How to Use Tabletop Simulator - Shut Up & Sit Down

[@PhlioNihm]

Here are a couple useful ones: When you have cards in your hand, pressing "h" will hide the hand in your UI to get it out of your way. Pressing F11 will hide the UI altogether. Press "ctrl-#' ( replacing # with a number from 1 - 0 ) to assign the current camera position to that number. Then press 'shift-#' to recall that camera position.

[@hoppa-oppa4713]

D..d...do you know how much easier you just made my life?! Thank you, internet-friend!

[@joelface]

another useful one: pressing "M" is a great way to magnify and look closer at cards, boards, and rule books without having to actually zoom the camera in closer. I like it even better than Alt in most cases.

[@astrothelad]

Super useful for games that have a lot of jumping around between hands and different parts of the board. Also Ctrl-0 camera is mapped to spacebar by default if you have a view you want to switch to often without even having to hit shift.

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

Camera positions are so crucial for bigger games.

[@DrWho2008t101]

thanks for the info

[@stiltz86]

I will never be able to find 5 other people to play Twilight Imperium for several hours with. I can't justify buying a massive game i will never be able to find people to play with. I've played 3 games of Twilight Imperium on TTS in the last 3 days. TTS is a lifesaver

[@salsabuster]

where do you meet up with players?

omG the same!!! this is why i got TTS hahaha... this is my second day and i already memorized the functions. yesterday i met a BIG community on Discord. add me on steam to play TI4 plz: psyxou

[@ethandenson7182]

lol we are on the same wavelength here I'm just getting started, any recommendations for how to join the TI4 community on TTS and what steps to take as a new player on both TTS and in TI4?

[@unknowntitan5884]

I'll play!!

[@joshabuhl8299]

Another tip that I actually got during your last stream: you can save the location of your camera with Ctrl+1 and return to that location with Shift+1. For me that was a huge deal since I didnt had to move around the board that much anymore

[@trimeta]

Not just 1, all the numbers from 0 through 9. When playing Arkham Horror Living Card Game, for example, I typically set one view to show me my player area, another for the locations, a third for the Agenda and Act cards, a fourth for the scenario booklet, etc.

[@joshabuhl8299]

@@trimeta That's true - I should have written it differently now that I think about it ^^

[@dragonzord6615]

If you ask your friends to play a game on TTS, i strongly recommend you get into it first and learn all the little commands for it. Each mod and dlc have quirks of their own and work in different ways which would likely frustrate your friends into never playing again :(

[@ValkyrieTiara]

Treat playing a game on TTS like playing a game in real life. Remember Quinns' video on how to run a successful game? Same stuff, but for TTS as well as the game itself. Make sure you know what you're doing, make sure you know the quirks of both the program and the mod, set it all up by yourself once or twice and fiddle around with it. Don't just bring everyone in blind and then make them sit around for an hour or two while you go "Uuhhhhhhhh..... hang on.... sorry.... one sec.... uhhhhh....." because that is exactly what will happen.

[@spestocks]

@@ValkyrieTiara

[@dragonzord6615]

@Aggromemnon nah definitely not. I'd even go so far as to say to intentionally (sneakily...) make sub optimal plays that will let your friends win the game.

[@ZackeryCochran]

J Stockmann what are the gh and fh mods?

[@CamoflagedTumbleweed]

@@ZackeryCochran Gloomhaven and Frosthaven I’m guessing. Like a lot of recent modern games, the barrier to entry is the setup and/or remembering the game state even if you leave the game half-way so this is handy (especially as a solo player who can’t always spread out on kitchen table for a week.). Gh in particular. 😉🥦🦖

[@andrewh5568]

One extra thing I would have mentioned is privacy zones. The garrishly coloured solid blocks that only players of each colour can see into so you can set up your pieces, organise your cards, money and dice without anyone being able to see it.

[@mack_r-s]

That's cool. So every player could just put a zone where there hand of cards are, so you can see all your cards face up before placing them face down when they leave your hand. Nice.

[@sharkers47]

This is really handy, thanks Matt. Prior to your guide, I felt like I was playing a board game with tongs and a spatula.

