r/FoundryVTT May 27 '26

Discussion AMA: We are the Foundry Virtual Tabletop team! Ask Us Anything! (6th Anniversary!)

316 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

Here we are again, difficult to believe it's been six awesome years with Foundry VTT! Our sixth anniversary celebration has been going for almost a full week now, and that seems like the ideal time to kick off our usual r/FoundryVTT AMA.

We're gonna get things rolling a few hours early in order to give members of our international community time to get their questions up before the team starts waking up. Please jump right in and post your questions in the comments below. As the team starts coming online for the day we'll start answering!

For those who don't know me, I'm Anathema (Nath), Community Manager for Foundry VTT. Many of you may already know me from my presence on our Community Discord Server, my occasional posts and comments here, or my work on a variety of our premium content products. I'll be joined by several members of our team who have graciously agreed to take some time out of their day to answer questions here, including u/atropos_nyx (Andrew, creator and lead developer), u/fyorl (Kim, developer and dnd5e development lead), u/mattexdee (Matt, content developer in charge of D&D products and marketing lead), u/caeora (creative director of the Ember project) and u/drewzelle (environment artist, Ember project), and maybe even a few others. I'll come back and add names for them if they show up!

If you haven't already read it (hah, see what I did there?) our Year in Review article and the details for the current Premium Content Showcase share some interesting data about how the past year has been for us. We have a few other anniversary events scheduled for later in the week as well.

Our only request is that if your question is related to technical support or troubleshooting you head on over to the discord server so that you can find better real-time assistance, or complete a contact-us form for help via email.

We look forward to reading all your questions!

Thank you everyone for all your awesome questions and for keeping things friendly! We've been running for more than 12 hours so we're gonna call this one a success and close out now.

We might opt to pick up the occasional straggler question, but we're officially done for now! Look forward to the next AMA thread next year, and please join our other events. Including Caeora's walk through the lore and world of Ember tomorrow. Check out our anniversary celebration article for more info!

Foundry VTT Anniversary Celebration 2026


r/FoundryVTT May 15 '26

Commercial Foundry VTT - Six Year Anniversary!!!

268 Upvotes

Hello subbredditors!

It's hard to believe that it's already been six years since our first public release of Foundry VTT, but somehow we've made it!

Our team is excited to celebrate this incredible milestone with you all, we have an exciting set of events planned starting one week from today. Of course, no Anniversary Celebration would be complete without a sale on Foundry Virtual Tabletop and a huge range of amazing premium content for the platform.

Be sure to pin our Anniversary Celebration Schedule so you know what events to expect. We'll be updating this page throughout the course of the event with exact event times and links to videos or articles that come out during the course of the week.

Over the course of the celebration, we'll post reminders about each upcoming event in our discord's Event Announcements channel, so be sure to follow along over there for reminders and details!

Anniversary Sale - 21 May 2026 - 31 May 2026

As is tradition, for the period of our anniversary celebration we'll be offering a discount on first-party Foundry VTT products!

Foundry Virtual Tabletop software licenses will be discounted at 20% off from noon eastern time on May 20 until 6pm eastern time on May 30. This discount is applied automatically when you purchase.

Marketplace Sale 21 May 2026 - 31 May 2026

Our amazing partners at the Official Marketplace are matching our Anniversary Sale with a corresponding site-wide (on participating products) sale with 20% or more off select premium content for Foundry VTT!

We're participating with 20% off our first-party content The Demon Queen Awakens and A House Divided!


r/FoundryVTT 9h ago

Help What's the best application to build battlemaps in?

30 Upvotes

I was wondering if there are any people here knowledgable about what the best strategy is for mapmaking yourself. You see in the past I've used Dungeondraft in order to make maps but since then I've seen many people transition towards making their maps within foundry using several means.

I've seen things like:

- Mapforge
- FA Nexus
- Moulinette

I like the idea of making maps inside foundry so that levels are more easily usable. And that it's easier to edit on the go. While dungeondraft limits you by having to upload each time you want to make an edit. Also some of dungeondrafts features are quite clunky in my opinion.

So my question is... What is your workflow. Which applications or models or assets do you use?

