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Stars of the VTT Galaxy: #3 Rughalt

Bazaar

Welcome to the third edition of our regular Stars of the VTT Galaxy interview series. In this series, we illuminate the already bright stars that make up our community of Bazaar Creators.

We are pleased have had the opportunity to speak with one-half

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8 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Ilijana Ivaniš

FoundryCon 2023

Community

Hello Forge users! A cool new event for fans of Foundry VTT is taking place soon, starting May 19th, 2023, to May 21st 2023. Say hello to FoundryCon, the first virtual fan convention for Foundry VTT, hosted by the /r/FoundryVTT subreddit in partnersh

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2 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Ilijana Ivaniš

April 2023 Developer Update

Another month, another Forge Developer update! We'd like to thank our users for the continued success we've enjoyed this year, and hope to keep The Forge living up to your standards.

If you'd like to watch back on the developer update livestream, you

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3 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

The Forge and AI-generated content

Bazaar

Hi everyone,

One of the biggest topics in general right now, and especially among the TTRPG community is AI, and AI-generated content. There are a lot of discussions, questions, opinions, and emotions, mired in agreement and disagreement within the co

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5 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

Stars of the VTT Galaxy: #2 Limithron

Bazaar

Greetings to the amazing community and welcome to the second edition of our Stars of the VTT Galaxy series. The regular interview series is meant to shine a light on the already bright stars that make up our community of Bazaar creators.

The first ed

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15 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Ilijana Ivaniš

The Forge launch announcement!

Community

A great VTT hosting experience is only the first level of the experience we wanted to offer. We wanted to offer enhancements to Foundry VTT beyond mere hosting. The Forge is happy to finally announce the first in a planned line of physical products...

3 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

Stars of the VTT Galaxy: #1 The MAD Cartographer

Bazaar

Welcome to the first edition of our Stars of the VTT Galaxy series. A new and regular series of interviews meant to shine a light on the already bright stars that make up our community of Bazaar Creators.

One of the best feelings, when you start some

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16 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Zlatan Todoric

March 2023 Developer Update

Despite our recent issues, it's been a great month for those of us here at The Forge- and it's all thanks to our users! We'd like to thank everyone for their kind words, through the good and bad parts of February and early March.

If you'd like to watc

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4 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

Post-mortem: February 2023

Engineering

A look back at the server outages we've had in February 2023. Explaining in detail what happened and why, and how we solved those issues and ensuring they don't happen again.

17 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Youness Alaoui

February 2023 Developer Update

It's been a few months since we last held one of these! The holidays, the madness of the OGL situation, and all of the fun end-of-year admin work has held us up- but we're happy to have some new improvements to show off for The Forge's service!

If you

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3 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

Livestream February 1st

Greetings to the amazing community.

We invite you to join our next Twitch live stream on February 1st at 3PM EST.

There are goodies to be shown and stories to be told that will make your heart pump up! We will talk about the latest update (that was pus

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1 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Zlatan Todoric

December 2022 Developer Update

It's the closing days of 2022, but we weren't done with the year yet. We have some final news, and exciting updates to share.

If you'd like to watch the VOD of the livestream, you can catch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPz4By8l1o

Otherwis

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2 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

Translating The Forge

Community

Just like The Forge makes it easy to host games with players across the world, we want to make it as easy as possible to use and understand. This article touches on The Forge's internationalization adventure, the lessons learnt, and invites you to contribute to the ongoing translation effort!

5 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Phi

Black Friday 2022

It's that time of the year again. The Forge Black Friday sale is officially live! New to Foundry VTT and need a dedicated host? Don't want to mess with hosting your own server? We make it fast and simple to get started hosting your Foundry VTT advent

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4 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

November 2022 Developer Update

Stability and polish has been our focus the past few months. We've done quite a bit of infrastructure work to keep our services running smoothly, and polish work to clean up and improve the user experience. We also somehow found the time to work on a

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3 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Destiny

Goblins attacking

For the first time, The Forge has endured a major DDoS attack.

For those unaware of what a DDoS attack is, it means "Distributed Denial of Service". This is a fancy way of saying that someone(s) attempted to access our site many times, until the websi

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3 min read - Published: 2 years ago

By Youness Alaoui