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I'm running a local, face to face game.
My laptop is connected to an HDTV and a monitor.

The GM client is running with the display on the laptop.
I'm using six guest licenses, to connect to my own game on the laptop.
Each of these is displayed on the TV.

One guest per player, so they can each be on their own team.
And actually have the vision that they can actually see, as opposed to what their team can see.

The hosts wifi is very poor... so if anyone closes the downstairs door (to the hallway... which leads to the stairs upwards) the wifi is poor and the clients (running on the laptop) will disconnect from the host/GM (also running on the laptop).

Is it possible to connect multiple clients without the use of wifi?

 

I was wondering about that symbol.

Each of the clients is set to 4 GB usable.
I'm running six clients, plus the GM, so in theory d20Pro has access to 28 GB, of the 32.

We also have hero lab, realm works, syrinscape and a PDF open.

My players have said they prefer a single large map, on which they can move...
And have multiple encounters, and be free to dimension door (Spheres of Power equivalent), 400 ft., and still be in the relative positions etc...

Tonight's battlemap was 800 squares wide by 500 squares high.
So 4,000 ft. by 2,500 ft.
A decent amount of space for a massive labyrinth complete with sixty odd pillars to create lots of fun sight blocking walls.

 

So, the only computer being used is yours and you're running 7 instances of D20Pro on it, yes?
In that case I'm sure you would just select the 'Host using direct TCP/IP networking' which you'll find on the 'Host a Game' startup screen. No wifi needed for that. That's how I do it when I'm testing my games. I have 2 instances of D20Pro running on my pc - one GM client and one guest client. 2 monitors with each instance going to a different one, and it all works just fine.

 

I have a single laptop, I bought this summer for use with D&D.
It was MSI's second from the top gaming laptop, and I upgraded the ram to the maximum it could take.

I click on the d20Pro icon and name that instance GM.
Set the session to the campaign name and date.
Give it a simple password.

Then I click on the d20Pro icon, to open a new instance of the program.
Six clicks, once per player in my face to face game.
Each instance is named after the player, and I go around the table in order.
So the tabs at the bottom would be:
GM, Player 1, Player 2, Player 3, Player 4, Player 5, and Player 6.

Each of the instances is set to 4 GB maximum, which I figured would be plenty with ram to spare.

 

Thank you both, I'll try that.

 

We have a couple of players, who metagame shamelessly, and basically refuse to not do so.

If one player is somewhere on a hand drawn map (we were using Tact Tiles, prior to d20Pro), and there is a mob present.

The other two players who are far enough back to not be able to see the mob will randomly pick the square it is in, to target.
Or if you call the player on that, he decides to move forward six squares, locate the mob and then move back six squares (or whatever, as long as he has sufficient movement to retreat after the advance) and then aim for the square where he saw the mob.
When a player is invisible, and the group has no way of knowing where that player is, the two players in question will randomly hit whatever square their invisible friend is in, when doing a buff that targets so many creatures.

When you cannot see an invisible creature, unless you have see invisibility...
And when you cannot see where a monster is, in relation to your friend (because they're both out of line of sight), players cannot metagame nearly as easily.

I'm not sure that d20Pro is using 4GB all that often.
In five sessions, of playing 10-14 hours, the lock icon has appeared twice.
Latency was only an issue when the host's parents closed a pair of doors and the wifi signal dropped from two bars to intermittent 0-1 bars of signal strength; in both cases of the lock symbol appearing, it was when the wifi was very low.

I'll try the local TCP/IP option for D&D this weekend, hopefully that does the trick.
If it comes down to needing fewer clients on my laptop, or to offloading some of the clients to another device, that's an option.
The secondary devices aren't as nice of an option, since then the view is not on the HDTV which we built into a table...

When I was asking about d20Pro's capabilities (while comparing various VTTs), I was given two suggestions for everyone having their own view.
The one was a client per character, each with their own vision.
The other was one client for players and one for the GM, and then to toggle on and off vision between turns... basically, if it's your turn, your vision is enabled and everyone else's is turned off; that's an option too...