Join Fantasy Grounds Academy: Learn Fantasy Grounds, learn D&D, and then play!

Drebb, Fantasy Grounds College is helpful for people who want to just be players, also. They support multiple games (I've had classes in Starfinder, D&D 5E, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu). You may see more things involving D&D but a lot of what you learn in those can be applied to other systems, also. Especially if it is centered around how to use things like Combat, creating characters, etc.

As for rules familiarity, I do not think it is necessary. There are introductory adventures. I always let people know my experience with FG (some) and a ruleset (D&D 5E: a little).

Everyone has been very helpful, also. I've seen people have questions and they get answers quickly via text chat or even via impromptu voice chats.

Thanks for the quick reply TriOpticon. This sounds like what I may need. Defiantly going to try it out when I have a bit more time. Thanks again & happy gaming.

Yes, as one of our members (TY @Triopticon) has stated. We teach both players and DM's. We also have seminars, webcasts, giveaways, etc. We also offer a few one shots to get some practice before you move onto the larger world of gaming! Welcome back fellow gamer, you are welcome to return to the land of rolling dice (virtual) and meeting like minded people.

Founder Laerun

https://discord.gg/Ew6nYyw

ps. We also have a Youtube Self help section, etc...!

Thank you Laerun, I look forward to learning more with the help of the college. I did start watching All Things Fantasy Grounds on Rob Twohy's channel featuring you as well. Very good information, Ill defiantly check out your self help section as well.

How the heck do I find a group? I am part of a discord group bust all the missions they start are always during my working hours. I just want to find a group thats in the evening (my time((eastern time)). lol. Or a session on the weekends in the evening. I still havent played in a campaign on fantasy grounds yet because its so hard to find a team.

I feel your pain. There is a DM shortage for sure, all platforms. I am trying to train a Cadre of gamers to use Fantasy Grounds, especially from the DM Game master standpoint to help alleviate this issue, one group at a time. For the rest of this week until the first we are holding a spring break free for all in FG College. We have had a few games per day running since Saturday. These are mainly for practice and DMs new to the concept. Rob and I made a show about the lack of games. We'll, we called it a nice title, but the real title was supporting be, I can't find a f*ck*n game! We have a video big weekly series entitled All Things Fantasy Grounds, and that was a couple episodes ago... https://youtu.be/TX2YavIi7TE

Hello Fantasy Grounds fans. Looking to hire and train more staff for FG College. We are are close to 2,000 members and growing. Please join our server and inquire within. We are looking for users and folks that are available and interested in teaching around the EU and Australian time zones. We are also looking for 5:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST help as well. There are a couple perks and incentives... Please consider donating your time to help others learn this game.

Laerun

ok...New to FG..new to Discord. How? I may not be available to try for a few days, but still wanted to ask.

Join our Discord and learn all this stuff and share with us what you know...

Laerun
https://discord.gg/Ew6nYyw

Feeling lost? Struggling to find a community where you can learn or use Fantasy Grounds without being judged for being a noob? Really want to play D&D online but have no idea where to start? Have some experience to offer and just want some like-minded people to share it with? (2,100+ members now!!!)

Join our Discord Server! https://discord.gg/Ew6nYyw

Fantasy Grounds College is a Discord community of amazing guys and gals who will help you both LEARN and PLAY Fantasy Grounds (and whatever game you want to play on Fantasy Grounds!).
Our server is made up of Teachers volunteering their time and DM prowess to help Students (YOU) learn.

We’ve just undergone a huge relaunch and have added new features including regular exhibition sessions with experienced GMs, adding teachers from multiple time zones (US, UK, JP), support for the other genres and versions of DnD and a community that supports DMs, content creators, industry people and artists!

PROS:
· ANY level of experience welcome

· Voice chat NOT NECESSARY but encouraged

· Most major TIMEZONES covered

· Pre-planned sessions ready to go for LEARNING and PLAYING

· GMs who love teaching newbies


CONS
· This cheesy infomercial


Have a specific question? Reply to this thread or PM us and we will reply ASAP.

I use the program to dungeon master in a table top. Someone's back I did try your server but it just seemed like a lot of people were not available when I was. I would start some online groups but I'm not comfortable enough with the program to do so. But it's going to take practice not just a session.

Hey michaelzep - the best way to get practice is to start a group :)
Let your players know in advance - "Im pretty new at this - Im going to make a few mistakes and the going will be a bit slow to start but we will get there."