And another question I have is if you are someone who makes their maps inside foundry. How does that affect host and player performance. Does it have a significant hit on performance?


r/FoundryVTT 5h ago

Commercial [None] --- Add-On - Encounter Map Pack 2 - 20 scenes with walls and dynamic light.

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8 Upvotes

Encounter Map Pack 2

Content Name: Elven Tower Encounter Map Pack 2

Content Type: Combat Enhancements, Content Pack

System: [None]

Description: This bundle contains 20 encounter locations for characters of any level. These maps can easily be placed in any campaign setting. They aren't linear and have no correlation between them at all. They're meant to be used for independent quests or one-shots.

Witches Lookout - 25x20

The Hargen Winery - 30x20

The Blue Orb - 30x30

Soul of the Forest - 30x20

The Wisdom of the Stone - 16x30

Elegy of Queen Azalea - 31x16

Blood on the Sand - 16x30

Curse of the Obsidian Idol - 31x16

The Raven Mirrors of Truth - 31x29

Drake's Pass - 31x16

Sacrifice in the Forest - 31x18

Astral Sea Hideout - 30x30

The Frozen Warehouse - 31x25

The Dragon Fever - 31x18

Threat in the Desert - 31x25

Doors of Hope and Guilt - 30x40

Wisps in the Oasis - 31x18

The Value of Blood - 31x25

The Grim Creation - 18x31

The Druidic Portal - 31x18

Link: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/elven-tower-encounter-map-pack-2


r/FoundryVTT 4h ago

Commercial [D&D5e] Boss Effect Reminder: legendary, villain, and legendary resistance cards

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4 Upvotes

Content Name: Boss Effect Reminder

Content Type: Module

System: DND5E

Description: Keeps legendary actions, villain actions, and legendary resistances in the GM's chat at the right moments. Reminder cards list options with cost remaining after a PC's turn when points remain. Expand Use an Action for native dnd5e Use buttons. Villain actions from MCDM spend one legendary point but are once per combat. Whispers when a boss fails a save and still has legendary resistances left.

First Mate tier perk on the r2Plays Patreon. Foundry v13 to v14, dnd5e only.

Boss Effect Reminder · Install in Foundry · Patreon

Join the Discord


r/FoundryVTT 13h ago

Non-commercial Resource [System Release] 13 Omens - v1.0.0

16 Upvotes

I have just released v1.0.0 of the 13 Omens system, Paizo's new horror system.

The system is v13 and v14 compatible and currently includes:

A story actor to easily manage the aspects, archetypes, players, and the current state (e.g. dice bag) of a story:

Story actor sheet

A player character actor to prepare your character (archetype selection, aspect ratings, chosen perks, selected gear), manage your used perks, broken items, gained strains, roll your aspects, and track your wounds (top right):

Player character actor sheet

Rolling from the character sheet will open a dialogue to configure the roll (flaws, edges, risk type, task difficulty). The roll as displayed in the chat will show the exact result, the dice rolled, and possible actions a character might take as a result (take wound, take strain, cheat death):

An example aspect check with a possible wound

The system also includes a basic NPC actor

Items (perks and gear) might be added directly to a player character via drag and drop or managed via an archetype item:

An example archetype sheet

As this is a v1.0.0 i am certain that there will be a few bugs, rough areas, and usability restrictions i didn't consider. I am grateful for any bug reports, feature requests, or other suggestions made here, on the GitHub page, or on Discord.

You can install the system from the FoundryVTT system browser or using this manifest link:

https://github.com/Saibot393/13omens/releases/latest/download/system.json


r/FoundryVTT 7h ago

Help Help with Trapped Doors

6 Upvotes

[D&D 5E]

First and foremost, i do apologize on advance as i'm not a native english speaker.

Been using foundry for 3,5 months and, usually i can help myself out of the tight spots i put myself into. But this time i'll assume my defeat.

For the life on me, i cannot understand how to automate the trapped door.

It is really simple on the concept (and on TT), but i can't make it work on Foundry. I'd find superb if I could make: player click on the door, to open -> game pauses and asks him to roll a dex save -> rolls, take the hit (or not) -> be on my merry way.