[@Enkufka]

More tips: -a lot of what I'll talk about here is also noted in Menu > Help Menu. -Matt talked a lot about cards but not at all about dice. Dice can be rolled by tapping R, just like cards can be shuffled, and both can be rolled/shuffled by grabbing the deck and waving your mouse around a lot. It's quite fun. From there you can throw the dice to roll them. Don't roll your cards. Most regular dice can also change their faces by hitting Q or E, and will flip to the other side with F, but there are also many custom dice that will not do this. -The host is gonna be responsible for technical support, it's the tradeoff for playing in digital and not getting guests drinks. If someone is having an issue with things not loading in, right-click what hasn't loaded for them, hit Custom, and then without changing anything, hit Accept. -Many custom games have assets hosted on other websites, which can twig your antivirus software. Others will have long ago deleted what was needed to get things to work. In most of these cases, it's better to just pick a different game. -If your camera is in some way wonky, press Space to revert it to its default position. "P" will cycle you through the 3 kinds of seeing, 3rd person, 1st person, and top down. -if holding ALT to zoom on a card isn't helping, maybe because what you're trying to read fills the screen to start with and you cannot zoom anymore, instead hold "M" over where you wish to look to activate a magnifying glass. -the Host is able to adjust hand colors, dimensions of playing pieces, and more. use the Rotate tool and its associated tools to get exact placements right, and this can include hidden zones. The Host can also spawn new Hidden Zones if someone needs to sort things out secretly, or they can reassign colors. Spawn new hands of the same active player colors if they have too many cards but not all of them are critical all the time. -If you'd like to include parts from another custom game (we had to track damage on a gloomhaven summon but none of us could figure out how, so we grabbed a bag of Imperial Assault Damage tokens), click Games, then find the game you're wanting to steal from. Click the 3 dots in that thumbnail's upper right hand corner, and hit Expand. From here you can pick parts as if you were picking generic pieces. -tap L to LOCK a piece wherever it is. This is very useful for people's decks so they cannot pick the deck up and instead must draw cards, or if you're worried that something will get lost in the shuffle. You can also right-click on an item and go to Toggles, and this will actually let you change even more about the object. -If you want something underneath something else, tap U.

[@DMWaldo]

There are damage counters stored in the big box in the Gloomhaven mod. I don't know why they hid them, as they are the best way to track summon health, IMO. They are even scripted with a button, so you can left click to increase and right click to decrease the displayed number on the counter, if you'd rather not pile a bunch of ones up.

[@andrewjones4612]

Some other important features to know about: saving and loading cameras is immensely helpful, as is lift height (for certain games).

[@Sin4Profit]

I tend to use tabletop simulator as a way of learning games and the tablet is helpful for me in that i can have an instructional video playing along as i'm going through the motions.

[@notjustwarwick4432]

Another super useful thing to know is L to lock/unlock objects so they won't move around, can be super useful in specific situations.

[@MoriMemento117]

L - I should've tried that! Wonderful! I've found this to be so important, especially teaching my friends how to use this software. It's challenging enough as it is without people stressing out over grabbing the wrong thing and casting pieces everywhere.

[@zacharychandler8399]

One such situation is when I'm relentlessly flicking things around, because we're playing Life and I'm bored, or when I'm linking two objects then flicking them because I have a fondness for chaos.

[@datonkallandor8687]

Some bonus info as it comes up: 4:00 - tapping Q and E without picking up an object also rotates that object in fixed intervals, the intervals toggled in the top bar (in this video, 15 degrees) 4:45 - with a stackable object selected, hovering the mouse over the target and then pressing G will group them into the object you are hovering over. Essentially your mouse determines the destination stack. 5:50 - a little tabletop sim lifehack: when you're pressing a number to draw a card or set a dice to a number, move your mouse off the object to "commit" that number, otherwise the program has a delay as it waits for you type a second or third digit 10:30 - you don't need to pick up the thing you want to copy, ctrl-c will copy the object you are highlighting

[@DrMcFly28]

Other useful stuff: learning how to use camera positions, changing the default rotation angle, changing player color to Black to enter "master mode" (great for two-handed soloing), middle mouse button for dragging yourself around the table, "locking" components with right-click - > Toggles - > lock so you don't accidentally pick up the entire board instead of just your piece. :)

[@kruks]

The L key locks objects without the contextual menu.

