Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Package Jam!

If you’ve missed our winner announcements stream, you can catch the VOD at any time here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1649234971

And for those who just want to see the results, here they are :

Every winner also receives a 20$ Forge gift card from The Forge, a T-shirt from Foundry Gaming, and 3 asset packs from Wild Magic Surge.

Every contestant will also receive a special 3D dice by The Rollsmith.

Thank you to all the sponsors for making this such a success, and thank you again to all who participated, voted, or helped along the way!

Congratulations to all the winners, and see you at the next Package Jam!

We are proud to present the Foundry Hub Weblate website. A platform dedicated to helping both developers and users localize Foundry VTT modules and systems.

Up until now, while some developers have been using their own localization software, most of the existing packages are either not localized or use flat .json files and a good pair of eyes to maintain their translation files.

With this initiative, we hope to encourage the community to improve package accessibility for non-English speakers.

Some key points:

• We take care of the technical stuff; adding a new package on the Weblate server is trivial for the developers.
• No need to know how to use Git or how to create Pull Request for the users who wish to help translate. Just use the website.
• Thanks to our custom addon, users can add an entire new language to a project without any help from the developer. Weblate even edits the package manifest for them.
• No risk to the package repository; changes are automatically sent as a Pull Request once every 24 hours.
• Want some help from an AI? Machine translation suggestions from DeepL are available directly while translating a project.

If you are a bilingual player wondering how you can contribute to the community or a developer wishing to empower Foundry VTT players from all over the world, check the Foundry Hub Weblate!

As for every other project we maintain (this website, foundry.wiki, Weblate), server costs are covered by donations. If you like what we do, please consider donating to help us keep the lights on.

F.A.Q.

What is Weblate?

Weblate is a copylefted libre software web-based continuous localization system, used by over 2500 libre projects and companies in more than 165 countries.
It provides a simple, powerful and easy-to-use interface for translating software projects with a focus on community-driven projects.

What is Foundry Hub Weblate?

Foundry Hub Weblate is a community-maintained Weblate server that is used to translate Foundry VTT modules and systems.
It is provided free of charge to Foundry VTT community members and is hosted on the Foundry Hub servers.

Who can use Weblate?

Anyone can use Weblate to translate Foundry VTT modules and systems. Just create a free account and start translating any of the modules and systems currently available on Foundry Hub Weblate.
Please make sure to read each project’s translation instructions in their info section.

I am a translator. How do I get started?

Check this video demonstrating how to get started with Weblate:

I am a developer. How do I get my project translated?

Check the Getting Started page for instructions on how to get your project translated on Foundry Hub Weblate.

Once your project is set up, read our Recommendations for developers page for tips on how to get the best out of Weblate.

For those that want a real deep dive into every change and bug fix for this update, you can see the full release notes. For those that want just the highlights, then look no further than this article.

New Feature Spotlight

The largest feature of Journal v2 is the new User Interface (UI), which allows for multiple organized, searchable pages. So instead of having one long continuous Journal entry or trying to organize all your Journals in a complex folder structure, you can now have one Journal that acts almost like a book with multiple pages, page types, and navigation options.

On the left-hand side of the Journal, there is now a new collapsible navigation pane with a clickable and searchable table of contents. This table of contents lists all the different Pages within a Journal Entry and also has a list with header depths, showing Heading and Subheadings under each page as well. At the top of this panel, you can find an ‘Add Page’ button as well as a bar to search for specific words within the whole Journal. At the bottom, there are ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ buttons if you want to feel like you are flipping through the pages of the ancient tome you just found.

Having multiple pages makes it far easier for GMs to organize Journal entries and make it easier for players to consume specific content. What’s more, you can granularly control the permissions of each Journal page so you can have hidden pages, ensuring certain pages are for a specific player or GM eyes only.

