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Expansion and Future Projects - Poll

  • Battlemaps - Regular releases of finished battlemaps with variations. 177
  • Adventures - Short written adventures that come with battlemaps and tokens. 122
  • Large Scale Map Assets - Assets for making maps at the city and world map scale. 628
  • Token Modification App - An app that allows you to recolor and adjust existing FA tokens. 212
  • Character Token Maker - An app that allows you to build a custom medium humanoid token. 575
  • Portrait Maker - An app that allows you to make custom character portraits in the FA style. 315
  • Animated Tokens - Add motion to our extensive library of creature and humanoid tokens. 179
  • 2020-11-09
  • 2208 votes
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Hey Everyone!As you have no doubt noticed, we have been working on hiring some new people for the FA team. One of the reasons for this is that we are interested in not only increasing the amount of our normal content, but expanding our focus as well. We have had a number of ideas and backburner projects sitting around for a while and we anted to know which of them you all would be interested in!  We've put together this poll so we can show you what we've been plotting, and so you can let us know what you want! You can vote for as many of these projects as you are interested in.  Please note that these are very long term goals, and that they are in addition to what we already produce: Assets and Tokens will always be our main focus, and we have no plans to change that.Also note, not all of these projects would fit into the existing tiers or even the existing Patreon. If there is enough interest in something we will then start working on how best to implement it.

Projects/Expansion Ideas:

BattlemapsRegular releases of finished battlemaps (~4/month) with variations for higher tiers. This would most likely require us to make a separate "FA Battlemaps" Patreon as we already have ~4+ releases of Assets/Tokens here and 8+ would just be too much. Also if you are only interested in Battlemaps, you would not be paying for Assets/Tokens, or vice versa.

(Forgotten) AdventuresShort written adventures that come with Battlemaps, Statblocks, Tokens & Items attached. Plug&Play Side Quests, 1 Page Dungeons or Larger Adventures - multiple smaller adventures tied to each other.

Large Scale Map AssetsAssets and CSP Brushes for making maps at the city and world map scale.

Token Modification AppAn app that allows you to recolor existing FA tokens and make some alterations to some selected tokens, like swap Hairstyles, Weapons or some other small adjustments.

Character Token MakerAn app that allows you to build a custom medium humanoid token. You would be able to choose your size, body type, hairstyle, ears, tail, wings and other features, as well as weapons, various armor pieces and other miscellaneous equipment to create unique character tokens.Rough mockup to get you an idea what it might look like (Just with much nicer and polished UI)

Portrait MakerAn app that allows you to make custom character portraits in the FA style. Similar to Character Token Maker above, just for Face Portraits, you could choose different facial features, hairstyles, colors, some accessories etc. to create Unique character portraits for your game.Artstyle for this is NOT decided yet - This is just a very early testing preview to get you some idea of what Portraits might look like

Animated TokensAdd motion to our extensive library of creature and humanoid tokens - bringing them to life in  your (Foundry) VTT of choice.

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Of course we are open to ideas and if you think you have a great one for us to consider, please let us know!  Also all of these projects are basically just ideas at this point and everything is subject to change. All of these would require quite a lot of time investment, so we obviously cant really do them all at once :D We hope this poll will help us decide on what to focus on first based on your feedback ^_^As always thank you for your great support and we hope these are at least as exciting for you as they are for us!You can select multiple options :)

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dungeondynamics (edited)

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2026-09-10 10:00 Holy smokes a custom humanoid token maker would be a treat, especially after what happened with HeroForge 2.0
2020-11-09 18:57

MSAbaddon

Big vote for Large Scale Assets and a cooperation with Wonderdraft :-)

Lethann Aeda (edited)

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2026-09-10 10:00 Doing a poll like this is an awesome idea. However I would also suggest trying to make a massive headway on some of your current projects like the Creatures by CR project. As a DM I absolutely love your creature tokens, but some of the common lower level creatures still are not done. One suggestion would be to go through some of the popular modules and make packs of creature tokens for those, or also sort some of the tokens into packs like "undead" "humanoid" "beast" etc. Please note these are just suggestions. As artists I know that it can get really frustrating to be stuck drawing the same type of stuff repeatedly so if the current method is what's best for y'all then just stick with that. Kudos on everything y'all have done so far. I brag about your assets on reddit all the time.
2020-11-09 19:06

CozyMaps

I am incredibly pleased to see you grow. Thanks for your hard work. Really! As an active user of your assets for my maps, I would be interested in the option with an EVEN MORE amount of assets, but this will already be the case as I understand it. 1) It would be nice to see more tutorials or videos on how to create maps, perhaps as a permanent column. I gathered a lot of information from those that have already been done. Separately, I would love to watch a video about level design. It is obvious to everyone that there should be a toilet in the building (or nearby), and that doors and windows should be placed exactly on the grid. But there are many other interesting features especially with regard to the buildings and their architecture. 2) I know that it is far from the main field of activity, but good looped sound ambiences are always valuable, I often miss them. Forest sounds, cave sounds, forest camps, etc. 3) It would be nice to see a little work on existing assets, through their minor changes. Connect two assets to create a third. Add something small and get something new.

