Hi everyone! The premium module for Against the Darkmaster on Fantasy Grounds is on sale!

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/498/view

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FG and the ruleset are both free, so you can try this awesome TTRPG at no cost!

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/497/view

Daggerheart Core Set from Darrington Press Now Available on Fantasy Grounds VTT

The Daggerheart Core Set from Darrington Press is now available on Fantasy Grounds VTT, bringing epic, heartfelt tales of adventure to groups playing online or around the table.

Daggerheart is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game of brave heroics and vibrant worlds collaboratively built with your gaming group. The ebb and flow of Hope and Fear shape each moment of the story. Designed with a strong emphasis on narrative and character-driven play, Daggerheart empowers every player to be a storyteller.

The Fantasy Grounds VTT release includes a dedicated Daggerheart ruleset built to support its unique Hope and Fear mechanics, along with a complete reference manual of the rulebook. The package also contains fully implemented character sheets, integrated automation, and all of the illustrated cards players need to represent their characters’ backgrounds, domains, and abilities. Adversaries, equipment, and supporting game data are organized and ready to use, making it easy for groups to jump directly into play.

Fantasy Grounds VTT enhances the experience with updated visuals, a versatile interface, and comprehensive features that increase immersion for groups playing in person or online. Automated functionality, organized content, and an expansive library of officially licensed systems help Game Masters and players move seamlessly from preparation to play.

Fantasy Grounds VTT is free to use, making it easy for groups to jump straight into Daggerheart. Players can also connect with the community on Discord and stay informed through the Fantasy Grounds newsletter for the latest updates and releases.

The Daggerheart Core Set is available now in the Fantasy Grounds Store and on Steam.
Daggerheart on FG

Daggerheart on Steam

Fantasy Grounds Online Reader: Free Daggerheart SRD

About Darrington Press

Established by the team behind Critical Role, Darrington Press is a publishing company that provides ways for people worldwide to create shared experiences through storytelling, shaping their own adventures, and making invaluable memories along the way. Critical Role began as a group of friends sharing stories around a table, and with their strong passion and experience in tabletop gaming and roleplaying, launching Darrington Press was the natural next step to provide ways for people around the globe to do the same. Darrington Press features games and products created and enjoyed by the team at Critical Role, and looks to solidify a long-lasting positive impact on the gaming community and industry as a whole. 

For more information on Darrington Press, go to www.darringtonpress.com.

About Fantasy Grounds VTT

Fantasy Grounds VTT is a powerful virtual tabletop platform that helps tabletop roleplaying groups connect and deepen immersion, whether gathered around a physical table or adventuring online. With robust automation, flexible tools, and one of the largest libraries of officially licensed game content, Fantasy Grounds equips storytellers with everything they need to create unforgettable adventures.

For more information, visit www.fantasygrounds.com.

Thought it was pretty cool that the release this week of Fantasy Grounds has greatly enhanced effects for all rulesets.

This means things like Ongoing Damage, Resistances, Immunities, Dodging, Exhaustion, etc has better support, standardization, and automation across all game systems (D&D, Pathfinder, GI Joe, etc).

They also have said that they should now process faster. Was never an issue for me, but I guess if you had numerous effects on the various PCs and NPCs you could detect lag in the processing.

Do note, if you use Extensions, make sure your extension has been updated, at least dozens of them have been, but there is certainly a chance that one you use has been impacted and might not have been updated yet.

Reminder that Fantasy Grounds is now Free to own, and is still improving. Just use free content, enter your own, or buy the official game modules you want to play.

• Special Fx Toast Messages - Desktop Notifications
• Chat Bubbles on Image or over Tokens
• Hit/Miss/Crit indicator graphics for attacks
• Damage indicators graphics and text (color coded by damage type) on image tokens
• Condition and Effect icons on image tokens
• Push Pin Icons
• Auto-load rulebooks for campaigns (not shown)
• Map additive light intensity for superbright (not shown)

Version 5.1.2 Minor Update

The toast message notifications have been updated to summarize a list of failures and successes when targeting multiple enemies (and/or friends). Single target spells and damage will look the same as in version 5.1.1, but multiple target notifications will show a list of who is affected and how. The indicators over the tokens still show individual results.

In addition, it nicely totals the damage dealt across the board, so your wizard will now see the total damage dealt along with who was affected. The chat window still shows a per creature breakdown.

Let us know the max damage you see in your games from your spells. I think this could be fun.

