Glad to hear it! While your original solution had a lot of ingenuity hopefully Foundry will be a little easier for you :D.

That's so kind of you (on this video and the module installation video I saw you commented on)! I really appreciate it and hopefully I can keep it up :D.

I'm thrilled to hear that! It's great that these older videos are still providing utility for folks :D.

I'm glad they're helpful! I get you entirely; its hard to make a switch when everyone is already familiar with one piece of software. Hopefully it all goes well and they like it though! If you've got any questions or there's anything that would be helpful for your players let me know and I'll do my best. Best of luck on Tuesday!

As far as I know, players don't have to load a program, they only need an internet browser such as chrome or mozilla. Only the gm needs the software.

First session with Dungeon World ran smooth, great game and great tool. Players were as amazed as myself.

Thank you so much for the kind words! I think I follow the question but let me know if I misunderstood. Quick background: There's a couple ways you can change the 'Active' scene in Foundry that your players are in. In the 'Scenes' tab in the sidebar you can right click a new scene and hit 'Activate' or in that same right click menu there's an option for 'Toggle Navigation'. If you hit that it will place the scene in your Navigation bar at the top of the window. You can have as many scenes up there as you want and you can right click and select 'Activate' to move all your players to that scene. To control where your players start when you activate a scene you can just place their tokens on the map before you activate it. As the GM you can move between scenes without bringing your players over so you can easily jump over to a new scene, move the tokens to a different starting area and then activate the scene forcing all of your players to that location. If you wanted it to be really fast you could also just duplicate the original scene, move the tokens, and rename it so its clear which one is which. Then you can activate whichever scene is appropriate based on their entrance. I hope that answered the question properly; please let me know if I missed the real question or something wasn't clear!

I'm so happy to hear that! The quality gets better in new videos but I'm glad that this one is still helpful to folks :D. I personally would vouch for Foundry but I think that much was probably obvious haha.

Wow, I think you're right; I'm sorry about that! If you're not sure how to do it all you have to do is drag out a journal entry from the right hand sidebar onto the map and then it will ask you for what icon you want to use etc. Hopefully that wasn't too confusing!

@@EncounterLibrary yah i figured it out :P

I saw in the Discord; they look great! I don't think I'll replace my journal placement system because I don't like having to scan through my journal entries but they'll definitely be useful for identifying things within scenes if necessary like "What's in each one of these containers" etc. Thank you for putting them together!

Oh definitely! I'm keeping everything as stock as possible for the 'Basics' guides but now that there's enough tutorials that you can pretty much run the game (though maybe not to its maximum potential) I'm going to start adding additional content. I'm currently working on module highlight series that will try and show some great modules, how they work, and what they can do for the game. Since I use DNDBeyond extensively the VTTA mods are definitely high up in my list!

I'm glad you liked it! For getting additional material into the application Foundry uses something called 'Compendium Packs' which are where I pulled things like the goblins and bugbears from. You can create your own compendiums with new information but unfortunately there's not a whole lot of documentation about them available. The compendium packs are basically big files filled with something called JSON (basically just keys and values that describe the person, item, class etc.). You can take a look at the existing compendium packs for fifth edition to get an idea of what goes into them here: gitlab.com/foundrynet/dnd5e/-/tree/master/packs. They're not the easiest thing to grok but unfortunately that's about the best that I can do information-wise until I'm able to dive into them more. For things like Dragonlance since it's copyrighted material there probably will never be an official compendium pack for it as distributing it without a license from Wizards of the Coast would be illegal. I do eventually want to dive into what goes into creating compendium packs but it's not really a near-term goal as I try to get a base level of content out there that should get everyone up and running with the basics. Sorry that I can't be of more help here!

Encounter Library you have been of much help! I really appreciate your answer and your videos. I’ll try to mess around with these compendiums, and see what I can get. Thanks again! 😃

Unfortunately you can't import them and have the walls/door automatically detected because DNDBeyond doesn't include that information in their map images (and they'll probably never include it unless the VTT space gets wildly popular). If you use a map creation tool like DungeonDraft though you can import your maps with walls, doors, windows, and light sources already set up though!

I'm happy to hear it! It didn't take much time. Maybe about ten minutes clicking around with the door/wall/terrain tool. It should only take as long as clicking to each corner basically and then walking a token through each room to make sure you didn't miss any spots.

@@EncounterLibrary thank you!

