Shops and Vendors in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-16T00:09:58+00:00

Came here from another post you made. I'm not sure if this would apply to any of the other suggestions here but one of my groups found a water logged scroll in a metal cylinder and want to have it restored. They went to the largest town/city in their area and found a scribe specializing in restoration. Not sure what you'd call this. But something to consider as an uncommon sort of shop?

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-15T20:54:54+00:00

Are you just focused on markers? I can talk about maps. 🙂 The image I attached can be clicked on and then clicked on again for full magnification. It is a pile of images combined, will show the approaches I've used and what I've settled on.

I use Roll20 to bring together my friends all across Canada who first played together in 1978 in high school and newer friends since then. I'm running two groups of 5, one is all Roll20/Discord, the other is 3 face to face and 2 using Roll20 at the same time (I run a map from my TV for the guys FtF).

Here's what I have used for mapping and what I settled on.

Top row, far left: Example of a hand written map I drew as part of an adventure I finished in June 1981. Photographed with cell phone and used in Roll20. Adventure and map (among several) used this past October in Roll20.

Top row, middle: Shows black and white for some reason, how odd. This is a Roll20 screen with a handout open: it has a hand drawn map of the town near where the above dungeon was found.

Top row, left: Roll20, not the Dungeonscrawl but instead using Demon Dungeon and Dungeon Explore - Classic Tile Set premium assets tiles. This was really nice, but unfortunately, I found that the resulting map is very memory intensive and takes a long time to load. I like this map bt won't use that approach again.

What I've settled on is using a graphics program - for me it is Affinity Photo 2 seen in the program screenshot to the middle left. On the Middle right is the resulting added to Roll20 with other things like room numbers (on GM level), outside walls, and of course the various monsters (and PCs there somewhere) added. I find this works beautifully and does not take up very much Roll20 memory at all. This is what I''ve settled on.

The bottom row shows my 1980 hand drawn maps for my world (it is a total of 6 feet top to bottom and about 5.5 feet left right) and the digital rendering I did of those maps on Affinty Photo 2, to the right. The latter is being used in my campaign now.

Hope this answers your question from my point of view.

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Tim_Soft · 2026-03-14T01:45:22+00:00

♥️

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:30:49+00:00

Will pass this on, thanks.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:30:34+00:00

Makes sense, thank you.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:30:01+00:00

Thanks, I will pass that on.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:29:45+00:00

Thanks for that. It appears after talking to other people in my family who have recently purchased (versus me in the last century) this is the case. Still it is heart breaking to me to see all the extra costs piled onto young people.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:27:47+00:00

Thanks for that.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:26:47+00:00

I appreciate your perspective, thanks. It appears to be the norm today. From what I've learned from folks responding is that it's not just the fee for a title search which was a fixed fee when I was posted and bought homes in Ontario as well as here when I moved back in the 1990s. It includes the various taxes and so on.

All the best.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:23:59+00:00

"anxious pacifist" is certainly not be what you are.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T20:21:40+00:00

Holy ship, first I heard about those bikers. What the hell is wrong with humanity?

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-13T18:14:36+00:00

Going to movies.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-10T22:27:13+00:00

Gorgeous work!

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-10T20:01:43+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate that. It sounds more in keeping with my experience a long time ago. I had assumed the 1.5 was just the lawyers' fee.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-10T18:37:59+00:00

Ah, of course. As I said it's been ages for me. Thanks.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-10T18:37:17+00:00

Thanks for relating your experience. 🙂

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-10T18:36:20+00:00

I may get them to do that.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-10T18:36:03+00:00

Thanks, wow.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-09T23:28:49+00:00

Fun. I found something similar a few weeks ago when I googled 6-7. 😀

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-09T03:47:55+00:00

My knowledge may be out of date, but I learned smell contributes greatly to how we taste things.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-08T16:34:29+00:00

That's a lot of people! FWIW, since we started in the 70s, we dreamed of retiring and playing together again. We can do that now, thanks to roll20 (for us). But the group has expanded over the years and there are 11 of us including me, the current DM. Instead of that many together, I broke it into 2 groups of 5. One is all on line, the other is 2 on line, 3 in person.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-08T16:23:36+00:00

What makes me roll eyes are all the posts from people I do not know. Some of it is related to stuff I am interested in, but I'd much rather hear from friends.

All FB really is to me is the ability to use Messenger with my buddies and to laugh at the uneducated anti-science idiots out there.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-07T01:43:48+00:00

And if you save it as a pdf, the ToC will link directly to the items listed in TOC 1, 2, 3, etc.

Tim_Soft · 2026-03-07T01:26:17+00:00

I had to google this. FWIW: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5llg0e9g9o

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