Tabletop Gaming Kit for OmniGraffle

I have been using OmniGraffle to map out and conduct our Dungeons and Dragons sessions at work. So far this "kit" is just a simple stencil and a template, but I have some grand ideas for troves of resources like different tile sets, room debris and tavern tables and treasure and so on. If you have any feedback or contributions, write to jet fuel at metal bat dot com. :D

Tips

• Make a new document using the Dungeon template.
• Open the Dungeon Tiles stencil and drag bits to your document.
• Put floors, walls, and in-room stuff on their own layers for the best appearance and for convenience in editing.
• Drag the table handles on walls and floors to change the number of tiles, then resize with the corner handles to fit them nicely on the grid.
• Once you have some nice rooms and halls on the canvas, Option-dragging is a good way to duplicate them.
• The doors have a silly little AppleScript action on them so that when you click one with the Browse tool, it opens or closes.
• Using OmniGraffle Pro's New Window on Document command, you can put one window on a projector for your players to see, while you manipulate stuff on your MacBook screen; drop in monsters and treasure from other documents, reveal layers of newly-discovered rooms, and so on.
• It's easy to use OmniGraffle's drawing tools and inspectors to make fun things happen. Rotate a dying character 90 degrees, add a glowy yellow shadow to Blessed characters, slide trick walls aside, draw slimes and furniture and treasures and dragon breath with the pen tool, and so on.
• Wizards has a fine web gallery of D&D miniatures; it's not too hard to download those images, give them transparent backgrounds with Photoshop or Preview, and then assemble them on stencils for dropping into the dungeon. To avoid causing legal trouble, I won't post my own miniatures stencils here.

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