You will need to keep a device or a separate window open to run the app, as it works as a virtual GM and keeps track of certain stats, enemies, and generates the map for each mission randomly. The group I play with just uses discord for one person to stream the companion app to everyone. Some people throw the stream up on a second monitor, others just ALT+TAB between the two. There used to be a tabletop sim mod that allowed people to cast their stream to a virtual screen in TTS, but I believe it was patched to my knowledge and hasn't been worked on since.

Additionally, you'll want to look up hotkeys for TTS, such as shuffle deck and other useful keybinds to help speed up gameplay. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions or issues with the mod.

If you subscribe to the mod on the steam workshop, you should be able to select it when you create a new multiplayer (or singleplayer) game on TTS. Included in this mod are PDFs of the rules for both the base game and the expansions, you'll find them at the center top of the table on one of the "pull-out" placemats of the table. A lot of the rules and getting started information can be found there.

Secondly, you'll need to download the companion app for the board game, which can be found on steam [here] (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003400/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Journeys_in_Middleearth/) . The app itself is free but there are paid DLCs that add more campaigns. I believe you can enable all the expansions in the settings to get access to all physical expansion campaigns for free. The paid DLC campaigns tend to be a little bit shorter than the "main" campaign and the expansion campaigns.

Hey..I am totally new to this game (or TTS at all).
Anyone can help me how to launch the game with this mod? How does the mod work? do I need to download it somewhere?

Thank you :)

I just use discord or some other app that can screen share to friends. There used to be a mod out there that allows you to screen share to a virtual screen in TTS, but I'm not sure if it still works or is even maintained. I'd suggest looking around, but you may just be stuck with having to have to tab in and out of TTS and the app, or put the app on a second screen.

How can you merge the TTS with the LOTR app to play on the story using TTS?

Unless there's a really recent one

Should be

are the figure packs included as well?

I've pushed a small update that should fix alignment issues with the player deck playmats by raising them up. If the LMB -> RMB does not work even after this change, you can hold T as you slide the cared under the deck and it should merge.

is there a way to put card to the bottom of the deck without putting it on table and putting the deck on it? The default should be holding LMB and then holding RMB, but it doesn't do it for me, it just picks the next card under the held card.

DM me if your problem continues, and we could try to troubleshoot more.

@Winters, the asset in your screenshot can be found here at this steam cloud link . It appears to load fine for me when I load it independently form my browser. If your internet is slower and you want to ensure previously downloaded assets load, I would do the following (if you have not already):

-Navigate to Menu -> Configuration
-Go to the "Game" tab and turn Mod Caching on

This way, your computer will locally store any downloaded asset from the mod, and you will not have to wait for already downloaded assets to load. After turning this on, you may want to reload the mod a few times so that all assets get downloaded, and any undownloaded asset will be prioritized when you reload. However, if you are subscribed to a lot of TTS mods, then mod caching may take up a lot of storage depending on what you play, so fair warning there.

@Bobby Chicago
https://imgur.com/a/dtSbJ5O

I don't have particularly good internet connection, but It's keep failing to load same cards again and again. I tried to access to the original source, but it loads like quarter of it and it just stops. Not sure what to do :/

Really appreciate your continued efforts to keep things working!

@Darth Neon, I just pushed a change to the workshop, as in my last update I must have mistakenly turned grid snapping off. Hopefully that fixes it. If you still have issues, double check to see if your settings are as follows:

Options > Grid:
-Type: Hex Horizontal
-Line Thickness: Thin
-Snapping: Center
-Grid Size: x,y = 2.6

@Winters, I removed the mod from my computer and did a fresh reinstall, and all of my images loaded fine with no errors. If you could direct me to what things are not loading I may be able to troubleshoot more.

My map tiles are no longer snapping to grid, but they still have grid snapping turned on? Any help?

I am having problems with loading some of the images. Tried to get to the source URL, but it loads very slowly and doesn't loaded fully at all. I wonder I am the only one going through this.

I used RemotePlay for the other player and Alt-Tab to switch from App to Tabletop. This is ok!!
But I also tested with VR and it is so great with VR and you can open a Window with App over SteamVR. And I found a way to live with the Quest Controller.

>is it possible to open a window where all can see the App?

not via tabletop simulator, you'd have to stream the app window. you can use steam for that or another screenshare program.

Thank´s, is it possible to open a window where all can see the App?
Can I get a Tablet with the open App? I do not want a tablet with browser!

In the "Components Menu" you can get a tablet with a browser! But I only need a tablet with only an open task (the App) not the Browser!

Yay! It's fixed!

Alright, hopefully this works. Nuked TTS and reinstalled the mod fresh, found the issues with the stream and trench tiles and they hopefully should be fixed now. Drop a post if anything else seems broken!

Working on things now. It's probably best for the long term to update some of the map tiles, so I'll do that. This issue with the stream tiles is odd, but I'll see what I can do!

A Strange Update: The infinite bag of Stream tokens and the infinite bag of Trench tokens seem to share the same steam cloud model asset link. However, the infinite bag for the Stream tokens doesn't load properly (a broken link: the same one @gpsy, @Keko and I are having trouble with), but the infinite bag for the Trench tokens apparently does even though they use the same steam cloud model asset link?

P.S. I'm pretty sure the actual map tiles work fine as I am able to load every tile in @Joeyfish's post and I can search the MapTiles bag and the Spare MapTiles Set bag without any errors.