[@DrMcFly28]

@@kruks Sure but I was umm.. trying toooo.... teach people about the Toggles menu! Yes! Because it is VERY important to learn that!

[@jessel3621]

You can use the tablet to play music in game.

[@Rocknoob49]

there is also an mp3 player with some generic music ordered in categories. useful if you just want generic background music for different scenarios

[@macros3001]

that is sooooo cool. never thought of it.

[@TracerQQ]

rotate is definitely useful, change the angle at the top right of the screen from 15 to 90

[@trimeta]

Yup, any game where you need to "tap" or "exhaust" a card by turning it 90 degrees can be easily accommodated with this feature.

[@TracerQQ]

@@trimeta Exactly!

[@trimeta]

One of the most useful bonus objects which Matt didn't highlight is the Counter. It's in the same menu where he got the Calculator, Clock, and Tablet, but is probably the most useful item there, because it lets you replace "shuffling around various pseudo-physical objects" with "a display where you hit the + button to increase the number and the - button to decrease it." No more trying to drag tokens around, find a place to position them, count how many of them you have, and then put the right number of them back into some communal area when you spend them.

[@Pillar_Angel]

Collection of some useful commands: Zoom on Card: Mouse hover + Hold Alt Rotate zoom: Mouse over+Hold Alt+Q or E Magnify Area: Hold M Peak underneith card/object: Mouse hover+Alt+Shift (it will show an eye icon of your color on the peaked object so people will know you peaked) Draw a certain number of cards: Mouse hover deck + Numeric button showing the number of cards you want to draw. You can press buttons in quick succession to input numbers greater than 9. Example, pressing the button "1" followed by "2" will make you draw 12 cards. Hide hand: H Place card underneith deck: With card in hand+Hold right click+Drag towards deck Pick up multiple cards/object: With one card/object already in hand + Right click over object. Drop card/object: With one or more card(s)/object(s) in hand+hold alt+right click. Increase room count: Press ~ and type "host_max_players (number)" replace (number) with any number and hit enter. Press ~ again to close console. Note that there are only 10 colors in the game, but its good for spectators or games where the player doesn't have to interact with anything.

[@juno545]

A couple of useful shortcuts that I didn’t see mentioned below or in the vid are : 1) clicking the middle mouse button on a three button mouse will zoom the camera in quite closely where the mouse in hovering! Clicking it again will zoom it back out again. 2) using the ‘m’ key turns the mouse into a magnifying glass which is great to see what is going on in a particular section of the board where the ‘alt’ zoom isn’t helpful.

[@jodalsgaard5792]

A few general tricks: setting the degree of rotation to 90* (clicking the 15* icon in the top right, that's the default) makes rotating objects more practically useful in most games, like for tapping cards in Gloomhaven. Also setting the lift height to 0 (by clicking the guy with the weight) makes it easier to control where dragged objects are placed (useful for controlling exactly where objects are dropped on the table, for placing map tiles etc.) For bigger games with a lot going on you can ping other players with the Tab button, that'll make a sound and bring up a little arrow pointing wherever your mouse is. Generally fun to mess around in, but yes, very janky!

[@zacharyreichert5035]

Tabletop simulator is the best. I've played through three full campaigns of gloomhaven on that. . . I don't think you could actually do that in real life.

[@RoyalPieMaker]

Good tip for teaching games: Pressing tab will “ping” your mouse cursor location so that everyone is looking at the same thing. Also holding down tab will create a ruler from your mouses location to where you first pressed tab. This lets you draw temporary lines from one thing to another to help show where things go and stuff like that!

[@beuxjmusic]

I am often surprised by how little people know of TTS. The things I most often am asked are: Highlight a n object with your Cursor and hold [Alt] to Magnify it. Then, hold [Shift] simultaneously with [Alt] to Peek at the other side of the object. Also, Pick up a Card with LC, Then simultaneously hold RC to press the Card against the Table. Then, you can slide the pressed down card under a Deck to place it on the bottom.

[@prettyflyforacompsci7725]

Didn't demo table flipping, the single most useful skill in the game.

[@wonderflonium164]

Literally unwatchable.

[@jacobmauldin9418]

Took the words right out of my fingertips.

