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.
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.
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?
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.
Haven't paid for a single thing past the license.
Fully included, regularly updated, and extensively automated.
👀 Maybe it’s time to look into Pathfinder. I don’t like a lot of crunch though and I’ve heard it’s crunchy
Pathfinder 2E is crunchy until you understand that it isn't. Out of combat healing is fairly free, every Pc should have the same ac or +1 that in heavy armor and most similar things don't stack with one another. The math of it is pretty tight as getting +10 higher then the dc/ac is a crit on attack and skill checks, meaning that every +1 matters and there are only item/status/proficiency/circumstance modifiers in the game and you take your highest of each.