u/LordEntrails

Smiteworks, the parent company of FGVTT just announced that it acquired the assets of the 3D character/mini builder Eldritch Foundry (EF). I hadn't heard of EF before, but looking at it it seems pretty much a competitor to Heroforge.

The stated intent is to be able to integrated your EF characters straight into FGVTT so that your party can not be represented as 3D minis in the VTT itself.

More details including some screen shots are in the press release. https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?88225-SmiteWorks-Acquires-Eldritch-Foundry-to-Build-a-Leading-3D-VTT-Experience

For those of you who may not have heard, SmiteWorks has released a web based character builder that can print to pdf as well as import and export characters to FGVTT: Character Vault

It only supports a handful of systems at the moment, but they are working on deploying more.

What it does:

• Build characters for supported system using content you own for Fantasy Grounds or free entitlements
• Use an interactive online interface (disconnected from FG) for live play
• Print the character sheet
• Import from a Fantasy Grounds character export
• Export to a Fantasy Grounds compatible XML file you can import to your campaign
• Supported systems include D&D 5E/5.5E, Pathfinder 2E, Starfinder 2E, Cosmere RPG, Pathfinder 1E

There are currently 3 tiers. Free allows you to have 3 active characters. "Player" Vault gives you 12 character slots, that you can share with others so they have access to your FG products for character creation. Or the "GM" Vault with gives you 50 character slots that you can share with others.

I've turned on Crowd Control and Reputation filters. This should prevent all of these spam bots and trolls we seem to be getting. Hopefully it does not impact legitimate users. The control levels are pretty crude, so if you have trouble etc you can PM me and I can either manually approve you or if it's bad enough will turn off one of the features.

Part of the Christmas in July Sale, The Ultimate Undermountain is now 30% off!! Jump in at the best price ever! https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/509423/ultimate-undermountain-the-dungeon-level

Note, the Ultimate Undermountain is currently only available in VTT format for Fantasy Grounds. One of these days I'll have it as a PDF, but conversion and layout is challenging at over 600 pages of text!

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Though not yet available on the EPT or COBB websites, multiple media sites are reporting that July 11th, Engineering Performance Technologies (EPT), the parent company of COBB Tuning, acquired Hondata Inc.

Opinions are that it will take ~ 6 months for any changes to occur.

Thought it was pretty cool that the release this week of Fantasy Grounds has greatly enhanced effects for all rulesets.

This means things like Ongoing Damage, Resistances, Immunities, Dodging, Exhaustion, etc has better support, standardization, and automation across all game systems (D&D, Pathfinder, GI Joe, etc).

They also have said that they should now process faster. Was never an issue for me, but I guess if you had numerous effects on the various PCs and NPCs you could detect lag in the processing.

Do note, if you use Extensions, make sure your extension has been updated, at least dozens of them have been, but there is certainly a chance that one you use has been impacted and might not have been updated yet.