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Maps in the wiki

GMAdd a map to a page and get it ready: its scale, markers, and who stands on it.

  1. 1Add a map

    Add a Map block to a page and drop a picture onto it. The map opens at once, lying flat, seen from above. Drag to pan and scroll to zoom; Fit shows the whole map again.

    On a page, a map is a single row with its name until someone chooses Open, so a page with maps on it is quick to read. The arrows at the end of the map's bar open it on a page of its own.

  2. 2Set the scale

    Choose Scale, drag a line across something whose length you know (one square, a doorway), type how long it is and choose Set scale. Movement, ranges and how far a light reaches all follow from it.

  3. 3Add markers

    Choose Marker and click the map. Type a name and press Enter for a marker that is only a name, or pick a page for it to point at, or another map, which makes it a way there. Drag a marker to move it.

    Clicking a marker that points at a page shows that page's picture and opening words, with Open the page. Players see a marker if they may read its page and have seen that part of the map; Hide this marker from players covers a place they know of but have not found.

  4. 4Drag pages onto it

    Drag a page from the sidebar onto the map and it is set down as what suits it: a page with a character sheet becomes a piece (Place a token here), a place with a map of its own becomes a way to that map, and anything else a marker (Place a marker here); the map says which before you let go. At the Table Top the same page stands as a piece instead: in play a thing on the map is there to be moved. Right-click it afterwards to make it something else.

  5. 5Stage it or put it on the table

    Stage in the map's bar keeps it waiting at the Table Top. Put on the table lays it down and takes you there. The … menu holds how well lit the map is, the page it is on, and Forget what has been seen….

  6. 6What players see

    In the wiki a player sees what their characters have seen of a map at the table, and no pieces. A map they have not been to says You haven't seen this place yet. A map with no walls counts as seen once they have looked at it on the table.