Other Journals v2 Features

• The text editor has been updated to ProseMirror with markdown support
• GMs can grant ownership of entire Journals or specific pages to individual players, and a small quill icon will show up on the navigation pane to remind the GM that the page is owned by one or more players.
• If certain pages are hidden, an icon is shown in the navigation pane for that page of an eye with a line through it to remind GMs it’s hidden.
• Live collaboration is now available as multiple users can edit a single Journal at the same time without overwriting each other.
• You can create multiple page types: text, image, PDF, markdown, or video.
• You can create a Map Note pin of specific pages, making dungeon note creation a breeze.
• A new icon on the Journal Notes layer allows you to quickly create Map Note pins without needing to create a Journal Entry for it. Great for signs or wall etchings you want your players to be able to read.
• Sections within a Journal Entry can now be linked specifically, allowing users to share a link to a Journal entry or a page or even a heading that will open automatically at the position linked.
• Custom Font is now supported allowing you to upload your own fonts into your data folder and set the Font Family name, weight, and style.

Top New Features

Let’s dive into the other important features that got added in this version.

That Affect GM Preparation

A handful of updates will make the GM’s work to prepare maps and adventures much easier.

• Adventures – This almost made it in the Spotlight for me because I think it’s one of the best and most fleshed-out new features. But I think only GMs will find any excitement in this one, so I left it here. Adventures are a new type of Compendium that let you package up any collection of elements from your game world to export and share with others who can then import all those elements into their own game world. This makes sharing custom-made adventures way easier. Before, the best way to have a carefully selected amount of content packaged together was to export an entire World. However, using a new world doesn’t have the player characters, scenes, music, homebrew, or 75 modules you’ve already installed (everyone has that many right, it’s not just me?). Now you can use these Adventures to add packaged content to your very lived in existing World and smoothly transition your players into new adventures. The packaging even retains things like token and map pin placements (as long as you package the corresponding actors and journals).

• Levels (lite) – I say lite because the dev team has created the framework for the future full implementation of ‘levels’. While the full levels system won’t come around until a future version, the framework itself allows for some really fun interactions. Essentially, the framework creates synthetic z-axis on the game canvas allowing token height to have a visual impact. Tokens at 0 or ground level go under tree and roof tiles, but if their ‘height’ is increased above 10ft or so, they will fly over the trees or run along the rooftops. It also has an impressive impact on tokens using Tremorsense, which can’t see tokens that aren’t actually on the ground.
   

• Lighting
  • The “Torch” lighting animation has been improved and overhauled to provide a more realistic appearance of the exposed flame. The previous animation has been renamed to “Flicker”, and uses an improved noise generation algorithm, and its approach to coloration should result in a less “washed out” appearance.
  • The “Gradual Illumination” checkbox for Ambient Light and Token light source objects has been replaced with an “Attenuation” slider which allows for fine-grained control over the smoothness of transition between bright/dim/dark lighting regions. An Attenuation value of one produces the most dramatic and most gradual easing, while an Attenuation value of zero produces the most sharply differentiated appearance between lighting levels.
  • Other new lighting animation options include Force Grid, Vortex, Smoke Patch, and Starlight.

• Audio/Video – The Audio-Video user interface has been redesigned to be a full-height sidebar panel on the left side of the interface which can be resized. Camera views of connected players are displayed in a grid layout and can be popped out to separate frames, giving a more aesthetically pleasing UI. There’s also nameplates that rotate between player name and character name, border frames colored based on player color, and even more.

Affecting those Learning the Program

These features are for any user (player or GM) that is trying to learn Foundry VTT or modules (for the module creators that leverage these features).

• Tours – The Foundry VTT team has created a way for ‘Tours’ to be created that walk a user step-by-step through any aspect of the program to teach them how to use it. The settings now have a ‘Tour Management’ button where you can view and reset any tours you’ve already taken.

• Tooltips – Tooltips have been improved to create a more cohesive experience that supports localization and also allows community developers to help their modules have unified tooltips with the Game System.

