Dungeons & Dragons® takes you and your friends on epic journeys. Become characters you create, battle deadly foes, uncover secrets, find treasure, and make memories that last a lifetime. The official free Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition game system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop provides support for all of the core rules of the game, a beautiful character sheet, and a ton of features to help make playing easier and more immersive like automatic character advancement, quick access to rules content, and the ability to request rolls from your players, distribute loot to a player or the party, and extensive support for Dungeons & Dragons' vision types like darkvision, tremorsense, and more so your players will see your world exactly as their characters would!
Game System Features
In addition to the following amazing features which are available now, we have written more about our upcoming roadmap and development plans for the official Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition game system so you can know what to expect over the coming months!
Reimagined Character Sheet
A beautiful, intuitive, and functional new character sheet provides a wonderful experience for creating, managing, and role-playing your character. This sheet features an entirely new design, improved organization, beautiful and informative tooltips, and way more. The new character sheet gives you access to:
- Customizable list of favorites
- Toggle between your portrait and token
- Hide your character's artwork on a per-tab basis
- Organize your items into groups
- More expansive filtering so you can see just the items, features, and spells that you want
Gather the Party
It is now possible to designate a particular Group actor as the "Party" and add your player's characters to it. Having your player characters grouped up in a Party enables effortless automation of experience, currency, and loot distribution as well as DM-friendly automation for skill checks and saving throws. For example, hovering over any passive skill check will show you who in the party passes or fails the DC.
Requested Rolls
A new roll syntax allows the DM to easily request for players to make Ability, Saving Throw, or Tool checks against a configured DC. You can also easily test your Party's effectiveness against passive checks which summarize the group members who meet or exceed a passive check DC.
Ruletips
References to game rules like status effect conditions, terrain types, and cover mechanics now expand into elegant and helpful tooltips that make rules questions easy to resolve. These "ruletips" are supported both on our new character sheet as well as in Journal Entries whenever such rules are mentioned. Spend less time wondering what "three-quarters cover" means and more time focusing on the story!
Item Containers
Create Container items which allow you to bundle other items and currency together and even let your players manage their inventory and keep things more organized! Using containers allows for superior inventory management, easier loot distribution, clever shopkeeping, and more.
Expanded Automation
We have strengthened the foundation for roll automation, allowing us to provide more automated guidance for roll outcomes and paving the way for future updates with features like automatic resistance and vulnerability application, expanded use of Active Effects, and automated damage application workflows. In addition, there are even more features added for journals allowing you to embed references to other journals, detail specific character attributes, and more.
Dynamic Token Engine
The updated system includes a new rendering engine for official D&D creature and NPC tokens which will be provided by premium content modules. These official tokens are rendered using dynamic composition which allows for the token ring, background, and creature artwork to be addressed with special effects or UX prompts. For example, a visual indication is displayed on the token ring when a creature takes damage, receives healing, acquires a special status effect, or becomes targeted by a player.
Vision Modes
Dungeons & Dragons features a lot of different options for how creatures can see. Whether they're a burrowing creature with tremorsense, a denizen of the underground suited to the conditions with darkvision, or a magically enhanced creature with truesight or the ability to detect invisible creatures Foundry VTT's incredibly powerful vision and detection modes let you see the world as that character.
Creatures with tremorsense can detect any creature, visible or not, that is in contact with the ground and those with darkvision will see black and white where there is no light and full color as they enter even dimly lit areas while creatures with no special vision will be left in the dark without their own light source.
Official D&D Content
Player's Handbook
This new and improved Player’s Handbook® is the ultimate guide for fifth edition D&D players. Play your way with optimized rules for character creation and advancement, exploration, combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Create fantastic heroes from an expanded selection of character origins, classes, and subclasses, revised and balanced for maximum fun. Packed with endless character options, striking illustrations, and a streamlined design, every part of this 384-page book is a joy to experience directly in Foundry Virtual Tabletop.
Dungeon Master's Guide
Create thrilling adventures with this revised and expanded Dungeon Master’s Guide for fifth edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS®. Inside this essential guide is everything new and experienced Dungeon Masters need to weave epic tales, build fantastical worlds, and inspire memorable moments for your party.
Monster Manual
This revised and expanded Monster Manual® contains a horde of creatures for fifth edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS®. Encounter a monstrous menagerie of familiar favorites like dragons, giants, and mind flayers, plus a host of new monsters like the arch-hag, the blob of annihilation, and the vampire nightbringer. Populate your worlds and adventures with the hundreds of monsters provided, and let their stories, illustrations, and easy-to-use stat blocks fuel your D&D® adventures for years to come.
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
Unlock a cauldron full of new playable content in this Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook, a magical mixture of new rules options for Dungeons & Dragons players & DMs. Natasha the Dark, Iggwilv the Witch Queen, daughter of Baba Yaga or simply the witch named Tasha, well-known for her spells such as Tasha’s hideous laughter, has compiled all the precious lore she has gathered during her illustrious career as an adventurer for the enrichment of all. Her book offers a taste of the great power that awaits D&D players and dungeon masters everywhere!
Heroes of the Borderlands
Heroes of the Borderlands is the biggest, boldest, and most beginner-friendly Dungeons & Dragons starter set ever! Everything in the module is purpose-made to help you get rolling in minutes and learn as you go. This adventure is D&D approached from a fresh angle; one that is especially helpful for Dungeon Masters and players who are learning the game or learning how to use Foundry Virtual Tabletop.
Heroes of the Borderlands was made for friends, families, and game night heroes, with each session designed to run in a couple of hours. The entire adventure is pre-configured and ready to play with beautiful scenes, intuitively structured journal entries, and fully detailed characters allowing you to install the module and immediately start playing!
Tomb of Annihilation
Tomb of Annihilation is an epic 256-page adventure that draws players to Chult, a mysterious peninsula ringed with mountains and choked with rain forests. The talk of the streets and taverns has all been about the so-called death curse: a wasting disease afflicting everyone who's ever been raised from the dead. Victims grow thinner and weaker each day, slowly but steadily sliding toward the death they once denied. When they finally succumb, they can’t be raised—and neither can anyone else, regardless of whether they've ever received that miracle in the past. Temples and scholars of divine magic are at a loss to explain a curse that has affected the entire region, and possibly the entire world.
Challenge your players to work together to navigate Chult, solve puzzles, and survive the myriad deadly encounters in the Tomb of the Nine Gods as they investigate the mysterious Death Curse that has overtaken the world in this ready-to-play adventure for Foundry Virtual Tabletop.
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk is an epic 200 page adventure that brings you to the iconic town of Phandalin in the Forgotten Realms augmented with additional features that make the most of Foundry Virtual Tabletop. The journey begins with a re-imagining of the classic adventure The Lost Mine of Phandelver but pushes onwards to reveal a sinister forces at work which place the very existence of Faerûn at risk.
Journey to the beloved town of Phandalin, where a malevolent cult threatens to overtake the region. Together with your party, solve mysteries and stamp out growing corruption as you uncover more about the peculiar happenings plaguing the town. Discover what lurks below in this high-fantasy adventure that begins with the familiar story of Lost Mine of Phandelver and then delves into the perilous Underdark.
License
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This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2 ("SRD 5.2") by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
The software component of this system is distributed under the MIT license.
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Installation Instructions
To install and use the DnD5e system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop, simply launch Foundry VTT, change to the Game Systems tab, press the Install System button, search for "Dungeons & Dragons" and press the Install button.
Community Contribution
Community contributions are accepted. Please see https://github.com/foundryvtt/dnd5e/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.
Community Wiki
The wiki contains information on how to use various features in the game system, as well as covering more advanced topics.