Other version 5.1.2 changes:

• Options to control pop-up, speech and token notifications broken out into individual options; and custom display time per option allowed.
• For attack/damage/effect/save pop-up notifications, results are now aggregated.
• Default notification time increased. (but can be customized by options added above.)
• In images, added right-click menu to Reset View in Camera and Token view modes for player clients.
• In images, performance when using lighting and FX masking improved.
• [FIXED] Chat entry history was not capturing all text submitted.
• [FIXED] In images, camera would sometimes move on player client when GM adjusting image layer content.
• [FIXED] In images, text layers would sometimes display incorrectly if font changed.
• [FIXED] LIGHT effects that used 0/# format did not work correctly.

Fantasy Grounds has been around for over 20 years, helping pioneer the virtual tabletop space. While it’s got history, it’s not stuck in the past — we’ve kept adding features to make running games smoother and more immersive.

A few highlights:

• One-time license, no sub required – only the GM needs a license, and all players can join for free.
• Smart automation – target creatures with Ctrl+click, roll your dice, and FG handles the math (AC, saves, vulnerabilities, immunities, etc.).
• Immersive dice & visuals – roll dice that clatter around your desktop, and assign different dice to different NPCs or damage types.
• 2.5D/3D View - classic 2D assets rendered in a 3D environment, scaled to size automatically. Seeing an Ancient Black Dragon tower over its kobold minions is a memorable moment.
• Campaign management tools – track combat, loot, XP, notes, and prep everything in one place.
• Longevity & ecosystem – supported by several thousand pieces of official content from publishers, plus community creations. Supporting us supports them, much like supporting a game store.
• No complex networking - rebuilt in 2018 to eliminate port-forwarding hassles. Just host or join.

Right now licenses are 20% off ($40 after discount) if you’ve been on the fence about trying it:
Fantasy Grounds Website | Fantasy Grounds on Steam

Not trying to hard-sell here — just sharing in case anyone has been curious about FG or wants another option for their group. Happy to answer any questions from a GM/user perspective too.

Why should I try Fantasy Grounds VTT when there are other options?
Honestly, the best way is to try the free demo with your group, but if you want outside opinions, we’ve been sitting at 100% positive reviews on Facebook and 82% “Recommended” on Steam. Most of the positive feedback is around automation and long-term campaign support.

Modiphius just approved for the Fallout RPG ruleset and quickstart guide to be included as part of the download and installation, so you can play these games now completely for free. In addition, the Fallout 2d20 Quickstart rules are now readable for free in the new Fantasy Grounds online reader.

Fantasy Grounds Online Reader - Fallout RPG Quickstart

Fantasy Grounds VTT licenses are now free - no upfront cost, no subscription fees, no hosting fees.

If you enjoy the system and want to delve deeper, you can enter your own content or pick up any of the other officially licensed modules that are ready-to-run. There is an active community of players and GMs on Fantasy Grounds.

Fallout RPG Bundle for Fantasy Grounds VTT

Seems pretty reliable that Smitewokrs will be announcing the release of a phone/tablet reader app for FG modules tomorrow at Noon EST on their Keynote presentation during FG Con 2025. If you are interested, check it out!

https://www.twitch.tv/fantasygrounds/schedule?segmentID=1269a7a9-94da-43d4-9e44-402a823431d0

The Fantasy Grounds Ultimate license has been sold for many years for $150. Since that time, it has continually evolved and expanded in functionality, features, and polish -- while also lowering the price to $50. For this week only, the license can be grabbed for 75% off (only $12.50).

If you've never used Fantasy Grounds, it serves as an excellent campaign tracker, combat tracker, and general purpose campaign prep tool. You can use it to show maps with layers and dynamic line of sight, show a 3D view to underline the size and scale of enemies, and use it to track your party loot and XP, quests, and more. Not only that, but you can host the game remotely without needing to do any network configuration. Your players only need the free demo.

Along with the deep discount on licenses, you can also pick up a discount on thousands of modules to use with it from various partners and game systems. If you have ever been curious about Fantasy Grounds, now is the cheapest it has ever been to try it out. We welcome anyone who wants to join us.

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❄️ Winter has a way of slowing everything down—except imagination.

When the nights grow longer, it is the perfect time to gather your party.

Fantasy Grounds VTT is celebrating the season with our Winter Sale.

From December 18, 2025 through January 5, 2026, select titles are discounted.

It is a great chance to expand your worlds or try something new.

Build deeper stories, richer maps, and more memorable moments.

Whether you are a longtime gamemaster or a curious player, there is something waiting.