That Affect Player Immersion

These features will help the world feel more alive and reactive, as well as help you spend less time arguing with other players about what everyone can and can’t see.

• New Vision Customization – Being a D&D DM that has a party of PCs with Darkvision, this is an extremely welcome addition. When you edit vision on a token now, there are three sub-tabs.

• Pings – If you’ve ever had a hard time pointing out to our GM what part of the wall you are searching for hidden entrances or argued with the other players about which tree the hidden Goblin is hiding under, Pings has you (or the wall or the Goblin) covered! Using your mouse and holding a left click over any area highlights it with a nice animation to alert all others about what you’re looking at.
  Holding ALT while doing this will create an “alert” style ping if you need to point out a trap or hazardous terrain. Should any players’ view be too far away, an arrow on the edge of the screen will point towards where the Ping is coming from.
  Finally, GMs will have a couple of unique abilities; holding SHIFT while holding a left click to pull the view of all players on the Scene to the location of your ping and clicking the bullseye icon next to a combatant in the Combat Tracker pings that specific combatant.
   

So what do you think of v10? Are you looking forward to using these new features? What other features are you hoping will come to future versions? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

*Background map created by Andru using Dungeondraft program with Forgotten Adventures assets.

Update: end of jam delayed

The League of Extraordinary Foundry Virtual Tabletop Developers is proud to announce its third-anniversary package jam!

A Package Jam is an event where anyone can participate by creating a new module or system (called “packages”) for Foundry VTT. It is a great way to start Foundry development or try something new and different from your existing packages. At the end of the event, the players can vote for their favorite packages, and the winners even get a small prize.

Anyone interested in publishing a new Foundry VTT package is encouraged to participate. The primary goal of the package jam is to provide a fun and engaging environment for new developers to explore FVTT package development.

If you aren’t already there, please consider joining the League’s Discord server. There’s no other place like it if you’re interested in FVTT package development!

Submitting a package

There are a few condition in order for your package to be eligible:

• It must be submitted between now and midnight on August 22nd (EST).
• It needs to be approved by Foundry staff for the official package listing.
• An open source license is required.
• It must be compatible with FVTT v10.
• You must include the following field in your manifest file:

"flags": {
    "fvttdevleague": {
        "package-jam": 2022
    }
}

Winning a category entitles you to one of our TBA prizes, including gift cards to The Forge!

Categories

• Best Package
• First Package
• Useful
• Polished
• Mind-blowing
• Wacky
• Gorgeous
• Massive
• Educational
• Integratable

Voting on Foundry Hub

This year we have a two-phase voting system.

First, a panel of volunteer judges will each nominate entries for consideration in each category. The top entries in each category will form the shortlist for that category!

Afterward, we’ll open the voting to anyone with a free Foundry Hub account. Each Foundry Hub member votes for up to three of the nominees in each category. The one with the most votes is the winner! Don’t forget the best overall package, which every package will be eligible for! If it’s your first time submitting a FVTT package, your package will automatically be nominated for the “first package” category.

Become a judge

If you aren’t able to participate by submitting a package, we will make a public call for volunteer judges in August, so make sure to join our Discord server and get the @league-announcements role to be notified for that. People entering into the Package jam are not eligible. Anyone who doesn’t complete their package in time for the jam may submit their interest as a judge instead.

Fine print: Official start time July 22, 2022 12:00 PM. Official end time August 22, 2022 12:00 PM. All submissions must be compatible with Foundry VTT V10, packages that the judges are unable to get running or test will be disqualified from nomination. Judge votes have equal weight. A developer can have a maximum of 2 packages nominated per category. If a category doesn’t get more than three nominees, that category will be removed. For the public voting phase, Foundry Hub user votes have equal weight and are not ranked. A user can cast a maximum of 3 votes. The package with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie for most votes, tied entries share the victory. The prize recipient will be decided according to a 1vs1 Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Level 14 deathmatch adjudicated by an impartial dungeonmaster. No fudged rolls, all DM decisions final.

