Dice so nice is one my faves! Seeing actual dice rolling across the screen and being able to edit how they look and behave depending on what you roll is amazing!
I highly recommend Foundry. I have been using it since launch for my groups and we all love it. We prefer it to Fantasy Grounds and Roll20. I have it setup as a server that my players access via web page.
That I want a more in-depth video about! I wonder if the movement can be per token. Maybe this can be used to re-create the foundry patrol module, that is currently only on github, not the official repository.
@@mastermerion that is LITERALLY what I was thinking. Also if you threw token attacher, attach the "Hey wait!" Mod, patrols would be AMAZING. Freezing the game when your spotted. Add Triggler so they sound some kind of alarm! Lol 🤯🤯🤯
Been loving the videos and already trying out the recommendations thus far! Thank you /draconicroar! Would love to see how Perfect Vision & Torch tutorial modules specifically when a player has the ability to use invisibility but can maneuver his/her own token without others seeing for battle royale reasons!
All of those are awesome but one of the things I've been wanting the most is something like what the Loot NPC does. Foundry looks like an awesome program and I can't wait to switch over to it.
There's a module for this but I can't remember what it's called. When you make the switch try searching "Loot" in the module search and you should find something
Hey thanks so much, a friend sent this to me and I really liked it. I really need to use all these modules you highlighted. I very much like Multilevel Tokens and some of it's associated modules, to bring more layers to maps. I can't even remember which mods do what by name but I am on a ForgeVTT account and they show the mods in order of popularity - I had already picked up half of the top ten on my own, through asking questions in the Foundry Discord, but the rest were pretty handy. To be able to ping, import characters with picture UI for abilities and weapons, and to be able to scroll through abilities in the top left screen have really helped.
@@KoboldDM understood. I ask, because I'm having trouble setting up my customized vision rules. Superior vision is the only one that can see in total dark. 30ft monochrome. Dim light would be 30ft bright, 30ft mono. Darkvision is now low-light vision. No vision in total darkness. 60ft mono in dim light. Normal vision only gets 30ft mono in dim light. It doesn't seem like it is setup for 3 levels of vision.
Merchant sheet NPC is much better than loot sheet npc now, a ton more stable and refined, and simce it's forked from the origional, little adjustment is needed!
could we get a tutorial for perfect vision? myself and my partner who run games in foundryvtt can just about get it to kinda work but not really and its a little confusing to get around
how did you get the effect at 1:59? those lines that slope. or the whole thing in general its awesome and I could use it in one of my games obviously I need community lighting but what effects combo
the loot one is AWESOME! I will DEFINITELY use that for shops. It will make my shops so much better. I know this is a 3 year old video, but does the loot plugin work wiht black flag? (aka Kobold Press' Tales of the Valiant?)
How did you make that potion shelf? Is that a script macro you made to convert a drawn object into a loot sheet? You blew my mind on this and I cannot find anyone talking about how make anything like it. Thanks for all the killer videos! Your group(s) are lucky to have such a solid DM
It's an actor. Actor's sheets can be made into loot sheets so that they function as merchants. You can see how it works in my old "Interactive Merchants" video
I'm also stuck in the same way, I'm wondering if the new version of FVTT broke the ui? Edit: Yup, 4 days ago someone logged a bug in the github saying in .8 it broke the menu. So you can do chase scenes, but not much else.
Does the Loot module allow you to keep a list of available loot options for shops and then select which ones are shown? Would be good for shops that have rarer items that only show up from time to time.
Is there a way to have the NPCs say lines at random times? I can get an NPC to say a line by triggering it with the "selected chatter" macro but I cant for the life of me figure out how to get the "timed global chatter" macro to work, any tips?
@@KoboldDM Yeah I looked through it a couple of times but still couldn't figure it out, I must be doing something wrong, ill keep trying! Thanks for the response! :)
@@KoboldDM Will it automatically set the token vision depending of the race of the character (Using Dnd5) ? Or do I need to manually set that up. I guess I'll have to check a complete tutorial to fully understand and use this module, any youd recommend ? Thanks again froy our great videos !
These VTT's are really cool, but when I watch people use them I feel zero immersion vs theatre of the mind. It feels like playing a complicated board game instead of an expansive imaginary story. Are there any tips for fixing this? Maybe only using maps during encounters and not exploration? IDK. I'm totally open to it, but I feel when I use these I feel like I'm immersed in a top down 2d legend of zelda overworld map instead of the story, almost like it shuts off my imagination.
