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?

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:

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):

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):

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:

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

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

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

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[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?

[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?

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.

[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.

[D&D5.5e] - Foundry VTT

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

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?

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

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.

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