What login do I use? Why does my login/password fail?

Introduction

Here at The Forge, we get a lot of questions about failed logins. These issues happen to a lot of people, for a variety of reasons- to the point that they are one of our most common support requests. We attempt to outline the various login credentials associated with Foundry Gaming, Foundry VTT, and The Forge- as well as how to fix issues you might be experiencing with them.

Accounts and Logins

Foundry Gaming Account

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Foundry Gaming LLC is the company who develops Foundry Virtual Tabletop. To obtain a Foundry license key, you must create an account on their website, and purchase the key there. This is usually where your Foundry Gaming account will come from.

You can do the following with your Foundry Gaming account:

  • Manage your Foundry licenses on the Foundry VTT website.
  • Purchase Foundry licenses and other premium content on the Foundry VTT website.
  • Download Foundry VTT for self-hosting.

You cannot do the following with your Foundry Gaming account:

  • Log in to The Forge.
  • Log in to your Foundry VTT application/game.

For those unsure of the differences between Foundry Gaming LLC and The Forge VTT Inc., we recommend reading this article.

Resetting your Foundry Gaming account password

You can currently reset your Foundry Gaming password by navigating to this link, and following the instructions on the webpage. When in doubt, please verify by contacting Foundry VTT directly- as a reminder, we have no control over their account system.

Forge Account

The Forge VTT Inc. is the company behind The Forge, a hosting service for Foundry Virtual Tabletop software. Usually, people will create an account on our service in order to have their games hosted, or in order to play within a private game on our service.

You can do the following with your Forge account:

  • Manage your games and related content hosted on The Forge.
  • Purchase a hosting subscription, and premium packages on The Bazaar.
  • While logged in, access private games on The Forge (Please keep in mind you will never log into The Forge at the Foundry game’s login screen)

You cannot do the following with your Forge account:

  • Login to the FoundryVTT website.
  • Login to your Foundry VTT instance/application. If a game is using the User Manager feature, it will automatically skip the login screen . You will NEVER have to put in your Forge account details at a Foundry game’s login screen.

Resetting your Forge Account password

You can reset your Forge account password by navigating to this link, and following the instructions on the webpage. If you are having issues resetting your account password, or receiving the email, please follow the steps in this guide. If you cannot resolve the issue on your own, please email us at [email protected].

Foundry VTT Admin Access Key

If you are self-hosting Foundry Virtual Tabletop, or hosting on The Forge without Game Manager enabled, the Setup menu can be locked with an admin access key. This is to prevent casual access of behind the scenes information by your players, or allow destructive use of the setup menu’s functions by anyone who accesses your table’s URL.

This is called an access key rather than a password because the admin access key is not entirely secure. While we recommend making an admin access key hard to guess, you should not reuse a password used for a real account service.

We do not recommend setting an admin access key on The Forge, unless there is a co-DM within your games. This is because The Forge already authenticates users without admin access keys, making sure that only the account owner can access the setup menu. By setting an admin access key, anyone who knows the key will be able to access your setup menu.

You can do the following with your Foundry VTT admin access key:

  • Access your Foundry VTT setup menu, after the server has been started/restarted.
  • Return to the Foundry VTT setup menu from a currently active world.

You cannot do the following with your Foundry VTT admin access key:

  • Log into The Forge.
  • Log into the Foundry VTT website.
  • Log into a world with the access key, unless a user has been given the same access key by the GM.

Resetting your Foundry admin access key

We have a guide to resetting your admin access key here.

Foundry VTT Game Access Key

When a Foundry world is created on a self-hosted instance, or on The Forge without User Manager enabled, it will generate a single user (the GM) by default. The GM will be generated without an access key, but the GM can add one for themselves, as well as for other players that they wish to create.

Therefore, the GM, and any other user with the GM role can create users, and give them game access keys. Again, these are called “access keys” because these access keys are not entirely secure. Ideally, the access keys should be hard to guess- but you should not reuse a password used for a real account service. Necessarily, the GM creating a user must know that user’s password to create and share it.

You can do the following with a a Foundry VTT game access key:

  • Login to a Foundry game as the user corresponding to that game access key.

You cannot do the following with a game access key:

  • Login to the setup menu with that access key, unless they have been set deliberately the same.
  • Login to any actual account whatsoever (hopefully).

Resetting your Foundry VTT game access keys

We have a guide to resetting access keys for Foundry VTT games hosted on our platform here.

Common Login Issues and Fixing Them

After upgrading to 0.8.x, I can’t login to my Foundry Games

This is a common issue that users have experienced, due to a bug that has not been fixed as of 0.8.9. To fix this, you will need to do one of the two following methods:

Without Game Manager enabled:

  1. Navigate to your world selection screen in the Setup Menu.
  2. Navigate to the affected world in the world selection screen, and select the “Edit World” button.
  3. On the menu that pops up, select/check the box that says “Reset User Access Keys”
  4. Finally, select the bottom “Update World” button.
  5. Login to the world without inputting an access key. The issue should now be fixed, and you can now set new user access keys.

With Game Manager enabled:

  1. Navigate to the Forge Setup Menu.
  2. Select the affected world’s tab in the setup menu.
  3. On the right side, under “Game Tools”, navigate to and select the “Configure Players” button.
  4. Under the menu that pops up, select the yellow “Reset Access Keys” button.
  5. Finally, login to the world without a password. The issue should now be fixed, and you can now set new user access keys.

Why am I not receiving my password reset email?

We recommend reading this article for clarification.

Why am I unable to login via the email address associated with my Forge account?

We recommend reading this article for clarification.