System Director is currently in public beta.
Things you should know before installing it on a real campaign:
- The system is feature-complete enough to play, but APIs, data shapes and node names may still change between releases.
- There is no automatic data migration between every minor version. Always back up your world before updating.
- Edge-case bugs are expected. If you hit one, please open an issue or drop into the Discord (link above).
- It runs on Foundry VTT v13 and is verified up to v14. Older Foundry versions are not supported.
If you want a quiet, no-surprises experience right now, wait for the 1.0 release. If you want to help shape the system, jump in.
- Open Foundry, go to Game Systems → Install System.
- Paste the manifest URL into the Manifest URL field at the bottom:
https://github.com/phoenix1cold/system-director/releases/latest/download/system.json - Click Install. Foundry will fetch the manifest and pull the matching
system.zipfrom the same GitHub Release. - Future updates: Foundry checks the same URL and offers an in-app update whenever a new release is published.
Download system.zip from the
latest release
and extract it into your Foundry user-data folder at:
<FoundryUserData>/Data/systems/sd/
The extracted folder must contain system.json at its root.
System Director is a build-your-own-system sandbox for Foundry VTT. Instead of hard-coding stats, abilities and rules, you compose them visually:
- Sheet Builder — drag widgets (numbers, dice, attributes, slots, inventories, spellbooks, custom buttons) onto actor / item sheets and bind them to any data path.
- Node Graph — wire formulas, attribute calculations, on-click actions and event triggers without writing JavaScript. Supports conditions, loops, target sources, math, dice, chat output, Active Effect templates and more.
- Hidden Fields — define your own ad-hoc data on actors and items
(e.g.
system.hiddenFields.mana,system.hiddenFields.power) and reference them anywhere from sheets, nodes and slot filters. - Slots & Templates — build inventory, spellbooks, equipment slots and class progression purely from the editor. Save sheet layouts as templates and reuse them across actors / items.
- Localization — UI is translated to English and Russian out of the box; node graph labels go through the same i18n layer.
The core idea: anything Foundry exposes as data, you can put on a sheet and react to it from a node graph. No system-specific assumptions.
- Discord: https://discord.gg/wSfn962R — bug reports, feature requests, sharing actor / item templates, asking how to wire something.
- Issues: https://github.com/phoenix1cold/system-director/issues — reproducible bugs and concrete feature requests.
- Donate: https://www.donationalerts.com/r/pronikxside — if the system saved you time and you'd like to chip in toward continued development. Donations do not grant a commercial license (see LICENSE).
