I have recently come to Demiplane as an immigrant / visitor from Roll20. I have been running a campaign in Roll20 for years now and recently synced that adventure with Demiplane, when that option became available. My players are loving their new character creation tools and bringing these creations into my Roll20 adventure seems to be working pretty well.
Where I feel I’m missing something is on the NPC (Adversaries) side. I’ve read a bit about pulling in Adversaries from a library for Daggerheart, and being able to edit and so forth. I’m not seeing the same capability in the Pathfinder Nexus. I have found the Creatures collection, and many of the baddies I’m looking for are in there (e.g. Voz Lirayne), but there doesn’t seem to be a way to “obtain” these characters or add them to my Roll20 adventure. Within Roll20, I can even access these folks from the Compendium, which is cool enough, but even from there, I can’t add them to the game.
It seems to me that a simple enough means to provide this (assuming you have the Creature data stored as XML, JSON, or some such thing) would be as follows. When a user selects Add Character, why not provide a choice (links, buttons, whatever) to Build a Character or Select a Creature. Heck, you already kinda provide this with the Pregenerated Characters option. If Select a Creature is chosen, the user can choose one from the existing library and, as with the Build option, the product would end up on the My Characters screen. From there, the character builder could be used to modify it, or it could be easily added to the Journal in the Roll20 adventure (and hence the game) just as other characters can be added. I suppose a creature character generated in this way could also be used in a Demiplane moderated adventure as well.
For all the money I’m spending, buying books so that my players can build awesome characters, I’d like to get a piece of the action as well. If I could simply add bad guys to the game without having to build them from scratch, I’d be a much happier GM!
IIRC, it’s coming! How soon, I couldn’t tell you. But I know I’m super stoked for it. You can play with it some if you search for monsters from the Monster Core or NPC Core books. They have the NPC sheets ready to go and are pretty nice. You can add and remove conditions, move to weak or elite versions, etc. Super fun stuff.
Thanks blaz! Yet another feature “on its way”. I’m going to be an old man before this thing is finished! Oh wait, I forgot. I AM an old man. Ah well, what IS done seems to work pretty well and my group is pretty happy to give this new tool a try. Going broke buying books from these folks though!
Dude for real I’m with you. I feel like I’ve been waiting for a while to see Demiplane get where I can justify moving my games over from DDB to PF2 using the new Demi/Roll20 ecosystem. Not because they’re slow or anything, but just because there’s so many features they have coming down that I’m excited and want to wait until I can have the ideal experience or whatever. Once this whole GM Tool thing is done, we’re going to be sitting pretty.
We actually just expanded the number of folks working on getting those NPC sheets ready for primetime. While the focus is currently on keeping up with what’s upcoming the goal is to have all the Pathfinder NPCs available to pull into a Roll20 game the same way you can currently with Monster Core and NPC Core.
That’s some great news Eve! I look forward to this becoming available. Just note that we in the gaming world will never be satisfied - we’re a greedy bunch of buggers!
I’m just now realizing they’re available in Roll20 already, and they’re awesome! I knew they were viewable but for whatever reason missed that they were ready to be pulled into the VTT.
Hey Blaz. I know that there’s a tool in Roll20 for creating NPC character sheets and that these guys, once created, can be placed on the field of battle. Further, I’m aware of the Roll20 Compendium, under which you can look up Monsters and find many bad guys that you can pull into your adventure, which is cool. I guess what I’m looking for are the Adventure Path specific NPCs that I might pull from such a list. An example I always use to discuss this is Voz Lirayne from the Age of Ashes adventure path. Voz is not in the Monster list in the Roll20 Compendium. She is, however, in the list of Creatures in Demiplane. I get it that it’s a big ask to be able to simply pull in specific NPCs like that, but it’s so frustratingly close in Demiplane! As it stands, I will need to create an NPC character sheet for Voz in Roll20 and then enter all the details (attributes, attacks, weapons, spells, etc.). It can get to be a lot of work, especially for spellcasters. Where do I get the details? From the Archives of Nethys. That tool seems to have every Pathinder detail one might need, and it’s free. It’d be nice to be able to pull NPCs from there!