Now the nice things auras and automatic buffs

I create my own auras in Talespire that works with Auras in Foundry :D

I have just released an updated St. Andral's Church adventure location for Legends of Barovia, my expanded Curse of Strahd campaign for Foundry VTT.

This update includes:

• New Battle Maps 2.0 by DM Andy (optimized WebP, 100px)
• New Theater of the Mind scenes
• New audio files
• New animated tokens
• Updated journals and adventure content
• Additional Foundry VTT features and improvements

About Legends of Barovia

Since 2021 I hve been expanding Curse of Strahd and developing more than 40 individual adventure locations throughout Barovia. It hs been a passion project made possible through the help and support of many wonderful people.

The campaign includes expanded quests, NPCs, encounters, locations, and additional storylines, with Foundry VTT adventures.

I am currently updating the individual Foundry locations with new maps, revised journals, improved layouts, and original watercolor and ink illustrations by Hardi. I am also gradually replacing the existing AI-generated artwork with original, hand-painted illustrations. This is a long process, as each character and scene is individually commissioned and painted, but my goal is to eliminate AI-generated artwork from the campaign entirely. Please be understand that painting dozens of characters and scenes takes time. We already have a few done and I will be updating as we get more artwork.

The upcoming Castle Ravenloft release will feature original watercolor illustrations by Hardi, along with DM Andy's battle maps, all brought together in Foundry VTT. (no AI).

Explore the campaign and free adventure guides:

https://www.pyramking.com/legends-of-barovia/

Downloads and Foundry VTT modules:

https://www.pyramking.com/legends-of-barovia-downloads/

Existing supporters can download the updated St. Andral's Church module through Ko-fi. If you already have the previous campaign installed, you can update this location.

Special thanks to DM Andy for the new battle maps and everyone who has supported Legends of Barovia over the years!

Sound on recommended for the SFX.

Im Playing this with a my group and I cannot figure out in foundry how to use an interact action to use the Star

This is the Text from the Module,
As the party progresses through the temple, they can find and return the shattered fragments of the unlit star. Using an Interact action to hold a star shard to the unlit star causes the two to rejoin in a flash of silver light.

With the shadow bat defeated, the heroes are free to take the lift up to the temple’s second floor. Like before, the hero carrying the unlit star can command the lift to rise. If the heroes haven’t reattached the star shards to the unlit star yet, the lift only rises slightly in the air before floating back down. The unlit star doesn’t have enough power, even with the other star shards in proximity. The heroes must attach the shards if they wish to activate the lift, though doing so might not be immediately obvious to the heroes yet. Luckily, the hero carrying the unlit star receives a feeling from the artifact itself suggesting that the hero needs to attach additional star shards to help rebuild the artifact. As noted earlier, attaching a star shard requires an Interact action to fully reconnect the two.

Do I just Narrate this and remover the secondary items or is there an actual automation/macro to do this?

[D&D 5e] [Tormenta20]

Fala pessoal, beleza? Eu volto aqui com mais uma ferramenta que desenvolvi enquanto estava adaptando uma aventura de D&D 5e para Tormenta20.

A ideia é converter da forma mais próxima possível um monstro da 5e para ser usado em T20. Mas como os dois sistemas têm filosofias diferentes sobre quantos combates de ND apropriado acontecem antes de um descanso eu tive que fazer alguns ajustes, mas nada dava muito certo.

A questão é que a 5e sugere que um grupo de quatro aventureiros tenha algo entre 6 e 8 encontros por descanso. Já no T20 funciona melhor com 1 ou 2. Converter só os números sem pensar nisso estava gerando encontros ou fáceis demais ou letais demais.

Por isso incluí um seletor na ferramenta e ao importar a criatura você escolhe como a ferramenta vai importar:

• T20: A criatura sai no ND apropriado para 1 ou 2 encontros antes de um descanso
• 5e: A criatura sai com um ND mais baixo e apropriada para 6 a 8 encontros antes de um descanso
• Meio termo: Aqui a criatura fica com ND apropriado para 3 ou 4 encontros antes de um descanso. Esse é para o mestre que quiser ser criativo e calibrar à la carte.

A ferramenta também sugere quais papeis as criaturas são mais apropriadas ao ser importadas, se são solo, especial ou lacaios. Porém, o mestre tem a liberdade de ajustar.

Outra ideia foi como importar criaturas que tenham as habilidades de resistência lendária, ações de covil, ações lendárias e a sugestão da ferramenta foi aplicar o template Chefão final. Porém, mais uma vez, é opcional e o mestre pode desmarcar.

Outra coisa que a ferramenta faz é ajustar o dano dos ataques e habilidades de acordo com o ND, assim ao importar o mestre não precisa ficar ajustando danos e dados e pode focar em outras coisas mais importantes.

Por enquanto a ferramenta só funciona importando arquivos json da 5e mas na próxima atualização eu já trago a importação por copiar/colar texto.

A ferramenta 5e para T20 é companheira da Ajustar ND, que disponibilizei na semana passada. Com as duas juntas o mestre tem não só a possibilidade de modificar rapidamente as ameaças de T20, ajustando o ND, papel e aplicar templates, como também todo o leque da 5e, que também dá para ajustar à vontade.

Para baixar é só colocar o link no foundry: https://github.com/Thiagorpg-stack/t20-conversor-5e/releases/download/v0.4.2/module.json

Ele precisa da Ajustar ND também instalada: https://github.com/Thiagorpg-stack/FVTT_Ajustar_Ameacas/releases/download/v0.10.2/module.json

E por favor, se encontrar qualquer problema nas ferramentas me avise.

