Character Creation

Overview

In the Foundry Virtual Tabletop, a player character (and non-player characters) are called "Actors". This can be confusing because the Actor corresponds to your character sheet.

Note that FoundryVTT has a good tutorial on the general process of creating an actor, but it will not include any ACKS II system-specific customizations. See the FoundryVTT site at https://foundryvtt.com/article/actors/

Notes about Actors:

• Actors in Foundry can be viewed, created, and managed in the Actors Directory sidebar.
• Like the Scenes, Items, and Journal Entries directories, this directory can contain folders to organize your world's actors.
• Only a Gamemaster or Assistant-level user can change or move folders.
• Any players with at least Limited permissions on an actor can see the actor and the folder(s) containing it in the Directory.

Creating a New Character in Foundry VTT

To create a new player character or non-player character, you will create a new Actor as follows:

1. Login to Foundry VTT.
2. Navigate to the Actors sidebar tab by clicking the Actors icon, and click Create Actor.
3. This will display an initial dialog box that allows you to choose what kind of Actor you're creating.
   1. Enter a Name for the actor. If you leave the name blank, it will be given the name "New Actor (number)" where the number increments each time you create an actor.
   2. Choose the Type of actor to create, a Player Character / NPC, or a Monster.
   3. (Optional) Choose a Folder to store the new actor. This option will not appear if there are no folders yet (use Create Folder to make one).
   4. Click the button Create New Actor to save the new actor, or select Close to cancel this action.
4. FoundryVTT will add your actor to the directory sidebar.
5. FoundryVTT will open the actor's character sheet for you to fill out.

Congratulations! You now have a new, empty character sheet ready to fill out. You can continue with the steps below. The other pages of this Wiki provide more detailed guidance for each individual tab.

Once you are done editing your actor you can close the character sheet window. The changes are automatically saved.

Filling out Character Sheet Information

Basic Character Information

1. Enter or edit the information for Character Name, Alignment, Age, Fate Pts, Title, Class, Level, Experience, and Next Level.

Generate Attributes

Note that this information may be out of date.

At this time, you can manually assign the values of each attribute manually on the character sheet, and ensure that the bonuses change to the expected values.

1. Open the newly created actor’s character sheet
2. Click the “Generate Scores” button (a dice icon) on the upper left of character sheet, just below the character image icon.
3. The Character Generator scree should pop up, with sections for attributes, computed values of sum/avg/standard deviation, and gold
4. Click the dice icon next to Strength to roll 3d6 and assign this value to the input section to the right of Strength
5. Click the same button next to each of the attributes
6. You can manually enter different values for each of the attributes in the input sections
7. Click the dice icon next to Gold to roll 3d6 x 10 for starting gold, and confirm the value is correct
8. Click the “Save Changes” button, and confirm that the values for all attributes are now entered on the left side of the character sheet
9. Confirm the values of the attribute bonuses, which are displayed in the circles in the upper right of each attribute value (for reference, 18 = bonus of 3, 16 – 17 = bonus of 2, 13 – 15 = bonus of 1, 9 – 12 = bonus of 0, 6 – 8 = bonus of -1, 4 – 5 = bonus of -2, 1 – 3 = bonus of -3)