Forgotten Adventures

Glad you like the idea! I'm bit out of the loop on what happened with HF 2.0 ?

Markus Raab

What happend to HeroForge 2.0? Did I miss something ?

Sebastian Hey

Would be awesome with a combination of the token and portrait maker

Matthias PAXION

For Character token maker with Tasha's book incoming for DnD players who will be able to play anything could be a bless!

Kevin Doswell

Seems working fine for me..... (Kickstarter Lifetime Toker Maker Access)

Hugo Prudente

I love big maps, but create my own chars with FA assets would make my game to the ultra extra level :)

Fynnmous

Large scale map assets? yes. Top down you say? very yes. Colorable maybe? very very yes. Assorted roof textures? hecks to the yes.

The Cave of Chronicles (edited)

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2026-09-10 10:00 A broader range of genres, (maybe some Victorian/Steampunk) would be really nice. Especially with the idea of the modification/creation apps. Also, some download links that bring everything down, rather than having to do it pack by pack.
2020-11-09 19:47

Brian Turner

I couldn't help it I had to vote for all of them. I would love to use each and everyone of them in my games =D Well it was hard but I took away 3 of them. I really would like to see the Token and Portrait Maker though. Those look awesome.

Foundry Virtual Tabletop

There are some really exciting possibilities here, thanks for collecting our opinions. For me - I think the most important thing will always be monster/npc tokens and modular assets/brushes for the creation of maps. My primary vote would be to double down on those things and do them even better, which leads me to vote for Animated Tokens and Large-Scale Map Assets. All options sound cool, but I would personally be hesitant about any of the 3 "app" options, as I know first-hand the amount of work involved in creating something like that and I have the sense that most of your community members are handy enough with Photoshop/CSP to mod tokens pretty easily without an app to do it.

Enrique Lozano

I voted large scale map assets. Just a heads up that applications have a lot of costs that go beyond the initial development. Specifically the costs of your (teams) time. Updates, testing, bug fixes, compatibility across newly developed systems, etc. I wish you the best of luck in whatever path you go on!

Mann's Model Moments

The portrait maker is a fabulous idea - I can't think of anything else out there that does this, and finding custom art for adventures is always a big time-drain, often ending in disappointment. Your tokens are great, but I don't use top-down tokens, so they're not for me...whereas the portrait maker I think has pretty much universal appeal, whatever sort of tokens or maps you use as a DM. Beyond that, it would also appeal to players who are probably under-represented in this (given most mapmakers are probably DMs!)

Forgotten Adventures

Well, I'm glad it's hard to choose because that hopefully means we have good ideas :D But voting for everything is the same as voting for nothing, so maybe just take the least favorite out? :D

Mann's Model Moments

Interesting - also for me I was really thinking about a PC-installable "app", rather than a mobile app which is really not that useful from my side of things... As an addendum, I'd agree that the look of the FA portraits is much better, but I'd still consider having both to get a variety of looks for characters and NPCs...I think having everything in the direct face-on Worldspinner look is a bit like a police line-up....

Mark Palotai

The suspect of FA large scale assets for Wonderdraft made me all giddy in a heartbeat. 😃

Andre 'Kimskell' Kuipers

Animated tokens will be the future in mapmaking I guess. So FA style would be nice!

Steel_Wind (Robert)

I chose "Battlemaps", but that's because it seems to include the things I want most: more assets for use with DungeonDraft. It's not the Battlemaps I really want, it's the assets. Just so that we are clear on that.

Diana Moon, MediaPunker

I love the mockup of the portrait maker, if you do eventually get to do this, please have at the start/default non-European features and a variety of skin tone. You can blow every other rpg asset maker out of the water if you have non-European/white features from the beginning. Same with the token maker, even if drop down, can still show some aspects of that. Excited for what you all are planning to do!

Hiryu Tao

More than any of these, I'd love to see an asia (China/Japan) inspired asset pack.

Kev Stephens

Seeing as it isn't on the list, with more artists on board I'd love to see more tokens to support more monster types (ie monster manual, volo's and possibly popular 3rd party). The different coloured tokens rarely interest me, I'd just like more monsters covered.

