These are the 10 FOUNDRY MODULES you should start with!
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Are you new to Foundry and wondering which modules you should start with? The module browser in Foundry is very basic and it's very hard to know which modules to start with and on top that it is very time consuming to try out a lot of them. Well wonder no more because in this video I'm going to show you the 10 essential Foundry VTT modules to start with! These are the 10 Foundry modules you should start with!
Modules:
- Dice So Nice!: foundryvtt.com/packages/dice-...
- GM Screen: foundryvtt.com/packages/gm-sc...
- FX Master: foundryvtt.com/packages/fxmaster
- Dice Tray: foundryvtt.com/packages/dice-...
- Drag Ruler: foundryvtt.com/packages/drag-...
- Lazy Money: foundryvtt.com/packages/lazym...
- DF Settings Clarity: foundryvtt.com/packages/df-se...
- Monk's Scene Navigation: foundryvtt.com/packages/monks...
- Tokenizer: foundryvtt.com/packages/vtta-...
- Midi QOL: foundryvtt.com/packages/midi-qol
You can find the images on my GM Screen here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Important disclaimers
01:40 Dice So Nice!
02:40 GM Screen
04:25 FXMaster
05:19 Dice Tray
05:50 Drag Ruler
06:20 Lazy Money
06:59 DF Settings Clarity
07:41 Monk's Scene Navigation
08:26 Tokenizer
09:16 Midi QoL
10:18 Recap
11:04 Outro - Hry
Just getting into Foundry and this was incredibly helpful. Earned a sub that’s for sure
Glad I could help!
Thanks for making these sorts of videos! The recommendations I’ve used have been instant hits with my players each time they are introduced, and the GM screen will definitely go a long way on my end of the experience 🙏
Glad you’ve found these useful! Thanks for the kind words!
I've recently got back into D&D and am jumping into DM my first online game, using FoundryVTT for the first time. This video was really helpful in giving me some guidance on mods to use and I am especially thankful for your GM screen resources! Keep up the fantastic work and I look forward to checking out more of your channel.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Good luck with your first online game! Next video coming out in the next few days!
I'm new to Foundry and this is great! Thank you.
You’re welcome! Glad I could help!
Dude thank you so much for this video.
I am in the process of moving my campaign and players over to Foundry and this video has given me so much to look into and implement. Thanks again for all the tips and help.
Glad I could help!
I'm just getting started in Foundry and your video is a life saver already! The DM Screen alone was worth the watch. I'll definitely be your apprentice from now on. Thank you for your work!
You’re welcome! Thank you so much for the kind words!
About to redo Foundry VTT sessions so a nice guide to usefull modules is more than welcome. Thanks for those suggestions : )
You’re welcome! Hope your rework goes well!
Very solid recommendations. Thanks.
You’re welcome!
I have never loved a video so much before. The google drive link for the GM screen is 10/10.
Thank you for the praise!
Thanks so much for this video! I got foundry recently to start playing dnd online with friends....Planning the Wild beyond the witch light campaign. Very excited to get this underway and your advice is going to be great for me to create a smooth campaign!! :D Cheers!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help!
If you want to get all the maps, tokens etc. easily to Foundry, there is a way to import Roll20 adventures to Foundry. I made s tutorial for that as well:
czcams.com/video/TekBjczecaI/video.html
@@DiceAndEasy Thanks for that! I will check it out :)
Fantastic video friend i cant wait to see your others!
Thanks!
My dude, thank you so much for this video!
I'm running a Worlds Without Number campaign for the first time, and I've decided to use FoundryVTT instead of Roll20 largely because what Foundry PROMISES. I've seen a few different videos on recommended modules, but this is the first one I've seen that keeps things very basic, and doesn't recommend modules that are going to have a whole learning curve of their own. Looking forward to watching some of your tutorials, as well!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad I could help!
After assisting many, many users in trying to just get *most* of these working. I would take this list rec with a block of salt. However, I can agree with DSN. That's an easy one -- I've never seen a need for the rest.
Fair! These are just my recommendations!
Great vid! I would also recommend PopOut!, which allows all sheets and documents and stuff to be made into their own windows, great if you have multiple monitors or prefer to have the documents handy.
Thanks! Oh that's a good tip!
Thats one thing I miss in Foundry but have it in Roll20.
Great modules! I wish the names of the modules were up on screen while you were talking about them.
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll see how I could incorporate it in future videos.
This will help a bunch thank you
You’re welcome! Happy to hear that!