If you want all the details, then head straight to the notes above, this update, and this video. See you in a few hours!

Or…if you’re looking for a summary, we’ve got you covered – we’ve spent a couple of weeks trying out V9 and will share some of the things that could help Game Masters (GMs) and Players get even more enjoyment from their games. 

The Nine

1) You can improve the mood of your scenes without even trying. 

 In V9, light sources come out of the box with Adaptive Luminance (light looks different on top of different backgrounds) and Gradual Illumination (light tapers and fades naturally at the edges) enabled. Of course, things can be customized extensively, allowing the GM to realize their artistic vision.

“Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also help you appreciate what the actor is feeling, what the playwright wants you to feel. Any engineer can put a spot on someone.”

– Jules Fisher, Lighting Legend

2) You can enthrall your players with even more custom lighting animations and effects. 

If you do want to go deep into lighting, there are five new native light animations for you to try, as well as sliders for Saturation, Contrast, Shadows, Color Intensity, Darkness Activation Range, and more. With these tools and a few minutes of work, you can spin up all kinds of weird and magical effects: create an eerie fog, a crazy spell effect, or a plunging vortex of infinite darkness!

3) You can easily add dynamic audio sources to your maps. 

When you place a dynamic audio source on the map, it triggers that audio when someone moves their token nearer to it. You can now upload the audio then drag it onto the canvas. Perfect for things like crackling fires, babbling brooks, or ghostly laughter. And traps.

4) You can manage your music more easily now. 

Playlist re-ordering is now a core feature, meaning your music can be added, modified, and re-ordered in a much more streamlined way. Audio in general is also much more stable – you can play and stop sounds continuously without worrying about your game slowing down or freezing up.

5) You can sling playing cards around now. 

Well, not literally, but they can be used in the form of decks, hands, and piles. This means real-world card games can be simulated, but will also be of great interest to GMs who want to integrate card decks from existing systems (with a bit of work). Since you can upload images for the cards, just about anything can be made into a deck – Pathfinder Crit/Fumble decks, spell decks, chase decks, background decks, NPC decks, you get the idea.

6) You can switch scenes but keep the combat rolling.

When you have players move from one scene to another (say an epic battle or a chase scene), the encounter in the combat tracker can now follow to the next scene. Whether moving from inside a tavern to outside in a big fight, or from a dungeon hallway and into a large chamber, this feature ensures a smooth transition.

7) T is for ‘target’…if you want.

Everyone can easily customize their own keybindings now. Choose your shortcuts to open the character sheet, target tokens, pause the game, measure things, and more. There are 58 actions you can map by default and more with modules. There’s even some support for gamepad controls for things like moving tokens around the canvas. For players who like customizing their action bars and GMs who like to optimize their setup processes, this is a big improvement.

8) You can cram more goodness into your game, for the same performance cost.

You would think all of the above makes the whole thing a bit more clunky right? Wrong. Actually, overall performance is improved due to a whole lot of technical things which have been optimized, including the way light is treated (canvas loads first, then light is applied) and the way compendiums are indexed (in short, all your stuff loads quicker now). 

9) It’s easier to bring new players to the game.

The new performance mode suggests (and defaults to) settings based on a user’s computer. This is the kind of feature which might seem small, but it could reduce the amount of troubleshooting and tech support the Game Master needs to provide, which is mostly a good thing (unless you are one of those GMs who get a kick out of also being a technical legend).

Installing V9

Interested in trying these out? Before choosing to update, check if your existing game and modules are compatible with V9. It’s likely they are, or will be soon. Below is a summary of the module testing status.

If you’ve made the choice to proceed, let us remind you of the most important thing to do when updating to a new version back up your data! It’s written in the release notes and repeated often, with good reason! Also, for V9 it’s strongly recommended to do a full reinstall of Foundry VTT.

