Newbie needs some help for his first pathfinder session

Do you know how to hook up a second monitor to your computer and set it as an extended desktop? With a PC, you just connect the monitor to a secondary monitor output, go into display settings, and set the second monitor as the extended desktop. I have no clue how it works with a mac though. Anyway, then you would start a game,keeping the GM client on your main screen, then start a player client, and point the client at your own computer on the network. I don't remember the address for that, but it shouldn't be hard to find. Then all you've gotta do is drag the player client over to the extended desktop. I hope that helps.

 

It's an IP address. I can never seem to find the self-referential IP address in google, nor can I find the post on this forum that has it either.

 

If you go into OPTIONS and the JUDGE tab, you should be able to click on the GET IP ADDRESS and it will find your Public and Private IP addresses. The Private IP should be your home network assignment. It will most likely (but not 100%) be a 192.168.1.xxx configuration. With the Judge running, open up D20pro again, but chose the player profile this time and use a different user name. It will ask you for an IP address. Use the one you found using the GET IP ADDRESS. This will log you into your own game on the same computer. You can then move this window (Player) to the other screen that you were discussing with Chris and then only the Player info will be displayed to that screen because that instance is seen as a PLAYER.

I hope this clarifies things for you. If you need more help, keep posting, we will be here for you.

Tschüss

 

Technically, all you need to do is purchase aditional GUEST slots (Player slots) for your Judge copy. I believe if you own the software, it starts with 2 of these slots, so only buy 4 more. This allows you to host 6 slots of players who would be using trial licences to play on your Judge. Alternatively, other players can buy a Player license for them selves, but you would not be able to manage them. Most of us on the forum advocate for everyone to buy a full license, we want to support the Devs, but that is not always on everyones budget. From what you posted, I believe the primary option I listed will suit your needs. All of the extra slots can be purchased throught the Marketplace for $10 a piece. So for you, to buy the Judge License and 4 extra Guest Slots, you are looking at $70 US for a lifetime product, that anyone using a trial can play on.

Hope this helps.

 

Well, that is a sticky wicket.

You are logged on to your own computer, so the OS is looking at the one mouse. Now, you should be able to manipulate the second (Player) screen with your mouse and keyboard. The only way to have a player manipulate the player client on the same computer your Judge is on is to let them use your mouse, or have another mouse, and share the resource. Truly, it is the limitation of the Computer, not the software. You can have another PC/Laptop in the room that the players use, logged into your game as a separate Player on your Local Area Network (LAN) either through a local switch, or through a wireless router. When running tournaments at conventions, we have a separate laptop for the Players to use, with an attached second monitor, and multiple mice plugged into the one Laptop. This way, the players could all see, and when it was their turn, they grabbed an available mouse and made their actions. We use a cheap wireless router to handle the LAN. It is really the only way to not have to share a mouse with your players. Fortunately, D20PRO is fairly Low Resource on the Player side, and can run on the most archaic of computers, with an updated version of Java Running of course. I hope this helps, and you have additional resources to implement in your game.

 

Ah!

That is easier.

You use Effects (the X hotkey) to handle on the fly needs. When a player casts a spell jsing their spells from the drop down on their character, it will bring up a similar, but named for the spell, window. For regular abilities and effects a character might use often, such as wands, potions, scrolls or innate abilities you create an effect in the Abilities Tab on the Players Character Sheet (There is a tab for it there). All of these options use the same interface.

This page in the users guide has an overview on all of this: http://d20pro.com/help/UGPlayManEffects.php and http://d20pro.com/help/UGGMActiveEffects.php

The window will have Name of the Effect as "Uses, and unless it is a spell cast from the player, will be named "New Ability". You can click the field to change the name. There is a second field that is labeled Effect and states that it is "inert". Clicking this field will bring up a window that allows you to input the rulles for the effect. You can set everything like Duration, Damage Dice (Or healing dice, be sure to make the dice set to "Healing", default is "Normal"), Saving throw type, DC, and more. Once you have the effect set to do what you want to do, consider Saving it. This will allow you to use the Load button later to recall the set effect statistics so you do not have to reprogram an effect you use often. Be sure to name the effect appropriately, like adding a Caster Level to the description to differentiate from spells of the same name but different power. IT is important to know that loading a saved effect does not change the name on the first screen of the effect, you will still have to do that manually. Once you have completed the effect Statistics, hit the green check button. You can now select the target. By clicking into the "Click to Target" you will then have the option to click on the individual creatures on the active map to be targeted by the effect. You can also use the Area Template (ie. 30'burst) to target the effect as well, thus simulating the area of effect of a fireball or the like. Once all of your argets are selected, you submit, and the Judge then approves (or modifies and approves) the effect. D20PRO will than roll the saves and apply damage types and count the duration of the effect for you. The rest of this is in the a fore mentioned links.

I hope that this provides better clarity for you.

 

Heldenhammer,

If you send me a PM with you email address I will send you three DM tokens that I created for adding effects to PCs, NPCs and monsters during an encounter. I have more DM tokens on my PC at home and can send those as well if you like.

What I do is I add these tokens to the map, make them invisible and when a condition, poison or disease effect needs to be added I just right click on the appropriate token and select the effect from the at will abilities on the token.

I find that this saves alot of time during play because you don't have to create the effect on the fly.

-Car