Jeff Sorensen

My interest in FA has always been tokens (monsters, NPCs) and assets (doors, objects, etc.). My vote is always going to be for MORE tokens and assets before features like apps and integrations.

necxelos

I'd avoid Token Vault App like a plague. This is an exclusively online project, that doesn't even have a plan to respect existing memberships of users and works on an exploitative "pay per token" basis. In general, never support a software project unless it's a buy once business model and works offline. This is the very reason both Foundry and DungeonDraft completely obliterated competition in their respective niches. Not to mention FA has a tier with CSP files for tokens so whoever wants customization, already can. I'd go for animated tokens from the list above. I'd also suggest something that ain't there which is going for other settings than D&D (Pathfinder, Warhammer, maybe even Sci-Fi settings).

Nils Cordes

Large scale map assets suitable for Wonderdraft perhaps? Since the other assets are available for Dungeondraft? :)

Javier Rivera

I'm another one who is here mainly for the DungeonDraft assets.

Asherett

I've been clamoring for overland map assets for years, so I'm SUPER happy to see that's being discussed :) "You need to update the WoW style assets Stryxin!!!" :D

Konstantin G

I feel like tokens are always the bottleneck for creativity. Sure map making assets are cool and all, but you can swap and change assets and go about it in a creative way without stopping your progress. If you simply don't have a token for the creatures you want to use then that's that. So yeah, the token maker would be awesome.

Forgotten Adventures

EVEN MORE assets is the default :D as mentioned in the post, these would not affect our asset/token production, as these are long term projects that we are going to work on in the background when we have some free time. 1) Tutorials and such were not really included in the poll because we sort of already started doing that with the recent Assets Styleguide release, we plan on expanding that with Tokens and Battlemaps :) 2) Unfortunately music/sounds it's not likely an avenue that we would expand into, simply because I have 0 experience or knowledge :D I'll leave that up to some more qualified people and stick with drawing for now :) 3) Not sure I really understand this point, could you elaborate?

Forgotten Adventures

Some Victorian / Steampunk-ish stuff is likely going to start appearing, as a lot of fantasy worlds have those elements meshed together with classic "medieval" stuff. Like Vampires having very Victorian aesthetics and having Artificers, Gnome engineering and Clockwork creatures is very common. So we will definitely want to have those things covered. As for Download links... Have you not seen our website? :D https://www.forgotten-adventures.net/product/map-making/assets/mapmaking-pack/ This pack basically contains all of our assets and is updated with all new releases, there is also a Live Gallery hosted on Google Drive that you can sync to your PC that's also kept up to date :)

Forgotten Adventures

Well, like mentioned above, these are more like "passion projects" that we wanna work on on the side so we don't go crazy from doing the same thing over and over :D but the main focus are still Tokens and Assets, we dont plan on changing that. We have a working prototype for Character Token Maker so we've got some idea how that's gonna work. Ultimately it's nothing as complicated as Foundry :D it's basically similar to one of those old flash "Dress up" games where you just switch between different options, just a little bit more involved :) From what we've seen a pretty small portion of our community is actually able to modify our tokens, even tho it's pretty simple... - That's why token modification app idea was thrown in there... But thinking about it now with this bit of feedback, I should probably just make a tutorial how to do it shouldnt I ... :D For the "Portrait maker" app, before it's actually an app, it would also likely start as a CLIP file to test it out and as a proof of concept and maybe the actual "App" wont even be needed... :D Thank you for your input! ^_^

Forgotten Adventures

We are also DM's at FA so all these are sort of solution to problems we encountered while making our own campaigns, Portrait Maker was my idea because I really like having tons of random NPCs all over the place and finding portraits in the same-ish style was always a pain and very time consuming. I did came across Worldspinners app, and it seems pretty cool, but I simply dont like the point of view they chose (directly from the front) so I would not use it :D At the end of the day, we would just provide another option - same as in mapmaking space, we dont see other mapmakers as direct competition, artstyle and such is very subjective so having more options is not a bad thing ^_^ Also the "Apps" probably wont be "installable" at first, it's more likely they would be web-based, hosted on our website - and before that, in case of Potrait maker, probably in form of an editable Clip Studio File as proof of concept.

Forgotten Adventures

As stated in the post itself: Please note that these are very long term goals, and that they are in addition to what we already produce: Assets and Tokens will always be our main focus, and we have no plans to change that. These are some of our "passion projects" we would like to make happen. It's a bit for the sake of our own sanity as well :D As working on the same thing over and over can be draining, so a little bit of change of pace once in a while is very helpful, I really enjoyed making the Portrait mockups for example.