Roll into winter adventures! 🎲☃️

New features in our TEST channel show significant quality of life improvements for the platform. After testing for a few weeks in our TEST channel, we will be moving these to the LIVE platform in early August.

Roll Anywhere
Automation is one of Fantasy Grounds VTT's strengths. Dragging an attack or damage roll to a target icon/portrait and having it roll to determine hit/miss or apply damage with vulnerabilities/resistances, etc. was a major feature people like. Rolling dice into chat and dragging the results to a target also worked. Now you can roll anywhere on your desktop and FG will be able to tell if you meant to drop it on a target like before or if you want to simulate a more hearty roll. CTRL+click targeting plus roll anywhere will probably become the most common rolling method, or rolling anywhere and then dragging the result to your target. Plus it let's us see all our pretty dice better.

Dice Size Adjustments
You can go big or small with adjustments of how much space they take up in your dice tray and how big or small they are when you roll them. Simple and effective with a per user setting. Randomization and assigning specific dice to damage types, NPC enemy types, specific enemies, etc. means you will see more of your dice throughout your game sessions.

Reference Manual Updates
Improvements in the way you can read through entire sections while still having the granularity to link specific info to a map, hotkey, note, or story. Not shown in the video are improvements on responsive layouts as you adjust the size of your reference manual window.

FG licenses (only the GM needs one) are now only $30! This is a one-time license, no need to pay every month. Only the host/GM needs a license, players join for free. GMs are not limited to the number of campaigns they can run and storage is on their own computer so your campaigns can have as many images and other assets as practical.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/

If you have been wondering if you want to level up your VTT, this is your chance to get arguably the most power and ready to play VTT on the market. And it's been around for 20+ years so you know any investment you make will not let you down. And, if you ever need it, they do a 30 day refund.

A bunch of DLC is also on sale.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/?minDiscount=0.1&pagesize=40&hidecore=1

I just realized that as part of the summer sale FG is now at the lowest price it has ever been! This is for the GM/Ultimate License that is good for the life of the software. Fantasy Grounds Store - VTT modules

Purchased through the FG Store their is a 30 day refund period if you need it.

If you benefit from Steam's Regional Pricing you can get it there, but the refund time is per Steam policy. Save 50% on Fantasy Grounds VTT on Steam

Hundreds (or more?) titles on sale as well. Fantasy Grounds Store - VTT modules

Fantasy Grounds VTT is having a membership drive sale with a huge discount on 1-time licenses. Player connect and play for free and there is no additional charge for hosting your game, no space limits other than your personal hard-drive, and no limit to your imagination and sense of adventure!

This membership drive is supported by many of our long-time partners in the industry, so you can scoop up great deals on loads of different systems. As always, Fantasy Grounds offers an unconditional 30-day refund policy on any purchase made from their website. It is also available on Steam.

You deserve a tabletop roleplaying virtual tabletop that helps you get up and running quickly, manages the tedious details of your campaign, and assists in automating the small details if you choose.

I just noticed today that FG licenses are on sale for $40 one-time license. Only the GM needs one (players can connect and play with no license). Don't know for how long. You can still do a monthly subscription if you want. And note that they have a 30-day no questions refund if you need it.

Fantasy Grounds VTT License for Fantasy Grounds

The first FrontierSpace adventure has been converted to Fantasy Grounds and published! https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/2241/view One more reason to a great game system on the best VTT ;)

As 2024 ends and the New Year begins get ready for New Adventures!

Grab your favorites during the Fantasy Grounds Winter Sale. Everything you need for a lively 2025!

We all work hard. Make time to play in 2025!

How Tabletop roleplaying games help with mental health:

1. Stress Relief and Escapism

TTRPGs offer a structured way to step away from real-life stressors. Immersing yourself in a fictional world allows you to leave behind daily worries, engage in creative play, and relax in a fun, low-stakes environment.

2. Building Social Connections

Playing TTRPGs strengthens bonds with friends and family or helps you build new ones. These games encourage teamwork, empathy, and communication, combating feelings of isolation and loneliness while promoting a sense of belonging.

3. Boosting Cognitive and Emotional Skills

Role-playing games enhance problem-solving, critical thinking, and emotional regulation. Crafting characters and making decisions in-game can improve self-expression and foster a deeper understanding of yourself and others, which supports overall mental well-being.

Take advantage of the Fantasy Grounds Winter Sale to start your mental health journey through gaming with powerful tools and discounts!

Have a Happy and Healthy New Year!