I'd never used GM screen however looking at your setup I can really see the benefits! I'll have to give it a go for my next game 😁👍
Highly recommend it! It is just so useful for organizing info!
@@DiceAndEasy got it set up super easily for my next game and my god, just having a Dramatis Personae tab will be game changing for keeping track of the characters I've introduced them to and the voices I used for them!
@@rebelwithoutaclue7667 Let’s gooooooo
Careful, it wasn't v10 ready until recently
@@HappiestGnome But it works now!
the best module in my opinion is the token action hud. This makes rolling checks incredibly easy as everything is easy to find and you dont have to scroll through you character sheet
but i do not now if it works as well for DND as it does for pathfinder2e
That’s a good module yeah! There is a DnD 5e specific version of the module too
Great video!
Thanks!
this is so good thank you
You’re welcome!
I keep trying GM Screen, and I see how its neat but the info is just too small for most of my useful content and have it be readable for me.
That’s fair! Honestly the best way of organizing info is the one that works best for you
I had the same issue until I realised it was defaulting to a 4x3 array of cells. Set it to 1x1 in the settings and you get a full width panel per journal entry and its SO much more useful.
I think it used to be more usable when it would just display the single page of the journal entry. Now I’m having to keep telling the table of contents to go away.
@@rebelwithoutaclue7667oh, I had not thought of that!
@@DMTalesTTRPG If you are on Foundry v10 you should be putting Journal Pages into the GM Screen cells, not the whole Journal Entry. I think that’s why you get the table of contents in the cell.
The modules I tend to enable in every game
Popout
Dice tray
X card
If using a map with doors, walls etc:
Ambient doors
Good ones!
You sir are doing the lords work.
It's time I do a mod cleanup on my system for outdated mods.
I also like Scene Transitions and Token Action HUD, however, both stopped working for me and it's driving me crazy that I can't figure out why.
Thanks for the kind words! I also need to do a clean up of outdated mods and mods I don't use!
Hmmm which version of Foundry are you on? Both of the modules you mention work with Foundry v10 and lower. Did the modules stop working after you updated them?
Have you tried "find the culprit"? It's a great mod for finding out what is causing something to not work.
@@rebelwithoutaclue7667 I have that mod, but for some reason Scene Transitions just doesn't work - I'm on V10 Stable - Patch 6 (Build 291)
I was able to get the token action HUD mod to work.
Midi QOL was doing weird things and rolling damage twice so I deactivated it.
With all its quirks I still love Foundry, the community being one of the best parts. 🤙
@@DiceAndEasy V10 Stable - Patch 6 (Build 291)
@@maciekdrozdzik4748 Looking at the Scene Transition Github page, it looks like there is indeed a bug with the module working in v10: github.com/p4535992/foundryvtt-scene-transitions/issues/17
Glad to hear you got Token Action HUD to work! With Midi QoL I noticed that it was rolling twice if I had Ready Set Roll active at the same time. Are you also using that module?
I agree with all of these.
Let's gooooooo
Lazy Money doesn't quite do what you said. The core system on it's own will let you enter "+10" or "-10" and it'll do the math, assuming you have the coins. The special thing it adds is being able to deduct money from a currency you don't have in order to make change (e.g. doing "-5" Silver when you don't have any silver will deduct 1 gold and give you 5 Silver in change).
The button to do currency conversion is core. Adding or subtracting numbers from HP or XP is also core. Lazy money just does the "making change" part for you. Useful, I'd agree, but not quite how you described it.
Ah I didn't know that was part of Foundr core now! Thanks for the correction!
Instant like and sub from me at the 4:16 mark😂
You’re welcome! 🫡
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Holy crap! I can't wait to use GM screen
@@nicholasbehning89 it will change your life!
Hi, I was wondering where I could get tabs that look similar to yours for the GM screen, unless you went ahead and made it yourself, which would make using this a bit more difficult.
You can find the images I used here: drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1hiDrPKM6TgyKz0ty6uhgEFYa0tFtsmtE?usp=sharing
Just make sure to set the cell that you use for the image to cover all the columns and rows so you can have the image cover the whole GM screen.
Dice so Nice has had a compatability risk FOREVER. Same goes for Dice Tray. Both going back months now. Tokenizer is a royal pain especially if your internet is not awesome, and mine is. Some like Drag ruler, and Lazy money seem redundant. Scene Navigation rules, as well as FX Master
Loving the fit on this vid lol
Thanks! Really appreciate that!
