Be Excellent To Each Other

Tonight I had a zoom call with my friend (the one who shared the DnDBeyond library with me). He was showing me Foundry VTT, a rival virtual tabletop platform to Roll20 which is spoken highly of and gets a lot more ongoing support than Roll20 does but costs $50 up front so I hadn't wanted to commit to it when I didn't know if I would get the use out of it.

He showed me what it looks like as a player and then showed me the DM tools and it looks great so I've purchased a license and I'll spend the next week trying to do some tutorials and learn the tools. I might not be ready to transition the campaign into Foundry by Monday but I'll see how far I get. If I can get a couple of hours to mess around with it, I should know enough to muddle through with what he showed me tonight.

Sounds good!

Sounds gud!


Look at this lovely filth

Also, I forgot to mention the powerful and emotional mending of Kruung.

Sounds gøød

If a Druid can’t unsplit a potato’s arse then he is not worthy of the name.

It's only Wednesday

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It's just another DnDless Wednesday
ohhh oh oh
I wish it was Monday
ohhh oh oh
Cos that's our fun day

Some really nice wheelchair inclusive characters here: https://strataminiatures.com/shop/?stor ... -c59621132





I'd link to the Dakka thread announcing them, but it's full of horrific people being horrific.

Matt Mercer, Critical Role DM, used a combat wheelchair character design that someone had made for public use and made an NPC who used it. It was brilliant, he did it seamlessly without drawing loads of attention to it, it was just matter of fact. There was the same result of horrific people being horrific but I think the majority response was really positive.

I love these designs you’ve shared and I love that people are making them!

I saw a Twitter thread earlier about a gift drive for kids who won’t be getting Christmas presents so I searched for something in my area and found one. I was browsing through it and saw the D&D starter set on the list. They’d put multiple copies on and the comment was about it being a great gift for teenagers. I hope the kids who get them get to play lots of D&D and find a new lovely community of people.

It's amazing how arsey people can be about others relating to the character they decide to play. "Am I supposed to tell the DM I have asthma and am a burden too?!" Horrible.

Great looking minis! Nice to see something new.
Sad as fuck that there are those out there who feel the need to be abhorrent about such things.

Those minis are awesome

Couldn't resist looking up the thread... so many cries of "but it's not realistic!!!" while talking about D&D.

*fidgets impatiently*

*sharpens berries*

Hopefully Myp's gaping anus will distract the Beholder long enough for us to tip toe past it while it's getting one of its eyestalks RIGHt up there.

I think I've got the game world setup in Foundry with the Tresendar Manor hideout map which is where we pick up tonight.

I've not enabled all of the functionality yet but if we use it tonight, if I've set it up correctly, you should be able to see the tokens on the map, move around the map and interact with doors.

There's a useful video here that explains Foundry for players. The most important part of this video is probably the section on movement. I'm still figuring out how to link a character sheet so if it works we'll probably just use it for positioning context tonight and I'll play around with it more this week.

Players, please check your DMs.

Players, my PM link should work now. I've been troubleshooting and hacking again.

Giphy "hacker":
https://media1.giphy.com/media/3og0ILLVvPp8d64Jd6/giphy-loop.mp4

I can't connect, but it has been 5 hours since you sent the message so I assumed you'd shut the lappy down. I was a sleep.

I was having firewall issues which should now be resolved, have you tried in the last few minutes?

I am a connected Dorf!

That looks fair bostin, bab.

Gilly! When (if) you get around to putting some ambiencennncnecy musics on, make sure you have this in the inns.

Definitely when, not if! I can’t wait to try some of the other features!

I'm in but only with Firefox (Safari not getting past login) but all I see is black.

BLACK!

Hmmm let me dig into Safari again actually...

OK, let's try Chrome...

I'm a fly lost in a jar of shadows!

Hnnnnggngnn.... I've enabled WebGL on the browsers where it was disabled but still nothing... well I did see a nice texture on Chrome before it turned black.

I see things!!! Turned off loads of graphics guff and I can see flagstones and tables.

Back in Firefox and now I can see purple tinged blocks too!

This is only letting me choose a colour though.

Huh, you should have a character to select. I chosed DImrill, then Ermintrude was listed.

I think there are lots of things that should be working

That's not good, I'm using Chrome and it's working fine. You should see something like this.

Nah I get this.

I think you've only added two "actors", Gill. As only myself and Mypticikekkeickkeik are listed.

I’ll have a look as soon as I’ve got the kids settled, hopefully it is as simple as access rights :/

That's a zoomed in view, although it's showing an area that should be obscured at the moment.


Does this help?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FoundryVTT/com ... t_connect/

FUCKING

AWESOME

Awesome scenes.

If I was an errand boy, I'd be kicking myself about missing out on the free equipment shed!

That was great, thank you all! Ermintrude cut multiple people in twain, Shuu had an inspired use of a driftglobe and Zardoth was a bear.

Loot!

68 silver each!
50 gold each!!

A Nothic Eye
A Silver Scabbard
A +1 Greataxe called Tooth (claimed by Dorf)
2 potions of healing! (each member now has one, apart from Myp)
5 Malachite gems
5 Camellions
2 Peridots
1 Peh-rrrul!
2 scroll cases! (foisted upon Ivo)
1 scroll of Fireball (foisted upon Ivo)
1 scroll of Charm Person (foisted upon Ivo)
1 scroll of Augury (nabbed by Ivo)
3 rare reagents
- mercury
- dragon bile
- powered nightshade (~25g worth if we find a buyer)
Glassstaff's Glass Staff (claimed by Ivo)


and most devastatingly
-1 goblin ear.

(last week's coin loot was 8gold, 12 silver, 5copper each)

Our brave adventurers have reached level 3!Giphy "level up":
https://media3.giphy.com/media/kEX61jJgpvCyFMBBFX/giphy-loop.mp4

The way forward is to talk to all the spiders.