For more support on the installation and configuration of your game, you can always refer to the official documentation, or feel free to join and ask your questions on the Foundry VTT Discord Server.  

The Response so Far

V9 continues the Foundry VTT tradition of rapid, transparent, and incremental improvement. With some research, it’s possible to get a very deep understanding of the technical changes; and the feedback on these changes seems pretty positive, at least based on what we are seeing in Discord chat and Reddit. 

There’s also a good response from the developer community, for example:

“In Foundry v9, the lighting system has received a much needed face-lift. It’s faster, more accurate, and extremely beautiful – the fact that lights manage to blend colors to a realistic standard is mind blowing for a 2D virtual tabletop; the shadows feel darker and lights have more oomph.

I’m running a Curse of Strahd campaign and as my players had returned to previously explored maps, I’ve managed to wow them with the improved lighting – they’ve even expressed wanting to go back even further just to see what’s changed. If this update hasn’t convinced you to get into Foundry, I don’t know what will!“

–Wasp, the creator of Fantasy Calendar and a developer with the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers

Though V9 is in its early days, and the Foundy VTT team deserves some rest, we asked them to comment on the overall feedback they’ve received so far and how they’re feeling about reaching this milestone. They graciously responded:

“We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about the new lighting engine, both from users as well as from content creators who are loving the power it gives them to create beautiful scenes. Many users are also really excited about card support, although we’ve also seen some fair criticism that the UI/UX for card support is a bit rudimentary. I think this is to be expected given the amount of underlying infrastructure we needed to do in order to provide a stable foundation for the cards API.

Overall, I think the feedback we’ve gotten is positive and that V9 is the most stable, feature-complete product we’ve created to date and we’re all looking forward to continuing to improve on it in V10.”

– Atropos, creator of Foundry VTT

Have you tried V9? Let us know what you think in the comments below, and have fun.

Blair’s Guide

Creating a Foundry VTT module can be quite daunting, time-consuming, and fiddly. I created a module generator to make it easier to get a module up and running quickly. Depending on your requirements, you may not even have to open a text editor.

Visit the generator, fill in the form and download your module zip with all of the values filled in.

The generator supports two modes:

• Scene Packer integrated
  • This mode (listed as “new module” in the generator) creates a new module for you, with Scene Packer module functionality already integrated. This mode is particularly useful for content creators who have an adventure and want to make use of Scene Packer’s functionality, but don’t know any JavaScript or aren’t wanting to fiddle around in a text editor.
• Standalone Module
  • This mode creates a module without any dependencies. You could use this to quickly create a Shared Compendium Module to share your actors/items/journals between worlds. Alternatively, this mode can be used as a starting point for any custom module you wanted to build.

Module generator: https://sneat.github.io/scene-packer-module-generator/

Are you a content creator? Might you become one now that creating adventures is a much easier process? Drop us a line in the comments and let us know your thoughts!

This name change is the tip of the iceberg, as Foundry Gaming reimagines their development cycles in a new phased timeline.

In this article, we will see what these changes mean from the user’s point of view. We also interviewed Anathema, Project Coordinator at Foundry Gaming, for his insights.

The new naming convention

The name of the versions is now directly linked to the current development phase. Thus, it is no longer necessary to search the official website or Discord announcements when hearing about version “0.8.5” to determine whether a version is intended for the general public or community testers and developers.

Separated into three parts, each version follows the same path. Only the number of iterations per phase is flexible and will depend on the stability and complexity of each release.

In addition, each release is labeled with a build number. This number is a unique identifier that further determines the code version packed into this release. In general, you should not need to worry about this number if you are not a developer yourself.

As for the phases themselves, Foundry Gaming has redesigned its six-phase approach for each release, from planning to the maintenance period.

An article dedicated to this new cycle is available at this address: https://foundryvtt.com/article/versioning/

Our questions to Anathema and Foundry Gaming

To save heartache and data loss, it’s good to practice safe data storage. You can backup your Foundry VTT data at any time.

