Handy 5e Modules List

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/FoundryVTT

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  • 5eSheet-resourcesPlus

    A module that allows you to add more resources to 5e character sheets

  • 5eSheet-resourcesPlus - Resources Plus allows you to have up to 20 resource fields on actor sheets. These resources have the same functionality as the default resources. The max/shown amount can also be globally in the settings, or locally on the sheet itself.

  • fvtt-advanced-macros

    Use handlebars templating, recursive macro calls and call macros with arguments or directly from chat.

  • fvtt-advanced-macros - With Advanced Macros, a "Run Macro", "Run for Everyone" and "Run for specific user" button will appear in macro configuration windows to allow you to quickly test your macro and see its results. Do note that if you use an asynchronous macro which never resolves, you may end up with a macro in an invalid state if you end up cancelling the changes.

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  • advancedspelleffects

    This module will use Sequencer, Tagger, JB2A spell effects and socketlib to create advanced spell functionality without relying on finicky macros to do the heavy lifting.

  • advancedspelleffects - Allows for the customization of spell effects

  • ambientdoors

    Ambient Doors module for Foundry VTT - adds easily customization hocks for sounds effects that all user can hear when interacting with doors.

  • ambientdoors - Ambient Doors module for Foundry VTT - Adds easily customized sounds effects that trigger for all user when interacting with doors. Just open up a doors configuration window to initialize the set up for that door, and you'll be able to enter in the sound file pathways that you wish to play when that door; is opened, is closed, is locked, or is unlocked. If you do not wish for any sound effect to play when an certain action is taken, just leave that specific field blank. Some default sounds have been provided.

  • autocomplete-whisper

    Foundry VTT module to enhance chat whisper targeting with typeahead suggestions

  • autocomplete-whisper - Foundry VTT module to enhance chat whisper targeting with typeahead suggestions and popup menu of available targets.

  • foundryvtt

    Public issue tracking and documentation for Foundry Virtual Tabletop - software connecting RPG gamers in a shared multiplayer environment with an intuitive interface and powerful API.

  • cursor-hider - A FoundryVTT module to give the users the ability to hide their cursors on the tabletop individually, instead of only being able to hide all or none.

  • automated-jb2a-animations

  • automated-jb2a-animations - At its core, Automated Animations is centered around the use of "instant" effects such as Weapon Attacks and Spell Effects. There are some areas that branch off from this concept and will be explained in the Wiki.

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  • libChangelogs

  • CHANGELOGS & CONFLICTS - Module developers have no way of issuing changelogs or important warnings in a clean and streamlined way. This module adds a non intrusive way for users to get important information. What is more, a lot of times users need to rely on discord to know if modules conflict with each other. Changelogs & Conflicts will also warn users of potential conflicts and display the suggested curse of action provided by the developer (for example, you might just need to disable a setting in one of the modules for things to work).

  • foundryvtt-chat-portrait

  • foundryvtt-chat-portrait - A Foundry VTT module that displays the Actor's portrait images on the chat messages.

  • Combat Enhancements - Adds additional features to Foundry's combat tracker.

  • combat-utility-belt

    Combat Utility Belt module for Foundry Virtual Tabletop

  • combat-utility-belt - Every hero GM needs gadgets to keep their game safe from dastardly players up to no good! And where better to store those gadget than on your very own Combat Utility Belt! This handy-dandy combat aid comes packed with a bunch of gadgets to ensure you get a TPK every time...

  • cursor-hider - A FoundryVTT module to give the users the ability to hide their cursors on the tabletop individually, instead of only being able to hide all or none.

  • dragonflagon-fvtt

    DragonFlagon FoundryVTT Modules

  • DragonFlagon Curvy Walls - tools for drawing curved walls

  • dfreds-convenient-effects

    A FoundryVTT module that adds easy to use toggleable active effects for common use cases in the DND5e system.

  • dfreds-convenient-effects - DFreds Convenient Effects is a FoundryVTT module that adds easy to use toggleable active effects for common use cases in the DND5e system.

  • dfreds-droppables

    A FoundryVTT module that adds support for dropping folders onto the canvas.

  • dfreds-droppables - DFreds Droppables is a FoundryVTT module which allows you to drag and drop an entire folder of tokens or journal entries onto the canvas.

