The rogue tosses the healing potion across the room to the fighter. The wizard drops a torch at the cave entrance for whoever comes next. The goblin's rusty key lies on the floor, waiting for someone to walk over and pick it up.

Canvas Loot puts items on the map. Drag an item off a character sheet and it lands next to the token as a tile with the item's picture, or flies across the room when the spot is farther away. Anyone whose token stands next to it picks it up with one click, and it goes back on their sheet. Nobody has to ask who has the rope: it is on the map, or on someone's sheet. It works in any system.

• Where your token stands matters. You can drop what your token can reach and throw what it can't, but not through walls. To pick something up, you have to walk over to it.
• An item is either on a sheet or on the map, never both and never neither. That holds when two players grab it at once, and after a Ctrl+Z.
• Dropped items sparkle, shine or hop so players spot them. You can turn that off and let them search the room.
• With Light Sources, a lit lantern you drop keeps lighting up the floor where it lands.
• Many systems have ready-made settings, and the rest need two simple settings.
• Loot is an ordinary Foundry tile, so the GM moves, hides or deletes it on the Tiles layer like any other.

Select your token and drag an item from its sheet onto the map, next to the token. The item leaves the sheet, flies out of the token's hands and lands on that spot, snapped to the grid. Each space holds one item, so a spot that already holds loot is refused. Dropping part of a stack (ten arrows, three potions) asks how many, and only those leave the sheet.

While you drag, rings around your token shade where you can drop (green) and throw (amber), bending around walls. The space under the cursor shows the throw distance, or turns red with the reason the item can't go there.

The GM can place items anywhere without a token, which is handy for hiding treasure before the session. Only the GMs are told about it in chat, so the players don't find out. With the token of the character carrying the item selected, the GM drops and throws by the same rules as a player.

Drop farther than arm's reach and the item is thrown instead. It flies in an arc from the token and lands where you pointed, as long as the spot is within throwing range and no wall is in the way. Hand the healing potion to the friend on the other side of the room, or toss the rope to the one stuck across the chasm. Every throw plays a whoosh, and the chat tells the table how far it went.

Select your token, walk it next to the loot and click it. The item goes back onto your character's sheet and disappears from the map with a pickup sound. Hover over a piece of loot to see its name.

Picking up arrows when you already carry the same arrows adds them to your existing stack instead of a second entry (in systems that track quantities). If two players go for the same item, the first one gets it.

Loot only shows where your tokens can see it: not behind a wall, outside a limited vision cone or in explored fog. Players can only click loot their tokens can see, and loot the GM hides stays out of their reach.

The GM can right-click a piece of loot to open its item sheet and see what it is without picking it up. The sheet is read-only, and it closes when the loot is picked up or deleted.

Whenever someone drops, throws or picks something up, a short chat message tells the table. If you lose track of where an item landed, click the drop or throw message and the map pans to it.

Canvas Loot works with Light Sources. A lit lantern you drop or throw keeps shining where it lands, lighting up the floor around it. Toss a torch down a dark corridor to see what's waiting there.

Choose how loot draws the eye on the map:

• Sparkle: a twinkling star in the item's corner (the default).
• Shine: a band of light sweeps across the item.
• Jiggle: the item wiggles in place.
• Hop: the item bounces up and down.
• Ring: a circle pulses on the ground around it.
• None: loot sits still, and players have to find it themselves.

Anyone who turns on Foundry's photosensitive mode sees loot at rest, without the animation.

All settings are in Game Settings, Configure Settings, Canvas Loot.

• In Loot highlight, pick one of the effects above.
• In Droppable items, choose which kinds of items can go on the map (a sword, yes; a class feature, no) and which field holds an item's quantity. Restore system defaults puts the ready-made choice back.
• In Throwing and sounds, turn throwing off, or set how far a character can throw, from 2 to 60 grid spaces (30 by default). You can also pick the sounds a throw and a pickup make, and their volumes. They play on the Environment volume channel, and leaving a sound empty silences it.

Systems with ready-made settings: Alien RPG, Band of Blades, Blades in the Dark, Cairn 2e, Crucible, Daggerheart, D&D 5e, Draw Steel, Dungeon World, Household, ICRPG, Pathfinder 2e, Powered by the Apocalypse, Savage Worlds (SWADE), Scum and Villainy, Simple Worldbuilding, Starfinder 2e, Tormenta20, Twodsix, Vagabond and World of Darkness 5e.

On any other system it still works: every kind of item starts droppable, and items move whole until you tell Droppable items which field holds the quantity.

1. Enable the module in your world.
2. Open Droppable items and check that the item types and the quantity field fit your system. On a system from the list above, this is already done.
3. Play. A player selects their token and drags an item from the sheet onto the map. To pick it back up, they walk next to it and click.

A GM must be connected for loot to be dropped or picked up, because the GM's client is the one that places and removes the loot on the map.

Modules, systems and macros can put loot on the map too, with a flight of their own. The API finds free spaces for it, away from other loot and from tokens. See the API documentation.