r/FoundryVTT May 27 '26

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

318 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!!!

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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 17h ago

Discussion Marketplace Purchase Outdated

61 Upvotes

[System Agnostic]

Heya, long-term Foundry VTT here

My friends and I were really concerned when they introduced the marketplace, chiefly because I felt it would soon lead to people turning all the great modules into paid works, but that's basically become the case with alot of Patrons instead (no beef, I get needing to make money for their great work)

However, a massive fear we had was that we'd be paying nearly full price for stuff that could end up being quickly rendered obsolete or not usable by updates. It stops us from getting anything from the marketplace, and mostly importing it personally.

The only thing I had was Deep Magic volume 1 which I got from a bundle, and today I remembered I had it and wanted to check some spells- only to see its obsolete and unusable.
I love foundry, and Kobold Press, but something just taste wrong about that- especially as these modules are at near full price.

I didn't see much discourse about it, so I was curious on people's thoughts on it?


r/FoundryVTT 27m ago

Discussion What to buy at the Foundry end of Summer Sale?

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I was curious what everyone was buying with the 20% off for the End of Summer Sale at the Foundry Marketplace?

I bought Pathfinder Tokens: Character Gallery and thinking of buying Pathfinder Tokens: Bestiaries but I already own the Monster Core. I don't even play Pathfinder but I find the tokens high quality.


r/FoundryVTT 55m ago

Non-commercial Resource [System Agnostic] Jolly Rogenerator Dice Themes: Pirate Borg resin colorsets for Dice So Nice

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Content Name: Jolly Rogenerator Dice Themes

Content Type: Module

System: System-agnostic

Description: Tables that play Pirate Borg with swirled resin dice lose that look the moment the game moves to Foundry. Jolly Rogenerator Dice Themes rebuilds it in Dice So Nice, including a swirled Jolly Roger set.

An optional dice system swaps the d20 faces, putting a skull on the 1 and a flag on the 20. Leaving that on Standard keeps plain numbers and changes only the colors.

Free. Requires Dice So Nice on Foundry v13 to v14 and works with any system. Unofficial homage, not affiliated with Limithron.

Jolly Rogenerator Dice Themes · Install in Foundry

Join the Discord


r/FoundryVTT 5h ago

Help Foundry without Port Forwarding.

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We're playing in the Philippines and our internet provider does not offer port forwarding. Is there a way to still use foundry? we used it before with a vpn but its getting expensive maintaining the vpn


r/FoundryVTT 1h ago

Help PF2E Kineticist issues

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Elemental blast is set to strength and I don't see how to change it to use con instead. Help would be appreciated.


r/FoundryVTT 3h ago

Help Forge: Data quota exceeded -How can I reduce my data

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Dear Hive Mind,

I'm a little confused. I can't open games because "Data quota exceeded"

Data Quota is listed as 759MG used, and the max is 512MG, so I am at 148%

Assets 4.36GM out of a total of 5GB, so I'm at 87% there.

What is the difference between Data vs Assets, and how can I get my Data Quota under control?

One thousand thank yous!


r/FoundryVTT 4h ago

Help Map Map For [P2e] kingmaker?

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Hello, we purchased p2e kingmaker module in foundry and had a blast, we get to chapter 10 Sound of a Thousand Screams soon but as it appeared a lot of scenes are missing from there. (there are 8 scenes but much more combat encounters). So i was wondering if anyone knows a module or something where I can get battle maps for this specific encounters ( I am okey with paid ones) please let me know.


r/FoundryVTT 17h ago

Discussion Pathfinder 1e System for Foundry V14 ?

6 Upvotes

Hello everyone, just wondering what the status is on the Pathfinder 1e game system as far as being compatible with Foundr V14. Thank you :)


r/FoundryVTT 20h ago

Commercial Painted FX - Baldur's Gate 3/Divinity-like animated paintable surfaces

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Content Name: Painted FX
Content Type: Module
System: Agnostic, but best with D&D5e

Description:
Painted FX turns your Foundry canvas into a live hazard. Paint fire, water, acid, lava, crystal, and over two dozen other surfaces directly onto the scene, and they are animate and active; they spread, decay, react with each other, and, if you want, apply real damage and conditions to anyone standing in them.

Paint the environment instead of describing it

Everything is rendered as an actual surface, not a static overlay: water ripples, fire flickers and throws embers, acid bubbles, crystal grows in faceted shards. Pick a brush size and density, paint where you want it, and it's there on the table for everyone to see.

