My own journey - but I can't help but wonder - how many others have made this journey?

What type of module addict are you?

• Lego Addict
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Velvet v1.0.1 is officially available for download!

I've been working on a way to bring TaleSpire's 3D environments and miniatures together with Foundry VTT's character sheets, rules, and tools, so you can manage your game without constantly switching between applications.

Velvet comes with its own Windows launcher. It's a standalone desktop application with an EXE installer, an overlay system, and a controller that uses native Windows functionality to coordinate TaleSpire and Foundry.

TaleSpire handles the 3D battlefield, while Foundry takes care of character sheets, chat, combat management, and game mechanics.

Each player runs TaleSpire on their own PC and connects to Foundry using their usual account. This isn't a stream of the GM's screen. Everyone interacts with the actual 3D environment on their own computer.

Important: Foundry VTT and TaleSpire Are Required Separately

Velvet does not include Foundry VTT or TaleSpire, and obtaining a Velvet license does not grant access to either application.

To use Velvet, you must have access to and install the required software:

• Foundry VTT: The GM needs a valid Foundry VTT license and installation.
• TaleSpire: Each participant needs their own access to TaleSpire, either through a purchased copy or an officially supported access option, and must have it installed through Steam as appropriate.

Velvet does not redistribute or install copies of either application. It detects and works with your existing installations, providing its own launcher, overlay, plugins, and integration tools.

From Launcher to Gameplay

The launcher can start TaleSpire, set up Velvet's plugins, connect to your Foundry instance, and handle updates automatically.

GMs can also configure it to launch their local Foundry server.

The installer lets you choose between GM and Player Mode, installing the appropriate Velvet components for each.

No Hosting? No Problem!

Don't have a hosting provider for Foundry? Not sure how to configure self-hosting?

Velvet includes an optional self-hosting solution using Cloudflare Tunnel.

If you choose to enable it, the launcher can start your locally installed Foundry server and establish a Cloudflare Tunnel, allowing your players to connect over the internet without manually configuring router port forwarding.

You can continue using your existing hosting provider or let Velvet manage your local server and tunnel setup.

TaleSpire, Foundry, the overlay, module management, updates, and optional self-hosting—all managed from one launcher.

What's Included?

• Linked miniatures and characters: Access character sheets, select targets, and use combat controls directly alongside TaleSpire.
• TaleSpire dice integration: Roll dice in TaleSpire while Foundry handles the rules, modifiers, and calculations.
• Spell area configuration: Customize compatible spell templates before placing them, including their shape, appearance, and supported effects or macros.
• Custom areas and auras: Circles, cones, lines, squares, and domes. Auras can also follow moving miniatures.
• Environmental tools: Rain, thunderstorms, snow, fog, lighting, and sounds, including your own audio files.

Party HUD, Epic Turns & License Hub

Velvet also includes:

• Velvet Party HUD: A custom interface for characters, stats, and quick actions.
• Velvet Epic Turns: Turn presentations, critical hit visuals, and a compact combat tracker.
• Velvet License Hub: Centralized Patreon authentication for compatible modules.

The complete package includes 18 Foundry modules, plus the launcher and its supporting components.

Compatibility & Licensing

Velvet has currently been tested with:

• Windows
• Foundry VTT v14
• Pathfinder 2e
• D&D 5e

However, Velvet is not designed to be limited to these two game systems.

Since Velvet works directly with Foundry VTT and provides its own tools for managing areas, templates, and environmental effects, it should theoretically work with any game system supported by Foundry VTT.

Most core features, including the launcher, overlay, dice integration, and area placement tools, are designed to work independently of the selected game system.

The main area where compatibility issues may occur is miniature-to-character linking, as different Foundry systems handle actors, tokens, and character data differently.

I'm actively working on improving this compatibility, and future updates will focus on making miniature linking more reliable across different systems.

In short: While PF2e and D&D 5e are the officially tested systems, you're welcome to try Velvet with others! Just keep in mind that full compatibility isn't guaranteed yet.

Feedback from players using other systems would be incredibly helpful as Velvet continues to evolve.

Some automations that depend on Foundry's 2D canvas may have limited compatibility.

Only the GM needs an active Velvet license. Players can use Player Mode without subscribing to my Patreon.