Yeah when we play usually we only use maps for combat or other initiative tracked encounters. Although it can sometimes be nice to have a map for a city or town pcs are in .
having a vtt in person on the tabletop, using fancy terrain tiles, etc. I love all those things. but nothing beats a marker and a battlemat. I remember the first time we used The vtt tools for line of sight. we used it while playing online. I absolutely hated it. My character was around a building, a dragon or something was on the other side of the building. I was dealing with whatever minions were by me, and I couldn't even see The other characters. So for everyone else's turn it was like I in personally was in a different room, not just my character was in a different room. The line of sight tools are amazing and they look great, but they take me out of the game in a bad way. think of it this way, we want to use those line of sight tools so we can't see what we can't see. but we're playing a game of make believe. I already have to pretend and imagine an awful lot of things. it's not really a big step for me to simply pretend that I can't see what's on the other side of the building while my friends are over there.
Making a video about immersive modules and not showing the actual names of the UI modules presented is pretty un-immersive. Especially when you listed all the other modules. And no, 'search for UI' is not a help.
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Neat, my UI overhaul had 3 seconds of screen time :) That's 3 more than I've ever seen in any other foundry video.
Dice so nice is one my faves! Seeing actual dice rolling across the screen and being able to edit how they look and behave depending on what you roll is amazing!
I've been considering VTT's, and Foundry is one of the shortlisted ones. I'm liking what this showed off, thanks.
Awesome! Foundry's constantly growing with new Modules and fast development, well worth it.
I highly recommend Foundry. I have been using it since launch for my groups and we all love it. We prefer it to Fantasy Grounds and Roll20.
I have it setup as a server that my players access via web page.
Parallax for animating character movement, you really are a genius!
That I want a more in-depth video about! I wonder if the movement can be per token. Maybe this can be used to re-create the foundry patrol module, that is currently only on github, not the official repository.
@@mastermerion that is LITERALLY what I was thinking. Also if you threw token attacher, attach the "Hey wait!" Mod, patrols would be AMAZING. Freezing the game when your spotted. Add Triggler so they sound some kind of alarm! Lol 🤯🤯🤯
2:30 enderal music kicks in and i have to rewatch all the second part of the video XD
Been loving the videos and already trying out the recommendations thus far! Thank you /draconicroar!
Would love to see how Perfect Vision & Torch tutorial modules specifically when a player has the ability to use invisibility but can maneuver his/her own token without others seeing for battle royale reasons!
Great video! Happy to see my UI module in there even if it’s quite niche!
All of those are awesome but one of the things I've been wanting the most is something like what the Loot NPC does. Foundry looks like an awesome program and I can't wait to switch over to it.
There's a module for this but I can't remember what it's called. When you make the switch try searching "Loot" in the module search and you should find something
Hey thanks so much, a friend sent this to me and I really liked it.
I really need to use all these modules you highlighted.
I very much like Multilevel Tokens and some of it's associated modules, to bring more layers to maps.
I can't even remember which mods do what by name but I am on a ForgeVTT account and they show the mods in order of popularity - I had already picked up half of the top ten on my own, through asking questions in the Foundry Discord, but the rest were pretty handy. To be able to ping, import characters with picture UI for abilities and weapons, and to be able to scroll through abilities in the top left screen have really helped.
Awesome videos man, best out there I think!
Your videos rox dude, thanks.
Loot Sheet is great. My players love it, and it greatly reduces the heavy lifting for DMs.
Totally agree!
So many good kobolds- this is a very helpful vid!
Keep up the great vids
The Loot Sheets module is amazing
Kobold!
Stay crunchy.
Another wonderful video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Any plans about making a video specifically about perfect vision?
Possibly. I tend to make videos on more substantial scene builds using modules.
@@KoboldDM understood. I ask, because I'm having trouble setting up my customized vision rules.
Superior vision is the only one that can see in total dark. 30ft monochrome. Dim light would be 30ft bright, 30ft mono.
Darkvision is now low-light vision. No vision in total darkness. 60ft mono in dim light.
Normal vision only gets 30ft mono in dim light.
It doesn't seem like it is setup for 3 levels of vision.
Hey that map looks familiar! 2:47 😊😊😊
Merchant sheet NPC is much better than loot sheet npc now, a ton more stable and refined, and simce it's forked from the origional, little adjustment is needed!
We should add that in Pathfinder2 system the lootsheet module is not even needed as it's integrated in the pf2 system!
should have a look a "scene Transition" that can be used to make extreme tension while the scene is loaded
could we get a tutorial for perfect vision? myself and my partner who run games in foundryvtt can just about get it to kinda work but not really and its a little confusing to get around
It's on my list!
The only one of these that is still in the mod list was Loot Sheet.
how did you get the effect at 1:59? those lines that slope. or the whole thing in general its awesome and I could use it in one of my games
obviously I need community lighting but what effects combo
the loot one is AWESOME! I will DEFINITELY use that for shops. It will make my shops so much better. I know this is a 3 year old video, but does the loot plugin work wiht black flag? (aka Kobold Press' Tales of the Valiant?)
