Battle maps

I was wondering, how do you guys prefer to deal with battle maps on here? Up until now I’ve just been using picture editing software, but that’s really time consuming. I’ve been looking into VTTs a little bit, but not sure that there’s any that are fit to purpose. So I was thinking if anyone of you have any suggestions?

OtfBM and the helper sheet.

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Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me about this. I remember you posting about it. That is probably the best option, although I need some time to wrap my head around the coding 😅

The most challenging part of otfbm for me is getting the scale of the grid right. If anyone has any super smart tips for me there I'd appreciate that, BUT I can say it works well once you wrap your head around the tags.

If your map has lines - Play with the cell scale, get that about right, then turn off their gridlines with /@n

I use google docs slides. Set map as background so it cannot be accidentally moved. Circles are players, squares are enemies, hexagons are animal companions/hirelings/NPCs...
Here's a quick example...

This is what I do as well and it seems to work great

I use Foundry VTT both for real time and PbP maps

It makes tracking HP, conditions, and so on really easy

I use Tableplop
Although it requires a log in to to use it is simple and mobile compatable