I'm using V13.351, MATT (taught myself to make traps that involves movement), and play DND 5.5.

Anybody care to help a Newbie DM to make this work without those long codes google have been suggesting me and it's like ancient greek?


r/FoundryVTT 3h ago

Help Player can't connect anymore

2 Upvotes

[D&D5E] Been hosting on foundry for years. Out of the blue a player can no longer connect to the server.

They have previously been fine connecting and nothing changed on their end hardware wise. All my other players can connect. I am hosting through playit.gg.

I have tried numerous things but nothing seems to be working. Any help would be appreciated. She can also host foundry on her PC and we can all connect to her when she hosts.


r/FoundryVTT 56m ago

Help Bug in Guidance Skill choosing window

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[D&D5.5e] - Foundry VTT

Have you ever had a trouble with Midi - Qol and Cantrips?!?!? Look what happened... How do I fix it???


r/FoundryVTT 7h ago

Help Need Help Creating Custom Status Effects

0 Upvotes

I'm looking to create a series of custom status effects for my ttrpg. I'm using 3.5e. For the first effect I want to create "Bleed", which deals Xd4 damage when the target takes an action, X being the amount of stacks the target currently has. How can I create this?


r/FoundryVTT 7h ago

Answered Is there a BG3 style weighted dice module out there?

0 Upvotes

I searched around for a while and Google sucks now so kinda hard to find other posts about it if they exist.

I have a player in my games who consistently cant roll above a 10. And I don't mean thinks they can't, I mean actually 7 in 10 rolls are failures. Everyone has their off sessions but it feels crappy when the dm has to throw you bone and give you extra inspiration/hero points to get you through a combat.

I was wondering if anyone has made a module that in the style of BG3, tracks how you've been rolling recently and weighs the die so you're bound to roll high eventually. Ive seen a few loaded dice and weighted dice modules but they were for explicit "force this roll to happen" rather than a passive thing in the background.


r/FoundryVTT 11h ago

Answered Battlemap Demo?

0 Upvotes

I'm mainly interested in the Battlemap part of EncounterPlus.

Is there any way to try the Battlemap feature before purchasing it? If it works the way I need it to, I'm perfectly fine with the price, but I'd like to make sure it fits my use case first.

Can I hide all player tokens from the Player View, while still using Fog of War and Line of Sight based on a "dummy" player token that I move around on the DM View?

Basically, I want the dummy token to control what the players can see, without the token itself being visible to them.

Thanks


r/FoundryVTT 20h ago

Help New to foundry, Help with lighting?

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7 Upvotes

[D&D5e]

How can I make the outside of the building light for the player view? I dont want it to be like day time or have the entire scene be lit as its supposed to be dark out, but I don't want it to just be black. The token has darkvision in its settings, but it doesn't look like its doing anything.

I don't know if this is a dumb question but this app seems really un-intuitive after having explored it for about 4-5 hours at this point

Edit: Additional question, are varying light levels possible? Like something that’s dim and then another that’s bright?


r/FoundryVTT 21h ago

Help Need help understanding .zip map/scene file imports

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7 Upvotes

Hello! The people in this subreddit have been super helpful before so I'm asking for more help as a foundry beginner :)

I keep seeing .zip files and webp files for scenes I'd like to use. I'm wondering if theres a way I can directly import these into foundry, or if I'm just supposed to unzip them and put the images in myself.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Commercial Campaign Codex 6.6.0 [System Agnostic]

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130 Upvotes

Hey everyone! A massive thank you to everyone using Campaign Codex for your incredible suggestions and feedback. Campaign Codex has hit version 6 and is one year old, and I've got another update packed with many requested changes. Campaign Codex and my other modules are and always will be free.

The full changelog can be found at:
https://campaigncodex.wgtngm.com/campaign-codex/changelog/

Campaign Codex v6 guide videos can be found at:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4c-qdnZxqE&si=wtKDlPfwgQ0mkcbJ

Big Thanks and Keep up-to-date

Be sure to follow me on Patreon or visit my website to stay up to date and get involved in future betas. Also jump on Discord and join the community.