Who made the potion shop map?? I love it!
How did you make that potion shelf? Is that a script macro you made to convert a drawn object into a loot sheet? You blew my mind on this and I cannot find anyone talking about how make anything like it. Thanks for all the killer videos! Your group(s) are lucky to have such a solid DM
It's an actor. Actor's sheets can be made into loot sheets so that they function as merchants. You can see how it works in my old "Interactive Merchants" video
@@KoboldDM Thanks! I get it now. Your setting a custom grid size for that actor! That's wild.
@@KoboldDM yeah but...how do you make them not have a token at all?
Could you do a video on customizing parallaxia for the non side to side movement?
Can't seem to figure out how to do anything that isn't scrolling xd
I'm also stuck in the same way, I'm wondering if the new version of FVTT broke the ui?
Edit: Yup, 4 days ago someone logged a bug in the github saying in .8 it broke the menu. So you can do chase scenes, but not much else.
Does the Loot module allow you to keep a list of available loot options for shops and then select which ones are shown? Would be good for shops that have rarer items that only show up from time to time.
I wonder would it be just easier to create NWN PW and run it for the players :)
Can't find the retro UI... anyone know the exact name?
Is there a way to have the NPCs say lines at random times? I can get an NPC to say a line by triggering it with the "selected chatter" macro but I cant for the life of me figure out how to get the "timed global chatter" macro to work, any tips?
Check out my older video on NPC chatter, it explains it more in detail.
@@KoboldDM Yeah I looked through it a couple of times but still couldn't figure it out, I must be doing something wrong, ill keep trying! Thanks for the response! :)
Ok so I'm back into installing Perfect Vision, I took it out after I was told it was buggy. Any issues on your sides friends ?
I've never had any issues with it.
@@KoboldDM Will it automatically set the token vision depending of the race of the character (Using Dnd5) ? Or do I need to manually set that up. I guess I'll have to check a complete tutorial to fully understand and use this module, any youd recommend ?
Thanks again froy our great videos !
Are there pre-done maps with lighting, doors, and line of sight already packed in?
No but you can find creators who make pre-built Foundry maps. I recommend The MAD cartographer for that.
hehe, smoothy buns
Do you stream your own game, I would love to see this in action?
I've looked into it, but I currently don't have the best setup do to so. Maybe in the future!
@@KoboldDM I would watch if you did. Love your videos man.
Sad part is a LOT of these are not updated
I can not seem to get 'Perfect Vision' to work.
These VTT's are really cool, but when I watch people use them I feel zero immersion vs theatre of the mind. It feels like playing a complicated board game instead of an expansive imaginary story. Are there any tips for fixing this? Maybe only using maps during encounters and not exploration? IDK. I'm totally open to it, but I feel when I use these I feel like I'm immersed in a top down 2d legend of zelda overworld map instead of the story, almost like it shuts off my imagination.
Yeah when we play usually we only use maps for combat or other initiative tracked encounters. Although it can sometimes be nice to have a map for a city or town pcs are in .
having a vtt in person on the tabletop, using fancy terrain tiles, etc. I love all those things.
but nothing beats a marker and a battlemat.
I remember the first time we used The vtt tools for line of sight. we used it while playing online. I absolutely hated it. My character was around a building, a dragon or something was on the other side of the building. I was dealing with whatever minions were by me, and I couldn't even see The other characters. So for everyone else's turn it was like I in personally was in a different room, not just my character was in a different room. The line of sight tools are amazing and they look great, but they take me out of the game in a bad way.
think of it this way, we want to use those line of sight tools so we can't see what we can't see. but we're playing a game of make believe. I already have to pretend and imagine an awful lot of things. it's not really a big step for me to simply pretend that I can't see what's on the other side of the building while my friends are over there.
Can we get a video just on parallaxia?
I have a few videos on my channel using parallaxia
Question, what is the configuration in order to have that bird floating around the pillar?
Loot Sheet NPC is the reason I run 7.10 instead of 8.6
I know it is only 5 mimutes, but timestamps would have been appreciated nonetheless.
I'm actually putting those up right now! Just wanted to get the video out fast!
@@KoboldDM Thank you. It just helps so much to get the content into my brain more quickly if there's some sort of navigation.
Making a video about immersive modules and not showing the actual names of the UI modules presented is pretty un-immersive.
Especially when you listed all the other modules.
And no, 'search for UI' is not a help.
I said all of the names of the modules. It's not hard to find, for example, retro by typing "retro" into the module browser. Try it.