How do you like it? I was hoping a community as sufficiently nerdy as the ttrpg community would have made an open source alternative by now but it looks like selfhosting proprietary software with a modding platform is as close as we can get.

  • Neuromancer49English
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    1 month ago

    Foundry is amazing. I used Roll20 for years (5e and a bit of PF2e), found it to be a bit unintuitive, albeit free. You can do most things in the system, but the plug-ins available for Foundry are miles and leagues better. Also, macros are a bit tough. I can’t imagine running PF2e in the system for very long, especially for complex classes like Alchemist or Thaumaturge.

    I’m currently a player in a Fantasy Grounds campaign (5e). As a player, it’s fine. I don’t like the interface very much, but it’s fine for 5e which is already a pretty light system. Panning on maps, targeting enemies is frustrating and I feel like I have too many windows open at any given time.

    Been using Foundry just shy of a year, DMing 3 games. It’s amazing. Plug-ins for anything you need - ranging from DM QoL upgrades like Simple Calendar, atmospheric upgrades like music bundles, the always incredible Pathmuncher, and class-specific tools like the Thamaturge package. The built-in Compendium for PF2e makes DMing so easy, I can look literally everything up and most things have macros pre-built. Hosting from my PC was a bit harder, but doable.

    Currently learning how to make custom macros, which has been tough, but there’s a huge community and usually you can copy-paste details from other abilities.

    Do you have any specific questions about the software?

    • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The built-in Compendium for PF2e makes DMing so easy

      Does the PF2e system come with the full compendium or do you have to buy it? I’m playing DnD 5.1e and the compendium for that is only the publicly available SRD, meaning it only has a single background and only one subclass per class.