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President, SmiteWorks. Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber. 72 posts. No reviews. No lists. No wishlists.
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Good luck with everything. That is a lot of good stuff.
SmiteWorks/Fantasy Grounds has been working 100% remote since 2009 and we have been blessed with employees living in several different states. We have even had a number of our employees move from one state to another and it is always nice that they can move freely and still remain happily employed with our team.
While I do personally miss the camaraderie of working together in the same physical space that I had with other work environments, we still very much feel like a team.
I can answer that one. We were indeed having problems with the sync while the Paizo site was experiencing technical issues. Once those settled, the sync from our site began working again. I just forgot to remove the message. The warning message is gone now and you should be free to authorize your account and sync your purchases. Sorry for the confusion.
-Doug
This is now available for Fantasy Grounds as part of our support for the Pathfinder 2.0 PlayTest.
This product is marked as Early Access, so it features parts 1 through 3 only. Parts 4 - 7 will be added with subsequent updates.
Pathfinder Playtest Adventure: Doomsday Dawn
Publisher: Paizo Inc.
System: Pathfinder 2.0
Type: Adventure
Get it on Steam
Amaltopek wrote:
Businesses need to make money in order to continue providing content and services. I get that. But I will need to do some upgrades to my older FG license in addition. Unless I am actively running a game, spending $200 to get my FG up to snuff is just not in my price range.
I'm having enough trouble figuring out if I can afford Hero Lab Online to get access to the Starfinder stuff in that platform.... If you have an older license, it will still work with the latest version and should update for free. We have people that bought back in 2004 and those keys still work. If you have a Player only Lite license, those can be upgraded to Standard for $20 and a Standard can be updated to an Ultimate license so you can host free/demo players if you want for $110 normally or $88 through midnight EST tonight (Sunday, March 11) due to a sale that is currently running. We try to have sales periodically on the main licenses. A brand new Ultimate license is on sale for $110 (down from $149). That can still be a chunk all at once, so we offer the 6-months 0% interest financing option through PayPal for U.S. based customers. You can find a link to it on the bottom of our Store.
If now is not the best time, please do consider signing up for the newsletter and you'll get notified for sales and new releases each week. Just posting on our threads about physical games you are playing of Starfinder and what features would be helpful to you helps us prioritize where we spend our development efforts as well. If we can't entice you now, perhaps we can eventually by addressing your most requested features.
It was launched on Feb 9th. The announcement got delayed due to the website revamp here.
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You can play Starfinder on Fantasy Grounds using the built-in CoreRPG or PFRPG rulesets and community extensions if you like with no additional purchases. The Starfinder ruleset and Core Rules conversions are pretty nice improves (we think) and represents roughly 6 months of software development by SmiteWorks with many more months planned to continually add greater and greater features. Those features and graphics may or may not matter to you as much. We generally encourage people to check it out and then if they are unsatisfied, they can request a full refund within 30-days.
Great, now do the same for Roll20 [or D20Pro]
Paizo allowed us (and other VTTs) to license the material and they support us by providing us with raw text and graphic assets we can use. The actual building of the product in a digitally interactive format is up to each individual licensee. I can't speak directly to the amount of effort required by each licensee to roll out new conversions, but that's generally why you don't just see each company with everything instantly available or for super low prices.
Re: Prices
Final prices for those of you who already own the PDFs:
$50 for the Starfinder ruleset (required for the items below)
$30 for Alien Archive (optional)
$7 for each Dead Suns adventure module.
For those without the PDFs, you get it for $59.99, $39.99 and $22.99 each but you can sync to get the PDF added to your Paizo account for free.
Even at $50 for the Starfinder ruleset, it will take a lot of sales to recoup our investment. Adventures and supplements help with that ROI in the long run. Like with everything else, supporting things you like to see financially means that you'll see more of those things in the future. Whether that means FG, Roll20, D20Pro or none of the above is up to the consumers.
Minor edit: Full starship support will be available when we release version 1.1, which is currently in development.
With the website revamp, this got lost in the shuffle.
The Starfinder ruleset was released for the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop on Feb 9, 2018. It's an add-on priced at full MSRP $59.99 but it offers a $9.99 discount for current PDF owners.
Also available are the Alien Archive at $39.99 ($9.99 discount for PDF owners) complete with tokens, stat and reference modules and Dead Suns 1 through 3 for $22.99 each (only $7 each after PDF discount).
Each add-on includes the entirety of the book in digital reference format usable within Fantasy Grounds' Library (renamed as Data for Starfinder) and all the data preloaded for easy use and automation within Fantasy Grounds.
