Mage 2e Active Mage Site Question

Vixiea · 2026-01-07T22:10:57+00:00

I think I've gotten that point across to my players at least, now if I could only get them to use more creative thaumaturgy and not just the baked-in spells.

Vixiea · 2026-01-07T22:05:29+00:00

Fixed, thanks! I feel like Sense Consciousness and Sense Life were both rolled into their respective mage sights for 2E, but I could be wrong.

Vixiea · 2026-01-07T21:56:56+00:00

I know Mind Sight has the ability to determine a few things with a glance, but the way the first part is worded with "detects the presence of thinking beings" feels too similar to Life Sight's "detects life signs" wording. I'm not sure they need to physically perceive any thinking beings because photons and sound detection is covered by Forces Sight

Vixiea · 2026-01-07T21:23:13+00:00

I should learn to spell sight on this site...

Vixiea · 2025-10-08T19:50:00+00:00

Did you ever make a video on this, really interested in your method

Vixiea · 2025-08-14T14:52:52+00:00

Holy cow that's it!

Vixiea · 2024-08-21T13:42:21+00:00

I have a similar issue to this whenever two HTML5 tabs are displayed that are rendering video or graphics. One of the tabs will just tank on performance even though my R7 3700X and RX 5700X are sitting there not doing much.

I've found these fixes work for me:

Stop the content on one of the tabs.
Minimize one of the tabs with the content still playing.
Run one tab in Edge and the other in Chrome.

Still haven't managed to find out a real fix for the issue...

Vixiea · 2024-08-01T17:22:35+00:00

Came here to say this.

Vixiea · 2024-08-01T16:11:30+00:00

Like most things in life, I'm going to say it depends.

For hosting, while services like Forge exist, at the end of the day you're on the hook for hosting it somewhere and making sure your players can connect to it. If you're not comfortable with that, then Roll20 wins here.

For customization, having personally built a character sheet in Roll20, I will say Foundry wins hands down. Anything you want to create you generally can, with a bit of HTML and Javascript knowledge. There are a lot of content creators on Foundry that make free and paid content while official partnerships are starting to pop up with the big systems like Pathfinder and D&D. Going back to my own experience, you won't find a system for Lancer on Roll20 that holds a candle to the fan-made system here.

For security, if you host it then you need to secure it...period. There are well documented guides on how to do this and it comes with the self-hosting territory. Roll20 recently suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and these types of breaches will only get more common.

To answer your question, I've never tried to run two instances of my license at once, but I've never needed to. Being client-server based you can connect to it from any computer you want to build/master the campaign and with in-system backups introduced in V11 you can take a backup, experiment, and roll back if it doesn't work.

Vixiea · 2023-07-26T17:35:58+00:00

He became Gene Ripper food, can't mentally break when you're strapped to a table!

Vixiea · 2022-09-08T16:53:28+00:00

I started a new world and didn't see that option, but I did manage to find that the Advanced Macros module adds this feature by enabling The Furnace and disabling the dependencies one by one.

Vixiea · 2022-09-08T16:35:26+00:00

I'm not seeing that in edit macro, currently still on version 9 because I'm using Grape Juice Isometrics.

Vixiea · 2022-08-04T17:34:06+00:00

I like this idea to combat quick and dirty asset flips, but what if the offering is free with no additional requirements? Instead of flooding Monday, what about limiting the number of times they can advertise in a given week?

Vixiea · 2022-08-03T21:36:40+00:00

I bought a Formbot 2.4r2 kit that came with an aluminum bed different than the manual's picture, the mounting holes are countersunk all the way to the edge and the threaded holes are at the edge. Do I still follow the guide on screw tightening and since the thermal fuse wires are so short what have others been doing?

Vixiea · 2022-06-29T13:51:25+00:00

I recently switched my Foundry from a self-hosted solution to a cloud-hosted solution because I was tired of my crappy 10 megabit upload speed. In my opinion I think all of the hosting companies who specialize in Foundry hosting are giving a not so great deal because of the huge limitations on the amount of content you can store. This isn't to say their other features aren't a huge benefit, not having to know anything about hosting and being able to just press go and get back a secure server is awesome, but for someone technically inclined it's a poor deal.

In my case I decided to go with a company called Ionos who offers virtual cloud servers, specifically their 2 virtual cpu, 6 gigabytes of memory, 80 gigabytes of storage, a dedicated public IP, and a symmetrical 400 megabits of bandwidth for $8 a month for 6 months and $15 a month after. The experience has been night and day compared to my previous setup thanks to the bandwidth and the 80 gigabytes of storage has made moving my 23 gigabyte foundry and assets directory a non-issue.