Forgotten Adventures

The prototype of the Token Maker has everything recolorable, including the skin, they are not predefined colors but a color picker with pretty much full color spectrum. We would follow the same approach for Portraits - skin, eye/hair, lips color etc. would all have color picker instead of pre-baked color options. Inclusiveness was always important for us so we will do our best to include as much variety as possible ^_^

Forgotten Adventures

As stated in the post itself: Please note that these are very long term goals, and that they are in addition to what we already produce: Assets and Tokens will always be our main focus, and we have no plans to change that. These are some of our "passion projects" we would like to realize. It's a bit for the sake of our own sanity :D As working on the same thing over and over can be exhausting and burnout can come quickly even when you love what you do, so a little bit of change of pace once in a while is very helpful.

Forgotten Adventures

As stated in the post itself: Please note that these are very long term goals, and that they are in addition to what we already produce: Assets and Tokens will always be our main focus, and we have no plans to change that. These are some of our "passion projects" we would like to realize. It's a bit for the sake of our own sanity :D As working on the same thing over and over can be exhausting and burnout can come quickly even when you love what you do, so a little bit of change of pace once in a while is very helpful.

Forgotten Adventures

Token Vault has it's place, Ryan is a great guy and more power to him, but we have our reasons why we are not going to join the project even tho we've been approached. Monetization of token vault simply doesn't line up with our values/tenets. As you might've noticed we have a somewhat unique approach to monetization compared to majority of other TTRPG creators, as we provide 90% of our content for free because Accessibility is very important to us. Not to say their approach is wrong, it's just not a good fit for us that's all :)

Forgotten Adventures

As of now, I have 0 experience with Wonderdraft, so I cant promise anything. As with battlemap assets CSP would be our primary software of choice, but if wonderdraft allows for painless integration, we would most likely try to do that.

Forgotten Adventures

Just to clarify, as state in the post, Token maker wouldn't include creatures, only humanoids.

Mann's Model Moments

All of this sounds fantastic - can I vote for it a second time? ;-)

Diana Moon, MediaPunker

Thank you for responding~! And I definitely appreciate it! I just want to also point out it's just color, but actual features too, like nose variety, eye shapes, lip shapes, even brows (Latinx, Asian, and Black people have different shapes than European). Even though I don't think the portrait maker will be made any time soon (considering the poll votes so far), I'm still looking forward to it in the future~!

Grigorii Dimitriev

Please make Portrait Maker available from desktop and insert inside the complete randomizer to have an ability to make npc portrait on the fly. For example, for each category fix some options and randomize all others. Fix race and class and randomize others. To have an ability to stack your tool with the "Not Enough NPCs" foundry module. As an option please write a module for foundry to generate a character portrait for foundry npc sheet at app server (some dice icon near the portrait) and insert it in the sheet (you can provide pop-up to ask what options to fix before randomization). You can bind it with login in patreon somehow, for example, to make it interesting for you (the same for both apps, portrait maker and token maker). In any case, I downvote the model "pay for tokens" and upvote free access for patreons. Also you can somehow bind both tools (Portrait Maker + Token Maker) to easily generate in the same time both the portrait and the top view (token). Better will be just one app for both. So you will get an npc complete appearance maker available for patreons. And please - make it lets dark, to have an ability to select any custom background. Preview pictures are too dark.

Grigorii Dimitriev

Upvote for all dnd/pf races for playable characters fot both Portrait and Token Maker. For making portrait for just human / elves / gnomes / tieflings there are already dmheroes.

Guardian

Love! All of this!

Teeter

Every one of these options is great... I'd love to see animated props and tokens for Foundry

bluecoffeejava (edited)

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2026-09-10 10:00 I recently joined for the map assets, and getting some help with city planning would be great. The adventures, what game systems would you be covering? I'm personally more interested in pathfinder 1e. As for the portrait maker, I'm ambivalent there because I'm already in the beta for Portrait Workshop. I like your art style, and if your portrait maker also comes with rights for publication, to put the portraits into commercial content, that gets more interesting.
2020-11-14 08:11

Grigorii Dimitriev

By the way, what do you get if you buy a portrait workshop? apk file, special access to the play market, how is the installation carried out? I think towards installing on an android emulator on a pc, in order to have a portrait generator at hand with quick access for a virtual tabletop.

necxelos

Your approach isn't that unique (Caeora+KTech for example do things the same way) but it is indeed superior in every possible way. Don't be ashamed to say Your way of doing things is better, because it is! And You have numbers to support this superiority statement! You can be proud of that and stick it to the competition!! It's better, it's more fair to both Your Patrons and RPG community as a whole and it's one of many reasons we love You guys :) Being one of the good guys pays off :)

Nick Adams

I really surprised animation isn't more popular o.O