This year, participants entered 22 brand new packages, all compatible with FVTT V10 and enabling many new options for your campaign, and now we need your help choosing the winners!

You may vote for up to three nominees in each category, in up to ten different categories:

• Best Package
• Best Package from a First-time Author
• Most Useful – Many GMs or players will find their Foundry game improved from enabling this package.
• Most Polished – The package author made every effort to ensure full functionality and considered every use case and detail.
• Most Mind-Blowing – This package exceeds expectations of what’s possible inside Foundry.
• Wackiest – This package will make GMs and players laugh, mostly out of absurdity, or is just weird, but in a good way.
• Most Gorgeous – The package author utilized the game canvas, webpage styling, or design principles to provide an elevated experience for their users.
• Most Massive – The effort that went into the package was evident in the number of features, amount of content, or a wide set of configuration possiblities that enables users to try it a multitude of ways.
• Most Educational – The package author used this opportunity to bring real world knowledge/data into their submission for the benefit of their users, or it allows educational opportunities between GM and players.
• Most Integratabtle – The package allows the most flexibility and interoperability for other packages to leverage an API or configuration options provided specifically for other FVTT package developers.

We thank all of our sponsors for this year’s prizes.

• Foundry Gaming – a Foundry VTT merch t-shirt for every winner
• The Rollsmith – a $50 gift card (The Rollsmith) for the winner in the Most Mind-blowing category, and a commemorative D20 (for Dice So Nice!) for every participant
• The Forge – $20 gift cards (The Forge) for every winner
• Wild Magic Surge – three asset packs for every winner
• World Smiths and CZRPG – The Singing Grove, an adventure module, for the winner in the Most Integratable category
• ghost – Michael Ghelfi audio modules for the the winners in the Most Useful, Most Polished and Most Massive categories
• friendlylambda – a $100 gift card (Amazon, The Forge, or another service/site of choice) for the winner in the Best Package category
• BadIdeasBureau – a 1 month subscription to dropout.tv for the winner in the Wackiest category
• ccjmk – a $25 gift card (DriveThruRPG) for the winner in the Most Gorgeous category
• errational – a $25 gift card (Rollsmith, The Forge, DriveThruRPG, or Amazon (winner’s choice)) for the winner in the Best Package from a First-time Author category
• corporat – a $25 gift card for the winner in the Most Educational category

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.

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.

This article is paired with an AMA (Ask Me Anything) at the Foundry Reddit. Questions for Cody? Find the AMA link *HERE*

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.

Just another skeleton?

I think not.

You can check out Ben’s creations at his Battlemaps Patreon and his Tokens Patreon, or hop into his Discord and see what’s coming (Castle Ravenloft anyone?)

This article is paired with an AMA (Ask Me Anything) at the Foundry Reddit. Questions for Dorgendubal? Find the AMA link *HERE*

Moulinette is a series of modules created by Sven Werlen, aka Dorgendubal, a talented programmer from Switzerland who now lives in Montréal, Canada. The modules consist of a core and 5 sub-modules which have different functions. You only need to install the core and then you are free to install whichever modules suit your needs.

There’s a lot here so let’s dive in! First up we hear from Sven and learn how this fantastic suite of modules came about.

For more on Moulinette and Moulinette Cloud, head over to Dorgendubal’s Patreon or stop by his Discord and check it out for yourself!

Questions for Baileywiki? This article is paired with the Foundry Reddit, which is hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Baileywiki *HERE*

Let’s talk with Baileywiki and see what we can learn!

I’m an inventor before I’m an artist.

— Baileywiki

For more information from Baileywiki on his work, you can visit his Discord. For access to his advanced maps for Foundry (and much more), you can support him via his Patreon. Big shout out to Baileywiki for making the time to talk with us!

Dear Foundry Community,

First of all thanks for all the support you show to the community of volunteer developers which work to make our favorite VTT even better with a host of systems, modules, content packs, and more.

The League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers has a gentle reminder for you:

We are tinkers, artificers, wizards, and we do this code-craft as a hobby. Our hobbies consume our free time, and we offer the fruits of our free time up to the world for free (some of us have ways in which you can support our efforts monetarily, but the vast majority of us do not).

Our free time is as limited as your own, and as 0.8 enters Beta I want to remind you that many Systems and Modules will require some work to be compatible with this major core update. There will be issues, some small, some large, with the systems you rely on and the modules you love.

I can assure you that there isn’t a package dev out there who isn’t worried about what 0.8 will break in their beloved works of art. Some may have already tested and fixed things, but many haven’t. I can confidently say most of us are excited about the new APIs and possibilities that 0.8 brings, but it will take time and effort to update our packages.

How can you help?

If you are adventurous, make a backup of your world and update in such a way that you can revert for your normal game. Then test your systems or modules in a methodical way, one at a time, and make note of any broken features. Below are the hallmarks of a useful bug report, if you can open an issue for any un-reported problems with the system or modules you test, this will truly be a help.

• Ensure the issue isn’t already reported on the repository. If it is, simply reacting to it with a is enough to tell the dev that you’ve encountered the issue as well.
• Provide specific steps you can consistently reproduce the issue with.
• Show any screenshots that help explain the problem, or videos if you have that ability.
• Provide any relevant settings for the module, system, or core that seem related to the issue you’re encountering.
• Check the Developer Console (try F12) for any big red errors, if there are some, include a screenshot of them in your report.
• These reports help the developer know what is broken and offering to help test fixes goes a long way.

Sincerely,
Calego “ElfFriend” on behalf of all Module and System developers.

P.S. If you’re a system or module developer and you aren’t already part of the League, by all means join us on discord. We’re all in this together, and by our powers combined we can help the work go smoother.

Questions for KaKaRoTo? This article is paired with the Foundry Reddit, which is hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with KaKaRoTo *HERE*

ALSO: This Saturday, May 1st at 1PM Pacific the Foundry Discord will be launching the very first episode of an official Foundry VTT Twitch series called “Hammering It Out”, which will feature KaKaRoTo! Tune in to the Foundry VTT Twitch channel to catch it.

I’ve recently had to adapt from being a software developer to being an entrepeneur, a business owner, a boss and about a dozen other titles.

— KaKaRoTo

I first learned how to actually create something using code when I was in high school. I was maybe 16 years old and I had a programmable calculator (the TI-83). I was addicted to the “Snake” game on a Nokia phone belonging to one of my friends. I didn’t have a phone, but I had my calculator, so I decided to program that game into it. I figured that I should be able to do it…how hard can it be? That was also the time I learned about reverse engineering, because without realizing it, that’s what I was doing since my calculator didn’t have a user manual and there was no internet back then. I had to try and figure it out on my own.

I think Foundry’s features are very complete and most of the new features at this point are just adding on an already amazing product.

— KaKaRoTo

For more information from KaKaRoTo on programming and software development, you can visit his blog. For access to his R20 Converter (and much more), you can support him via his Patreon. Huge thanks to KaKaRoTo for making the time to speak with us!