  • FoundryVTT Dice So Nice - This module for Foundry VTT adds the ability to show a 3D dice simulation when a roll is made.

  • foundryvtt-drag-ruler

    A Foundry VTT module that shows a ruler when dragging tokens so you can see how far you've dragged them

  • foundryvtt-drag-ruler - his module shows a ruler when you drag a token or measurement template to inform you how far you've dragged it from its start point. Additionally, if you're using a grid, the spaces the token will travel though will be colored depending on your tokens speed. By default, three colors are being used: green for spaces that your token can reach by walking normally are colored green, spaces that can only be reached by dashing will be colored yellow and spaces that cannot be reached with the token's speed will be colored red. If you're using a gridless map the ruler color will change to convey this information.

  • Dynamic-Effects-SRD

    A compendium pack for SRD items, spells, feats etc configured for use with Dynamic Effects, Midi QoL and About Time

  • Dynamic-Effects-SRD - A compendium pack for SRD items, feats etc configured for use with Dynamic Active Effects. The partner module to this, the Midi-SRD has all of these items and all the SRD spells configured for use with Midi QOL.

  • dae

  • DAE - This module modifies how active effects behave over and above what is supported in core. An active effect allows you to modify values on an actor (e.g. Strength). You can create effects directly on an actor or create them on an item and have them transfer to the actor when the item is added to the actor.

  • foundryvtt-forien-quest-log

    This module provides comprehensive Quest Log for players and Game Masters using Foundry Virtual Tabletop. (by League-of-Foundry-Developers)

  • foundryvtt-forien-quest-log - This module provides comprehensive Quest Log system for players and Game Masters to use with Foundry VTT.

  • foundryvtt-arms-reach

    FoundryVTT Door little Utilities, Arms Reach for door

  • foundryvtt-arms-reach - limits the interact distance for users, so they can't open doors from across the map.

  • fxmaster

    A module for Foundry Virtual Tabletop that adds various special effects.

  • fxmaster - FXMaster is a module for Foundry Virtual Tabletop that provides various types of effects: Particle Effects, including weather (rain, clouds, fog, snow, etc.), animals (crows, bats, spiders, etc.), and a few others. Filter Effects, including color overlays, underwater, and lightning. Clickable Special Effects, using video files provided by external sources. This module also provides ways to easily configure these effects.

  • healthEstimate

    See the state of a character's health with a simple mouse-hover.

  • healthEstimate - A simple module for showing estimated health level of an enemy on mouseover, similar to Baldur's Gate games.

  • FoundryVTT-chat-enhancements

  • FoundryVTT-chat-enhancements - This is a module for Foundry Virtual Tabletop that adds a few enhancements to the chat.

  • FoundryVTT-tidy-module-settings

  • FoundryVTT-tidy-module-settings - This is a module for Foundry Virtual Tabletop that adjusts the Module Settings to be a little more usable by making each module's settings group collapsible, giving a little more room for settings labels, and adding a little space between each setting.

  • Foundry-VTT-Image-Hover

    Character art module for Foundry Virtual Table top

  • Foundry-VTT-Image-Hover - A module built on top of the Foundry Virtual Tabletop API that allows users to hover over actor tokens and see the character art. User must be on the token layer to see the character art, if no character art exists (default icon), token art is used instead. Image hover also supports animated file types that Foundry allows.

  • Item-Macro

    Store macros in your items, execute them from your character sheet or from your favorite automation module!

  • Item-Macro - This is a FoundryVTT module for the **5e, SFRPG, SWADE, Old-School Essentials, Dungeon World, and Simple Worldbuilding (as of now) systems. It allow macros to be saved inside of an item and for various different ways to execute macros.

  • FoundryVTT-ItemPiles

  • FoundryVTT-ItemPiles - Have you ever wished you could represent items in your scenes? A pile of items, something to interact with - or perhaps chests whose appearance changes depending on what happens to it, whether it's open, closed, full, or empty. Do you want an easy way to split loot between players? Do you want easy to use merchants with great UIs?

  • animated-spell-effects

    A small, but growing collection of animated spells for use with various VTT's in the top-down/overhead perspective. All files are in transparent webm format. Files will be located in your "Data\modules\animated-spell-effects\spell-effects" folder. If you like my work, consider saying thanks on Discord: jackkerouac#0624.