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I use the program to dungeon master in a table top. Someone's back I did try your server but it just seemed like a lot of people were not available when I was. I would start some online groups but I'm not comfortable enough with the program to do so. But it's going to take practice not just a session.

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Yes, I agree, it will take some time. How long has it been since you joined us last? What type of hours do you keep now? I'd be willing to help you one on one. The online group is already started in FG College. I teach DM 101 Class every Friday, and we have recorded some of these sessions. I apologize in advance over some of our vacancies in time. You can request classes besides conform to the posted lessons. Lot's of good people that volunteer there time now..The practice you seek are there in the form of 'in-house' one-shots. I can also help connect you with players or other servers that offer more games, as we are a teaching server mainly. Also, we did a two week Spring Break event this year, as well as participation in FG Con this year so far. We are also sponsoring a staff and student

Sincerely,
Laerun

Highly recommended. Thanks for the character creation class today @Laerun

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You are certainly welcome and thank you for the positive and public feedback. It goes a long ways. Hope to see you in FGC more.

Laerun

Hi! Thank you so much for creating a Discord for this! :)

I just got the Ultimate FG, and all I know how to do is text and toss the dice, lol.

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I just got the Ultimate FG, and all I know how to do is text and toss the dice, lol.

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No problem, we will not let your investment go to waste. See ya inside the college..

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I was fiddling around with the program and watching the recommended videos, and Fantasy Grounds looks great! :D

I've played with Roll20 (free account) for about a year and a half, so I have a general idea of how things could work. It's just re-orienting myself with a brand new UI. I'm not used to so many features, lol! :)

The community I've met are great and very friendly and helpful. Again, thanks for this! ^_^

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There is definitely a lot to take in with FG. I've also been watching videos and for now just fiddling around with the interface and creating a few sample characters.

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There is definitely a lot to take in with FG. I've also been watching videos and for now just fiddling around with the interface and creating a few sample characters.

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Yeah, it’s definitely a lot of new stuff there. I don’t know coding, so I never did much of that in Roll20. We just treated it like an offline tabletop game, and just used very little automation.

We had our inventory in a shared Google Excel document, and just manually typed regular rolling. No automated spells or whatever.

We usually just manually typed almost everything up or created one or two simple macros in (non-5e) games I’ve played in.

The technical software/coding stuff tends to be tricky for me and makes me feel very overwhelmed.

I like that there are people who already have coded some stuff ahead of time.

I mean, I still don’t mind doing things manually, but the automation stuff seems very helpful (if a bit much at times).

It’s all learning process. I seem to be getting the basics of chargen. Now I just got to get some of that combat and interaction trainings. ^_^

in addition to FGC, the Savage Mojo teams offers one shots every other Monday in the Suzerain Continuum, Savage Worlds ruleset. Next one is tomorrow night, I'll be running a Set Rising one shot I have run before. Also a good place to ask the writers first hand what some of what they write MEANS, how it is supposed to work etc.
We also work with FGC people like Baufrin since we have common goals, to help as many people learn Fantasy Grounds (and for us Savage Worlds and the Suzerain Continuum) as possible.
But as many here know, I am a little old grandmother educated before we were even allowed calculators in school, but I still managed to learn all of this with the help of the community and some wonderful GM's and developers. So welcome to the community, the games, with time nearly everyone finds what suits them. :)

Attention DM's, FG content creators, and players! Looking to try your new Fantasy Grounds products for game balance, looking to try a new system, maybe run your first game, or help us out for our upcoming event in July!!?? FG College is celebrating it's 'First Anniversary' this coming July, the weekend of the 27th-29th. If you wish to run a game, donate a prize, or share your hard work with a large 2,200+ Discord community, please join us soon! Prizes, guests, and most importantly, games! Please inquire within. We want "ALL"of the varieties of time zones, rulesets, and as many ideas as we can get into one, big, community! We are NOT officially affiliated with Smiteworks, but we love the product, customer service, and all of the indirect support they have given us since we started this awesome Discord community...! Thank you Doug, David, Rob, and the entire FG Forums staff for supporting us the last several months! https://discord.gg/Ew6nYyw

I hope to see you there!
Laerun

Hello fellow adventures and FG College members! I am very excited about getting new maps from our friend and ally Kris McDermott of www.gametilewarehouse.com! If you are looking for new, fresh, detailed, colorful and beautifully crafted maps for VTT or print, you are certainly missing out if you have not found these!!!. These maps are priced well, most about. ¢99 cents, so for the price of your daily Starbucks fix, you can have 4-8 new digital maps! Kris has not only made these maps, he's involved and active in the RPG community, designing gaming materials, and is corporation free! He's also donated his work to FGC on many occasions. He's a 'swell' guy, down to earth, and very creative! He's also put out his first official Fantasy Grounds map pack recently on Smiteworks website as a map module, 'Venmire Woods'.. https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...d=IPFGANYMMPVW I own some of these rare gems so check it out people!