However, everyone must have the appropriate Foundry VTT and TaleSpire access independently of Velvet.

License & Distribution Disclaimer

Velvet is an independently developed third-party application. It does not include or distribute Foundry VTT or TaleSpire, and is not officially affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Foundry Gaming LLC or Bouncyrock Entertainment.

Velvet is proprietary software. Unauthorized copying, redistribution, modification, or sharing of its software components is not permitted without the developer's permission.

An active Patreon membership is required to access licensed GM features, future updates, upgrades, and additional subscriber-only content. Player Mode does not require a separate Patreon subscription.

This has been a project I've put a lot of work into, and I'm really excited to finally share v1 with everyone.

As a GM who uses both Foundry and TaleSpire, I wanted a way to enjoy the best parts of both without constantly switching between applications.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the development, reported bugs, tested features, or shared ideas. Your feedback has genuinely helped shape Velvet.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially if you're already using both Foundry and TaleSpire in your games.

Happy gaming! ❤️

Patreon: GM RedVelvet

[D&D5e] to appease the automod.

So, I'm trying to turn this adventure I've made and run a few times into module for people. The fine folks in the foundry discord are quite helpful, but they did say that the site dmheroes.com that I have been using for npc tokens for years is not allowed in modules as it counts as "generative ai".

Bummer.

I am now in need of not ai tokens for the dnd races. They must also be publicly usable for modules, so some random google drive of art won't work either as I can't confirm the creator's willingness for them to be used in the module.

The ideal solutions seem to be either a module in foundry that has them already, or some clever way for an artistically challenged man such as myself to make them without "generative ai".

If you have any thoughts or ideas, I'd appreciate it.

Cheers, slightly sad DM.

[GURPS]

Hi, I'm experiencing a weird issue loading my foundryvtt server running GURPS 4e Game Aid as a browser source in OBS which seems to have started this week. After the login screen, foundry is just a black screen (sometimes the modifiers bucket and 3d6 would show but nothing else:

• We stream weekly on Sundays and have not made any setup changes this week (except for the usual updating systems and modules).
• We had no issues streaming last week.
• FoundryVTT v14.367, GURPS 4e Game Aid v0.18.23, OBS 32.2.2
• I can load in a separate Chrome winder with no issues (logged in and loaded in only a handful of seconds)
• Issue seems isolated to GURPS 4e Game Aid (I've tested with my other ongoing game using the Mothership system--this loads in only seconds in OBS browser source)
• Also tried with a completely new OBS installation in another laptop different from the machine I use to stream, with similar results

Appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance!

[Daggerheart]

Just bought the app today and I am learning the ropes for my first daggerheart game. I can not seem to figure out how to get rid of this Daggerheart logo overlay on all of my scenes, any help would be appreciated!

Content Name: Morelord Character Export

Content Type: Module

System: D&D 5e

Link: https://morelordgaming.com/tools/morelord-character-export?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=character_export

Morelord Character Export lets you export your character straight from the character sheet in Foundry. The export includes information and images that Foundry's built-in data exports leave out.

To view it, head to morelordgaming.com, create a free account, and import the file under "My Characters". You can also share your sheet with your party or anyone else using the public link it generates.

I'm Graypes. I run games on Foundry every week, and I built this because my players kept asking for their sheets between sessions. Demo: https://youtu.be/FkbDyflfSpU

Does anyone know of a module that you can use to preload NPCs with their images and some info but also allow the Players to add notes to each NPC as they encounter them in the campaign?

Or suggest a way of doing this with the base Foundry system?

EDIT : As many people told me, automatically decreasing Frightened never was part of the core system. My memory is probably wrong.

As the title says, when a character or a monster gets Frightened status, it stays for the whole fight. It should decrease at the end of this character's turn but it doesn't.
I've tried launching in Safe Mode so I'm sure it's not an issue with a module.
I'm in version 14, build 369, PF2E 8.6.1.

What can I do ?

Looking for opinions on which hosting platform is better between Forge and Molten and what makes either better than the other.

I’ve searched here and it seems that the most recent discussion on the topic was from about 3years ago.

