For Dungeon Masters and players diving into the rich worlds of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition on Foundry Virtual Tabletop, visual aids and well-organized resources are paramount. Imagine effortlessly equipping your adventurers with gear straight from the lore, enhancing immersion and streamlining gameplay. While Xanathar’s Guide to Everything itself is a treasure trove of D&D content, this D&D 5e Item Compendium module for Foundry VTT brings a visually stunning and meticulously organized item library right to your virtual tabletop, ensuring you have the perfect item icons at your fingertips, even for those inspired by sources like Xanathar’s.
Comprehensive Item Compendiums for Foundry VTT
This module delivers three distinct item compendiums, meticulously categorized to cover every aspect of your D&D 5e game:
- Mundane Items: Equip your party with essential adventuring gear, a variety of weapons and armor, food and drink for their journeys, gaming sets for downtime activities, instruments for bards and entertainment, mounts and tack for travel, starting equipment for new characters, diverse tools and artisan kits, trade goods for bartering, vehicles for transport, and ammunition for ranged combat.
- Magic Items: Elevate your loot with a vast collection of magical armor and clothing, enchanted jewelry, potent potions and vials (including poisons), spell components for arcane casters, spellcasting foci for channeling magic, mystical stones and gems, and a diverse assortment of miscellaneous magic items.
- Treasure and Loot: Reward your players with glittering gemstones and a wide array of miscellaneous treasures, perfect for enriching their discoveries and adding tangible rewards to their adventures.
Each item within these compendiums is thoughtfully organized into subfolders, mirroring logical categories and making it incredibly easy to find exactly what you need, whether it’s a simple ration or a rare magical artifact.
Screenshot showcasing the neatly organized D&D 5e item compendiums within Foundry Virtual Tabletop, enhancing game master resource management.
High-Quality, Scalable Vector Artwork
What truly sets this module apart is its commitment to visual excellence. It boasts over 880 original, individual icons crafted by Gwillewyn, all in vibrant, colored vector format. Vector images offer significant advantages:
- Infinite Scalability: Icons remain crisp and clear at any size, from small tokens on the map to large item handouts.
- Small File Size: Despite their detail, vector images are incredibly efficient, ensuring minimal impact on loading times and performance. The average file size is less than 25 KB, with the largest being a mere 385 KB.
- Visually Appealing: The artwork is designed to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing, enhancing the visual appeal of your Foundry VTT games.
The creator has skillfully utilized SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files to achieve impressive detail and visual effects while maintaining browser compatibility and keeping file sizes remarkably small. This ensures a smooth and visually rich experience for both DMs and players.
Screenshot demonstrating the seamless integration of custom artwork selection for character items within Foundry VTT, improving player inventory management.
Delving Deeper into the Content
The compendiums are not just visually appealing; they are also rich in content:
- SRD Items with Full Descriptions: Items from the System Reference Document (SRD) are included with complete descriptions, largely mirroring the in-game compendium for consistency and ease of use.
- Spell Component Details: Spell components are included with valuable information about the spells they are required for, aiding spellcasters in managing their resources.
- Expanded Treasure and Loot: Beyond the SRD, the module adds extra treasure and loot options to further enrich rewards and discoveries within your campaigns.
- Artwork for Non-SRD Items: While non-SRD item descriptions are not included, the module provides a wealth of artwork, empowering DMs to add their own custom items and seamlessly integrate them visually into their games.
The artwork folders themselves are thoughtfully organized, containing:
- Extensive Mundane Item Artwork: Covering most mundane items from the Dungeon Master’s Guide (DMG) and Player’s Handbook (PHB), including adventuring gear, ammunition, armor, food and drink, gaming sets, instruments, mounts, spellcasting foci, tools, kits, artisan tools, trade goods, vehicles, and weapons.
- Treasure Items: A selection of treasure items from the DMG and PHB, with some items made more generic for broader applicability.
- Complete Magic Potions: Artwork for all magic potions from the DMG.
- Diverse Magic Items: A variety of additional magic item artwork to expand your magical loot options.
- Spell Components: Spell components from the PHB, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, and even inspired by lists found in resources like Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, focusing on specific, hard-to-find, or consumable components with gold values.
- And More: Artwork for items based on GM requests and creative additions by the author.
Detailed vector icon of a Potion of Longevity, showcasing the high-quality artwork within the D&D 5e Item Compendium for Foundry VTT.
Certain items, like livestock and vehicles, are represented by deeds or receipts for practical inventory management, and some items feature multiple designs for visual variety. The module also includes generic artwork for bottles, vials, gemstones, scrolls, and books to enhance visual consistency.
Examples of item icons included in the D&D 5e Item Compendium, showcasing the breadth and visual consistency of the artwork.
Easy Installation and Credit to the Creators
Installing this module is straightforward through the Foundry VTT module browser. The module is compatible with Foundry VTT versions 9 and above (verified up to 11.306).
Credit for this fantastic resource goes to Bryn and Gwill, with artwork by Gwillewyn. The module also acknowledges and credits the artists at game-icons.net for providing source material and inspiration under the Creative Commons 3.0 BY license. The module builds upon and expands these freely available resources to create a comprehensive and visually appealing item compendium for your Foundry VTT D&D 5e games.
Visual comparison of original icons from game-icons.net and the modified, colorized versions within the D&D 5e Item Compendium, highlighting the artistic enhancements.
Enhance your Foundry Virtual Tabletop experience and bring your D&D 5e games to life with the D&D Item Compendium. Equip your players with a visually stunning and comprehensive library of items, making your virtual tabletop sessions more immersive and enjoyable.