[@gabef9538]

I wish that they had a reference fruit to demonstrate clone, +, and -. Make a few standard ones and then a few of different sizes.

[@chrislowry2577]

Ha that's weird, I was absolutely going to suggest you did one of these yesterday. Great stuff. Weird how something we all thought was a bit unwieldy and lacking in the sparkly joy of face to face interaction has ended up being a lifeline for many of us!

[@MrBenAttenborough]

I've been experimenting with scripting in Tabletop Simulator. It's important to note that most of the games available on the Steam Workshop are unofficial. This means the quality can vary dramatically. In some games undoing will work fine, in others it will destroy your game. Some games will work really smoothly while others will be very janky. I'd advise starting with simple card or board game (like ludo or uno) to get used to it first. If you want to play something complex, that might take several hours, have a play with it first. See what breaks, test the undo and see what is automated and what isn't (some games like Ticket to Ride have a score around the edge of the board that is automatically updated as you play by the game spookily moving the counters for you. It's best to know this beforehand so you don't get frustrated by things moving outside of your control). There's also a huge grey area over the legality of these games, especially as many just reuse other people's artwork with acknowledgement or payment. There's an interesting article here about it: www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/11/tabletop-simulator-mods-copyright/

[@MrBenAttenborough]

Also you can save the state of your game at any time, so just like with a janky video game *cough* Fallout *cough* save periodically, just in case

[@TheJSergeant]

How my friends and I have stayed connected the most, glad y’all add sharing it for others

[@tzeneth]

If you like to interact with the cards in a physical manner, you can also create a hidden zone where it hides everything in there from people not of your color or team. A good way of fiddling around when you don't want to use the hand mechanic but still need to keep things hidden.

[@JonPadfield]

Really useful! Managed to use tabletop simulator to play my first game with less frustration than before. Thanks :)

[@DasBreitschwert]

You can press H to hide the locked hand at the bottom of the screen, while still using the hand of cards in the world. The server admin can enable/disable tools for the session in the Options-Permissions screen, so Flicking could for example be disabled. An Admin/Moderator can still do these things, if you want more control of a game.

[@intrepidmeeple7353]

This plus Skype has given us some very nice gaming evenings. Not as good as the real thing but still much appreciated in these lockdown days!

[@tami6769]

We use zoom, have more luck than with skype

[@user-ht4xt2sh9m]

or what about just Discord.. lol

[@zevonscocco99]

Thanks for making this video. I'm part of a discord server for playing the dune board game online. We also use tabletop simulator and with the current situation, we've had a lot of new players join. This will definately be very helpful.

[@nib71286]

This is exactly what is needed, next to a patreon how to, twitch, twitter, facebook, discord etc.

[@NylePudding]

Two videos and two live streams in one week, what a treat!!

[@MarlonDait]

A great tip I don't see anyone utilize, but is great for doing a game like Patchwork, is utilizing the Picture-In-Picture (PIP). Right click on something that isn't an object to bring up a context menu and click on Picture in Picture. This loads a separate camera that's copying your main view. Resize that window and zoom your main camera to a view you want to "lock", and then in the PIP window press the Lock icon. For a game like Patchwork, I utilize this PIP and lock the camera on my board while I look at the patches available on the main area!

[@bartorzech21]

I think its important to add that you can disable things like copying and pasting for other players in the options menu(or some menu like that).

[@joaopedrorosa9690]

I'm playing with my friends The Kings Dilemma, I recomend to anyone that want to play! It works very well!

[@emanuelepanizon6007]

Is it still there? I saw it was removed...

[@jaredwasserman1092]

Agreed. We had an existing King's Dilemma campaign that we needed to switch to TTS. Was surprisingly easy to get everything exactly where we left off.

[@joaopedrorosa9690]

@@emanuelepanizon6007 the original mod has been removed, but there is another version of that mod that it's still working steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2016229325&searchtext= This is the link, and if you need any help you can message me via steam, my username is "jpeterbcr"

[@erikaadvisser]

Amazing timing! Just 30 minutes before my first online board game weekend! Thank you :)

[@CosmicEncounter]

We've seen a huge spike in the number of Cosmic Encounter games on TTS since the pandemic began.