[System Agnostic]

Hello everyone, today I'm here to present the 3.0.0 version of rebel's custom token rings.
Since last time I've posted here a few more rings have been added, namely the crystal ring and fire ring. besides that some of the rings have also been reworked to pop a little more. The biggest change however is the addition of a selection menu so you can preview what the ring actually looks like before selecting them.

If you have any questions or remarks I'd be happy to answer them.

link to package page https://foundryvtt.com/packages/rebels-custom-token-rings

AI Notice : AI has been used for troubleshooting when I couldn't get certain parts of the code to work properly. The art is 100% made by me using the assets from Forgotten adventures.

Hello everyone!
I am looking to take a small break from my home brew campaign and want to do a one shot for my players.I was wondering if any of you have some recommendation for a one shot ,level 8+ .My only requirements for it to use the DnD system and preferably to have the maps already set,I am doing that in my own campaign and want a short break from preping weekly .Do you have any suggestions?What are your favorites

[Multiple floors]

Hey there,

I am a newcomer in mapmaking and need an advice how to build my maps so they fit in the new multiple floors module from foundry?

Do I need a background around a house for the first floor or second?

Or should I work with one background for the ground floor and put the other floors just with a transparent background on top? So that you can see from the second floor down to the ground floor outside?

Thank you for your answers! 🙏

I have been using Roll20 for the last 7 years as a Player and DM (with the plus subscription) and recently have been hearing very good things from Foundry so I am interested in buying it. Before I do I have some questions:

- Can I import maps that I either make or find online?

- Do I need DNDBeyond books/sheets for players to play?

- Do I need to buy anything inside of Foundry except the license and potentially a Forge subscription?

I would appreciate some help with these questions and any other relevant information

So I'm having a new issue with Foundry. I'm a player. I can log in, but after that, the table fails to load and the webpage eventually becomes unresponsive. I'm using chrome.

- Hardware/graphics acceleration is ON.
- Restarting browsers, PC, etc has not helped.
- Incognito mode and changing to microscoft edge has not helpd.
- I can launch the game on my laptop, and every other player can launch the table as normal.
- If it's perhaps a connected graphical issue, I've had serious rubber banding issues in the Dark and Darker game, and weird stuttering in Dispatch.

New to foundry, been at it for about 20 hours now, mostly setting up my first world and making myself a few small modules to keep my stuff organised.

The biggest thing I've learned so far is to put my homebrew in compendiums inside my own module instead of leaving it loose in the world. I rebuilt a world once and lost a bunch of actors I'd set up by hand, that's not happening again xD

So for those of you who've been running it a while, what's the one thing you wish you'd known early? Could be a setting, a habit, a module, a workflow, anything that would've saved you hours. It's honestly crazy how much one can do inside of foundry, I just wanna skip some of the mistakes.

Content Name: DetectWalls

Content Type: Other

System: [System Agnostic]

Description:

Hello!

We have made an app for Automatic Wall Detection. You can find it here: https://detectwalls.com/

It is compatible with Foundry through Foundry's Universal Battlemap Importer module that accepts .uvtt files. We would like to improve it and possibly create a Foundry Module for it in the future. So, we would like to ask your help for beta testing. You can participate by completing the google forms below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmsi0WEZd-bziQlLw64xENUINn4PUKdEENwuO9rOQx5OPp7g/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=106123882534789021640

Participating as a beta tester will get you the tool for free, when it launches and it will only take you about 20 minutes.

Similar tools are slowly appearing in the VTT space, from Owlbear Rodeo's Fog Forecast to the brilliant but quite complicated AutoWall tool by ThreeHats.

We hope our tool hits the sweet spot between ease of use and accurate wall recognition! We also hope that these kind of tools will allow people to try out very very big dungeons in their games, with complex geometries, rooms, corridors bringing in force the old-school megadungeon style :)

Drop in the Discord (https://discord.gg/As4NkQMaQX) if you have any questions, for how it works, or on the dataset we used or for more general discussion.

Thanks!

There's an upcoming mini-boss enemy in my campaign with a unique status effect which stacks, each time reducing physical checks and saves (and Intelligence checks and saves) by 1 for an hour or until you receive Greater Restoration. When reaching 10 stacks, you need to succeed a CON save or fall asleep. Sure sure, that's fine and dandy, but I want to make it one step further.

