Progress With Fantasy Grounds so Far

[Hammerhand]

There are certainly a lot of useful videos with regard to Fantasy Grounds and Converting over older editions to 5E and Fantasy Grounds seems to be going well (but slowly) except for the maps.

I actually purchased Profantasy CC3, DD3, and CD3 which also has a long and difficult learning curve, probably a steeper curve than FG, while I am making progress on the drawing of the dungeon, landscape and towns and cities I have yet to properly format a finished map for transfer to Fantasy Grounds. The steps are many and complex and you must be very accurate with regard to the width of the battle map.

Profantasy also has many good instructional videos, but the product demands a strict adherence to a particular sequence of steps with regard to producing the maps needed. In order to have a good gaming experience, whether its on the table top or on-line, good maps and visual aids enhance the experience.

I am in the need of character portraits or perhaps I am not looking for them in right places. I purchased the Player Handbook and Monster Manual for 5e along with Player companion module. I have plenty of tokens but not portraits, which I thought might be in one of the packages. Any help would be great.

I am currently converting the following mods:

1. Champions of the North - a large campaign concerning a ominous and complex plot, starts out with 2nd level characters
2. The Corrupted Crypt of Ilmater - short mod, for 4th Level characters
3. The Wizard's Keep - another large campaign concerning a powerful former wizard, a ancient, evil elemental God and a the mysterious ruins of a cursed keep, uses first level characters
4. Remake of The Savage Frontier - one of the old Gold Box games, starts out with 2nd level characters.

I was also going to convert some the new Goodman 5e games, but that is a little further down the road. I need to resolve this map dilemma first.

[Nylanfs]

On portraits, I have never had deviant art let me down. Freak me out a bit, but never let me down.

[damned]

For Portraits - for my own use - not for distribution - I have recently grabbed some of the multiple portrait images here:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=r...Q&ved=0CBwQsAQ
sliced em up and made sure the dimensions are square and saved as jpg.
Got a whole bunch of quite nice ones

For maps - I havent used CC but I too have heard it has a learning curve. It depends on how fussy/demanding you want to be with maps but I can usually output a completely satisfactory (for my needs anyway) map from one of my two favourite sources in 5-15mins:

https://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online
https://www.mapeditor.org/ combined with https://www.rpgartkits.com/#section-purchase or https://www.wyldfurr.com/index.php/p...category/maps/

Sometimes Ill do a little touch up or add a grid etc in https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

[Mask_of_winter]

Dundjinni is good for maps as well. Fairly easy to use. For character portraits yes deviantart is great. Also found a lot of good maps there. Another spot people don't think about for maps and portraits is Pinterest.

[dberkompas]

Have you tried Character Artist, also from ProFantasy?


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[Zacchaeus]

I know you posted this some considerable time ago but I've just spotted it

You don't say which PHB you bought but the 5e DeLuxe one came with, I believe, over 250 portraits. Maybe that wasn't the one you bought though.

I too use ProFantasy's drawing tool and, yes, it's horribly difficult to get your head around but the results are spectacular even if, like me, you have no artistic talent. You might find post 17 from this post helpful in exporting CC maps for use in Fantasy Grounds https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...e-s-Maps/page2

[Nylanfs]

CC is so hard because it's based on a CAD software suite. Which if you are a designer or engineer it just feels natural, so I like it.

[Dracones]

There are a ton of portraits out there for computer rpg games like Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity. I wonder how well they'd translate over to FG without any editing.

[JohnD]

Do a batch resize with Irfranview. That's what I do, when I can remember how.

[JohnD]

OP sounds like you might be chewing off too much all at once. Even a portion of just one of those will give you enough for many games. Build enough to get started and then get gaming; build as you go.