FVTT R-Maps

This is a tool to help you make r-maps, a.k.a. relationship maps, Anacapa charts, conspiracy maps, in your Foundry VTT game.

Place tokens, draw lines between them, and have those lines automatically update as you move the tokens around.

How-to

1. Make a scene for your r-map.
   • I like to use a cork-board background.
   • Disable the scene's Token Vision config.
2. Add tokens for your actors that you want to connect on the map.
   • I like to put these tokens in little polaroid-picture frames and rotate them randomly a few degrees left or right. It adds to the aesthetic.
3. Click on the Draw a Connection control button.
4. Draw a line, dragging from one token to another.
   • Optionally, once your lines are all set, users with drawing permissions can add labels to them, or restyle them, or use advanced-drawing-tools to add some intermediate points in them and curve them.

About R-Maps

Paul's R-Map Method

Mods to synergize with

• Advanced Drawing Tools

  • You can add nodes and add Smoothing Factor to get nice arcs, but as soon as you move any connected token, the line will snap back to being straight.
  • Since the lines are just lines, you can't apply fill to them. So no yarn styling yet.
  • No text-that-follows-line-arc yet.

• Token Magic

  • Just having this enabled on your game will get some reasonable defaults on your edges.

• Tokenizer

  • This is great for making tokens with a frame, such as the polaroid picture frame I used the demos.

• Move That for You

  • Careful about this one; it is more likely to lead to trouble than just giving players ownership over tokens will.
  • Enable MT4U on tokens.
  • Then the GM can mark all tokens on the r-map sheet as moveable.
  • But the players should be careful not to draw lines from tokens they don't own, because that'll still fail, and leave the board in an ugly state.