What module is letting you see everyone's HP/AC at the bottom of the screen? I've messed with a few of these, still having a rough time learning some of them since I'm still very fresh to this.
I think what you're referring to is Monk's TokenBar: foundryvtt.com/packages/monks-tokenbar
If you didn't mean that, can you give me a timestamp to check and I can get you the correct module.
@@DiceAndEasy yeah that's it. Thank you sir. Didn't expect a reply this late lol. Keep up the good work.
@@EightPhasesofTwilight You’re welcome! Hahaha it’s morning for me since I’m located in Finland so I just responded at the start of my day 😂
I especially like the GM screen recommendation but i am struggling as to how you linked your images to the tabs. if i try and add them via journal entries they only occupy a small piece of tha tab and most is empty. Cant figure it out.
Are you adding the Jorunal Pages to the GM screen cells? If you add the Journal Entry itself, it won’t work correctly. I have a tutorial which goes through that: czcams.com/video/TyneLIsc9xY/video.htmlsi=PUpAIX2p0UMTcaHi
@@DiceAndEasy I probably was as I’m still learning. I’ll go watch the tutorial you linked. Cheers pal. Thanks for the content.
@@Viqer_Fell you’re welcome!
Any idea how to show just the image on GM screen it keeps showing the Journal page and is very small for the images you provided
If you set the cell you put the Journal Page in to cover all the columns and rows, that should do it. Also make sure that you put the Journal Page in the GM Screen cell, not the Journal Entry.
@@DiceAndEasy Thankyou
@@Mashi437 you’re welcome!
Apologies, I've tried scanning through the comments but I can't find what I am after. In the Monk's Scene Navigation, to the right of the macros along the bottom of the screen, you have what looks like a quick reference module for players AC and Passive Perception? What is the name of that module? Thanks to anyone who responds in advance.
Is there a way to adapt these to other systems, or is everything fixed to DnD?
It depends on the module! The following modules are system agnostic, meaning they should work with any system:
- Dice so Nice!
- GM Screen
- FX Master
- Dice Tray
- DF Settings Clarity
- Monk's Scene Navigation
- Tokenizer
The rest are specific to DnD 5e.
Look man, I love your channel and all, but if 300 hours in foundry is how we define a resident expert, then what the heck does that make me? (4 server hosted instances of foundry preconfigured to support 5 game systems. 20 hours a week spent preparation for 3-4 levels of multilevel maps with interactive shop triggers and 2-3 story buildings. Trees that you can pass under, and teleporters to bring you to other scenes….)
This post is not a swipe, it’s just a joke about how my life has been consumed by this wonderful application! I hope you all enjoy
Hahaha you are like a grand master with those stats 😂😂
Why did i not start using these a year ago?
Electrum is the bitcoin of the Forgotten Realms. GMs... you're welcome for this plot line/gag.
I like it! 😂
Soijack
You're recommending starting...
With MIDI-QOL?
Well, if you're trying to steer people away, well done?
That's 100% only DnD 5E, and pretty much an entire system replacement.
To each their own, but recommending something so complex and prone to breakage to every new user seems a little strong a recommendation
I specifically point out in the video that these modules are for DnD 5e. I think it is inaccurate to chatacterize Midi QoL as a system replacement when what it does is automate mechanics in the system
@@DiceAndEasyThis is objectively wrong. The module replaces and overrides several of the system's core methods. There is a *factual* agreement even from the dev itself and its power users that you should *not* start out with this module.
@@Zhellybelly Why bitch about it? Most foundry GMs came from Roll20 or FantasyGrounds and wanted a more robust VTT. I jumped into midiQOL right away, and it's probably the best module out there. Sure it takes some setup as the GM, but your players will love you for it. It basically doubles the amount of time my players have roleplaying and having fun in a session, as opposed to struggling to remember things and fumbling around with the UI.
Too bad you can't mention Plutonium :)
Yeeeaaaahhhh 😂
The module that shall not be named and definitely doesn't exist and no one should definitely not look for it to absolutely not see what it doesn't do, because it doesn't exist.
@@kevindaniel1337 🫡
SILENCEEEEEEEEEEEE
I think you're standing too close to the camera.
I think you're typing too close to the keyboard...😂
Noob
ok
@@DiceAndEasy noob
@@cons.t. ok
@@DiceAndEasy noob
Checked this out because I'm figuring out if I want to pay for Foundry and you looked like the Sinister Minister in the thumbnail.
Hahaha thanks 😂 I definitely recommend Foundry! It’s great!
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SO???!!!! Liked/subscribed! Thank you so much!