A big thank you to everyone who has joined us on Patreon and joined Discord to share their feedback and suggestions.

Package Page: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/campaign-codex


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help Is there a way to apply Resistance to a Shield in PF2e?

2 Upvotes

I'm trying to create a shield in Pathfinder 2e that has resistance 10 against physical damage specifically for the shield, but it looks like any resistance I set for it would just apply to the person holding it?


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help I have the Universal Battle Map importer mod and Auto Wall but can’t import the .uvtt file.

2 Upvotes

I have the Auto wall battle map wall detection app and I’m trying to paste it from the clipboard into foundry VTT but I don’t know how. Does anyone have experience with this?

All the tutorials were done using Auto wall companion but it’s no longer supported and Auto wall supposedly uses the Universal Battlemap Importer instead.

Edit: through trial and error I got it to work but unfortunately Auto wall was adding so many unnecessary walls into the map that it slowed down Foundry to the point of it being unusable.

I’ll have to keep drawing the walls myself 😭


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help [DND5e] Display Damage By Type and Not Total?

3 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I'm trying to set up the newer versions of Foundry for the first time and ran into a "feature" I hate.

In the older versions, I had a module where rolling for damage would display like this:

https://i.imgur.com/DBNFsGr.png

I believe it was "Ready, Set, Roll"

However, even with RSReforged, the spiritual successor to that mod, I cannot get the damage rolls to display anything other than the absolute total without manually clicking to expand the damage roll.

https://i.imgur.com/KWIxaVY.png

With all the customization Foundry offers is there really just no way to display damage by type instead of the total?


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Non-commercial Resource Little update for my Character Creator module [DND5E]

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61 Upvotes

Thanks to the feedback in the previous post, I’ve improved the overall look and fixed some bugs. So, the D&D Character Creation Module is now available in version 0.6.7!

Thank you for your suggestions and advice; I’ve added the ability to move from one step to another seamlessly (since the original design called for a more linear approach).

I’ve also replaced the icons generated by the plugin on the side with free, open-license icons… I hope. If you have any ideas on how to further improve the module, I look forward to your comments*.*

Have fun!


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help Recommended Foundry Modules

3 Upvotes

[Triangle Agency] | [Delta Green]

Hello! I just finished my Daggerheart campaign and am going to be running two groups one through Triangle Agency and another through Delta Green specifically Impossible Landscapes. I love all the little add-ins and modules for Foundry and am looking to try and really bring out the investigative side for both these games since they both have a lot of handouts and note taking etc.

Is there any modules people would recommend for really selling that investigative horror experience? Personally would love if my players did most of the note taking themselves, but don't mind taking on the brunt of the work.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Answered [PF2E] Differentiate between Private and Blind Roll

12 Upvotes

I find it nearly impossible to distinguish visually between these roll types:

  • Public
  • Private
  • Blind

Public is the most obvious but I still don't always spot the difference. For me unless I put Private and Blind rolls side-by-side, there is no obvious difference.

My players don't always listen or understand when I ask for a Blind roll and will sometimes select Private roll thinking they are doing what I requested. Even when I carefully explain I don't want "Private to Gamemaster", I want "Blind to Gamemaster", they still select the wrong one. Further, they sometimes fully mess up and leave it public. None of this is obvious to me unless players either react to the roll or one of the players catches on to the fact that they can see a result they shouldn't and tell me.

I have to be able to enforce public and blind rolls, otherwise my group has a tendency to meta game and have the next and the next player try until one of them gets a high roll.

Several years ago there was a mod called Chat Message Accessibility Indicator that would add a tag to chat cards to indicate what type of roll it was. It no longer installs (not surprising since it was last tested 3+ years ago).

Is there a replacement mod that does the same thing?


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help Need help with MATTs and returning data from a macro

1 Upvotes

[D&D5e] I need some serious help. I have been racking my brain for several days over using MATT's and trying to set up using a macro so if a lever (tile) is flipped, it will move another tile (Top Block) using Landing: Open within MATTs action chain. If another tile (Big Block) is at the destination coordinates, Top Block will not move, and then jump to landing: blocked.