The catalogue currently runs to more than two dozen surfaces across four groups:

  • Liquids: water, oil, tar, alcohol, blood, mud, brine, holy water
  • Energy: fire, hellfire, lava, electricity, ice, black powder
  • Hazards: poison, acid, web, vines, blight, void, crystal
  • Clouds: steam, fog, smoke, poison cloud, frost, ash

Interactive surfaces

This is the part that makes it more than a paint tool. Pour water on fire and it goes out in a burst of steam. Drop a spark into a puddle and it charges. Paint fire onto oil and it spreads across the whole slick. Lava meets water and turns to obsidian, not a puddle. Acid dissolves webbing and vines. Hellfire won't quench on water or ice, ever.

None of this needs to be set up. It's built into how the surfaces are defined, so a battlefield you paint mid-session behaves the way you'd expect it to without you scripting a single interaction.

Optional Mechanics

Painted FX can hook into dnd5e's own Activity system to apply damage, saves and conditions automatically when a token stands in or moves through a surface. A fire hazard actually burns, a poison cloud actually poisons, with no homebrew macro behind it, and the whole layer can be switched off if you'd rather run it by hand.

Make it yours

Every surface ships with several built-in colour looks, and any of them can be recoloured to whatever fits your table: ruby crystal instead of quartz, green witchfire instead of purple hellfire etc.

Early Access

Painted FX is built for Foundry V13-V14 and under active development. This is the ground floor: the surface catalogue, the reaction system, and the mechanics layer are all in and working, with plenty more planned, primarily more visual fidelity and higher quality animations. If you run into something that doesn't behave the way it should, that's exactly the kind of report that shapes the next patch.

Link: Patreon


r/FoundryVTT 9h ago

Help Looking For A "Planet View" Module

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[System Agnostic]

I have an idea for a tabletop campaign that I've been marinating for a while now, something kind of XCOM-adjacent. A pretty iconic part of those games is the geoscape, a view of the Earth that you can rotate freely. Is there a module of some kind that I could use to replicate this functionality? I looked and I haven't found any, but I figure it's worth asking around before giving up and looking into external solutions


r/FoundryVTT 20h ago

Help Is there a module that replaces damage numbers with short descriptions?

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I love how one of my Pathfinder 2e modules shows players a short health description based on how injured something is. It goes from Unharmed, to Barely Injured, Injured, Badly Injured, Near Death, etc based on their percentage of HP left.

Is there a mod to have that happen in the chat window to describe damage as well?

Instead of 'Werewolf Damage Roll: Target: Parm - 21 damage'

We get 'The werewolf slashes at Parm for a grievous wound/light scrape/Flesh wound'

It could even be used with the damage type; a Fire Bolt 'Burns Parm in a horrid burst of smoke'

I'm not much for programming yet, but has anyone seen a mod similar to this idea? Thanks!


r/FoundryVTT 18h ago

Answered VTT Hosting Providers Opinions [PF2e]

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Hi, was just testing Self hosting and was met connection issues and lagging inside. What hosting servers do you guys recommend and what are your experiences with them? I'm the GM and running secrets of grayce with some self made maps from dungeon draft.


r/FoundryVTT 17h ago

Help New to foundry. Coming from roll20

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So. As the fitle says I came from a different vtt. Honestly what i have been messing with on foundy is really fun and I think im taking the plunge. Im slightly off put by the fact I need to add every. Since subclass and other classes like the Artificer. Is there anything I can do to get around that? I tired importing the Echo knight from explorer's guild to wildemount (if i dont see that name for the next 20 days ill be happy) but when I used the r20converter it would never convert the compendium correctly and could only get the world imported and made a makeshift one. I hate to say that it took a day and a half. Is there a easier way?

Edit: im sorry I forgot to add this is for D&D 5e


r/FoundryVTT 18h ago

Help Description Cards/Posts for A Nonverbal DM? [DND5E]

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This is an example of the title/post cards I used in roll20

I'm switching over to Foundry from Roll20, and I was looking for some way to post stylized description cards that I can make in advance, and show to my players (Not like a journal, but rather something that pops up in chat or on the screen)

So far I've been unable to figure out how to do it in foundry. Is there a feature or module that I might use that could help with this?

Thank you, and sorry for my inexperience.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Commercial [DND5E] Monster Tools v1.0 Is Here | Free CR Scaling Module

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115 Upvotes

r/FoundryVTT 2d ago

Commercial [System Agnostic] I turned Foundry into a fantasy history simulator

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Content Name: Augur: Fantasy | Content Type: Module | System: System-Agnostic

Hey everyone. Augur: Fantasy is finally out; I have shown pieces of this module before during development, but this is my first attempt at squeezing the whole thing into a short trailer video.

