FoundryVTT First Steps and Useful Info

To help new FoundryVTT users better orient themselves, this post is a short guide to:

1. The FoundryVTT ecosystem;
2. Where to look for help and information;
3. How to help others help you!

1. The Foundry ecosystem is split into several communities:

• The official FoundryVTT Discord server - operated by Foundry staff and hand-picked moderators, this server is the official gathering spot for Foundry users.
• /m/FoundryVTT - you are here! This instance is run by Foundry users for Foundry users.
• /c/FoundryVTT - an alternative Lemmy instance.
• Foundry Hub - A fansite with easily searchable module database, articles on Foundry and more!
• /r/FoundryVTT - The FoundryVTT community on Reddit.
• A number of smaller subcommunities, mostly on Discord.

2. The main sources of information for new users are:

• Foundry official Knowledge Base - documentation that goes into a lot of detail about all Foundry core features.
• Foundry community Wiki - still growing in submissions, but by chance - it might have just what you are looking for.
• Either of these troubleshooting guides: Interactive and Google Doc.
• Subreddit wiki of /r/FoundryVTT that can be found here.
  (note we will be working to copy this over once we find a good solution to present this info in Lemmy)
• Searching /m/FoundryVTT, /c/FoundryVTT, /r/FoundryVTT and Discord (when searching on Discord, chose as few of the important keywords as possible for best results).
• Searching Youtube. There are several creators that have great tutorial videos. We won't list specifics however due to Foundry's quick development cycle and videos becoming outdated.

3. Help others help you! Especially when you have a technical issue, provide information that is necessary to solve it.

• Please include the game system you are using in the title of the post - [D&D5e] or [PF2e], for example.
• Ideally, if you can log into a Foundry world, press the Support button located in the Game Setting tab, and copy-paste the section under “Support Details”.
• If you can’t get into a world, at least mention: Foundry version, Game System and it’s version, hosting setup (Foundry client, NodeJS, cloud service, etc.), what browser are you using, operating system.
• The most common cause for issues in Foundry are modules. Always try to reproduce your issue with all modules turned off to find out if that is the case. You can use Find the Culprit module to assist identifying the problem module.
• Remember to check the browser developer console for red error messages. You can usually access the console by pressing F12; otherwise read here.