Preparing to DM my first session on roll20 due to the quarantine, this video is exactly what I was looking for. Instant sub!

T20: pronounces "Opacity" correctly me: _visual excitement_ T20: Excuse me! _O-PAY-city!_ me: *_facepalm_*

Here are some things I wish I knew when I started. I hope you guys enjoy!

Strong work. That was worth it just for the "Is Drawing" trick alone.

Thank god. Your tip on how to align maps saved my life, man. I killed hours trying to figure that shit out and you come along and fix it in a few minutes. Thanks!

Amazingly done, I've watched several"tutorials" and this is by far the best one I've seen.

AMAZING video! Thank you so much! You know who is getting views these days? Roll20 turtorial videos!! LOL! A million+ new gaming nerds like myself diving in head first!! I have played on Roll20 for two months now, and ran my first game last week. I already knew a bunch of basics, but holy cow, some GREAT tips here sir! The resizing the map to grid = perfect. The quick battle map (flip mat as you called it) = genius (we already did something similar on the fly in one game). Splitting up the party banner = genius! The making your own maps/textures thing was also pretty cool. I'm using ready made maps already (finishing off the Tomb of Annihilation), so the setting up maps properly was genius. Last game we just had tokens moving around willy nilly, which was fine, but this will be MUCH better. On to your dynamic lighting video next!!

Man, I've been running Roll 20 games for years and some of these were completely new to me. Excellent, helpful stuff. Instant subscribe.

Using roll20 for the first time. Immensely helpful tutorial. The thought had literally never occurred to me that I could google grid maps of the actual dungeons and just overlay them with the snap grid. Then using dungeon map maker site to do the same thing on homebrew dungeons? Super grateful, thanks for this.

This video has helped me IMMENSELY to continue running my campaign during Covid. I know you have mixed feelings about Roll20, but I just want to say thanks for helping me create a great experience for my players

I can't thank you enough for how clear and concise your presentation was, you have made my time as a DM on roll 20 infinitely easier. Thank you and keep up the great work!

I will start DMing on Roll20 soon and would just like to take the time and thank you for the awesome videos on this Master Series. So useful, so straightforward. Really shows how powerful Roll20 can be. Thank you so much, Cody!

Sweet, for the getting maps to match the grid. I messed around with loads of different things, thanks. That's why watch random Roll20 stuff helps you learn more as searching doesn't always help as you need to know what to search for first.

Thank you so much, Cody!!!! I've been struggling with the align to grid feature for like 20 minutes but the "Is Drawing" trick took 5 seconds for me to get everything aligned! Keep it up, man.

I love donjon. It's my favorite random generator. I love the random weather generator.

Well done. I consider myself an expert at Roll20, but I've learned something new and useful in each one of your master series videos.

Can't believe I've been building maps for two years on roll20 and never checked the tint box or even realized it was there! *smacks head on table* Thanks for this!

Customizing a random map with tiles, and getting more out of your tile collection by tinting them... both great ideas that I hadn't thought of. Thanks!

I've been playing for, uh, kinda my whole life (regularly for about 15 years) but I'm a baby DM. Using Roll20 because of the geography of my players. It's been kinda overwhelming from this side, but this video series has changed everything for me. Glad I caught it early because I was flubbing things a bit. This map trick is going to be a lifesaver, because I could only get "align to grid" working about half the time.

This is the first of your videos I've watched, and subscribed already. Some great tips there and I really appreciate that when you have a larger piece of work to do, you don't make us watch it all but "fast forward" instead!

really good tutorial - the mistake of putting a token on the wrong layer may have been unintentional, but you turned it into a good teachable moment

Dude! Amazing tips. The DRAWING tip will definitely help my mapping skills. Wonderful series.

I just want to say these tutorials are amazingly helpful and are a fantastic contribution to the community. One quick suggestion - please state clearly what you are clicking on, what you are typing, and where. It makes it easier to follow along when dual screening. Thanks!

Was familiar with most of those tips, but the party splitting! I had NO idea! Thanks so much!

