CoC7 QoL Improvements
A module for the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition (CoC7) system on FoundryVTT. Adds easy setting of dice roll visibility, keeper-only highlights, image popouts, AI-powered weapon and NPC generation, bulk card management for GMs, and various other UI/UX enhancements (list bellow).
What's inside
| Feature | What it does | For |
|---|---|---|
| 🎲 Roll Visibility Selector | Easily pick public / private / blind per roll — and remember your last choice | Everyone |
| 🗂️ Close All Cards | Sweep stale chat cards out of the way in one click | GM |
| 🖼️ Item Image Popouts | Click any item portrait to see it full size, draggable, resizable | Everyone |
| ✨ AI Generation | Conjure fully-statted weapons and NPCs from a one-line description | GM |
| 👁️ Keeper-Only Highlights | See what players can't see vs can't change, on sheets and chat cards | GM |
| 🛏️ Grouped Rest Targets | Rest just the Investigators in two clicks — actors grouped by type, PCs pre-selected | GM |
| 🎁 Grouped Trade / Store Targets | Give or store an item without scanning a flat list — targets grouped Investigators / Storage / NPCs / Creatures | Everyone |
| 🙈 Hidden Initiative Rolls | Initiative rolls of hidden combatants go to the GMs only, as Foundry intends — works around CoC7 #2149 | GM |
🎲 Roll Visibility Selector
The CoC7 bonus/penalty dialog now sports a visibility dropdown — public, private, or blind. Makes the use Private/Blind rolls way easier. Your last choice sticks per user and is preserved across the standby.
Small change. Big difference once you've made fifty rolls in a session.
🗂️ Close All Cards
Open the Keeper's toolbar (the tentacle-strike icon), click Close All Cards, and pick exactly which lingering chat cards to dismiss — listed by type, actor, and timestamp. Particularly useful when accumulated open cards start blocking new rolls.
🖼️ Item Image Popouts
Players can finally click on an item's portrait and see the actual art — no GM-only file picker getting in the way. Works on the item sheet itself and on the small icons in the Gear & Cash tab. GMs keep their default editing behavior where it makes sense.
✨ AI Generation
Open the Create Item dialog, pick Weapon, and a sparkle icon appears. Type "A worn 1920s revolver, .38 calibre, 6-shot cylinder, wood grip" and get a fully-statted CoC7 weapon back — skill, damage, range, ammo, malfunction. Or pick NPC in the Create Actor dialog and describe a character ("A nervous pharmacist in 1920s Arkham, middle-aged, hides a laudanum habit") to get the full stat block, skills resolved against the official CoC7 compendium, weapons, possessions, biography, and Keeper notes — ready to drop on the canvas.
Plug in your own key for Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, or Google Gemini under Settings → Module Settings → CoC7 QoL Improvements. Your prompt goes straight to the provider you chose — the module doesn't proxy your traffic.
👁️ Keeper-Only Highlights
See at a glance which parts of item sheets and chat cards your players can't see — and which they can see but can't change. Content hidden from players gets a solid crimson outline and an 👁️ badge; read-only controls (visible to players but locked) get a dashed amber outline and a 🔒 badge. Keeper-only and on by default; toggle it under Settings → Module Settings → CoC7 QoL Improvements.
| Keeper's view | The same card, player's view |
|---|---|
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Item sheets follow the same idea — the non-obvious Keeper-only tabs are marked, while the self-explanatory Keeper's Notes tab is left alone:
🛏️ Grouped Rest Targets
CoC7's Start Rest dialog lists every actor in the world in one flat, unticked list. Now it's grouped into Investigators / NPCs / Creatures / Vehicles, the Investigators come pre-selected and expanded, and every group heading has its own select-all checkbox. Resting the party is two clicks; resting every NPC is three.
🎁 Grouped Trade / Store Targets
The Trade / Store Item dropdown on the character sheet listed every visible actor in world order. It's now grouped into Investigators / Storage / NPCs / Creatures and nothing pre-selected — Validate waits until you've actually picked someone — so handing a clue to a fellow investigator or stashing a rifle in storage is one glance instead of a scroll.
🙈 Hidden Initiative Rolls
Hidden a monster in the combat tracker, rolled initiative, and watched its name and DEX roll land in everyone's chat? That's a CoC7 bug (#2149): the system's own initiative code skips Foundry's "hidden combatants roll privately" rule. With this module, initiative rolls of hidden combatants — hidden in the tracker or on the canvas — are whispered to the GMs, and players don't even get Foundry's "privately rolled some dice" placeholder to count them by. Visible combatants roll exactly as before, and the whisper half retires itself once the system is fixed.
AI Usage Disclaimer
This module has been developped with the help of an AI Coding assistant (Claude Code). The code has been thoroughly reviewed and tested by a human (me).