r/OwlbearRodeo Dec 17 '24

Tutorial Owlbear Rodeo Tutorials - Table of Contents

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This is the index/table of contents for the tutorial videos and documents that we've published, arranged roughly in order of progress as you learn πŸ˜„

Core Owlbear Rodeo Functionality

🎦 Getting Started
πŸ“„ Getting Started
πŸ“„ Rooms
🎦 How to Manage Assets (includes Scenes, Images, Collections, and Tags)
πŸ“„ Managing Assets
🎦 What are Scenes?
πŸ“„ Scenes
🎦 Aligning a Map
πŸ“„ Aligning a Map
🎦 Running Multi-level Maps
🎦 Mastering Images
πŸ“„ Images
🎦 How to Use Fog of War
πŸ“„ (Static) Fog
🎦 Mastering Fog of War
πŸ“„ Text
πŸ“„ Drawing
πŸ“„ Measuring
πŸ“„ Permissions
🎦 Sync View & Cast
πŸ“„ Casting
πŸ“„ Managing Your Subscription

Tips & Tricks (full anthologies and their bitesize versions)

🎦 T&T Anthology #1 which includes:

🎦 T&T Anthology #2 which includes:

Specific Game Guides

🎦 Daggerheart

Optional Extensions for Owlbear Rodeo

🎦 Dice
🎦 Outliner
🎦 Prefabs
🎦 Weather
🎦 Dynamic Fog
🎦 Ranges
🎦 Trackers

Kenku FM (online tabletop audio sharing for Discord)

🎦 How to use Kenku FM (includes 'Getting a Discord Token')
🎦 Getting a Discord Token

Tech Deep Dives

🎦 How We Built A VTT Renderer

Quick'n'Dirty Guides (unlisted on YT)

🎦 Chessex Mat Emulation
🎦 Aligning a Hand-Drawn Map
🎦 Enabling Hardware Acceleration
🎦 Custom Fog Images
🎦 Handling Magical Darkness
🎦 Installing Custom Extensions
🎦 OBR's Player Experience


r/OwlbearRodeo Nov 24 '25

Tutorial Owlbear Rodeo for *Players*

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Hi everyone, we believe that tabletop roleplaying games should be available to all, with as few obstacles as possible. Recently we've had some GMs asking about an onboarding video for their players, to get them up to speed with Owlbear Rodeo for games that they join.

So, in the spirit of lowering those barriers to entry, here's a short guide taking players through the basics of joining their GM's Room, using the core toolsets, and understanding how to interact with some typical extensions. We hope it helps to ease players into their games, and that it lightens the GM's load too! Please share it with your fellow GMs and players πŸ˜πŸ‘


r/OwlbearRodeo 6h ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Where did the Door icon on Dynamic Fog go???

4 Upvotes

I can't find the Door icon anymore on Dynamic Fog...


r/OwlbearRodeo 10h ago

Extension πŸ”Œ Smoke and Spectre! Light problem

3 Upvotes

https://imgur.com/D4D37DH

First of all, I'm new to VTT and there is a torch light in the room at right. Am I wrong to think that it shouldn't be possible for player's token to see the room from that angle? If I'm not wrong, how can I fix this?


r/OwlbearRodeo 23h ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Map/Scene grid alignment totally off

5 Upvotes

Ill create a map and align its grid so it matches perfectly with the original maps grid. Then Ill make a scene with it, and the grid is off by about 30%. The size is correct, but all the squares are misaligned and not where I set them to be. Any ideas?


r/OwlbearRodeo 2d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Does Stat Bubbles extention function for you?

4 Upvotes

Here is mistake i get for them in the shop, and they do not work in game. Anyone knows what may be the issue? When it might get fixed?


r/OwlbearRodeo 3d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Auto-Fog Question

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Hey all! I had a question about the auto fog. I loved the idea enough to upgrade to the next tier, but just one thing is nagging. With caves it leaves the "negative space" visible. The area that should be stone. They don't know what's IN the cave/sewer/dungeon, but they know the SHAPE of it. Is there a way to quickly have those be hidden areas without using the fill fog button?

With my setup I have a TV in the table and just do extended desktop with an incognito window to display the map to the players. They physically move minis and roll dice there. It's worked amazing for years. But I have to be careful that everything is hidden. I want to dig into the auto-fog and dynamic lighting to up the experience.


r/OwlbearRodeo 4d ago

Kenku FM 🐦 Kenku FM v1.5.5 immediately fails with "read ECONNRESET" when connecting a Discord bot

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Hi,

I'm trying to connect a brand new Discord bot to Kenku FM v1.5.5 on Windows.

The bot was created following the official documentation:

  • Brand new Discord application
  • Brand new bot
  • Bot token regenerated multiple times
  • Correct bot invite
  • Latest Kenku FM (v1.5.5)

Every time I paste the token and click Connect, Kenku immediately returns:

Error connecting to bot: read ECONNRESET

The error appears instantly, not after several seconds.

Things I've already tried:

  • Created multiple brand new bots
  • Regenerated bot tokens multiple times
  • Reinstalled Kenku FM
  • Verified firewall permissions
  • Disabled Avast completely
  • Allowed Kenku through the firewall
  • Restarted the PC

Discord itself works correctly on my computer.

Is there any known cause for an immediate read ECONNRESET during the bot connection process, or is there any way to enable more detailed logging?