[@alejandrorivas4585]

Kudos to your excellent design, but it really is a game thats particularly well suited to tts. Me and a couple friends loved deckbuilding games as well as wargames, but we've found that games with a lot of fiddly parts that have to be moved a lot slow the game down significantly and make it less suited. Games that could take 20 mins now take 40. Cosmic somehow gets around this.

[@CosmicEncounter]

@@alejandrorivas4585 It was the 2nd official DLC in TTS. Right after Superfight. It had a massive upgrade in 2018.

[@eschsoapy2809]

Good to see this on your channel! A long time fan of Shut up and sit down. I'm sure this will attract a lot of users... I'm a long time user/moderator on TTS. Happy to help anyone with questions on how to get started with various types of games. One thing I'd like to point out is that due to Covid the userbase for TTS has increased by 5x or more. This means that things are a bit chaotic. Don't let trolls and such detract you to one of the greatest things on Steam.

[@Balsiefen]

Is there a SUSD discord? Could be nice to set up games with people.

[@commissarluke2898]

Tabletop Simulator got it's own discord, it's great for finding people to play board games with.

[@HoustonTaylor0]

TTS has its own discord that works really well for coordinating a game.

[@shutupandsitdown]

An unofficial one, yes! discord.gg/5PWyBYu

[@Lucas-rz3vl]

Tabletop Simulator Discord: discord.gg/Pahj9cE You can often find people for a specific game within an hour

[@AlexJ1]

@@shutupandsitdown I think you just made it official 😂

[@Droganak]

There is an amazing Arkham Horror mod for this that can import decks from Arkham DB directly. Good scripting makes it very easy to play and track a campaign.

[@leestride2285]

I have a full collection of the LCG, but no one to play it with, I'm glad you said this. I think I will give TTS a go and see how it goes.

[@NecroMoz]

The Arkham super complete collection is amazing

[@HarbingerOfDuh]

TTS newbie here. Does the Arkham Horror module cost extra in addition to buying TTS itself? When playing with my friends face-to-face, we all build from my friend's collection because AH is such an expensive game to own in its entirety. Now that we're all social-distanced, that means no AH at all, so it would be great to have a way to finish the Dunwich campaign we got halfway through before the quarantine dropped. But it would probably be a hard sell to get both my friends to shell out $20 for TTS plus some more cash for the AH mod.

[@Lestrande]

@@HarbingerOfDuh There's no cost for the AH LCG mod. Most mods on TTS aside from the sponsored ones are free.

[@Droganak]

@@HarbingerOfDuh As Lestrande has said it's free as it is a mod rather than a DLC for the game. There is a little moral ambuiguity here as it means you could play the board game without anyone owning it, but as you say you are playing from a friends collection treat it the same way :D Hope you can get to play

[@pcalenha]

Hello! Just back here to tell I made a video (in Portuguese) about the pub tables and Brazilian beers models for Tabletop Simulator. SU&SD is a true inspiration. Cheers!

[@tommagennis]

Oh man, DePiglio! I played Catan with that guy, and he was super chill, but he’s coming at you like a badass.

[@roise_fanboy]

The lack of a table flip send-off was disappointing... Thanks for another great video! TTS has it's quirks, but in times like these it's a pretty nice option to have one the... table

[@WalkOnNick]

Didn't know about grouping and pressing numbers to deal cards. Neat!

[@TigerVent]

The weight lifter icon and " ° " (degree) icons! Super useful!

[@NaouakNawak]

Useful tip that you didn't mention: Tab = ping where you are pointing Hold tab = measure/draw a temporary line.

[@XShrike0]

7:25 Here is a fine point. Alt+shift lets you look at the bottom of whatever you are mousing over. So if you hover over a deck of cars, alt+shift, and you will look at the bottom of the deck. Learned that while playing Terraforming Mars. There are a number of cards that let you look at the top card of the deck. It appears you have to draw the top card first.

[@StefanLopuszanski]

Crazy to see how many people are using Tabletop Simulator now. It is great and I've used it for prototypes and to teach my class and students games I don't have access too. =)

[@cleanapanna3537]

I will also highlight the save camera feature Ctrl-1. I would also mention that when you hit alt to see the card, but the writing is too small, scroll up on the mouse roller and it will change the side.

