foundryvtt VS MaterialDeck

If you're ready to spend money, though, I'd suggest Foundry. I recommend Foundry for these reasons:

Salutations, lost souls. What's happening: On the 10th of December, at 11:00 UTC+0, I'll be running a simple one-shot to test run the Advanced 5th Edition system by Level Up, using Foundry. It is essentially a fully rewritten, rebalanced version of the regular DnD 5e system, with more character customization. You can check out their website here.

At first, I thought I had messed something up in my install, so I made a fresh image and loaded it up. This time, in addition to my update page firing that error, my news feeds on my setup home were also delivering an error saying they couldn't reach the foundryvtt.com web server.

Well of course there is the aforementioned session zero will be the first order on the docket. Our starting point will be the Pathfinder 2E's Beginner Box. I find the Beginner Box to be a genuinely good way to introduce players to both PF2E and FoundryVTT so im gonna use it as a sorta jumping off point for the homebrew. (it also gives me time to work on the homebrew content since it will be customized to your group specifically)

Fix here.

For the character sheet, I took screenshots of the sheet from our current campaign and just slapped them all into one big image. We're playing in the Foundry Virtual Tabletop software with the Tidy5e and Inventory+ modules. I think those are the main ones affecting the appearance and layout of the character sheet. FoundryVTT definitely takes some setup out of the gate, but the modules allow for so much freedom and so many quality of life improvements.

4 is the core maximum folder depth in v11, up from 3 in previous versions (specific closed issue stating this, which is referenced in the v11.293 release notes). If you've ever been able to go deeper, it's do to module use and will continue to only be available via modules (which do carry some risks).

It's a FoundryVTT v11 bug: https://github.com/foundryvtt/foundryvtt/issues/9652 Would have hurt you equally literally anywhere.

I would suggest looking into a virtual tabletop system like Foundry. These can be setup to give a video-game-like experience. Foundry especially has functionality to lock down player access to just what they need, which I imagine would be useful in a teaching environment. You could theoretically set up a campaign in Foundry, get it just right, then lock it down and clone it again and again for each different set of students or class you teach.

https://github.com/foundryvtt/foundryvtt/issues/8898 is the answer! A Discord moderator advised me. Posting here for others. Thank you!

I use the Matrial Deck addon with my Stream Deck. You run a small application on your computer that acts as the go-between between your Stream Deck and the hosted Foundry instance.

Here's instructions: https://github.com/CDeenen/MaterialDeck/wiki/Linux-Instructions

There also is no easy way to have an SD plug-in fully communicate an external change of state without some sort of sever running to keep things updated. The only system I’ve seen that does this consistently is the purpose built Material Deck for the FoundryVTT virtual tabletop application. It uses a local server (run on your system) that can poll the states of various commands. When you invoke them via the keyboard, if available, the state of the corresponding SD key will update (music playlist playing or stopped, game paused or unpaused, for example). And when you invoke them on the SD, they react as though you hit the keyboard command. But this is a very specific usage case for a single app. It is not available outside of FoundryVTT (for other apps). Of course, the server app is available along with its source code, so you could figure out what it takes to make it work in other apps, but that would be far, far more work than learning AHK.

"It would be so cool to use my Streamdeck to interact with Foundry." -There's a module for that. "What if difficult terrain was automatically calculated?" -There's a module for that. "I wish my players could change their token for when they're sitting." -TAMFT. It's just crazy.

You could also use Material Deck: https://github.com/CDeenen/MaterialDeck Another module by me that allow players to control their tokens using an Elgato Stream Deck. They can move tokens, run macros (for example to attack), display token stats, and more. Right now you can only use 1 stream deck at a time, but I'm planning to add support for multiple Stream Decks. It's an expensive solution, but it does do what you want it to do (or at least it will soon).

Maybe not the answer you're looking for, and it'll require you to buy hardware, but you could take a look at my Material Deck and Material Keys modules that use an Elgato Stream Deck and Novation Launchpad, respectively, to control and display various Foundry functions. Both allow you to play playlists or individual tracks by pressing a physical button, and both show which playlist and track is playing (through LEDs for Material Keys, while Material Deck can display playlist and names). As a bonus, you'll also be able to do a lot of other cool stuff :)