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title = "Foundry VTT Ground Up Part 1"
date = 2024-08-21T09:00:00Z
draft = false
summary="Learning Foundry VTT from the very start"
categories = ['Game Master', 'FoundryVTT', 'FoundryVTT Ground Up']
prev = ['/post/setup-a-local-foundryvtt/']
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Having set up a Foundry Virtual Table Top (VTT) (locally, on your own server, or on one of the cloud services) you, the Game/Dungeon Master (GM), are confronted with the task of setting up your VTT. In a series of articles we will step through setting up Foundry VTT for Dungeons & Dragons 5e (although a lot of this material will apply no matter your chosen game system).

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In this first installment we look at:

* Installing the game system (this is essentially the 'DM Guide' and 'Players Handbook' for FVTT)
* Create an empty world
* A lightning fast tour of the standard interface
* Add Users/Players
* Create an empty Scene
* Create Actors (player characters) and let Players access them
* Create Tokens to represent Actors on our Scenes