As Starfinder introduces a number of new features, this ruleset and the content will be undergoing constant development. It supports character sheets and all basic character and DM options necessary for play outside of starship combat (items, spells, weapons, combat, etc.). PC Starships have new updates scheduled for a Tuesday (3/6) release and a much more involved PC starship sheet is in development. Future updates (in development now) will support drag and drop ship building and support for multi-user ship combat tracking for each role on the ship.
The entire interface has been customized with a unique skin for Starfinder that really embodies the look and feel of the game.
There are dedicated forums set up for Starfinder game organization, bug fixes and general discussion as well.
We just released an official Starfinder ruleset for Fantasy Grounds a few weeks ago. We are busy wrapping up the basic functionality for starships and starship combat will be expanded more and more as we go.
You can use a hex grid on a map or image like the starfield in FG with a toggle (right-click for the menu) and the starship tokens are being redone to have a hex base and directional facing.
Player character sheets are available now.
Starships get their own custom character sheet and these will be getting an update this week and next week to fix some launch day bugs and expand the functionality significantly. The new functionality will allow multiple roles on the ship to facilitate combat, track shields per arc, etc. It will also supports drag and drop ship creation with components and build point calculations. I'm biased since I represent Fantasy Grounds, but it's pretty awesome.
See everything currently available for Starfinder on Fantasy Grounds
If you already own the PDF, you can sync your accounts and get the entire cost of the PDF as a discount to your order. If you don't already have the PDF, you can sync and get the PDF added to your paizo.com account for free when you buy the FG version.
Official Starfinder support is available for Fantasy Grounds. It's pretty new and evolving but it's proving to be very popular on our platform.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.xcp?id=PZOSMWPZO7101FG
We also have the Alien Archive and Dead Suns 1 - 3 available already. You will also need a license or active subscription of Fantasy Grounds. Check the forums for other gamers.
See everything for Starfinder on Fantasy Grounds
Dedicated Starfinder Forums for FG
Indraea wrote:
This is exactly what I was trying to say. If my option is to either pay full price for all of this content again or simply input the content manually on either Roll20 or FG, then what is the advantage of FG compared to Roll20 to me? Especially since I tend to modify campaigns by adding additional content, swapping out monsters for stuff I feel is more thematically appropriate (especially for older APs that rely heavily on just Bestiary 1 content) and generally make enough edits that even with the pre-made content, I'm still going to have hours worth of prep work to do.
Now, if I could get reduced cost for the assets based on buying the books from my FLGS, that might be enough to get me to at...
You can take it for a spin for 30 days and request a full refund if it doesn't satisfy your needs. Even if you plan to build your own adventures, I would encourage you to pick up an official Pathfinder one for a good example to follow.
Buying a module gets you optimized maps, handout images, text and tokens along with everything built-in and ready to play. If you want to change a story, encounter, treasure parcel or whatever, just unlock the record and change it or make a clone of it by dragging and dropping and then edit the cloned record. You can insert and remove stuff freely and even combine content from multiple adventures or even from multiple publishers. We support lots of 3rd party Pathfinder publishers.
How is it to build your own adventure from a PDF in FG?
1. Put the images in your image folder
2. Add a grid
3. Build encounters and pre-place the NPCs on the maps where they start
4. Use free OGL modules (link below) to get all the monsters - less tokens, images and fluff.
5. Drag and drop NPCs into an encounter and let it calculate the total
Resources:
Free OGL versions - bestiaries, spells, items, etc.
There is also a bunch included in the base PFRPG ruleset as SRD modules.
Free FG Community Pathfinder modules
Free extensions that add new features
Free Pathfinder Compatible extensions
I've been lax about posting updates to some of these threads -- mostly because I forgot about them.
I did want to share some updates on what we've been up to over the last year and more recently.
Today we just launched the Starfinder RPG - Ruleset and Core Rules, Alien Archive and Dead Suns AP 1 through 3. We consider this a version 1.0 with many future updates planned for Starship combat.
For a list of all Starfinder products available for Fantasy Grounds, check this link or use the Search filter to limit it to Starfinder:
Starfinder on Fantasy Grounds
There are a forty (40) Pathfinder products available already with many more in the pipeline:
Core Rulebook, APG, UM, Bestiary 1, 2 & 4 (3 is still in process)
Kingmaker - complete series
Mummy's Mask 1 - 4
Hell's Rebels 1 - 5
Strange Aeons - complete series
Carrion Crown 1 & 2
Curse of the Crimson Throne - Complete
Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition
Harrow Deck with custom extension
Use this to search all Paizo Pathfinder products:
Pathfinder on Fantasy Grounds
I've been lax about posting updates to some of these threads -- mostly because I forgot about them.
I did want to share some updates on what we've been up to over the last year and more recently.
Today we just launched the Starfinder RPG - Ruleset and Core Rules, Alien Archive and Dead Suns AP 1 through 3. We consider this a version 1.0 with many future updates planned for Starship combat.
