Download BaconBitsStudio VTT
The Handler's desktop app, for Windows. Players install nothing: they open the link their Handler sends.
Version 0.2.0
Released
BaconBitsStudio-VTT-Setup-0.2.0.exe · 80 MB
What's new
For players
- Notes. Your page has a Notes tab. What you write there is kept for you between sessions.
- Choose your character at the door. When you join, you can ask for one of the characters the Handler has put on offer.
- Your own color. Pick it from a color wheel. Your pings, arrows and drawn shapes on the map are in your color, and so is the ring round your pieces.
- The selector. The piece you have selected has a light circling its ring, so you can find it at a glance.
- Dice in one row. The dice, the modifier, Clear and Roll sit in a single row.
- A Handouts tab. Everything the Handler has shown you or given you is in one place, to look at again whenever you like.
- Evidence boards of your own. Pin your handouts and your notes and tie them together with string, on a private board only you see or a team board the whole table shares. The Handler is not sent them.
- A top row in one piece. The row across the top of your page scrolls as a whole on a phone.
For Handlers
- Scenes on the fly. Add a scene from the Scenes tab in the middle of a session, map and all, without leaving the table.
- Give. Hand a handout to one player, or to several, as well as showing it to everyone.
- Campaign features. Switch parts of the console on or off for each campaign, in the Start session dialog and in the campaign's Settings. The evidence board is the first, and it starts switched off.
- Maps tool. Maps have their own tool on the rail, with folders, and Import from… brings in the maps of another operation in the same campaign.
- The splash on your stage. While the players are looking at the splash, you see it on your stage too.
- Updates from inside the app. When a newer version is out, the Home screen says so, shows what is new and offers Update. Nothing installs until you press Restart and install, and never while a session is open or a campaign is online. Help → Check for updates… asks whenever you like.
Getting past Windows' “protected your PC” box
When you run the installer, Windows will probably stop you with a blue box that says Windows protected your PC. Two clicks get past it:
- Click More info.
- Click Run anyway.
Why it appears: the installer is not code-signed, so Windows does not recognise who made it. It does not mean anything is wrong with the file.
Updates
From now on, updates arrive inside the app: when a newer version is out, the Home screen says so and offers Update.