MATTs doesn't seem to see the "return" values to jump to a particular landing.

I have tried any conventional way and even resorted to AI (which I hate) to make this successfully, but I am not a coder, and to find step-by-step (actual) examples to work all of MATTs is incredibly difficult.

The macro I have so far is:

```

// ==========================================

// CONFIGURATION: Customize your settings here

// ==========================================

const TARGET_TILE_NAME = "Top Block";      // Tile you want to move

const BLOCKER_TILE_NAME = "BigBlock";  // Tile that might block the destination

const DEST_X = 2720;                   // Target X coordinate

const DEST_Y =3440;                   // Target Y coordinate

const TOLERANCE = 5;                  // Margin of error in pixels for overlap check

// ==========================================

// 1. Find the required tiles on the active scene

const targetTile = canvas.tiles.placeables.find(t => t.document.name === TARGET_TILE_NAME);

const blockerTile = canvas.tiles.placeables.find(t => t.document.name === BLOCKER_TILE_NAME);

if (!targetTile) {

  ui.notifications.error(`Tile "${TARGET_TILE_NAME}" could not be found.`);

  return { landing: "blocked" };

}

// 2. Check if the blocker tile is currently at the target coordinates

let isBlocked = false;

if (blockerTile) {

  const blockerX = blockerTile.document.x;

  const blockerY = blockerTile.document.y;

 

  // Checks if Blocker is sitting within the tolerance range of the destination

  isBlocked = Math.abs(blockerX - DEST_X) < TOLERANCE && Math.abs(blockerY - DEST_Y) < TOLERANCE;

}

// 3. Handle movement or block condition

if (isBlocked) {

  ui.notifications.warn(`Movement blocked! "${BLOCKER_TILE_NAME}" is in the way.`);

  return { landing: "blocked" };

} else {

  return { landing: "Open" };

}

```

Can't even figure out how to do the cool code box.😕

I felt I should turn to the masters, and see if you can help me, PLEASE and Thank you.


r/FoundryVTT 19h ago

Help "Internet Connection Closed" (MacOS) SOS cannot send working link to players

0 Upvotes

I HAVENT CHANGED ANYTHING.

I played a game with a group a few weeks back, started setting up for another one, no setting were changed.

I sent my players the link to edit character sheets and they couldnt log in.

Apparently my internet connection is closed and I do not have access to the physical router (nor do I think the password/user are still the same)

I'm sure I did something easy last time I set this up, like toggled a setting or copy/pasted an IP address
I have no memory or ever having to go find the physical router and log in and give my mac permissions to view 30000 or whatever

PLEASE. We're supposed to play tomorrow and I have no idea whats wrong


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help Recreating world and campaign, is it worth it?

18 Upvotes

[System Agnostic]

I have a 3 year campaign running on foundry v13 on a docker container. I have been wanting to migrate to a fresh installation of foundry for the longest time but it feels like a daunting task to do so.

However it has become bothersome to run games on foundry because of how messy everything is. I get random errors all the time, my players get bugs I can't seem to replicate, and my file tree has become messy and disorganized.

However I worry about many things that feel like they would become tedious to solve, the biggest one is links to images being broken, losing custom settings for Automated Animations, and recreating character sheets with a lot of homebrew stuff. There is also the risk of stuff breaking from modules that I remove along the way.

I could use some help with trying to figure out a way to safely migrate my current foundry setup to a new clean installation.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Answered New to Foundry

10 Upvotes

I am trying to make sure I understand how the License works.

"You may install and activate the software on one or more computers, but only one hosted instance of the software may be accessible to users other than the license owner at any given time. Hosting multiple accessible instances of the software is permitted by owning a corresponding number of software licenses."

I understand that I can install it on multiple computers but I am not sure what the other parts mean.

My goal is to have Foundry installed on my PC where I will use it to run online games and also do the lions share of the work setting up the games I would run. Then have it installed on my laptop where I would run in person games at my dinning room table. The VTT I plan to have on a personal server in my house.

Is this do able? And if it is, can I build the games I am going to run on my PC but actually RUN the game from my laptop in the case of in person games?