Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9594771" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Yeah, Pathfinder is a stand out in giving content free or at a great discount when you are in another system. I don't play PF, but I've been jealous of the great things that the PF2e community has done with the PF2e game system on Foundry. If I were to play PF2e, I couldn't imagine playing it in another VTT.That is a big benefit of Foundry. You can download and back up and always have access to your content. I assume that Fantasy Grounds is similar. But you are paying a lot more for FG if you don't want a sub.If you want to customize the UI, yes, Foundry allows radically different GUIs depending on the game system and with mods, especially if you are willing to put into the workWell, the Maps feature in DDB is great for what it is, but it is not a full featured VTT.  If you just want to have a map and move tokens around, have it integrated with D&D Beyond content and encounter builder, and have manual fog of war, DDB Maps is great for that. But it can't compare to Foundry for customization, dynamic lighting, and all the powerful lighting and interactive features available in Foundry. Any while I'm not that worried about control of DDB content, it is nice that with Foundry you can keep a local backup.I think that this is pretty unique to Pathfinder, but I don't know. Patherfinder seems to be exceptionally generous.Cubicle 7 only supports foundry because they didn't develop the a VTT game system.  A community fan (all hail Moohammer) built it and did such a great job that they brought him on and worked with him to get the official content into Foundry so they could offer it for sale. I do think you point about the IP has merit though. Games Workshop has a...reputation for aggressively protecting their IP. Cubicle7 sells the Foundry modules through their online store and you enter the product keys in your Foundry account. They are not selling Warhammer Fantasy content on the Foundry VTT Marketplace. You can much more easily sell content directly to customers for Foundry than with other VTTs--at least that's my perception.</blockquote>

Verification