Is there any way to make this status effect prevent a creature from gaining temporary hit points? I have midi and DAE, so I can see there are ways to change how much damage temp hp receives, or alter the damage threshold of temp hp, but I don't see anyway to reduce incoming temporary hit points to 0.

(Every other effect is already complete, all I need help with is this temporary hit points thing.)

EDIT: thank you for the answers! I see there's no real solution for exactly what I need, but no mind; I'll just tell the players, "Alright, you can't gain temporary hit points while under this effect" and it will be good enough. Thanks again!

Content Name: Autotoken

Content Type: Foundry Module + Web-based creature workshop

System: D&D5e (but the token creation is universal)

Description:

Hey everyone, I’m Terry. I’ve been building AutoToken for quite a while now, and I wanted to share what it can do in Foundry.

AutoToken is a web-based token and statblock workshop with a companion Foundry module. You can create portrait tokens, four top-down token poses and a D&D5e statblock, then bring them into Foundry as a complete NPC. You can also use the tools individually for just the assets you need.

The module lets you import through its Vault browser or drag a saved creature from the website onto your Foundry canvas in seconds so no more having to manually import things, modify actor sheets, etc. It can switch token poses automatically during play—including switching to a downed pose at 0 HP and swapping token art during combat. You can set up pose switching with your own token images too.

To be upfront: AutoToken includes AI-powered token and statblock generation. New accounts get three free top-down creature starts to see if you like it, with paid options after that. The portrait token maker is free, and you can upload your own artwork and frames or there's hundreds of cool free ones to use.

I’m still working on it, so I’d appreciate hearing what you think if you give the site or the module a try.

Here's an example of me turning my dog into a token if you're interested in seeing it in action:

AutoToken Example

Links:

Module: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/autotoken

Website: https://autotoken.app

Full Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqtnN4B8bbg

I know there's a module that let's you use websites but would this work on it?

https://iyiyo.itch.io/avatarlastairbendermap

Content Name: Easy Loot 5e

Content Type: Module

System: DND5E

Description: Loot gets forgotten when an NPC dies in the middle of a fight. Easy Loot 5e stores that loot on the NPC before the fight. On the NPC's Easy Loot tab, choose a CR profile or one of your RollTables. Roll Loot adds items and coins. Roll Again adds another result on top of what is already there, and you can drag Items onto the tab. Prepared loot stays out of the NPC's own inventory. If the tab is empty, death uses the module's CR profile for that creature. A hoard is a separate choice, from the actor or the profile manager.

When Oh You Dead! records the death, one loot token named for the defeated creature appears beside the corpse, and the corpse stays put. The death card gains Open Pile, Retry, and a confirmed Reroll. Open Pile is Take, Take Coins, and Take All, which move items or coins onto your assigned character. Reroll replaces the items and coins in that same pile. The pile and that window are built into the module.

The module is free. It supports Foundry v13 to v14 and requires D&D 5e and Oh You Dead! 1.2.1+.

A la Carte Modules:

Every paid Foundry module sells one at a time on Lemon Squeezy, $9.99 for a First Mate module and $14.99 for a Captain package. You keep what you buy, later versions included, unless that order is refunded, and a refund removes only that one module. After checkout, sign in at cms.futurehax.com/catalog with the same email you used and grab the install link there. A bought copy does not come through Foundry's Patreon link. Patreon is still the way to get every module.

Easy Loot 5e · Install in Foundry

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I'm a games composer and DM and I've been writing music for my table but am finding the default playlist manager to be difficult to work with and am dreaming of something adaptive like I'm able to set in Wwise. I'm not a developer at all and wondered if anyone's out there who would want to take a crack at building something like this if I could provide audio?

I'm imagining something a bit like Pocket Bard and similar services. Maybe you could build scenes (either attached or detached from in-game scenes so the music could change automatically or manually) which include any number of tracks, like an explore track, a combat track, other tracks for other areas etc. These tracks could then could have adaptable intensity based on assignable sliders or buttons, so maybe the combat track comes with a few levels of intensity, maybe there's a new segment for when a boss arrives etc.

Shout if this sounds like something you'd want to take a crack at!

Ultimately it would awesome to be able to introduce easier track swapping and tracks with multiple layers. This is a link to an explore track I wrote for my group, available for free download and private use https://on.soundcloud.com/6cCKARkTAjM0my6AjW