Top 5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Foundry Games

[@michaeldomotor1755]

New dnd player here. Would love to see more detailed, step-by-step guides for Foundry. On your advice, it's been the vtt I've been checking out but as someone completely new to both dnd and vtts, it's all very overwhelming. I should also note, I'm DMing for 5 other brand new players lol definitely a case of the blind leading the blind

[@nattertot]

I definitely plan to release a video sometime soon that's a beginner guide for Foundry, just a matter of time.

[@kgeo2686]

1:46 this should go doubly so for ToTM imo. For me (and many others) ToTM mainly means not having intricate token maps and battle maps. Visual aids (scenes, NPC art, etc) are absolutely critical. Great tip!

[@genwolffe]

Hey, just wanted to say I really like your videos! I just stayed using Foundry a few weeks ago (still getting stuff setup for my next campaign). I would really line to see a video on both modules for Monk's Active Tiles and the Automated Animations. So chalk up one vote for both of them.

[@SetArk]

Top 1 - DO NOT GO INTO MODULES LIKE A CRAZY PERSON LIKE ME (104 Modules. 0 Sessions ...)

[@nattertot]

It's so tempting tho! 😆

[@simonsayz3925]

Exactly what I experience too 😂

[@hexvictor]

Skyrim modding all over again 😮‍💨😔 So much time looking into mods and not playing

[@DarkBunnyLord]

Only 104? Pathetic (jk lol)

[@Xayentist]

The biggest help to improve is using the new regions core functionality. It comes with some of the features monk's tile does but is more intuitive. Ex: teleport token, pause game, set darkness level, etc...

[@dalanazelas]

Thanks for the inspiration and ideas! Makes me want to try being a game master again.

[@nattertot]

Of course! And you should give it another go! 😁🧙‍♂️

[@minhnhatb.h2503]

bro thought he could throw Heisenberg in there and we wouldn't notice

[@dungeonmtr5145]

Hi, i loved this video but i wanted to ask something. Where do you get the animated scenes for your games? I've been trying to find some around and i just can't seem to find any.

[@nattertot]

They're made by James' RPG Art and Cze & Peku. 🎨 Happy gaming!

[@matthijsbouma]

To your first point, try image hover aswell :)

[@nattertot]

Another fantastic mod!

[@scotthull260]

Pretty new to Foundry after using Roll20 to run my games for years now. Trying to add a scroll with text to my landing page but even though the image I am using has a transparent background, there is a white background (tint color) to the tile that the image sits on. You video shows you adding scrolls with no background. Am I missing something? Thanks for any tips!

[@nattertot]

It sounds like your image might have a slight background despite it having a transparent background. You can check by uploading it to a free photo editing website or Photoshop or something and putting a blank, black layer behind your image and seeing if your image adds a tint to the black background. Then obviously make sure it's a .PNG. But by default, any blank tile in Foundry will have a white tint to it until you tie an image to it. Hope this helps! 🧙‍♂️

[@scotthull260]

@@nattertot I'll give it a shot! Thanks :-)

[@scotthull260]

@@nattertot It worked! Thanks for the tip!

[@DarkSide_Gaming21338]

i looked into the ambient sounds and they are definitely not free

[@neepers]

The 'more art' comment is very interesting to me. I'm thinking about it. I liked how in your videos you have this slow zoom in or zoom out as well--I could use that while narrating, any idea how to do that?

[@nattertot]

If you have the mod 'Monk's Active Tile Triggers' you can set it up where if you activate a tile it will begin an animated camera pan to a particular zoom amount and location, and the camera pan speed is determined by you in seconds. But a minor issue is that the framing at the end of the camera pan is a little different for everyone depending on their monitor size/browser.

[@neepers]

@@nattertot The problem I'm having now is that the 'show to players' button is only on PC characters and my world is full of NPC's which don't have that option. Trying to figure a work around

[@nattertot]

@@neepers hmmm, interesting. 🤔 NPC character sheets should have a "show to players" option if you right click the NPC sheet in the actors directory and select "show artwork". I think it's like a little 👁️ symbol at the top right of that popup.

[@neepers]

@@nattertot nailed it! That worked, much obliged! I used this for the first time last night, and then they started requesting further NPC's to have a big view (we're face to face but a 150" screen as an observer account"

[@TheZingbaby]

Great video. I'm playing dragonbane but brand new to Foundry. Any advice on where to find artwork?

[@nattertot]

If it's for a private game, you can find good artwork on Google images 80% of the time. And if you can't find anything there, you could always commission an artist, use or use AI.

[@TheZingbaby]

@@nattertot yeah just for private game

[@joesnuffy_2003]

Great video! Where do you get the animated scene art you show as the backgrounds in point 1? Don't mind dropping some coin on things like that just haven't found great art like that.

[@nattertot]

I like to use James' RPG art and Cze and Peku. The one you're referring to is made by Cze and Peku I believe, 🤔 but they both make great animated scenes for a lot of different landscapes/scenarios. 😁

[@simonsayz3925]

Czepeku scenes patreon

[@phecto]

a fantasy background and parchment as a start screen would be really strange and out of place for the game I run on foundry