Awesome tips! So simple and adds wonderful ability to multiply our resources. Thank you!

dude thank you so much setting up a pathfinder pirates campaign on roll20 this vid made my jaw drop with the ease these sites provide

By the far the first and only tutorial that helped me make this work!

Thank you very much. I cannot begin to tell you how incredibly helpful this was.

This video is going to transform games for all my players. Thank you so much!

Great stuff as always, and have been looking forward to how you wrap it all together with your macros along the bottom. Thanks!

Snapping the map to the grids saved me so much aggravation. Thank you.

I really enjoyed that video. Thanks so much, I'm a fan and am looking forward to seeing more content.

Amazing trick with Dojons dungeon layout and stuff

Amazing video, I am a new DM, this is exactly kind of turorial what I was lookinf for!

Hey, I'm new to roll20 and I've only recently found your channel. I wanted to express how thorough your guides are and how comfortable I was with the interface after watching these videos. I'm going to constantly be on the watch for more of your videos! As well, I've been astonished with how well your system works with integrating new and inexperienced groups such as mine into DND 5e and roll20. Keep it up, you're awesome! *Edit* I'm certainly telling every DM seeking an online experience to come to your channel, it would be criminal not to.

Great video. Been watching your Roll20 videos all day, and learned some new thigns, or a better application for old tools I had moved on from. This last dungeon idea is something I've been doing for a while, and found a better execution of, but this is pretty good for quick and dirty. I would like to point out one thing about donjon maps. Each square is 10 feet, and if you look very closely it breaks down into 5 foot sub divisions. You have your map set so that each square is 5 foot. Which can be fine! Just be aware. The site owner's random generators are very old school in that way. That being said, I love Donjon maps, and I use the site religiously. It works for far more than 5th Edition, 4th Edition, but also works for 3.x and Pathfinder, and AD&D and basic D&D. And even more potentially. So much you can do with it. Happy gaming! ^_^

Wow great video and great tips! You just showed me the St-Graal which is Donjon of course :) Thank you and keep up the good work.

This is truly amazing! thanks - our Pen and Paper in Europe is now online due to Corona and this incredibly helps me to get into roll20!

Amazing video, I learned a lot. Thank you so much for making this content!

Well thought out and executed video! I'm looking forward to watching all of your content. Thanks!

On aligning your maps... if you have a known size map (like 24x30 of a Paizo flip-mat), you can resize the map to that many units. Will align perfectly without much effort!

What a fantastic tool! So glad I found this! Thanks for all the work!

Really love your videos. It's inspiring to see someone so passionate about D&D.

Woooow! Thank you so much for making this video! I was having loads of trouble aligning my maps - I didn't know that IsDrawing would make it not snap to grid. That makes it so much easier! :) I also didn't know about party splitting, that's kind of handy. Great video, instant sub from me.

So many useful tips here! Really going to help my games run smoother!

Thanks! Splitting the party is an awesome tip! Why didn't you show the Align to Grid dvanced feature, save yourself some stretch alignment...?

The whole series is excellent, thank you, more people need to know about this. So I've told my friends! Liked, Commented and Subscribed!

You can skip editing the donjon image if you select None as the grid.

Dude you're a live saver! Thanks

the easiest way to line up grids is to line up one of the outermost corners first, then expand or contract the opposite corner till all the squares line up.

The tint on tile was ingenious.

Sir, You are juuust awesome. Thank you so much.

Thanks, AWESOME video. really liked how you covered so much info in such a brief video. Your work saved me a lot of time, thanks :-)

EXTREMELY helpful content even 3 years later.

Awesome video, super helpful, thanks!

there's a faster way than stretching it bit by bit - you can set the dimensions as listed in the file description. align to grid is also faster if you don't know the pixel dimensions.

I'm just starting to use roll 20 and damn, this is really usefull. I'm so glad I found this video. Liked it.

Brilliant video, Cody, so much useful information!

Thanks, you did me a big favor!!