For a list of all Starfinder products available for Fantasy Grounds, check this link or use the Search filter to limit it to Starfinder:
Starfinder on Fantasy Grounds
There are a forty (40) Pathfinder products available already with many more in the pipeline:
Core Rulebook, APG, UM, Bestiary 1, 2 & 4 (3 is still in process)
Kingmaker - complete series
Mummy's Mask 1 - 4
Hell's Rebels 1 - 5
Strange Aeons - complete series
Carrion Crown 1 & 2
Curse of the Crimson Throne - Complete
Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition
Harrow Deck with custom extension
Use this to search all Paizo Pathfinder products:
Pathfinder on Fantasy Grounds
There is a Discord server for Fantasy Grounds as well and a channel just for Pathfinder Society.
Here is the channel invite:
https://discord.gg/5CpHfaU
There is also a section on our forums for Pathfinder Society:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?71-Pathfinder-Societ y-Games
Have fun everybody. I hope to be able to make it there next year.
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Relished wrote: I know that you guys just released this but I've got to know, is there an ETA for curse of the crimson throne?? We have a little rework left on this one but I expect it will come along quickly. The review process has been pretty smooth, so you are probably looking at the first 2 adventures arriving in the next 3-4 weeks.
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You don't have to buy any of the core books to play on Fantasy Grounds. Pathfinder is OGL and there are lots of built in content and community content available, along with the ability to enter your own data. The ruleset itself has been included from the beginning of of when Pathfinder was first available as a game. Initially it was an option for 3.5E campaigns and we eventually spun it off into its own ruleset. We have videos on each store page that show you what the official versions have and you can determine if that is something you would like to optionally buy to enhance the game or not.
Fantasy Grounds has been available since 2004 and has been growing every year since. In addition to enhancing your play experience, buying add-ons we sell tells us and the publishers that license the content to us that you support these efforts.
There are several VTTs out there and they all have strengths and weaknesses. We encourage open discussion about where we rate compared to competition on our forums. Our fans have supported us over the decades and allowed us to grow the number of people working on the product and producing content. Ultimately, support whichever one you like.
Others in this thread have already described a number of the unique features in FG, but the short summary is that it has very good automation, good character and campaign management features, a history of producing great licensed content, full-time employees that enhance the product and provide customer support, more publisher licenses than any other VTT and the 2nd largest user base. We offer a full refund for any purchase made within 30 days, including subscriptions. You can try it out and compare it with your favorite VTT and then get a full refund if it doesn't satisfy your needs.
With regards to refunds of Paizo products, please note that we may need to coordinate with Paizo on any products if you activated your free PDF. That portion may or may not be available for refund, so don't sync your account and get your free PDF if you are still on the fence.
Nathan Goodrich wrote: I'm curious. A long time ago I had a player license and played some 4th edition D&D games on Fantasy Grounds. I really liked it as a tool.
Does that player license count for this at all? Or was it specific to 4th edition? I found my old purchase email and it says it was a Fantasy Grounds II Lite License.
The Lite license (Player license) is still supported but is no longer sold. You can reinstall with that key and still act just like a player license did in the past. Use the latest installer from our website under Downloads > All Licenses and enter your key into your Settings. It is also eligible for a reduced cost upgrade to Standard if you ever decide to go up to the Standard edition.
Samy wrote: Doug Davison, SmiteWorks wrote: Kevin B wrote: Will there be any sort of discount for owning the PDFs already? It seems costly to have to buy both. Yes, you get the PDF for free or the full cost of the PDF off from your purchase if you buy from our site directly Does this mean that if I buy RotRL on SmiteWorks, I will also get the PDF of RotRL on paizo.com? Yes, although I think there might still be a few kinks getting worked out of the system. We have two-way communication from our sites via the Sync Paizo Account option on our site, so both sites know which products are purchased. The intent is that you will get the PDF whenever you paid full price on our site. We do have the discount working the other way, so if you have the PDF now, you get the cost reduced by the PDF price on our end.
Samy wrote:
Does Fantasy Grounds have some sort of character sheet system? I remember once trying Roll20 and you needed to make up your own character sheets and everything if I recall correctly.
Here is a video showing the character sheets built into the PFRPG ruleset. They work with manually entered class and race info or with the official add-ons. In this video, I focus on using the add-ons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3fpNlYV6M
Samy wrote: If I'm DM and a player wants to play Oracle from Advanced Player's Guide, will the APG need to be bought by
1) DM
2) DM and the player playing the Oracle
3) DM and all the players so they can see the Oracle
4) Just the player playing the Oracle
You can do any of the options below:
1) DM buys the APG and marks it as shared. Players can use it while connected to the DM's game but not outside of the session
2) Player buys the APG and can access it while in the DM's game if the DM allows it (they will see a prompt). DM doesn't even need to own it. Player can access it offline. In this case, the player needs their own license or subscription.