  • animated-spell-effects - More than 350 (and growing!) animated effects for spells for use with various VTT's in the top-down/overhead perspective. All files are in transparent webm format. In Foundry VTT, files will be located in your "Data\modules\animated-spell-effects\spell-effects" folder. If you like my work, consider saying thanks on Discord: jackkerouac#0624.

  • VTTColorSettings

    adds color picker as settings option in Foundry VTT

  • VTTColorSettings - Adds color picker as settings option and form option in Foundry VTT to use as library for module developers.

  • fvtt-lib-wrapper

    Library for Foundry VTT which provides module developers with a simple way to modify core Foundry VTT code, while reducing the likelihood of conflict with other modules.

  • fvtt-lib-wrapper - Library for Foundry VTT which provides package developers with a simple way to modify core Foundry VTT code, while reducing the likelihood of conflict with other packages.

  • foundry-lordudice

    Repo for the Dice So Nice Addon module

  • foundry-lordudice - This module can only be used in conjunction with Dice So Nice! (minimum version required 3.1.0) and adds two new systems, one containing custom dice labelling for dark/horror-type games (named Dark Deeds) and a second system (named Forbidden Knowledge) which simply contains all other custom styles using new fonts

  • FoundryVTT Magic Items - This module for Foundry VTT and specific for the DnD5e system, adds the ability to create magical items with spells or feats that belong to the item itself, such as staffs or magic wands, which will be automatically inherited from the character who owns the item.

  • mergewalls - A module to reduce the number of walls in your map by merging those that have common points and are in the same line. When loaded a recycle icon is added to the walls button list, which when pressed will merge walls. It can take some time for complex maps - so be patient and wait for the UI notification that it has finished.

  • midi-qol

  • midi-qol - Midi-qol is a module designed to help automate various parts of your game, specifically rolling attacks/casting spells and applying damage/effects. It has LOTS of configuration options which can be daunting.

  • midi-challenge-mode-armor

    Displays Midi QOL Challenge Mode Armor Values on the default 5e and TidyUI Character Sheets

  • midi-challenge-mode-armor - Implements the Challenge Mode AC rules, characters have an Evasion Class (EC) and an Armor Resistance (AR). In the base mode your EC is 10 + the dex mod applied to your AC (based on armor type used) + any shield AC you have.

  • mcc

    Check your module list for compatibility with the latest major version of Foundry VTT. (by arcanistzed)

  • mcc - Check your module list for compatibility with the latest major version of Foundry VTT.

  • monks-active-tiles

  • monks-active-tiles - Add-On Module for Foundry VTT Want to teleport, or open doors, or hide characters, or display a message, or play a sound, or change a token's elevation when a token walks over a tile... now you can

  • monks-enhanced-journal

  • monks-enhanced-journal - Add-On Module for Foundry VTT This is an enhanced version of the journal. It allows for multiple types of journal entries, and adds increased functionality such as searching, private notes, bookmarks, and tabs.

  • monks-little-details

  • monks-little-details - Add-On Module for Foundry VTT It's just a bunch of little things to make the program run a little smoother and look a little better. But a lot are based on personal preference.

  • monks-player-settings

  • monks-player-settings - Add-On Module for Foundry VTT Allow the GM to view and edit the player settings and sync client settings between browsers.

  • monks-scene-navigation

  • monks-scene-navigation - Add-On Module for Foundry VTT An update to the standard Scene Navigation interface

  • monks-shops

  • monks-shops - This module is to provide some pregenerated shops for DnD5e that work with Monks Enhanced Journals. As well as adding some roll tables for common items. So you can create your own shop quickly.

  • monks-tokenbar

  • monks-tokenbar - Add a token bar to show the current player tokens that are available on the current scene

  • monks-wall-enhancement

  • monks-wall-enhancement - Add-On Module for Foundry VTT Improvements to the Core Wall functionality.

  • fvtt-module-nice-more-dice

    Addon to Dice so Nice, which adds more textures and dice faces.

  • fvtt-module-nice-more-dice - This module works as an addon to Dice so Nice, adding more textures and dice faces to give users more customization options for their dice.

  • foundryvtt-pin-cushion

    Adds additional functionality around Map Pins

  • foundryvtt-pin-cushion - Adds additional functionality around Map Pins

  • pings

  • pings - A FoundryVTT module to add the ability to ping on the map.