[@DetectiveMekova]

I've been using TTS for DnD for the past month or two and it's been a blast. We don't need any fancy tileset or anything fancy. Just a bunch of minis, the drawing tool, and Discord. It isn't as engaging as it would be in real life, but it's always amusing going up to a cave and hearing your crazy dwarf fighter shout *Nut* using an echo voice changer.

[@geraldoamaral3000]

I have been using a scripted "Legendary Encounters: Alien" module for TTS. Very thematic game, I enjoy it a lot.

[@AndrewDarlow]

Excellent tutorial, and thank you to all who are adding tips!

[@ericmatthews9673]

BGA and similar sites really are so very much better for getting friends who are not "hard core" board gamers into a game with a lot less UI overhead.

[@SarahScratches]

If I'm not mistaken alt+shift is the default combination in Windows to switch keyboard layout (if there are multiple configured), you can turn this off in Windows settings if you want to be able to peak at cards without changing layout. In Windows 10 there is another, more sensible, keyboard shortcut for changing keyboard layout which is win+space if that is something you want to do.

[@onestepfromlost]

The tablet i use for TTS is Win 10 and was still set to alt+shift. So this is a very good point to disable it in the windows options.

[@doom2508]

My favorite thing to do is just shrink or enlarge someones dice or player piece single key press every 15-20 mins to see how long it takes them to notice.

[@pfmpaulo]

tabletopia is also very neat but it lacks the level of customization of tabletop simulator, if u don't have TTS and don't want to spend money on something, by all means go for tabletopia, but if u are willing to pay for something, I would say go for TTS

[@mahna_mahna]

On the other hand, Tabletopia doesn't throw a bunch of distracting and confusing stuff at you that just lowers the enjoyment. Shame there's nothing in between those two poles.

[@Razorgirl]

Would love to see you do a TableTop Simular Vs Tabletopia review. 🙃👍

[@IvanSensei88]

Nice and informative... while I did know about the alt thing (you can also use mousewheel to adjust how much of a zoom you want), I didn't know you can also use Shift to see the underside. Also, the sticker thing is marvelous.

[@andrewh5568]

If you press M you also get a magnifying glass look at whatever your mouse is over which I use more than pressing ALT.

[@ElaDivine]

250 Hours in tts, did not know ou could draft cards using numbers. BRILLIANT!

[@user-ht4xt2sh9m]

MostBrutalPeanut rip that’s a shame nobody taught you

[@ShaneandStuff]

I really want to know who the thumbs down people are on KZbin. Some of the oddest videos have thumbs down where I can't honestly understand what could be so wrong with what they just watched to thumbs down it. Thanks for the video I learned a couple of new things! I wish they'd have ALL the functions in their tutorial or even the commands menu. It's odd how hard they make it to really learn how to best use TTS.

[@pelgron5080]

Shane and Stuff Maybe people who thinks TTS is abusing copyright and artists rights ?

[@ShaneandStuff]

@@pelgron5080 First, That would have nothing to do with this actual video. That would be a general dislike or complaint about TableTop Simulator, having nothing to do with the actual content, quality, or usefulness of this video. If someone downvotes this video for that reason they need to find better things to do with their time. Second, my greater point is, I see downvotes all the time on videos on youtube where I just don't understand what possible reason someone would have to downvote it other than, there are just people who like going around youtube downvoting for the sake of doing it, not because there was any real reason to downvote that particular video.

[@ekulio]

I totally came expecting a joke video and this was actually really useful!

[@MoriMemento117]

Great video! Thanks Matt! I only just recently got into TTS (for obvious reasons), and while it's been a steep learning curve, I have found it's really great for long games like Mage Knight. Play as long as you'd like, save the game, start a new shorter, different game, come back later. Etc. Especially in the times we're in where I only have access to a single gaming table and I can't just tell my girlfriend she can't play Terraforming Mars, Wingspan, or Near and Far for two weeks while I have Gloomhaven set up. :|

[@ceetee2001]

I wish there was an option to toggle a neutral background instead of the sometimes really horrible ones in some games.