YOU'RE GOOD PARTNER, YOU'RE GOOD

Very good video, lots of good tips

these videos are pretty good and informational

Man, saving me so much time. Especially making maps from DPS fit. Trick is making it a drawing. Not doing that, I kept having everything snap and could never get it to fit.

Awesome stuff. I always use 'align to grid' but I'll try your method it actually looks quicker.

muito bom meu bruxo, você é o cara do D&D!

great video sir, many thanks.

this is amazing thank you!

Roll20 has a tool for sizing a map to the grid. It's in the options when you right click on an image

4:20 blew my frickin mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here sir... have my like, comment and subs. Thanks for your time explaining this. Legend!!!

Thank you so much! I learned a lot.

Donjon is bae

Dude, sweet. Thanks!

“oh pass uh tee”

Thank you! :)

Brilliant!

very useful stuff

I can align a map with a grid, but getting rid of the background and making it transparent is making it impossible to line up for me. Been at this since 9 am. It's almost 6:30 pm. I started to believe dnd just isn't worth the splitting headache I have..... Thank you for trying my friend, you must have the right tools and the constitution for it.

You didn't mention the "Align to Grid" option for maps that already have a grid. Why? (The options you did present are great for refining the rough pass that Align2grid does.)

How did you get all those tile sets? Did you buy them? I am stuck cutting and stretching the few pieces of free stuff roll20 gave me. Is there a way to get more for free? I don't like having to use fancy chests for goblins and barcounters as doors.

Keep up the good work, vey helpful!

Dumb question, when you copied those dungeon tile tokens and pasted them to the next square, how did you copy them? Also, its better to copy them than to try and stretch it across the whole board or you can do that too? Thank you!

Absolutely genius!

Thanks! I was really lost...

You're awesome. Thanks.

Anyone know how the ‘NPC Skill check’ macro I see at the bottom works? Can’t find any info in the rest of the ‘Master Series’ playlist.

Welp, you just got a new sub, thx for the tips!!

i tried putting a donjon in the roll20 and it was microscopic. I tried making it as big as the roll20 grid but the dungeon became huge by the time the squares were big enough, the image was off grid. Its starts snapping to something i cant see, if i try to move it, its a mess. None of this is very intuitive.

Thank you, mate!

Is it possible to copy and move a custom map to another game page? If so, how?

How did you get the map into the tool in the first place? Can you buy the maps of official WOTC adventures or did you scan them yourself?

If you archive a map, while it be accessible by any game you run, or is it only in the game where it was created?

Anybody know of somewhere to get old school 1st & 2nd edition maps that are ready to go for roll20? Specifically looking for Module B1: In Search of the Unknown.

Good evening every one I need to know why is it that my player's can't see my map on theyre VVT and as well theyre token! I have been trying to solfed this issue for almost two week now... Please help!

Is there a way I can have my players be given access to a specific playfield? So they can go to it and look at say, a world map, whenever they want?

Hey there. I enjoyed this video quite a bit, however it made me wonder a few things about tint. Tried to see if I could answer my own question by logging into roll20 but failed to find the 'yes', and did not see on the forums a 'no' so I'll ask if you or anyone else here knows: Is there a way to tint multiple tokens/map objects ect. at once? Reason this is important is that I have a friend who has a hard time seeing and needs a lot of contrast in colors but I want the group to be able to see what I have set in my mind as well... so I was trying to find a way to *quickly* tint a lot of things at once then be able to remove or put back to original tint as I had prior.

I am searching for a video that shows how to easily make your standard map "Giant sized" meaning if you map has a grid already four roll20 boxes fit inside. If you have made a video of that already I would appreciate a link to that video or if someone know of one perhaps you can send me a link. OR if you were so inclined perhaps and have some tricks for it I would appreciate it if you made a video showing how. Thanks

Does this alignment work with hex maps as well?

found this helpful but I was working with a map and some ass hat did not know how to measure, the grid was super uneven and going from the bottom the tiles kept getting larger, then started to get smaller again so everything was uneven

Cody, how do you get those different colours on your macro buttons?