Foundry VTT Tip #25: Journal Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Journals are a powerful and important tool for DM/GMs, however, where do you start?
This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create journals for your campaign and includes two Foundry modules: Polyglot and GM Notes and how I use them with my Journals.
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Not just a great demo on setting up Journal notes but a fabulous demonstration on how to set up a scenario/scene! Thank you again Pyram King
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Perfect timing. About to write up a whole heap of Journal entries for a campaign and could do with that Pyram King knowledge and encouragement. Nice one.
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Super helpful, wish you had added how to include a scene in there, but I figured that out after seeing how to add in actors. Just needed to give it a second name for it to work. Great stuff!
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Nice work. There is also a new module that adds collapsible headings to make your journals even easier to navigate. (Collapsible Journal Sections)
Also it would also be good to show new GM's (or GM's coming from other VTT's) that you can drag journal entries straight on the canvas.
im new to foundry, these videos are great, thanks very much
Thank you, Dr. Frankensteeeeeen.
@@PyramKing ITS FRANKEnsteeeeiin! LOL. I'm about half way through setting up mythras with elric of melnibone (mrq2) on foundry. Love the drag and drop nature of it.
The video was really informative; thanks very much.
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Great job. I'm more interested in Star Trek than d&d. I figure there has to be a way to use the pdfs to do the same thing. I'm hoping I can do what you've done w/ them. Also, I was wondering, if you put all this work into an adventure, do you have to create a new world to save the old one or is there a way to save everything so you can just plug it all back in for another group of players.
On another note, take a look at your mike input for your volume. You are a bit low.
You can save and export your world and use again. You can also save your actors and journals in the compendium.
Also...I recently purchased a new mic.
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@@PyramKing Thanks. Good job on the mike. Do you have a video showing folks how to save that? I have not had the chance to watch all of your videos yet. I just ran across this one while doing a search on how to do what you did.
@@PyramKing How do you export. I couldn't find any information on that.
@@miniblaze4634 You can use the new v10 adventure compendium to export your scenes, actors, and journals into the compendium. I believe Foundry made a how-to video on that. If not, perhaps I should make one.
Thanks for the tutorial. When you put the image into the journal, the aspect ratio was squished horizontally. How does one stop that from happening... ie; how to put an image in to keep its aspect ratio regardless of the current journal 'window' size?
You can use the image icon to insert and image and set the height and width. Or you can adjust by click dragging a corner of the image.
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@@PyramKing Thanks, here is what I now realise I should ask: is there a way you can set an image up so that if, later, on viewing, the width of the window is less than that of the image, that it will either:
(1) keep the aspect ratio of the image intact rather than squishing it horizontally, or
(2) keep the image size unscaled and put horizontal window scroll bar onto the window
I am not exactly sure.
I will have to play around with it.
I would love to watch this video (and many of your others) but I am currently a player in a Strahd game. Would it be possible to get directed to some spoiler free quick points from the video, or just a quick list of the main points?
yikes - sorry about that. Since I am currently deep into our campaign, it is what I currently have/know.
This is a tutorial on building a scene with a journal, so it has some spoilers. However, it is just one scene in all of Curse of Strahd and not necessarily a pivotal one. If you can avoid the meta-game knowledge of their brief scene, it may be worth it. I do not think I would able to time stamp it without avoiding some of the items. The funny thing - is two of my players are DMs of CoS - so I appreciate the balance of metagaming - (note - I have incorporated so many changes and homebrew into my campaign).
Thanks for watching and I hope you are enjoying CoS - it is a great campaign.
Sorry about CoS spoliers.
@Pyram King I'll go for it. Wasn't sure how pivotal this area was as we haven't moved beyond Vallaki yet. Really enjoying it! We've had 1 death/revivify, and a handful of near death experiences already. I'll watch now. Thanks for the info, and the video of course!
Hi Pyram, what module is giving you the Copy to/from Description buttons in GM Notes? I have latest GM Notes for Foundry 7.9 and don't have those. I'm running Call of Cthulhu, not D&D5E.
I thought they were part of GM Notes, I will have to double check. I am truly puzzled.
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@@PyramKing Thanks Pyram. I turned off every module except GM Notes, I still get no buttons.
Don't agonise to much about this, it's listed as a feature on the GM Notes description. I think it's probably an artifact of the Cthulhu system.
Confirmed...it doesn't work with the CoC system. Sorry to bother you.
@@Indajen not a bother and thanks for letting me know.
looks like a fantastic tutorial but, and it may just be me, i can not hear anything
My apologies for the bad sound. I will remake this video in the future.
Awesome! One comment though - the volume of your voice is very, very low.
Thanks for watching. My apologies, corrected in future videos. I am hard of hearing and need pay more attention.
Volume is very low.
Had a problem with the mic, but did not realize it until after it was online. I have a new mic coming - so problems should be resolved. Sorry and thanks for watching.
@@PyramKing No worries, thanks for the reply and good luck.
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