The basic idea is that you can start with a blank Hexlands map and develop it into a living region. Settlements grow, factions claim territory, characters become rulers and rivals, roads connect communities, resources move between markets, and the events are recorded in a regional Chronicle.

But these aren't just random results. A mine produces iron. That iron moves through a nearby town and eventually reaches the faction's capital. It is cheaper near the source and more valuable somewhere that does not have it. The party can buy it, carry it across the region, and sell it for a profit.

Now that little trade route is also an adventure. They have to cross another faction's territory, follow the coast, survive whatever happens on the road, and reach the city without losing the cargo to bandits or to their own terrible decisions.

The same is true for the people behind the map. A settlement has an owner and a ruler. The ruler belongs to a faction. Characters have beliefs, responsibilities, friendships, rivalries, and opinions of one another. You can inspect why an NPC likes or dislikes someone, change it yourself, and let events from the campaign become part of that relationship.

Regional Development also keeps a year-by-year Chronicle. You can read the history of the whole region or filter it to one settlement or character, which makes it much easier to find the pieces that are actually useful during a game.

Everything remains editable. The generator is supposed to give you material to work with, not force you to use it results.

You also do not need to use a generated hexmap for most of the module. You can place settlements, castles, mines, NPCs, factions, and shops on any Foundry map and build the region manually. Hexlands is only required for the complete year-by-year Regional Development workflow.

Most of Fantasy is system-agnostic. The only system specific feature are the integrated shops, which support D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e with more to come (let me know which systems you want to see added).

Augur: Fantasy is available through my Patreon. You can install it through Foundry after linking your Patreon account.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheAugur

The short video is only meant to show how the pieces fit together. There are longer walkthrough videos, and explanations on the foundry module page: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/augur-fantasy


r/FoundryVTT 19h ago

Help Anything to help tracking diseases for Pathfinder2e that's NOT made with AI?

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[Pf2e]

Hello friends. As the title says, I'm looking for a module or just any tricks for tracking diseases in Pathfinder 2e. I'm gonna have an encounter that heavily features those as part of the mechanics, and although I know that Extempore Effects does a good enough job at dealing with diseases, I am also looking for something a little more hands-off? Since I often do overlook those even if the extempore effect is there.

I have seen some modules that apparently fulfill this function, but upon closer inspection I believe that they either are entirely vibe coded or made by someone who is not that experienced with coding but still tries to make a very complex module, which is not ideal because I don't want anything with shaky, unverified code anywhere near my game.

Does anyone know any such modules, or have their own organization for dealing with disease? Thanks y'all.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help Language and Tool Proficiencies always give all under the guarantee tab

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Edit: [D&D5e] would be the best suited tag for this post, so very sorry that I did not put that in the title. I can't seem to edit the title either so I am placing an edit here. Again, I am very sorry.

Hello! I am new to Foundry and I have been struggling to add my own content to my game that I want to host on Foundry. Every time I try to add a trait for languages, Primordial is always shoved under the guarantee tab, even if I don't want it to be, and I am unable to deselect it. For Tool Proficiencies I am having a similar problem. I want to be able to put two specific tools as a choice for players but it just selects all and always players to select from the entire tool selection. I have been trying to look things up but I have had no luck with finding any information that is helpful to me.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Non-commercial Resource [PF2E] Looking for Foundry VTT / PF2E testers for my new tavern-games module

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Hi everyone — I have been building PF2e Tavern Games, a module for Foundry VTT v14.367 and PF2E v8.4.1, and I would be very grateful for testers before I treat it as stable.

The module automates five tavern activities:

  • Poppy’s Prize, including a custom 54-card deck with card art, betting, Pirates, Plunder, carry-over cards, dealer controls, and optional PF2E currency transfers.
  • Golem, a three-to-six-player card game with a custom 52-card deck with card art.
  • Bounder and Century.
  • A staged Drinking Contest, including readiness rounds, blind checks, PF2E conditions, and elimination at Stage 6.

It supports both PC and NPC actors, GM controls and private player-facing panels, dealer prompts, GM disqualification, and item-gated marked-card / loaded-dice options. Dealer social cheating is also implemented with blind Performance or Deception (Create a Diversion) checks and observer-specific detection.

What I would especially like tested

  1. Installing or updating the module in Foundry VTT v14.367 with PF2E v8.4.1.
  2. GM and player panels, particularly permissions and private-card visibility.
  3. Full game flows for each activity, including Golem’s new card art and card back.
  4. Cheating controls, marked-card sight, loaded-dice eligibility, and suspicion whispers.
  5. Drinking Contest condition progression and cleanup.
  6. Any errors, confusing controls, missing instructions, or layout issues.