Gonna reupload all of the base game map tiles this weekend, we'll see if that fixes the errors y'all have been having. Apologies for the lack of updates, the day job is grindy right now

I am also having the same troubles as @gpsy and @Keko.

Just for clarification, though, I do not believe the stream model itself has the broken link, but the model for the infinite bag of stream tokens has the broken link.

I really hope this gets fixed soon, as I would love to start playing!

Hey @Bobby Chicago! First of all, thanks for the mod and the time to keep it updated!
I'm having the same problem as @Keko, the .obj mesh for the "Stream terrain tile" isn't loading. Here's the broken URL:
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/787491413365201123/6919317B17660AD9F82AB037313E9F4AE88C4F74/
Thanks in advance!

Had the same issue as Dice god but a resubscribe and/or reload settled the issue for me

Wanted to give it a go, but not everything will load up. Shame really because it seems like a fantastic Mod, going to try to unsubscribe from it and subscribe again.

Thanks for the great mod! It'd be nice to add some "Help" button to explain how to add a tile. I tried lots of things and none would work -- finally saw a comment down there that gives the exact sequence of steps. Once you know how it works it's easy, but otherwise you can get stuck thinking the mod is bugged (my main mistake was hitting Enter after entering the tile number).

@JoeyFish, awesome, thank you! I should have those files locally so I will see what I can do. Unfortunately I won't be able to get to it until the weekend due to the ol' job but once I have some time I'll fix all of these! Appreciate the patience

I was able to find all the tiles that wouldn't load (Error: Could not create token from image). Here is the list, in numerical order:

100B, 102B, 200A, 200B, 201A, 201B, 202A, 202B, 203A, 203B, 204A, 204B, 206A, 206B, 207A, 207B, 208B, 209A, 209B, 210A, 210B, 211A, 212A, 215B, 216B, 217B, 300A, 300B, 301A, 301B, 302A, 303A, 308A, 311B, 400B, 401A.

I found this by looking through the bag of map tiles, so hopefully I haven't missed anything.

I think the problem is in the "Stream" object

Failed to load this model (.obj)

(model/mesh)
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/787491413365201123/6919317B17660AD9F82AB037313E9F4AE88C4F74/

(diffuse/image)
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/787491413365204952/B9EDFE8D523C7F549C60CAA2CB300CA81D87A22B/

As I said before, if I could be directed to *what* models won't load, that would be wonderful. If it's a specific miniature, what is around it. If it's a map tile, what tile does not appear when you type it's number? I have things locally cached so I see no errors and a link to a broken steam cloud asset does not help me figure out what the problem is. I'd love to solve this issue but everyone is being very vague as to what assets are broken on the cloud. In the meantime, I guess I'll start combing through the tiles and see if I can find anything.

Worse comes to worse I can make a clone of my cached files and do a hard reset of TTS to figure it out myself, but if we can have the bad assets pinpointed already, it'll save me a great deal of time.

As Lt. Ruben said a while back, some models won't load. I think they're (some of) the map tiles.

If you don't see the button, then the asset may be broken. If that's the case let me know and I can reupload it to the steam cloud.

There should be a "place tile" button up at the top of the board, all you need to do is type the tile ID into the box and hit the button. All letters should be lowercase, and there should be no spaces. If you hit enter instead of hitting the button, hit delete to remove the enter keypress and then hit he button.

How do you add a tile?

Could you tell me what it's next to? Will help narrow down the search for the broken asset, as everything on my end is downloaded and displays. If you tell me where it's located I can find it and reupload to the steam cloud.

there is an error loading model "http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/787491413365201123/6919317B17660AD9F82AB037313E9F4AE88C4F74/"
It's something that's set to Type: Infinite but no clue what it is. When the game starts it just doesn't load.

did you disable grid-snapping? since the tiles are hexagons, they also might snap weird (iirc there's a card with the grid values in the mod).

Hello! Love the mod, have played through about 5 campaigns now! But after a gap in play, i returned to find the map tiles are no longer snapping to the grid. can anyone help with why that might be happening? or maybe i'm crazy and they never snapped to grid

Hello. I have table tokens issue. Cant load properly. Can you help it?

@gomer and @Fazball > by the time they make it into TTS they are Unity Assetbundles. So I'm not sure how easy it'll be to get at the actual OBJ files.

@gomer
if you have mod-caching enabled in the options, all the files are store on your hard-drive as a cache so you don't have to download it every time you open the mod.

next would be figuring out which files belong to the mod (TTS just dumps them all in one directory depending on type). either check each model in the TTS or use the backup-tool or borded maude to create a backup (which is basically a zip file with all the files of the mod inside), then look through those.

the files itself should be .obj, maybe a plaintext file. nothing fancy or proprietary.

I have a question about the 3D minis. What format are the 3D models for them and are they accessible from the game files if I have this mod? I'd like to try panting them using computer art tools.

Amazing mod. I own the entire physical set and have struggled to get friends together and play for years because of the constraints that come with IRL play. I started running a campaign this month with friends using your mod and it's been a blast.

Those 3D scans of the Minis were superbly done.

I find it flows pretty well on TTS, but jsmcgo has some mods based off of this one that make the process automatic to some degree - I personally prefer the feel of actually moving the pieces around and shuffling my deck on TTS (even if it's not the same as in person T-T ) rather than letting a script do all that. But if you want a little more automation then I'd advise taking a look at his mods, he's a wonderful creator.

Yeah it exists for all supports, I have the physical copies of the main game and the first expansion and wanted to try out a TTS version to see how well it flows - and possibly play with online friends one day - so thanks for clarifying. :)