[@metallsnubben]

I'm not sure if it interacts weirdly with highly scripted stuff, but you can go in the top menu to Objects -> Backgrounds -> whichever one you want (from a kinda strange default selection)

[@Azrael1415]

You can also just find an image of just solid black and add it as a custom background of your own...

[@_WhiteMage]

I just added a bunch of random panoramic images. It can take pretty much any picture you throw at it. Chinese movie theater? Fancy restroom? Play board games wherever!

[@nkleczynski]

Another tip is you can CTRL+Left-click to select multiple objects at once. This is helpful for dice games when re-rolling dice, for instance.

[@Ymbirtt]

A really useful keyboard shortcut with my group is tapping the tab key. It pings a part of the table for everyone, so we can all ask "What is this thing?" and point, rather than having to describe it or play hunt the cursor.

[@1337pianoman]

Thanks for this. My group have been continuing our Gloomhaven campaign since isolation started but I still picked up a few tricks. I think it's worth mentioning that Tabletopia is much simpler and has far better UI. If you want to play boardgames with friends that don't play video games, Tabletopia is a great option. The selection of games is more limited than TTS, but there is still plenty of choice. The number one feature though is that you can send someone a link to your game and they can play it in the web browser without installing anything or paying anything. If you're hosting you will probably want a paid subscription, but most games have a free mode so you can get by without.

[@ranman800]

Very useful tips. This really helps me with my videos. Thanks!

[@shutupandsitdown]

Happy to help!

[@cozyafternoon7826]

You can flip by pressing the middle mouse button if you find that easier. There's a console command to make the game work on two screens. Also you can set pre sets for where your camera is located. That way you don't have to faf about dragging the screen about all the time.

[@Ad3tr]

I feel like some people are missing the point a little. This is a simulation program, meaning that you can just scan in objects and then there is a single set of physical rules for all games. Many games have scripts on top of that, but many don't. If you learn the basics of using this, you know how to play almost every game. And it has VR functionality and a really wide open matchmaking system that help it out a lot.

[@xanadu1215]

Thank you SO Much! Love you, Guys.

[@DeityDeconstruction]

Thanks for doing this, I've had this for a year and haven't really been able to figure it out :)

[@raisinsun4328]

If you wanna get into TTP i personally remommend palaying a public game of munchkin, you end up using most of the tools that are commonly used

[@mkrool]

speaking of varying degrees u can change the angle of rotation when using q and e top right

[@IvanSensei88]

Yeah, for those who play games that involve turning cards sideways to "tap" them, either for mana or attacking etc, 90 degrees works quite well.

[@tzeneth]

You can also use mouse wheel for rotation, I find that a lot easier to use.

[@MaxBussell]

You guys are legends! Thank you :)

[@asierbouzas2679]

Its about time you spoke about this game

[@natee2666]

I didn't know about shift+alt looking- that's gonna make playing my morph deck SO much easier

[@guillaume5482]

Heya everybody ! I see a lot of people sharing tips for using tabletop, but it also seems interesting to me to share a list of well scripted games that can be found there (in no particular order) : > War of Whispers > Twilight Imperium > Root > Gloomhaven > Carcassonne > Catan > 7 Wonders > 7 Wonders duel > Chakra > Concept > Betrayal at the House on the Hill > Azul > Village > Dixit > Saboteur > Treasure Island > Nemesis > Battlelore > Splendor > Keyforge > Space Alert > Androïd Netrunner And so much more...

[@shutupandsitdown]

If you have time we'd love your help! We're trying to make finding the better mods easier and hope to involve the publishers to make sure they're happy with us using TTS. docs.google.com/document/d/1abvVg_EhyY227LlermTUqb7i_wCTx54qiqtu7PA9gVc/edit#

[@guillaume5482]

@@shutupandsitdown Even though english isn't my native language I'm totally ready to help you. With my 190+ hours spent on tabletop simulator I will look at this doc and see if I can help ^^'

[@RageBadgerGaming]

We've been streaming Frosthaven on TTS and it's been a blast!

[@penzar6880]

It has come up in the comments but bears repeating; L locks and unlocks objects. If you lock a deck of cards you can still draw one card with the mouse but you can't accidentally pick up the whole deck. Extremely useful.

[@mattiamolicacolella4319]

Yeeeah bought it like a week ago, thanks

[@peasantsgameutopia]

Thanks! Very helpful!

