Foundry How To

With a little bit of setup work, Foundry VTT can handle a lot of the math of the game for us. Here's how to get some things done.

Quick Insert

Pressing Ctrl + Spacebar will give you the quick lookup box where you can type in whatever you like and it will search the system. You can then drag & drop those items to your character sheet. If given multiple choices, drag the one with the pretty picture or the one that says "Savage Pathfinder".

Dice So Nice

Do you want pretty custom dice? Of course you do! Go to the Settings tab on the upper-right corner. Select Configure Settings. Click on Dice So Nice. Click on 3D Dice Settings. Go nuts. Don't give the GM epilepsy.

Rollable Area Setting: Sometimes when lots of dice are flying, the dice end up covering stuff you want to click (like your token HUD) and then you have to wait for the dice to disappear. You can set the dice to roll in a smaller area by click the Rollable Area button on the setting page. When you're done, you click the Apply button that is hiding in a dialog in the top right.

Want your dice to do fun things when you Ace? Go into Special Effects:

Stuff I Should Cleanup and Put Images With

Favorite a Weapon to Make it Available on Quick Access on the main page of your character sheet.

Modifiers for Better Rolls

Anything on your character sheet can be dragged down and put on your hotbar for easy access. Put your common weapons and skill down there for easy access.

Hot Keys

C = Brings up your character sheet

Tab = Will center the map on your token

Alt + Click = Target a token

Roll First. For faster play, roll first.

Don't tell us you're taking two actions, the first one blah, the second one blah. Just click your weapon, Tell us you're taking two actions as you click Two Action on the card. Click Roll.

Don't draw a circle to center your fireball. Click on your blast power. Click on roll in the card to see if you successfully cast. If you do, you can click on the MBT button in the card to then draw your circle.

Token HUD.

Equip an item (the default is carried, you have to change it) for an item to show up on your Token HUD.

You move it to the position you want by hovering over it and dragging the folder icon looking thing at the far right.

Spellcasting

Click on your power to get the chat card

Change Power Points or any modifiers. Roll to see if you cast or not.

If you do cast, click the template and place on the map as you like. Alt+Click on the template to then target everyone. Click on your Damage roll.

Want to customize your effect, sure you do!
Edit your power

Click the A-A button in the title bar

Turn on the Customize Item slider

There's probably a Global Match Found at the top middle. Click the hamburger menu next to that, click Copy from AutoRec. This will bring in the default animation. Go down and customize to your heart's content. A few notes:

In options there is a "Persistent" selection. If selected, it does the animation over and over and over. Maybe turn it off.

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