information I learned in the video.

Just populated a town with points of interest using these tips (didnt bother with the links as they werent necessary). Looks and works great. Fantastic tip.

This was that most cool tip about roll20 i have seen. Thanks! you got a sub!

found a slightly better way of doing this - make npc tokens for each location and give each npc their own button token. Players can still click and move the tokens around without tokenlock, but now the button prompt to click here only pops up on designated icons instead of every clickable token in the game :D This helps because now just designated tokens have the ""click here"" button instead of every clickable token in the game this is irrelevant but here's what i got so far in case anyone wants to steal :) currently making a fake desktop / landing page for a futuristic ebberon campaign and have each icon clickable and it opens up intended objects. npcbook - opens up a handout with all Npcs, with dm description of npc's and a spot for players to add more notes. As Pc get to know npcs better they can get more info on them here. Wiki- opens up a master handout with ebberon lore, A pondering orb - that rolls on the daily tarot table and rolls a random effect for the pc that rolled on it. Notes app - that opens up the PC's notes handout. Ratty - I used the rollable loading screen macro you made a while back to make a version of clippy that gives tips, this is personally my favorite part I plan on having certain quest be tied here, EX i want to get the PCs to explore a town looking for a cult - to have the actual search end in a dead end- then the next time they're on the landing page I will have a handout pop up for all players with a ""hot single cultists in your area"" pop up ad. / i'm trying to make all the resulting chat messages in colored tables that roll20 can do so it looks like a cohesive ui I like for my landing pages to be interactive because a lot of time ends up spent there, and having notes and stuff there is like jingling keys :) I love your tutorials man and couldn't do this without your code

That is just really cool. I remember I did a campaing years ago that used a campaign wiki and I was thinking of starting a campaign on Roll 20 but wished for a more detailed and interactive way to engage with information without turning to yet another resource.

You make the most concise easy to follow videos man, great job. (I've come back to this one to see if I've messed something up - my players are able to drag the map tokens around the map- but when I prevent them from controlling it they lose the functionality of the map token. It's made a few funny campaign moments already IE they will drag a rock/mountain around and go "the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles". Anyways great videos dude.

My crew is so thankful, and so am I ;)

Fast, simple and useful. You got another subscriber!

So clever and useful, this will help my worldbuilding so much

So I have modified this to fit for myself as I don't want players to necessarily see the handouts (since I am creating them for locations they don't know about yet). Here is my modified version. &{template:default} {{name=@{target|TargetName|token_name}}} {{@{target|TargetName|bar1}}} /w gm [GM Details](@{target|TargetName|bar2}). Two things that I changed. First, I use target|TargetName so I don't have to lock the tokens on the map (I am a free user for now) and the second is the handouts are not player viewable, so I whisper the link to myself when the player clicks on the token (yeah I know that the player will see the whisper also, but they can't click on the link).

I finally have put this into my game. Good stuff, works really well with the token lock script. I was hung up for a while on creating a macro for every token, but read previous posts where you just need to create 1 generic token macro that covers it all. Anyway, good stuff as usual.

Finally my search is at an end. Thx a lot bro.

Bella raga, utile questo video

This is a really cool trick, definitely going to be adding it to my maps!

Nice work Nick. I've been looking for this technique. Will use right away. Thanks!

Just added this cool trick to my campaign, I slightly modified my macro to have the link on its own line. I've also found that if a player runs this macro on their character token and clicks the link, it'll take them out of the game to a 404 page, so I also used bar3 instead of bar 1, and added a description and link to the players as well to avoid this issue. Hope this helps :)

One thing I think was not mentioned is that the handouts you make have to be visible to all the players otherwise the 'click to learn more' option doesn't work.

Thankyou for this incredibly helpful now I have an interactive map in my planscape game. :-)

You're a beast. Thanks again

Works OK, if your players don't accidentally move or delete the tokens

Just did this for my soon-to-start Tomb of Annihilation game. :)

Awasome trick! I have been looking for something like that for a while

What an excellent tip!

This is so helpful! Thanks so much!

Super useful.

I like your "In this video."

Thanks for the help

With the "Gather Info" Macro - is there a simple way to have that only show when you're on the Map? My players already have a lot of action tokens set up for their various attacks, saves, checks etc - I'm just trying to keep the clutter down. Thanks!

I've clearly missed something as my token is not running the macro

This is a very thorough an helpful video. As all of your videos are. I have two questions, apologies if there a better forum to ask these on please link if so! 1. Though you prevent players from editing token information effectively. I am wondering, is there any way to prevent PC's from MOVING the specified tokens? I can do so when utilizing the "TokenLock" API. However, this locks all tokens that contain an "assigned to" field. Including the char tokens. I want this character interactive map idea on live maps where they can manually interact/read basic description. Such as road signs, signs on doors, basic bookshelf info, etc.. But not move them around on accident or purpose, for obvious reasons. Any idea? 2. The second question is possibly a simpler one. When a character interacts with a token and get an output in chat, It spams the chat. Any way around this without locking all chat? I can have each char make a macro themselves with (/w ) --followed by the code you provided. However is there a way to say something like (/w "self"/"source")?? As in whisper this only to the triggering character/whisper to self? I tried /talktomyself, however I'm not a very good coder and couldn't get it to nest properly..

Dude I swear every one of your videos is gonna change the way I run games. How did you even learn all this stuff ?