[@louishenry6090]

I think its great, works amazingly for Eldritch Horror

[@123adamhewitt]

Is Tabletop Simulator easy to use SU & SD: Well Yes, But Actually No

[@antoinemcnabb3696]

You can click the mouse wheel to flip a card. And use the mouse wheel to rotate cards.

[@gameshowman1234]

One thing about hands. If you press H you can get rid of the hud of your hand just so that you can drag cards from your hand much easier.

[@Trinketorium]

I'm glad its not just me that mistypes shutupandsitdown

[@HydraDaLittle]

Tabletop Sim supports remote play together so you can play with people that don't own it. I think it's a great feature even if a little bit fiddly or buggy sometimes.

[@Kulpo]

Yeah but everyone is looking at the same screen then so any hidden hands are visible to everyone

[@LasseKroner]

The one thing I feel you missed is the TAB button. Once quick for an arrow, good when discussing and wanting people to pay attention to someting. Holding tab makes you draw a line, good for when discussing line of sight or when talking about hey I think Im going to go over there in this way.

[@LasseKroner]

oh also drawing (dropping) the bottom card of a deck. Lift it like normal then hold alt and right click to drop bottom card (good for pandemic ;) )

[@peterfiser]

Matt didn't show me what FLIP THE TABLE does, so I guess I'll give it a go next time we play in TTS.

[@vanchaser]

Its a super important tool. Make sure you use it about 10 minutes before final scoring. Bonus points if playing a 2-4 hour game. Now the downside is, that you will have to look for new friends after covid lockdown.

[@edwardlane1255]

ctrl-z ?

[@hihu8741]

This will likely be buried but what the hey! I'm a game dev student and I published my very first board game on tabletop simulator. I would love for anyone to give it a try, and if you have feedback by all means. The name of the game on the Steam Workshop is called DigBoys - you play as competing museums, sending out archaeologists and other experts to digsites to dig up and discover lost treasures of the world. The player who has the most valuable collection in their museum at the end is the winner of DigBoys.

[@pretsal4955]

Yo is that Depiglio? He taught me intro to calculus. Chill guy.

[@DrWho2008t101]

thanks for the video

[@rgmelkor]

Matt, if you press 'H' it shows/hide the cards in your hand

[@DrMcFly28]

Gloomhaven in TTS Fantasy mod might be more fun to solo play then either physical Gloomhaven or the new digital version. I've become hopelessly addicted to it in this pandemicky times.

[@Skippan]

Tabletopia is very limited, and unstable. This is much better

[@Wickerless]

I've never had problems with tabletopia though, what do you mean unstable?

[@mahna_mahna]

Also, be clear if you're talking about the web version or the desktop version.

[@FoeJred]

When was the last time to tried it?

[@Lucas-rz3vl]

Also, TTS has thousands upon thousands of full free games, none of the paywalls of tabletopia

[@mahna_mahna]

@@Lucas-rz3vl Yes, because Tabletopia gets permission first. Amazing how many toys you can have if you don't worry about compensating their creators.

[@FireflyPDP]

While holding a deck, pressing Alt+T will drop the bottom card from the deck. Useful if you're ever playing Pandemic!

[@WalkerTxsRngr7]

If you click the number up top that says 15° you can change how much things rotate when you press Q and E. I think it's like 15, 45, 90 and 180. I may be wrong with those.

[@artlailey1496]

oh look its MATEE

[@CampervanCookout]

Just starting playing Gloomhaven a good time haven a good time! Its a bit of a learning curve but it works well once you get past the weird control (dont bother in VR its terrible). So many games on there in the workshop too! Next I hope to play Cosmic encounter on there if I can find a group!

[@cleanapanna3537]

Bring back the old controls and it's not terrible actually. It would be amazing to have VR actually enjoyable with TTS. It would be a game changer

[@hardy83]

I bought this hoping to use it, but aside from one friend, this app would be too much for most of the people I play games with, which is unfortunately, but I definitely see it being amazing for people who do have friends/groups that are willing to learn and use the app.

[@mahna_mahna]

The app design approach is really "by a certain kind of person, for a certain kind of person." It definitely limits the appeal.