After trying to use an old monitor as a game board issues arose such as poor view at certain angles and being too small I obtained a projector in the amazon sale (Magicube). This was installed above the table and linked to a laptop via a long HDMI cable. Using this and DnD beyond I was able to run our latest session. I printed a bracket for this using the Bambu printer.
I have created the campaign using Obsidian. From there I can move images such as maps onto the laptop’s second screen (the projector). For the most part for combat and dungeon exploration I used the battle maps loaded onto the DndD beyond VTT.
Using the VTT I was able to have the main DM map on laptop and project the player version with Fog of War. On the DM map I was able to prepare all the monsters/ encounters ahead of time and then select them into the battle as required.
We then put physical miniatures onto the maps. I kept the counters for the monsters and used that to track HPs, initiative and open up their Monster Sheets with their abilities which worked well.
The room has to be dark and my adventure book is a physical version so I had a small reading lamp for that and we used physical dice mostly which we could see using the lamp or on the battlemap.
This worked really well and we had a great session.
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