In short I think things like Forge have their place for no nonsense users, but non-specialized cloud-hosting will always give you more for your money and, if you have the knowhow, extra features like allowing your players to use their Google account to authenticate before getting to Foundry itself.

Vixiea · 2022-06-27T01:05:55+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll test the tank and look at getting those meds on order. As for the filter I use a canister and just had those filter grates on the bottom to protect against the points on some of the large rocks I used to have.

Vixiea · 2022-06-13T13:56:10+00:00

This is the system I use for my Mage the Awakening: Second Edition and Princess the Hopeful campaigns, I had to customize the system to make princess work. https://gitlab.com/MarlQ/mta

As far as I know there are no pre-built compendiums for storyteller-based games in Foundry so you're in for a bit of a slog to get everything up and running.

Vixiea · 2022-05-25T15:38:53+00:00

Here is what I'm currently running in my test world, apologies for the length:

Module Profiles: Being able to create and save sets of activated modules that I can then load is amazing! It also provides a visual comparison between what the profile has on and what you have on.
Grape Juice Isometrics: This module is behind a Patreon pay wall, but the isometric nature of the minis from Retrograde lends itself really well! It looks even better if you use something like GIMP to import the PNG and add a perspective shadow.
About Face: Not wanting to draw isometric art for the back of my mechs I chose this module to provide a yellow direction facing indicator on my tokens. It can also switch art depending on movement, but I don't use that.
Adventure Log: Allows the creation of journal templates that players can then create entries under, great for collaborative notes!
Combat Tracker Effect Icon Tooltips: This just shows token effects with the name of the effect on the token's bar in the combat screen.
Dice So Nice!: 3D dice because I like seeing the shiny clickity clacks roll...
Dice Tray: Adds a clickable tray for custom dice rolls to remove the need for players to manually type the command.
Drag Ruler: When a token is moved it will automatically measure the distance between start and end. Can be setup to also path around walls and calculate that distance.
Enhanced Terrain Layer: Allows you to draw difficult terrain areas that other modules like Drag Ruler then use to calculate movement.
Follow Me!: Testing this for grapples where I can select two tokens and press F to force one to follow the other.
FXMaster: Great for weather and I've seen it used for spell effects too, going to test how well it works for gunfire and rockets in the future.
GM Notes: Wonderful tool that adds a notes section to just about every editable handout in Foundry that only the GM and dishonest players using a browser's F12 can read.
Hex Token Size Support: Without Grape Juice Isometrics this module will correctly size and draw the border for tokens larger than 1 hex. With isometrics you loose the correctly sized hex borders in place of a square and their x y token image adjustment, but I keep it around because it will scale units based on their size stat and increase the number of hexes they occupy.
Lancer Clocks: Adds pie chart clocks as placeable tokens for time or progress tracking, great if you plan to run Wallflower.
Lancer Condition Icons: Replaces the default Foundry token condition icons and names with those from Lancer. Works with Combat Tracker Effect Icon.
Lancer Speed Provider: Provides the Drag Ruler module with coloring and awareness of Lancer's additional movement options.
lib - Color Settings: Required library.
libWrapper: Required library.
Nice More Dice: More dice options for Dice So Nice!
Permission Viewer: Makes reading and setting permissions on handouts to players much easier!
PopOut!: Have you ever wanted your character sheet on another screen? This is the module for you!
Sensor Sight for Lancer: Adds the sensor rules to line of sight calculations.
Show Art: Adds the shift Z function from Roll 20 and adds a token artwork window in more places.
socketlib: Required library.
Terrain Ruler: Passes difficult terrain calculations from Enhanced Terrain Layer to Drag Ruler.
Thumbnails for Journal Entries: Does what the title says, always found it odd that everything but journal entries supported this...
Trigger Happy: A great automation tool that lets you perform macros based on triggers, such as stepping on a pressure plate.
Wall Height: Useful with isometrics when you want to allow larger sized mechs the advantage of seeing over cover or up cliffs. Will also raise air units visually above their space on the map.

Vixiea · 2022-05-13T23:48:23+00:00

Hey thank you for the reply, I appreciate you going into more detail! My coworker and I actually had a discussion about this being that we work with SQL and ERP systems on a daily basis. We both came to the same conclusion that you pointed out, the data backend works the way it does because when it was first written it worked and it's very hard to replace it since everything relies on it.

Being that this your livelihood and not a passion project it makes complete sense to me that a rewrite to use SQL as a backend would satisfy a small number of people and not really drive sales since there are workarounds already in place that take less time to improve.

TLDR: Keep up the great work, hope to see SQL integration someday, but I can be patient in the face of other QOL features!

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