Video Tutorial courtesy of Encounter Library:
https://youtu.be/OmbxMmqNNXU

What do you think of this change? Let us know in the comments.

I personally would like to thank everyone on the team and everyone who contributed content to Foundry Hub over the last few months. You are awesome, and your help, effort, time, and creativity are appreciated!

So to do so, we have decided that we need help or, better said, people who want to volunteer and join us to help work towards the mentioned goal. So we took some time and reflected on coming up with better-defined roles so people can apply for the positions they are interested in and/or have the time for.

However, if you wish to participate in Foundry Hub in a way we do not mention here, please apply nonetheless, this list is not exhaustive. We are interested in any form of help, from community animation to tech/design skills.

Chief Editor

This is an admin position that handles management tasks and relations inside and outside of the team. You are the person to talk about existing and potentially new content on Foundry Hub and questions about the editorial procedures. In addition, our official partners (Foundry Gaming, /r/FoundryVTT subreddit, Content Creators) will be in contact with you regarding anything related to content. And you will have a direct say on what gets published and when.

Your tasks:

• Scheduling of published content.
• Work and communicate with Foundry Hub Partners.
• Accept and reject contributions and articles.
• Organize Team Meetings

Availability: You should be around on Discord regularly to answer questions/requests and, apart from that, be able to dedicate a few hours each week.

Editor

As an editor, you will work on drafts from community contributors and Foundry Hub Writers to help and tune the drafts into a ready-to-publish state. This will include making sure articles are of good quality and make sense for the reader. The articles have a pleasing layout and will look good on the page. They include all relevant metadata like tags, related modules, etc.

Experience with WordPress can be helpful but is not necessary.

Your tasks:

• Work directly with the authors of articles to ensure changes to the article are approved.
• Edit drafts to help the readability, understanding and fitting of the text by adding and/or removing parts.
• Manage media files (images, videos, etc) to make sure the text is not missing crucial ones or the text is overloaded with them.
• Make sure the drafts will look good on the page by editing the layout and structure of the drafts.

Availability: You should be able to dedicate a few hours each month to work on articles.

Assistant Editor

Each content that is published on Foundry Hub should ideally have been going through multiple sets. As an assistant editor, you will be in the quality control department, proofread articles to sanity check against typos and grammar issues, and check if links and media are working correctly. You also give the okay if the article was understandable to you as a reader or if some parts need more clarity.

Being well versed or a native speaker of the English language is desired here.

Your tasks:

• Proof read content.
• Spot and correct spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Double check media files and links to be working correctly.
• Give feedback if the content is understandable or needs more clarity.

Availability: You should be able to read through some content each month. This position needs the least time investment, but it needs to be done sometimes on short notice.

Writer

We at Foundry Hub have the goal to produce content of our own instead of relying solely upon contributions from the community. Such content includes recurring articles like Module Roundup and Community Spotlight, non-technical summaries about new Foundry VTT releases, and covering relevant news.

As a writer, you don’t have to do all of those mentioned, but you can decide what interests and motivates you. You are also welcome to present new ideas or series of articles you would like to write about.

Your tasks:

• Write content for Foundry Hub (you decide what you want to focus on):
  • Cover relevant news about Foundry VTT and its community.
  • Recurring articles you are interested in and can commit to.
  • Guides and highlights about modules, systems or anything that might be interesting.
  • Other ideas.
• Opportunity to come up for new content ideas.

Availability: Depending on what you want to write about, the availability might differ. But in any case, you should be able to commit to a certain amount of content you feel comfortable with each month.

Stable does not mean bug free, and also does not mean all of your beloved Systems and modules are ready yet!

If you followed Foundry Hub on the release series, you probably stumbled upon this article which reminds us that community developers are people too, dealing with time, family, and daytime jobs. So please, be careful before upgrading and backup your data folder, and check if your beloved systems and modules are ready.