Your videos are extremely helpful; though I know that I'll have to watch them (over and over) in step-by-step mode to fully understand the design methods you use. You explain them well but I'm not as 'tech savy' as most of my players. Guess running a tabletop on a real table for decades didn't prepare me for Roll20. But that's absolutely fine. Your videos are helping me improve my DM skills with Roll20 and having an immediate effect that benefits the DM and players alike. I deeply appreciate all of the hints, tips and the plethora of info that you provide in each video. Could you provide a macros to download them directly to my brain and include an options to "automatically update on startup" application ? CIAO ! :-)

I'm so happy that KZfaq put your videos in my suggestions... you've got another subscriber. Is there a way to set up results based on a player's history check? So the player clicks the icon, a check is made and what information is returned is dependant on the result?

This was more than helpful! Question, can I place text in each bar area? Like one bar with the city and city link handout then another bar with info on an important person in the city then a link to that person's handout?

Hi,. cool tip. I GM a cthulhu game which is a lot theatre of the mind and i prefer to just have a page with handouts for the players,.. but i want an interactive map like this too. Can it possibly be made as a token that can be minimized,.. så that it does not become a permanent background this a possible distraction during play?

how would I make the chat a whisper so only the player clicking gatherintel would see it?

Great video but I have a problem. Whenever i try to test out the macro by rejoining the session as a player, the icons never saved their nameplates nor any of their settings i put it on. Can anyone help?

Hey Nick how do I download the map icons in that wiki I don't know how to do that?

Is there anyway to auto-run the macro when the token is clicked? Or does a player. or DM have to select the Token, then run the script with an in-bar button or hashed macro-run? Thanks! Great video.

Hey Nick! New viewer and subscriber! Just gotta say, I love what you're doing here. Very easy to follow, brief videos, and the content is perfect for building on the basics to really beef up your game in Roll20. Quick question on this one: I followed the instructions here, and the handout triggers the popup with I click the link from the chat window as a DM. However, when I click the link as a player, it doesn't do anything. The macro shows up when I click the icon token as a DM and player, and the map detail is generated in the chat window as expected. I've tried it in Chrome and Firefox, to no avail. Any ideas?

Hey Nick, how do I get the Gather Info macro to just whisper the output to the player that clicked on it? It's distracting for it to pop up in the group chat window every time a PC clicks on an icon... Oh, introduced this in this week's session and the players LOVED it...

Great help, thank you. I have one question, that hopefully you can help me with. Is there a way of making it so that the players can click on the tokens but not move them. I made a map and the players moved the tokens before realising what they were for.

Nick, I love your video's. Trying to do this myself, but I am having trouble with my rollable token table. I created a table, entered the entries, even with icons, but when I click on 'Token' nothing happens (no token appears on the map, let alone that I can choose one with the slider). Any help?

Why when clicking on a token, all the token macro buttons appear in the bar, not only the one they selected? So If I have 6 token location, if they chose #3 by clicking it, they can see ALL the other Macro I made for the other location, even if they did not click on the actual token (for example token # 5).?

I dont get the template settings when i try to implement this macro. This is the 2021 August 24 verson

What am i doing wrong i cant get it to work i dont have the advanced tab for my token. all i have is Details, GM Notes, and Dynamic Lighting. Does this still work?

This is a very handy tutorial, however, when selecting use as token action, every single token including players end up with the macro..is there a way to make it for just the one token instead of all tokens?

Does the handout of the location need to be visible to all players or does it open it up when they click “learn more”? Wondering if there’s a way to block off the info to all players and only certain players can read it if they succeed on a knowledge check

That's really cool; gonna be a great addition to my game. Is there a way to make it whisper the intel to the player who clicks on it? This way it limits the amount of spam it might produce in the chat window.

Can they MOVE that token though once you put it down?

Please add a link to the new video as well.

If you give players control of the map token, doesn't that enable them to move it around? I can see a scenario where a player accidentally selects a token/tokens and deletes or moves them. Any way to work around that?

Hi Nick, nice video. I'm italian and not speak english very well, sorry. I tried, but i've a problem. When i click on link in chat, leaves the game and writes "page not found"... need to have a plus or pro account for run? (i'm a free user on roll20). Hope you understood my bad english and my problem :P Many thanks

The ruins of arblagarhagrgh

do you need to do the master handout? what if I'm populating things I already have handouts for?

Can anyone post the code from the video? I cannot read it very well. Thank you.

Is there a way to make it so that the button whispers the "Click here to learn more" bit to the player that clicked the button?

why did it make all my tokens with a click for more info option??

Hi Nick, I have tried to copy what you have done but using invisible tokens. I can click on the link in the chat bar and the handout pops open, however none of my players can. I believe I have given them all the rights necessary. Can you please help?

I've noticed that I can get the link to work as GM, I can only get the link to work for the players to get more information by adding the handout to their journals. Is there anyway to do this without adding the handout to their journal? I'm trying to limit clutter... I noticed "Jonathan Christian" who commented a month ago had the same problem.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but what the hell do you use to make your maps?

Is there a way to make it so your players can't move the map token by accident?

cool but, Player can mouve token

Fantastic video, thank a lot ! One question though, how come the name of your token appears just below the image ? Mine appears way below and its not super nice looking. Did a screenshot : prntscr.com/onu9nj

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