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Intro

I remember when Foundry VTT was just a small honorable mention on the old document, and look at how far it’s come. Honestly, if I were to describe it Foundry VTT it’s almost as if someone took all of their pent-up anger at Roll20 and used it to build something similar but 100x better in every tiny way. For power users, tinkerers, and tech nerds that want their games to still be accessable to everyone Foundry is the VTT that you want.  Don’t look anywhere else.  Foundry uses modern web technologies to create a super feature-rich experience that is infinitely customizable.  The developer is extremely responsive, and already a large community has grown up around Foundry with modules that can do almost anything. Foundry really puts the ultimate power in your hands.

Foundry is also the absolute best place to play Pathfinder 2. With integrated audio cues, map layers with built in story beats (a wall that disappears for example), and the quickest release of new products it really rises above the rest for PF2 specifically.

However, if you’re intimidated by technology, or if any of your group plays on crappy, tiny chromebooks, Foundry isn’t for you.

Cost

Super simple.

That’s it. Biggest perk of foundry right there. Everyone in your party will connect to that one license key held by the DM.

You can run Foundry straight from your computer for no additional cost as long as you set up port-fowarding on your router (in contrast to Fantasy Grounds which has cloud based connections).  It will only be available online to your players when you have the program running, however and it will be reliant on the speed of your computer as it is doing all the work.

The Forge is a third-party cloud provider that puts Foundry completely in the cloud (like Roll20) without needing to host it from your computer, fiddle with port forwarding, or set up your own server.  It has an additional cost of between $4 and $13 per month.

Foundry Gaming Server is another third-party cloud provider for Foundry. they provide services of varying sizes from $5 to $46 a month

You can also host Foundry on your own dedicated server, using cloud hosting providers like Digital Ocean or Linode, for as little as $5 a month.  Though there are tutorials available, that will inevitably require technical knowledge.

Features

• Battlemaps
  • ✅ Shared battlemaps with player- and GM-controlled tokens
  • 💙 Awesome drawing function which also works great with digitizer pens!
  • ✅ Map-making tools — it can set background images and do tiling for repeating textures, and the tiles-browser module turns it into a full assets-focused map builder
  • 💙 A simple ruler along with the ability to measure and create cone, circle, and rectangle templates that are moveable and easy to edit
  • 3️⃣ Fog of War — only RTS-Style Fog of War in the base product. There is a 3rd party module for simple FoW.
  • 💙 Advanced Fog of War — tokens can see in the dynamic lighting where they’ve been in the past! Foundry is the only VTT besides Roll20 that has this feature.
  • 💙 Dynamic Lighting — doors, light sources, player vision, one-way walls….everything you could ask for.
  • 💙 Supports animated maps, weather effects, and day/night effects
• Chat & Dice
  • 💙 Advanced chat with roll commands & macros, blind rolls, speaking in and out of character, whispering, etc. GM’s can also delete any message (for accidental spoilers.)
  • ✅3️⃣ Die rolls from character sheets, but to-hit/damage/healing isn’t applied automatically and must be managed by the DM still without the correct 3rd party addons
  • ✅ Visual (non-chat) dice rolling interface installable via the Simple Dice Roller module.
• Character Sheets
  • ✅ Character sheets for various games
  • ✅ Moving character sheets between games
  • 😕3️⃣ Custom character sheet creation — skins for existing games’ sheets can be created with some basic coding. The “Sandbox” 3rd party app can create systems and sheets without programming.
• Compendium
  • ✅ Game SRDs available for D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, and WFRP4…possibly more?
  • ✅💰 Multiple official game rules and adventures are available now.
  • 💙 Users can create and upload their own compendiums
  • ✅ Drag-n-drop to character sheets from SRDs are supported.