We have today received Foundry VTT 0.8.6 as a Stable release. This version is accumulated work including all release changes and features throughout 0.8.0 up to this one. 0.8.6 by itself is not as significant as the entire series, but rather a combination of bug fixes and changes occurring during the last testing cycle. Thus, here you can find the articles that cover each of the important changes in the previous releases (We will however provide a summary of the biggest features here below):

Foundry VTT 0.8.6 Stable Release

May 31, 2021 No Comments

It’s really out! Foundry VTT released 0.8.6, and it is considered stable! Stable… but… wait,…

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Foundry VTT 0.8.3 & 0.8.4 Beta Release

May 17, 2021 No Comments

With last week’s 0.8.3 release, we entered the beta phase for the 0.8.x series, and…

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Foundry VTT 0.8.2 Alpha Release

May 2, 2021 1 Comment

Foundry VTT is taking big steps forward towards the 0.8.x series, and if it wasn’t…

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Foundry VTT 0.8.1 Alpha Release

March 28, 2021 2 Comments

We’re all getting excited about Foundry VTT 0.8.x series, and even though it is still…

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Foundry VTT 0.8.0 Alpha Release

February 18, 2021 6 Comments

It has been about 7 months since the start of the Foundry Virtual Tabletop 0.7.x…

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PS: 0.8.5 Was not exclusively covered, as it was mostly internal bug fixes and changes that were covered. A similar scenario we have with 0.8.6.

For a thorough list of changes on this release and previous ones, check out the official release notes here.
On this article, we will keep a non-technical human language, by smoothing out the vocabulary and technical details.

Features Overview in Foundry VTT 0.8.x

Updating from 0.7.x

Due to some technical changes updating from 0.7.x might not be as straight forward. Here are a few things you need to consider:

• If you are self-hosting using the desktop (Electron) application, it is not possible to update directly to 0.8.6 and instead, you must re-install Foundry Virtual Tabletop using the latest version.
• If you are currently using version 0.7.10 AND hosting your server using Node.js (not the Electron app) you can update directly to version 0.8.6 within the application UI.
• This requirement is due to a change in the required Node.js and Electron versions used by the software where 0.7.9 and older depended on Node.js 12+ and Electron version 10, while 0.8.x onward requires Node.js 14+ and Electron version 12.

So, this is a very quick overview of what Foundry 0.8.x means! Feel free to read the official release notes or our previous articles for a human-interpreted list of changes. We are as always, glad to have readers aboard the hype train, and looking forward to your comments and opinions.

And remember to BACKUP before you update and check out this post on Reddit that might help you figuring out if your favorite module or system is already compatible with the new release.

Have fun, readers!

The League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers is celebrating one year since Foundry Virtual Tabletop was released (May 22) and the League’s own first anniversary (July 13) by hosting a Package Jam between those dates!

Categories, Winning, and Prizes

Each contestant will be awarded an exclusive 3D D20 crafted by The Rollsmith for use with the Dice So Nice! module to commemorate their participation in this package jam.

Community Categories

Leadership Categories

More details

The hub for this competition is the Itch.io Jam page, be sure to check there if you would like clarification about the rules and prizes. And check back often (or join us on Discord) as more prizes may yet manifest.

Some emotional Stuff

The League’s first package jam’s announcement started with this triumphant declaration:

Our community has grown to over 2,000 strong in the eight months since then. We’ve witnessed a plethora of amazing ideas by motivated people from all over the globe come to market in that time.

I (Calego) only joined the League because of the first Package Jam and I run the place now. I know I speak for my fellow Ring Masters when I say “Thank you for your support, it has been an amazing journey, and I look forward to what new wonders the future holds.”

If you have any inkling of a desire to make your cool ideas a reality on the Foundry VTT platform, join us and together we will rule the galaxy build amazing things. Start with this jam and you might win something cool to boot.