Fantasy Grounds Licenses are Now FREE! Plus Online Digital Reader launched in Beta

[BadEye]

I have a probably dumb question, but as a content creator, if I made corrections and edits to a module (I am the publisher & owner of) that is currently available for purchase on the FG Store (not the Forge) and is already viewable in the My Library viewer, how long will it take for those edits/updates to the module's contents to show up on the My Library viewer of the product?

Great question - book updates are pushed manually for quality control reasons, but we will refine a full process over time.

We welcome content creators to make updates to the source content that will improve the reader (or app) experience (as we know seeing it in this new format could prompt that), so in the meantime, feel free to let us know and we can push them to the reader.

[Jiminimonka]

I have a probably dumb question, but as a content creator, if I made corrections and edits to a module (I am the publisher & owner of) that is currently available for purchase on the FG Store (not the Forge) and is already viewable in the My Library viewer, how long will it take for those edits/updates to the module's contents to show up on the My Library viewer of the product?

Probably the same time as any update.

[Jiminimonka]

This is a natural reaction to some extent. You should weigh up how much use you've had out of your purchases and, like anything, I assume you made a decision that you were OK making the purchases at the time. It looks like you've been using FG for 10 years - during that time, SmiteWorks have only mode users pay for an upgrade once (FG Classic -> FG Unity) and have continued to provide more and more functionality for no further upgrade fee. You didn't just get "... two cosmetic dice sets..." you've got a bunch of gaming out of FG up to this point as well!

What Trenloe said.

[RosenMcStern]

I will ask for more information about this via the developer relation email in a few days, but I think it can be useful to the community to raise the subject here, too.

What is the fastest way to have your products, both free and for-pay, available via the online reader? You mentioned that Forge products will not be moved to the reader for QA reasons. Is this permanent or will you make them available in the future?

Also, where are we with localisation in other languages? I need to release content in French and Italian, too, but with the main application (CoreRPG) not translated it is a bit clumsy to do so.

[bzar]

My group of five have pitched in together to get the ultimate license, rulebooks and modules for our GM to FG over the years. This F2P update would allow us to rotate our forever GM for some one shots or something, but am I reading this right that we'd need to repurchase all the rulebooks for each of us wanting to GM? I know allowing account sharing or something is out of the question, but could there be a system for temporarily moving a content license to another player like you would borrow a book? The content would still be used in exactly the same games, with just a different person as a GM. Or some kind of small sharing pods where you can only belong to one and content can be shared between the pod users.

We most likely won't drop a hundred or more per GM more to repurchase the books for everyone individually, we'll just play until our GM wears out and then stop. I understand there's negative economic incentive to implement any kind of sharing, but I have to ask since it would probably allow us to keep playing longer and purchase more new content.

[frozzzt]

I have FG since classic, since 2014 and bought all licenses to GM since the beginning. After 11 years finally it's free.

Every time a Software as Service becomes a free subscription, the old subscribers always feels a little betrayed for spending for the money they paid for every license upgrade.

I have a suggestion to make old players happy: please, think about to give a voucher, a discount, some free content for old players who lost his subscription (for a good reason) to make them valued and spent some bucks on FG store! it's a win win!

please think about

[LordEntrails]

I have FG since classic, since 2014 and bought all licenses to GM since the beginning. After 11 years finally it's free.

Every time a Software as Service becomes a free subscription, the old subscribers always feels a little betrayed for spending for the money they paid for every license upgrade.

I have a suggestion to make old players happy: please, think about to give a voucher, a discount, some free content for old players who lost his subscription (for a good reason) to make them valued and spent some bucks on FG store! it's a win win!

please think about

They already did. (Though they really haven't publicized it well, and finding the link on the website is near impossible) but just go to this page (you may have to log out and log back in due to a bug): Fantasy Grounds - Claim Rewards

[ddavison]

My group of five have pitched in together to get the ultimate license, rulebooks and modules for our GM to FG over the years. This F2P update would allow us to rotate our forever GM for some one shots or something, but am I reading this right that we'd need to repurchase all the rulebooks for each of us wanting to GM? I know allowing account sharing or something is out of the question, but could there be a system for temporarily moving a content license to another player like you would borrow a book? The content would still be used in exactly the same games, with just a different person as a GM. Or some kind of small sharing pods where you can only belong to one and content can be shared between the pod users.

We most likely won't drop a hundred or more per GM more to repurchase the books for everyone individually, we'll just play until our GM wears out and then stop. I understand there's negative economic incentive to implement any kind of sharing, but I have to ask since it would probably allow us to keep playing longer and purchase more new content.

I think it is great that you will have multiple GMs who will be able to play the game. Account sharing like you described was never supported and is against the TOS. I would recommend that not every GM needs all the content in order to run. You can do a lot with the included SRD content and just the adventure you want to play. In that situation, you really don't want your players having access to the adventure content anyway. If each player ultimately buys the PHB or sticks with free SRD content, it should be pretty inexpensive to rotate the GMs.

[Xemit]

The Claim Rewards seems to be broken. One can select the rewards, but once you hit the Submit button, you just get a security token mismatch error.

I just tried the Log out and Log in to the forum and tried to claim again, and this time it did work.

[ddavison]

I thought I disabled that previously, but I just pushed a new version for it just now.