Click to download and import.īefore you let your players loose on your map, you still have some important prep work to do. This lists all the free art packs available from the RPTools server, tokens and maps alike. In the Add Resource to Library dialogue box, select the RPTools tab, located at the bottom-left. Go to the File menu and select Add Resource to Library. You can add starter content to MapTool quickly and easily using its built-in resource importer. If you're still just trying out virtual tabletops and aren't ready to invest in digital art yet, you can get a stunning collection of starter tokens from for $0. Tokens are available from various sites, but the most prolific is /tokensite. As your players progress through the campaign, everyone changes to the appropriate map and plays.įor that to go smoothly, you must do a little prep work.įirst, you need the digital equivalents of miniatures: tokens in MapTool terminology.
A campaign can contain all of the maps required by the game you're running. The top-level file in MapTool is a campaign (.cmpgn) file. I run Slackware at home, and Fedora and RHEL at work, and the DEB method works on both of these platforms, and it's the one I recommend to other Linux users. To install on a non-Debian distribution: $ ar x maptool*deb To install on a Debian-based distribution: $ sudo dpkg -i maptool*deb After you've downloaded the DEB file, you can install it with dpkg on a Debian-based distribution, or you can extract it for use on some other distribution. For Ubuntu and other Debian-based systemsĪlternately, you can just download the DEB installer, whether or not you run Debian! The DEB installer for MapTool features an executable that has Java built into it, so you don't have to worry about whether or not you have JavaFX.
Some Linux distributions have a JavaFX package available, so if you try to run MapTool and get an error about JavaFX, download the latest self-contained version:
This means that, even if you have Java installed, you might not have JavaFX installed. MapTool requires JavaFX, but Java maintainers recently stopped bundling it in Java downloads.
The JAR file requires a specific version of Java, while the OS packages are mostly self-contained. If you don't have MapTool installed already, or you want to update it, then you have two options for downloading: you can get the pure-Java package (a JAR file) or you can download the installer for your operating system (a DEB package is available for Linux, but it's not just for Debian, believe it or not). MapTool is a complex application with lots of features, and this article demonstrates how a game master (GM) can make the most of it. In my previous article on MapTool, I explained how to download, install, and configure your own private, open source virtual tabletop so you and your friends can play a role-playing game (RPG) together.
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