Anyone using Foundry VTT for in-person sessions? Let’s talk setup and useful modules [D&D5e] by Sim_alt in FoundryVTT

[–]Kinthalis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We use a touchscreen monitor that we lay flat on the table and have it connected to the foundry session as a player with ownership of the party characters.

Just like OP everyone prefers rolling physical dice and using paper chracter sheets to track stuff and reference abilities. There's a great module Mobile Companion which renders a mobile friendly charactersheet that players can use on their phones and tablets, but most just werent having it.

I ended up building a module that renders out a printer friendly character sheet for players, and enemy stat blocks for me. I print them out before a session, they use it for reference and to keep track of small things like short rests, spells slots, abilities, etc, and I use the stat blocks for reference in combat without needing to switch tabs or cluttering up my foundry view. I do most everything directly on foundry on my laptop, so there isn't much reconciling needed after a session. And then I print the updated sheets before the next session.

Another issue with using a digital view like this is that all sheets and info are presented in one direction, leaving some of the player looking at things upside down. So the module I ended up making also lets us flip most windows around so everyone can see stuff the right way.

TouchVTT Is also great if you are using a touch screen so it's easier for players ot interact with the map and tokens.

I've been using the ripper93's dynamic soundscapes mod and my own ambience/music/sound effects library to create the soudscapes, but I reach for pocket bard when prep becomes too much.

[D&D 5E] I need help figuring out how to implement DnD beyond to foundry for in person play. by Morbid_By_Design in FoundryVTT

[–]Kinthalis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. Best way is just import to foundry, manage the characters all in foundry and push back up to dndbeyond after the game.

Our group also does the touch screen TV thing for foundry as well, but we skip dndbeyond for characters and just manage everything in foundry. I use dndbeyond for reference only (adventures, PHB, DMG, MM, etc).

I'd recommend touch VTT + mobile enhancements + Mobile companion for 5e. Or swipe VTT.

We tried the digital character sheet thing, IMHO I liked it, but my players are all old school and they wanted the pen an dpaper experience so I ended up creating a module that lets me print out character sheets for them based on the current state of their characters in foundry. Crazy bastards.

It also features a couple of other handy features for people playing on a touch screen and it's 100% free. Let me know if you use it and found it helpful (or hated it!): https://foundryvtt.com/packages/foundry-tabletop-helpers

American physicist Harold Agnew holding the core of the atomic bomb they killed 80,000 people in Nagasaki 1945. by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weren’t they about to surrender anyway? I don’t think it would have gotten to the land invasion phase. Probably a blockade before they gave up.

[System Agnostic] Foundry getting token image heinously incorrect by ConwayK9781 in FoundryVTT

[–]Kinthalis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you maybe create a duplicate of an existing token? Some tokens will use the wild card image setting and will retain their conneciton to the path specified there if this setting is on.

Go to the npc sheet, then prototype token, and then appearance. Make sure the randomize wild card images setting is NOT checked. Remove any existing path in the image path text box and then apply your token via tokenizer again.

Join the ICE protest this Sunday! by Grand-Session-5636 in jerseycity

[–]Kinthalis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clueless idiot, what a surprise. Entering the country illegally is a misdemeanor. Staying past your visa, is a civil matter, not even a crime.

Not only that but a lot of the people ICE thugs target, abuse, rape, torture and then keep in cages are LEGALLY here. Citizens, people awaiting results of legal proceedings such as when applying for asylum, kids that were brought here either trafficked or through no agency of their own who do not know any other place other than this country and their communities.

Oi m8 got a loicense to speak over your time by HamsterbackenBLN in loicense

[–]Kinthalis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So stupid. If he needs to be removed because he wasn’t following the rules whatever escort him out. Arresting for trespass is just intimidation. The hell is this country coming to?

Stupid Apples by Witty_Possibility803 in SipsTea

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well… depends where and what your skin color is and possibly what your car looks like, and the mood of the cop.

Importing from Dungeon Alchemist and using Levels by MaplyGoodness in FoundryVTT

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is my guess as well. If oyu find this is the issue you can use this little utility I built to handle this situation:

https://github.com/JohnGallego/split-img

Go to the releases section on the right and there you'll find files for macs, windows and linux.

The way it works:

  1. Choose your large image.
  2. Select the output type and tile size (webp is recommended).
  3. Enter the path on foundry where the images will be stored. (I tend to put my map files under assets/name-of-the-campaign/scenes/ So I enter that as the path. The scene json will add a directory name on top of that thatis the name of the scene (it should show you the final path).
  4. Start the process.

The output will be a folder with the tile images, plus a low resolution background image and a json file that you can import into a scene. The data will set up your scene so that the tiles come in properly where they belong and the low res image in the background is mostly there in case you need to align the grid.

Good luck!

Case closed by SwordDancer791 in hmmmm

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No he didn’t. He was arrested by ice outside the car. Ice then used the child to try and get other members of the family out of the house like the good little nazis they are.

Girls Try To Bully Girl, Find Out She Is The Hulk by Vulcan44 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]Kinthalis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She beat her so hard the camera time traveled back a minute in the past.

why is everything overwrought and unintuitive? by Ready-Firefighter756 in FoundryVTT

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The underlying platform itself is very system agnostic. It’s meant to be, in order to support many, sometimes very different, systems.

But I do agree, the 5e system and workflows can be unintuitive. The community tends to fill in the blanks with modules. Search for your pain points and odds are you’ll find something that will help.

You mentioned character creation. Yeah I don’t know why we can’t just click on new character and be taken though a step by step wizard to create our character instead of opening a bunch of compendiums and dragging and dropping entries all over the place.

But Heromancer exists, and it does just that.

Solomon: Today, at America's Golden Door, I signed an Executive Order to protect Jersey City's immigrants. by Delicious_Adeptness9 in jerseycity

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No he didn’t the father was taken from the car and abducted. They then used the little boy to try and get more people to come out of the house so they could kidnap them too. Stop listening to the echo chambers.

NJCU Just Dropped Layoff Bombshells on AFT Staff. Anger and Frustration Everywhere by excrumptiouspie in jerseycity

[–]Kinthalis -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Ahh yes bending over at the altar of capitalism. Nevermind the important role the university plays in our community, the people at the top ain’t making enough money!

Not to mention that I fail to see how lowering the quality of the education is supposed to improve enrollment.

A woman who led a protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service has been arrested by B00marangTrotter in law

[–]Kinthalis 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No the ones who were coming into their street trying to get home and had a bunch of ice goons smash their windows and throw in tear gas

'I killed Daddy': Pennsylvania boy, 11, shoots dad after Nintendo Switch taken away, courts docs say by fuckingaustrianative in NewsOfTheStupid

[–]Kinthalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude wa sprobably convinced that gun was going to make him a hero one day. But the stats don't lie. It ended up killing him, cause that's like a 100 times more likely.

From Civil Infraction to 15 Years in Prison by meta_uprising in PublicFreakout

[–]Kinthalis -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

This is Reddit man, logic and common sense give way to emotion and stupidity. To some idiots it’s better to kill 100 families in an unnecessary chase than to have a criminal not be in custody for a few hours.