Thanks!


r/OwlbearRodeo 5d ago

Kenku FM 🐦 Kenku FM Bot scopes keep disappearing

4 Upvotes

Kenku FM is not working. it seems to be that the bot's scopes keep disappearing in the developer poral. no matter how many times i try to remake this bot and i select connect and speak it always ends up that when i revisit the scopes in the developer portal connect and speak end up not being selected so I assume that's why it's not working. how do I fix


r/OwlbearRodeo 5d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Looking for something a little specific

7 Upvotes

Is there any way I could let only the healthbar of a token be visible but not the specific hit points? Like, the players could tell when a enemy is below half their hit points because they see the bar below half, but they don’t know exactly how much HP the enemy has left or how much they have in total.


r/OwlbearRodeo 6d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 I have a session to run in an hour/hour and a half and need some help.

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6 Upvotes

I have been trying to figure out whats wrong, my connection is stable and everything other than Owlbear runs smoothly. I have refreshed after waiting about 10 minutes. I wanted to know if there is anything else I can do if there are issues currently.


r/OwlbearRodeo 7d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 First online session with my group was a success and I felt like a pro with obr :)

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205 Upvotes

r/OwlbearRodeo 8d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 A new checkbox style initiative extension mainly for supporting complex groups of creatures in Draw Steel

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38 Upvotes

r/OwlbearRodeo 8d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Stat Bubbles not showing up as option when right clicking token

3 Upvotes

Hi All,

Sorry if this is a knonw issue, but I havent seen anything when searching... I just installed Stat Bubbles, it shows as installed on my Extensions, but even after logging out, restarting and relogging back in, none of the tokens I right click give me the option to add stats...


r/OwlbearRodeo 9d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Convert Draw Object to Fog Object?

3 Upvotes

In default (no extensions) Owlbear Rodeo 2, is it possible to convert an existing drawing (draw) object (polygon) into a fog object? I have a completed polygon drawing and before I start anew trying to replicate my effort as a fog object I was wondering if this type of conversion was possible.


r/OwlbearRodeo 10d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Room Function

6 Upvotes

I thought that having multiple room would keep my scenes, characters, and such separate. Is there a setting I am missing, do I not understand the purpose of multiple rooms, or something third thing? Thank for any help.


r/OwlbearRodeo 10d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Smoke and Spectre players can see what npc tokens vision is

5 Upvotes

some players are able to see what npcs see in smoke and spectre, how do i disable that


r/OwlbearRodeo 11d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Hi, guys, please help: we’ve run into an error on the Owlbear map. How do we fix it? Here are the screenshots

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Hi, guys, please help: we’ve run into an error on the Owlbear map. How do we fix it? Here are the screenshots


r/OwlbearRodeo 12d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 HELP WITH DOOR CREATION

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In the red square, I'm able to place the door normally. However, in the green square, the orange marker doesn't appear, even though that's where the door should be.

I'm using the Overlay FOG option. This isn't my first time creating shadows on maps, but I've never encountered this issue before. I even tried recreating everything from scratch, including making a brand-new scene, but the problem still persists.


r/OwlbearRodeo 12d ago

Extension πŸ”Œ Djinni Music Player is not looping streams properly

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Hello everyone! I have been testing Owlbear before game and encountered a problem with this extension. It doesn't work properly when I try to play streams with multiple links (loops on).

Let's say I have a stream with two links. First one is 3 minutes and second is 30 seconds. I want the first audio track to play constantly and the second one to loop with a pause. At first everything is good, but when the shortest track ends (and is supposed to loop) music stops completely. Sometimes even earlier for no apparent reason. UI suggests that the music is playing, but there's no sound. For now I can only use streams with a single link.

Relevant details: I use Windows 10 and Google Chrome, utilising a fix that is suggested to make it work on this browser.

Has anyone else had the same problem? Is there a fix to it? Streaming music through discord is not an option unfortunately. It gets better if I reset the room, but it's annoying to have players exit and join constantly during the session and the whole experience is just inconsistent.


r/OwlbearRodeo 14d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Portal help

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I am a first time DM and am trying to use owl ear for the first time, Im doing a curse of strahd campaign and am making the murder house atm I managed to find a map for each layer added fog and players only problem is the portals. When I tried to add a portal to the grid where my staircase is it selected the entire floor rather than the one grid. I’ve checked everythin, the layer is set to map it is locked I tried shift ctrl and both together and nothing has worked. Does anyone have a solution or suggestion.


r/OwlbearRodeo 15d ago

Solved βœ” (OBR 2) Two questions about this software from a potential future user.

7 Upvotes

Does this software require port-forwarding for players to connect?
In denmark port-forwarding is a paid service from the wifi company and I would prefer not to add more money to the internet costs.

Second question, do the players need to have the software too?


r/OwlbearRodeo 18d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Breaking Dynamic Fog

7 Upvotes

I'm sure this has been asked a hundred times before, but with the new updates, thought I'd try again. I'm doing a lot of winding tunnels, did half of it as all one area of Fog and realized I needed to have each tunnel its own entity (broken by "doors") so I can Alt-Click without lighting up the entire map. Is there any way to cut a large area of Dynamic fog into smaller pieces? Basically just draw a line thru it with a slice or a break or some such tool made for the purpose, and the result is each side is independent? Image of the left side of it, and there's more on the other side.


r/OwlbearRodeo 19d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Question about Fog of War

2 Upvotes

I have a cave system map i made myself where there is a tunnel that loops around and under itself. Is there a way to get fog of war to recognise the different levels? So that they can see under the 'bridge'


r/OwlbearRodeo 19d ago

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 Dragging, sorting and re-arranging Scene folders.

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As an active user of Owlbear with lots of folders and scenes in my rooms, I was wondering if Owlbear will one day get the option to re-arrange the folders in the sequence or order one would like? As it is today the folders are either stacked in order by created or by name. It would be nice to be able to drag and drop them in any order - if possible.