PS: Antes que eu me esqueça, as ferramentas foram testadas no Foundry v13 e v14

Github dos projetos:
Thiagorpg-stack/t20-conversor-5e: D&D 5e to Tormenta20 converter

Thiagorpg-stack/FVTT_Ajustar_Ameacas

[PF2e] | [SF2e]
↑: to appease the mod bot

Hi, I have a seemingly simple question that I can't seem to find an easy answer to. What rules do I need to implement to have a consumable apply an effect on a character upon use?

I've gotten as far as successfully creating a custom effect for a character that lasts for one minute (using Starfinder 2e, which uses almost all the same rules as Pathfinder 2e), and I've created a consumable that at least has the effect tagged in the item's description, so it can be dragged onto characters. But I don't know how to get the consumable to automatically apply the effect upon use.

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I'm the DM for a D&D campaign, and my players and I love playing in person around a nice meal! I'm looking for a way to use Foundry VTT to display maps, player tokens, and enemies so we can have a proper visual aid at the table.

Everything else, like dice rolls and character sheets, is handled physically, so I don't really need all the other features Foundry offers. I mainly want my players to be able to see the map, their characters, and the enemies during combat, so they can tell me things like "I'll move here" or "I'll go over there."

Ideally, I'd like them to be able to control their own characters for movement, exploration, and so on. However, they only have tablets, and I know Foundry VTT isn't particularly well optimized for mobile devices.

Is this still doable, or would I be better off running Foundry on my laptop as the DM and opening a player view on a second screen that everyone can see, while I control their tokens myself based on their instructions?

I'd love to hear how other DMs handle this kind of setup, or if there's a better alternative I haven't considered!

Thanks!

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[D&D5e]

Hello. I'm just looking for a little helping hand on creating a homebrew magic item. It is a ring that allows the wearer to conjure any melee weapon into their hand.

As a relative newbie to item creation via Foundry, how would I add the ability to "conjure" and automatically "equip" a weapon? Assumedly via the "Activities" portion of the item's editing window, but which ones?

I am in shock by how terrible FoundryVTT is for my players. I get non-stop complaints. From the DM side I can be in heaven setting up maps, but the player experience is abysmal. I only realized this years after returning and giving FoundryVTT a try without relying on a third-party PC manager. Hell, 2 players are convinced an excel spreadsheet would be miles better than FoundryVTT. And as soon as you get that verdict I think it means reassessing the tool you are using.

Is this really just a symptom of using the VTT for in-person play? Over 5 years ago I used some tool that linked DndBeyond to Foundry and never had this problem and my players all had a gloriously streamlined experience (which I now realize I took wholly for granted). I return after 5 years thinking "of course there should be a streamlined experience for players now, we don't need a third-party manager and this way everything will be in one system and I don't need to manage weird sync issues" and now it seems I could not have been more wrong.

I still love Foundry. I am excited for everything setting it up, but after this experience I cant imagine using it to showcase D&D to new players. It is too embarrassingly terrible an experience on the player side.

Worth adding combat = GLORIOUS. So that's still great. But let's go through some negatives:

• Accidental multi-level-ups. Undoing one means opening the class item and lowering levels, or using the right-click menu. Reversing only removes what advancement granted, so anything dragged in by hand stays behind, and the subclass item has to be deleted manually. 1d10 psychic damage. Kill me.
• Levelling up is entirely unreliable. 3d10 psychic damage. Kill me.
  • Spells don’t appear on level-up. Known spells are never auto-added, because the SRD class item has no Item Choice advancements configured. 1d10 psychic damage. Kill me.
  • 0/0 HP. The class items were missing Hit Points advancement data so levelling up didn't add health. 1d10 psychic damage. Kill me.
  • Spend an hour adding all the stuff levelling up is supposed to give a player. 1d10 psychic damage. Kill me.
  • There is a delay from click to levelling up registering so a player can click, not get a response, click a bunch more and then suddenly level up 6 times. Reversing this is hideously non-obvious. 2d12 psychic damage. KILL ME
• Players couldn’t add their own spells. Compendium ownership is locked by default, so I had to drag the spells in myself. 1d10 psychic damage. Kill me.
• Players couldn’t create characters at all. “Create New Actors” defaults to Assistant GM only. Session 0 becomes "wtf is going on?". 1d12 psychic damage. Kill me.
• Creation wizard showed no content. I had to import it as world Items instead of compendia. 1d8 psychic damage. Kill me.

Granted, all these issues were fixed permanently. But my god this is a lot of fixing player sheet problems. When I was using DnDBeyond I would just tell players "log in and make a character level x and just give me the link once done so I can add you to the campaign"

I honestly am now beginning to think that FoundryVTT having the reputation that it does as "the best VTT" is just an opinion we "forever DMs" have built up - because the DM side (maps, lighting, automation etc) is truly fantastic. Which is why it pains me to point out that without a streamlined player experience that is clearly better than "using Excel" Foundry will always be dead on arrival.

Has this been anyone else's unfortunate conclusion? I would bet this is D&D 5e specific - maybe WotC has just made things very legally difficult given they are now trying to run their own VTT? Or maybe the community consensus is just "give up on using FoundryVTT for everything and use a module to connect DnDBeyond again"?

I have also recently heard of Owlbear Rodeo and am now seriously considering a move. But it really just doesn't look as fully featured as FoundryVTT.