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Having finally gotten a new mike I have uploaded the first video on how I use RW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBXnZGMohIc I hope some people find this useful. If anyone has any ideas for future videos I'd love to hear them. |
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Great video.
I have a question, I noticed your creating individual scenes, how will you organize them? You can have a lot of various types of encounters over a whole adventurer better yet a campaign. I would be interested in knowing how you will integrate your adventures/encounters to your world... Since this is something I am going to be tackling soon. Seems your list would be pages long if left as individual scenes per encounter. Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
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Have added this to the sticky list.
Loving the surge of new videos Had no idea you could set the target CR like that in Hero Lab. That could be handy. Do you find it beneficial to create the Hero Lab encounter outside of Realm Works instead of triggering the creation directly from the HL Snippet? Do you re-use the saved files? Realm Works - Community Links Realm Work and Hero Lab Videos Ream Works Facebook User Group CC3+ Facebook User Group D&D 5e Community Pack - Contributor General Hero Lab Support & Community Resources D&D 5e Community Pack - Install Instructions / D&D 5e Community Pack - Log Fault / D&D 5e Community Pack - Editor Knowledge Base Obsidian Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials |
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I generally use either the storyline topic or storyboard feature to organize story content. I'll show that in the next video I think. I know the storyboard is one of those features that gets over looked by a lot of people.
Creating in HL is just how I've always done it. I think I usually approach encounter design knowing what the adversaries will be so it is easy enough for me to open up HL and build them or pick them and put them into a file. The encounter files don't get reused. I do have some portfolios that are generic things like "2nd level orc barbarian" that I have in a separate folder for when I need something like that. |
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Fantastic! Job well done! Thank you for your contribution and guidance! I am looking forward to more of your videos!
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@kbs666 - Sounds like you might save some HDD space by trying it the other way.
1. In RW create Hero Lab snippet. 2. Ensure the article is in edit mode. 3. Click the Puzzle Icon with the little green + 4. This will open HL, do exactly what you normally do to create the encounter 5. Simply close HL 6. HL will recognize the change and will ask if you have finished editing. And that's it. No need to store external files. Goes straight into RW and stays there. Realm Works - Community Links Realm Work and Hero Lab Videos Ream Works Facebook User Group CC3+ Facebook User Group D&D 5e Community Pack - Contributor General Hero Lab Support & Community Resources D&D 5e Community Pack - Install Instructions / D&D 5e Community Pack - Log Fault / D&D 5e Community Pack - Editor Knowledge Base Obsidian Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials |
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Waiting for the election results was driving me nuts so here's another video.
https://youtu.be/0BUTbtTVXtI This one's on storylines and the storyboard. Enjoy. |
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And in true US style someone just added a new plot point in with a shooting @Asuza, California. 4 NPCs down
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Two new videos today.
tags and custom categories (I know daplunk also posted a video like this but I had already filmed mine so I posted it anyway) https://youtu.be/vkM1ViPN5S4 Getting started with Realm Works (Attempts to answer the most FAQ) https://youtu.be/QfBaRrhxaS4 my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw |
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