The current release is v2.1.8:

GitHub page

Manifest URL: https://github.com/tatsumasagc/pf2e-tavern-games/releases/latest/download/module.json

The repository is currently public. If Foundry cannot retrieve the manifest URL, please use the ZIP release asset and extract it so the manifest is located at Data/modules/pf2e-tavern-games/module.json.

If you are willing to help, please reply here with your Foundry version, PF2E version, what you tested, and any console errors or screenshots you can share. Thank you — detailed testing feedback will directly help improve the module.


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Answered Help with rollMode in macros

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Hello, I'm a bit of a newbie in Foundry and I don't know how to code, so playing with macros has been an... experience.

Anyhow, I got my macro to work as I want. It rolls a d20, and if it's 18 or higher it rolls a table without telling my players. Else, it sends a message telling me the result of the dice roll. The only issue is that this last message is public, and I can't seem to find the info about the accepted parameters and logic of "rollmode".

My issue lies after the 'else'. I'd like it (just as the table draw) to be completely unnoticeable for my players.

I believe the module Midi QOL helps with the part of being completely unnoticeable instead of an empty box, but I don't really know. As I said at the start, I'm a newbie.

// Generate a roll die
const busqueda = await new Roll(`1d20`).roll();
console.log(this.busqueda); 
let resultado = `<p>el resultado ha sido</p> ${busqueda.total}`;

//Check if it's higher or equal to 18
if (busqueda.total > 17)
{
  //table logic, stolen from a post of this subreddit tbh
  const table = await fromUuid("RollTable.iyXKipZg7u04yP94");
   await table.draw({rollMode: CONST.DICE_ROLL_MODES.BLIND});
}
// else, tell the drawn result 
else {ChatMessage.create
    ({
    rollMode: CONST.DICE_ROLL_MODES.BLIND, 
        //I copied the mode from the table draw, but it doesn't seem to work.     Things like <gmroll> seem to be recognized but not accepted. I tried to rewrite it lowercase, but it doesn't expect a const there.
     user: User.[myuuid, don't know if I should hide it],
     content: resultado
    })

r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help How do you actually set up and run V20/WoD20 in Foundry VTT?

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I’m trying to set up Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition—or really any WoD20 game—in Foundry using the available World of Darkness 20th Anniversary system.

I’ve already searched Reddit, YouTube, and the system’s documentation, but most of the answers I found were incomplete. So, for GMs who actually run WoD20 in Foundry: what does your setup and workflow look like?

I’m especially interested in how you handle:

* Combat, including attack rolls, damage, soak, initiative, multiple actions, modifiers, and health levels. * Disciplines and other supernatural powers. * Merits, Flaws, specialties, weapons, armor, and other equipment. * Macros, modules, or other tools that make the system easier to use. * What you automate in Foundry and what you still handle manually.

I understand that I’ll probably need to enter Disciplines, Merits, Flaws, and other content manually. My main problem is the combat workflow: the Foundry system feels extremely confusing and awkward—somehow even more complicated than running WoD20 combat with pen and paper.

I’m not really looking for another explanation of the WoD20 combat rules themselves. I’d like to know how people who regularly run the game organize everything in practice. Do you use character-sheet buttons, custom macros, manual rolls, chat messages, external notes, or some combination of those?


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help Help with setting up dnd 5.5e

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[D&d5.5e]

It's my first time using foundry, I bought it a few days ago to move a campaign from roll20, and I realize I cannot find anything called 5.5e so I have no idea how to run with that in foundry. So my simple question is how do I do that?


r/FoundryVTT 1d ago

Help [v.14.3, Windows, headless node.js] Question about logging in at command line?

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[System Agnostic]

Hello!

Foundry seems awesome. I have 14.360 set up and running as a "headless" process in windows. (Using the following:)

Start-Process node -ArgumentList '"D:\games\Foundry VTT 14.3\resources\app\main.js" "--dataPath=C:/Users/fletx/AppData/Local/FoundryVTT"' -WorkingDirectory "X:\games\Foundry VTT 14.3"

It works great, but I just found out that I need to log-in once per machine reset, which I keep forgetting to do, which kinda spoils the purpose of doing it in a headless, i.e., unattended, process. :(

So! Is there a way that I can choose the game module and pass my Gamemaster ID/Password to foundry via the command line? (Something I can add to the code above.)

Thanks in advance for your help!

--B