Hey Luis, I'd love to help! Unfortunately for Pathfinder there's not currently any support for pre-written adventures like there is for Fantasy Grounds and Roll20. Atropos (the developer) is trying to communicate with publishers to so that he can provide those though. There's no timeline on when that kind of thing might be available however. If you run D&D you *can* import adventures from DnDBeyond using the VTTA DnDBeyond Importer module (which I have a video on as well). It will automatically bring in the map, all the journal entries and descriptions, and place walls etc. for you. It won't place monsters for you (at least the last time I tested it) but it should serve as a pretty big time saver. With regards tot he PDF uploader, there is a module that lets you upload PDFs to Foundry but it just makes it so you can read the PDF in Foundry. It doesn't go through and grab maps or anything like that. If that's all you need then it could be a good solution though! One last important note is that there's a couple of full blown adventures that are available and installable through Foundry. There's Clash at the Kobold Cauldron and The Cycle of Cerberus which include fully walled and lit maps, placed tokens, pre-written journals containing all the descriptions, etc. etc. Some creators like Tom Cartos are also offering their maps to their patrons fully walled and lit as Foundry modules which might also be of interest to you. Sorry I couldn't give you more good news but hopefully that will at least help your decision making process!

@@EncounterLibrary thank you very munch for the full answer. Not the best news but hopefully they'll get them to work with them soon. There isnt much content on Roll20 for Pathfinder either, just on FG. I'm guessing PF2 has the same problem on Foundry? Might look into those full adventures... or give the VTT time to get content.

You're not dumb! The maps from Wizards are unfortunately not very consistent. I think it's because they adjust them to fit in the books but then never fix it in the digital edition :(. With a mixture of stretching the map in different directions you can normally get *decent* approximation of where the grid should be though. It can be hard to explain via comment but if you hop into the Foundry discord there's normally someone who can help figure out what the best settings are (or who have already done it themselves)!

@@EncounterLibrary Aside from the fact that it's quite ridiculous we're supposed to pay twice for most of the books in digital and physical form and then don't even get accurate maps - I believe I get what you're saying about compressing the image to get it right. Sounds very logical and I'm definitely going to try this! (Visiting the Discord seems to be a good idea, as well :))

Their name is known far and wide :D.

Yes! You can set any image as the token for an actor. You can even use the module VTTA Tokenizer (which I have a video on) to create a nice circular border for it.

@@EncounterLibrary thank you so much. Just a peronal preference for me, that I think the full image of an Ogre or a mindlayer invokes more reaction out of people than a vague top down view of a head with some shoulders. Does the image have to fit fully into the square it occupies or can it extend a bit to show shape while still marking that it's feet or footing only occupies a smaller space?

@@Radenshaal I can totally dig that. Unfortunately the image will be restricted in size to however many grid space its set to take up. You could make it a larger creature but it will 'take up' more space but if you say "It's only *really* in the front left corner" or something like that you might be able to get away with it but it certainly is a little clunky :(.

Pathfinder 2E is by far the second most popular system for Foundry VTT and I believe the system, monsters, items etc. are all included in the system due to their SRD being basically everything. Here's a list of the systems that have been developed for Foundry so far: foundryvtt.com/packages/systems Though of course not every system is as fully developed as other systems.

Hey John, you're exactly right on both counts! This video was actually made before the VTTA DnDBeyond Import module existed and is just to demo how you can put together a scene from scratch :).

@@EncounterLibrary Awesome, thanks for the quick response!

You can disable your player's ability to open doors in the settings and you can also set a door as 'locked' by right clicking on it :). With either solution they won't be able to open the door without your approval. Sorry for not making that clear!

You should be able to do that by pressing and holding 'right click' and there's no setting to disable that as far as I'm aware. Is that not working for you?

@@EncounterLibrary Awesome, worked and able to work on walls much better.

Noob questions are what I'm here for! To do the split screen you can have the application running and then go to the 'Settings' tab in the right hand sidebar and then click on 'Invitation Links'. Copy the link next to 'Local Network' and you can paste that into the URL bar of a Chrome tab and connect to the game as a different user. You can even open an incognito tab and connect again. Let me know if you have any issues!

@@EncounterLibrary Thanks again. your video class, are great.

You can't purchase it in the same but if you buy it from DnDBeyond you can import it using the VTTA DnDBeyond Integration which I also have a video on!

Yes, depending on what you want out of a VTT. Foundry is more powerful because it's more extensible via the community built addons. Roll20 is simpler so it's a bit easier. However Roll20 has a lot of limitations that some people find restrictive. It all depends on what you need and want in your VTT.

That is certainly a benefit of Roll20 and FG. I could understand it even being enough to keep someone on those platforms. Unfortunately, I don't think there's any near term plans to try and work with WotC in a similar manner but perhaps some day it will happen.

I appreciate the concern but the IP address you're seeing is my IP on the LAN, not something that could be connected to outside of my network. Anything within the 192.168 range is a private IP to the local network behind a router/firewall. Thanks for looking out though!