  • FoundryVTT-PlayerStatus

    Set Player Status AFK and show player is typing

  • FoundryVTT-PlayerStatus - Set Player Status AFK and show player is typing

  • FoundryVTT-PlayerListStatus

    Display a status in the PlayerList

  • FoundryVTT-PlayerListStatus - Allow modules to show text or icon in the playerlist.

  • fvtt-pointer

  • fvtt-pointer - Gives all players the option to show a customizable cursor on demand, as well as ping any location with a custom ping! Hotkeys, pings, pointer, everything customizable!

  • fvtt-module-polyglot

    Talk to others using a language you can speak and scrambles text you can't understand.

  • fvtt-module-polyglot - Talk to others using a language you can speak and scrambles text you can't understand, into several fantasy scripts.

  • FoundryVTT-Sequencer

    This module implements a basic pipeline that can be used for managing the flow of a set of functions, effects, sounds, and macros.

  • FoundryVTT-Sequencer - Sequencer is a powerful module that lets you play visual effects in your scenes, attaching them to tokens or other elements, animating them, quickly and easily removing them, play sounds for all or specific players, run macros one after another in a controlled way, and so much more.

  • settings-extender - Adds some more config types to the settings window

  • foundryvtt-simple-calendar

    A simple calendar module for the FoundryVTT system

  • foundryvtt-simple-calendar - Simple Calendar is the ultimate timekeeping module for FoundryVTT that works with all game systems! It comes prepackaged with many preset calendars to get your world up and running quickly. Or if you have a completely custom-built calendering system for your world, Simple Calendar can handle that as well!

  • Smart-Target

    A module to target with Alt+Click and show portraits instead of colored pips to indicate targets

  • Smart-Target - allows customization and ease of use for Foundry's targeting system.

  • foundryvtt-socketlib

    A library for easier handling of foundry sockets

  • foundryvtt-socketlib - A library for simplifying working with foundries sockets. This module does not have any user facing features. You only need to install it if one of the modules you use lists it as a dependency.

  • Splatter

    Adds blood effects when token take damage, and bloodtrails

  • Splatter - Add blood and gore to your games

  • foundryvtt-stairways - Stairways is a module to easily create and maintain stairways which can teleport tokens between two stairways. From a player perspective these look similar to doors but will teleport on a click instead of open/close.

  • foundryvtt-temp-effects-as-statuses

    A Foundry VTT module which allows users to toggle temporary effects as though they were statuses

  • foundryvtt-temp-effects-as-statuses - This module's goal is to allow GMs to disable/delete active effects from the token HUD.

  • tidy-ui_game-settings

    formerly FVTT UII Game Settings

  • tidy-ui_game-settings - A module to make the game settings menu a bit more comfortable to use. A stand alone module from the upcoming Tidy UI suite module.

  • tidy5e-sheet

    An alternative Character Sheet for Foundry VTT dnd5e aimed at creating a cleaner UI.

  • tidy5e-sheet - An alternative Character Sheet for Foundry VTT dnd5e aimed at creating a cleaner UI, and many many many other features

  • times-up

  • times-up - Times up is a temporary solution to support active effects expiring.

  • fvtt-tokenactionhud

    Creating a token action HUD module for Foundry VTT (by Drental)

  • fvtt-tokenactionhud - This module populates a repositionable HUD showing the most common actions for a selected token.

  • FoundryVTT-TokenEase

  • FoundryVTT-TokenEase - This module changes Foundry token animation behavior to introduce customizable animations. You can configure custom easing, custom movement speed, and movement duration to tokens. No more will you suffer the lethargic slog of transporting tokens across the canvas!

  • tokenizer

    Tiny yet capable in-game token editor for Foundry VTT (by MrPrimate)

  • tokenizer - Quick Token Editor

  • torch

    Simple torch module for Foundry VTT (by League-of-Foundry-Developers)

  • torch - This module provides a HUD toggle button for turning on and off a configurable radius of bright and dim light around you. This default source ("Self") is provided for any system for which we don't supply more specialized capabilities.

  • warpgate

  • warpgate - Warp Gate is a system-agnostic library module for Foundry VTT that provides a growing number of API functions to make programmatically spawning tokens and modifying those tokens easier for players and GMs alike. Usable both directly via client Macros and as a dependency for other modules to build and expand upon.

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