Hey Laerun! I tried to click on the store link and I get a 404 error.

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Sorry, it's fixed now folks.

If anyone is interested in running a three day or one shot session, testing their game products, or helping us out, please fill this Google RSVP out soon! https://goo.gl/forms/Ao7NjFOKRB01uRKL2 This is for our anniversary bash next month, July 27th-29th...
Thanks in advance,
Laerun

Starting tomorrow is our Founder's Day Festival celebration! Games, prizes, special guests, and lots of fun! July 27th-29th. Join us! https://discord.gg/Ew6nYyw

Joined. Hope to learn a lot!

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Sounds great, we hope to see you soon!

Awesome!

https://fantasygroundscollege.net/ev...ie-goon-heist/

**A little Update**

Fantasy Grounds College is a group of community members who volunteer their time to help teach people how to use every aspect of Fantasy Grounds, from Playing, DM/GM games to Creating Content and Modules. We have small online classes to teach you Character Creation, Dungeon Mastering, Combat, Effects Coding, Module Building, Map Creation and more!

Mission Statement: “We at Fantasy Grounds College strive to be the best at helping people learn to use Fantasy Grounds.”

FGC has a Discord Community available to answer questions and provide guidance 24 hours a day in almost every time zone. We also have a brand new website with class schedules, Fantasy Grounds News, Quizzes, Articles and a thorough Knowledge Base that contains videos and articles about learning how to use Fantasy Grounds. We also offer new player friendly one-shots in D&D 5E and other rulesets. Come visit us on Discord or our Website and let us help you be well on your way to mastering the Fantasy Grounds VTT.

If you are on the fence about our community or how it works, check out our related article.
https://fantasygroundscollege.net/ne...dd/#comment-44

We have recently updated our process. Please visit our Discord for mre details. Please register for our community website at: https://fantasygroundscollege.net/register/, our new class sign up events area is at: https://fantasygroundscollege.net/events/calendar/, and as always, our community Discord is where we are all hanging out and chatting!

I'm new to both fantasy grounds and fantasy grounds college. A few months ago i didn't know fantasy grounds existed. Now for the last month a huge portion of my weeknight free time is related to the product...learning it and dnd 5e at the same time plus playing in a campaign hosted with fg.

Its been a busy month for me with this hobby. But its been productive and a large reason why besides the fine folks of this community here on the official fg forums....is fantasy grounds college. I have taken 3 classes now each with a different instructor.

All of them were excellent and more than willing to help their students learn. They are easy going and thus the classes are comfortable (i have mild social anxiety and even i felt comfortable and not nervous to ask questions for example). Mostly though ...highly informative.

I highly recommend checking fantasy grounds College out. Its an incredible resource to the fantasy grounds community.

If anyone needs help, I am offering a FG overview tomorrow in FG College. Join or register for this free online course. https://fantasygroundscollege.net/new-user-registration, after which you can sign up here, https://fantasygroundscollege.net/ev...iew-post-xmas/

https://fantasygroundscollege.net/ev...actice-game-3/ If you want to try your hand at playing DnD5e online today. Please join and register and sign up for this FGC Fantasy Grounds VTT game! Starts in two hours...!

Thanks to Luiz Prado for some very detailed character art for our community!

I'd like to give a shout out to the people very special to me and our community for making things happen, believing in us, & donating 2 us. Haavok, Lady Shel, Mattekure, Kris, Flo, Rob2e, Digital David, Doug Davison, Leland, Robert Adducci, Zaccheus & more! #dnd5e #dnd #rpg

Fantasy Grounds College is holding a contest through the month of April. Check out Youtubalooza! We are trying to grow our Youtube page for FGC, and are looking to reach 1000 subscribers. You can read my article about the contest at: https://fantasygroundscollege.net/fg...0-subscribers/
Be sure to read the requirements. In order to participate in the contest, you must be registered on our website: https://fantasygroundscollege.net/new-user-registration
You must also be a member of FGC's discord. https://discord.gg/Ew6nYyw
And you must have an account here on the Official Fantasy Grounds website: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/home.php
There are several ways to get entries. View the contest page above for the various ways you can enter. The prize is a Fantasy Grounds Ultimate License to be given away on May 1st.

Lady Shel :)