3) The player or the DM can enter the Oracle class by copying and pasting the relevant data from the PDF.
Kevin B wrote: Will there be any sort of discount for owning the PDFs already? It seems costly to have to buy both. Yes, you get the PDF for free or the full cost of the PDF off from your purchase if you buy from our site directly or from paizo.com once they become available here. Steam won't support the discount price.
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Building your own content from PDFs is still fully supported. We just added more functionality to allow you to build your own class and race data since there is obviously a huge back-catalog of PDFs available for Pathfinder and we only have the Core Rulebook and Advanced Players Guides ready. The same is true for NPCs.
There is a video up on each of our store pages that shows you a walk-through and you can decide if the convenience and nice to have features makes it worth getting the FG version done for you already.
If you are new to Fantasy Grounds, here is a quick primer on licenses available for the core software:
Ultimate license - DM pays either $149 or $9.99/mo and players pay nothing (players run Demo client)
Standard license - Player pay $39 or $4.00/mo and any of them can DM if they choose.
For Mac users, we have a new simple installer available on our website and also from Steam. Choose Downloads > Mac OSX Installation from our website menu. http://www.fantasygrounds.com
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Once the products are available here on paizo.com, they will be listed at the print price minus the PDF price if you already own the PDF.
We have just updated our website so that if you follow the sync instructions in the link below, you can notify our site with a list of the PDFs you already own and get the full PDF price discounted from the final price you pay on our website. That means that the Rise of the Runelords FG version will only cost you $18 if you already own the PDF.
http://mailchi.mp/fantasygrounds/official-pathfinder-launch-for-fantasy-gro unds
Here is a video you might reference for a walk-through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3fpNlYV6M&t=1s
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We've made good progress so far. Here is a brief update. We have not set up an ETA for the releases, but they are close.
In Review:
Pathfinder Core Rules
Bestiary 1
Kingmaker 1
Kingmaker 2
Rise of the Runelords 1
Rise of the Runelords 2
In Development:
Skull & Shackles
Curse of the Crimson Throne
Wrath of the Righteous
Bestiary 2
Starting Development Soon:
Advanced Players Guide
The first batch is now ready for review. The process is still new to both parties, so we don't have an final ETA at this time. Our main focus is to ensure that we get out the best quality product we can that represents the high standards of the Pathfinder brand.
It might be best to send you over to the FG forums for specifics. I don't want to derail the thread here, but I'll answer this batch.
NPCs for official modules already have tokens assigned, unless there was not an image for the monster, and then we use letter tokens. The are preplaced on most maps for encounters and the encounter will show a checkmark to indicate that.
Sharing a map doesn't share the pins. Those are meant for DM view only.
Panning a map within the window can be done with the pan icon on the bottom right corner of each image window (Click and drag in the direction you want to pan) or use what I prefer and use the middle-mouse button depressed to pan.
There is a wiki and User Manual under Help on the website and links to videos. We are happy to help.
FG has all the room locations pinned to the map. If you hover over them, it shows a tooltip with the name of the room/area and you click it to access the story, encounters, DM notes and treasure for that area or room. The encounters show the CR and XP and number appearing and whether or not the tokens are preplaced on the map (all modules in the recent few years have tokens preplaced in their starting position.) Click a button at the bottom that has a tooltip explaining the function. It adds the NPCs to the combat tracker, rolls their initiative, randomly rolls their hit points (if that option is enabled) , places them on the map and marks them as invisible until they are revealed from the combat tracker. The combat tracker has the most common actions displayed on the combat tracker so you can drag and drop them to targets.
Afterward, you click award XP and divide treasure with automated features. One of the things that is nice about combat actions in FG is that it recognizes the various defenses and vulnerabilities of all the different creatures we know and love. If you use a slashing weapon on a skeleton, it will adjust your damage automatically when you drop it on monster.
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Fantasy Grounds works well as in offline mode. You can run 2 instances of the program and connect the second one as a player to localhost. Many DM's will then drag that display to a 2nd monitor, connected TV or projector.
There is also an extension that auto-scales the map to fit the full display.
The DM then uses their local display to manage the combat tracker to track intiative, effects, NPC and PC health, etc. and then keep track of the party inventory, awarding of XP, coins, etc. The map reveal is handled manually though by cutting away the mask as they explore. We don't yet have the dynamic lighting to automatically do that.
There are a handful of DM's I know of who bring it with them to conventions and game stores where they don't have an available Internet connection.
Link: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?33834-Map-resize-to-TV -resolution-for-Face-To-Face-games
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