🔍 Unidentified Items
for Daggerheart
Hide items from your players. Reveal them when the moment is right.
Running a mystery? Handing out cursed loot? Keeping players guessing about that strange artifact they just found? Unidentified Items is a Foundry VTT module for Daggerheart that lets you disguise any item — weapon, consumable, piece of loot — so players only see a masked name and icon until you decide to reveal the truth.
No more accidentally spoiling the twist. No more players metagaming because they recognized an item name in their inventory.
✨ What It Does
When you mark an item as unidentified, your players see a generic placeholder — something like "Unidentified Weapon" or "Unidentified Consumable" — instead of the real item. You control what gets revealed and when.
Here's the full loop:
- 🎭 Disguise any item — give it a fake name, a fake image, or both
- 🎲 Request an Identify Roll — send a roll request to a specific player, choosing the trait and difficulty yourself
- ✅ Reveal on success — the item shows its true identity the moment the roll lands
- 🔒 Keep secrets on failure — the item stays masked, mystery intact
As the GM, you always see what things really are. Players only see the mask.
🎬 How It Looks in Play
Your players enter a dungeon and find a glowing blade on the floor. In their inventory, it appears as "Unidentified Weapon" with a question mark icon. Later, when they try to figure out what it is, you open the Identify Request dialog — pick the player, pick the trait (maybe Knowledge? Instinct?), set a difficulty, and send it. The dice roll. On a success, the item reveals itself as "Alistair's Torch" complete with its full description. The table reacts.
That's the experience this module creates.
GM View
Player View
Identify
🧰 Features at a Glance
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Mark items as unidentified | Works on weapons, consumables, and loot |
| Custom mask | Set a fake name and fake image per item |
| Identify Roll request | Send a roll to any player from a clean dialog |
| Trait & difficulty control | You pick the trait (Agility, Knowledge, etc.) and the DC |
| Advantage / Disadvantage | Supported in the roll request |
| Auto-reveal on success | Item updates automatically when the roll passes |
| GM always sees real data | Peek at the true item name and description at any time |
🛠️ How to Use
Step 1 — Unidentify an item
Right-click any item in an actor's inventory and look for the "Mark as Unidentified" option. You can optionally set a custom name and image to show the player.
Step 2 — Request an Identify Roll
When the player wants to examine the item, open the Identify Request dialog from the GM toolbar or run Identify.Open();. Choose the player, select which item they're examining, pick a trait and difficulty, then click Send to Player.
Step 3 — Watch the roll
The player rolls. If they succeed, the item reveals itself automatically. If they fail, it stays hidden — you can try again later, or just tell them what it is if the story calls for it.
Step 4 — Manual reveal (optional)
You can also reveal any item manually at any time, no roll needed. Just right-click and choose "Reveal Item".
🧰 My Daggerheart Modules
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| 💀 Adversary Manager | Scale adversaries instantly and build balanced encounters in Foundry VTT. |
| 🌟 Best Modules | A curated collection of essential modules to enhance the Daggerheart experience. |
| 💥 Critical | Animated Critical. |
| 💠 Custom Stat Tracker | Add custom trackers to actors. |
| ☠️ Death Moves | Enhances the Death Move moment with a dramatic interface and full automation. |
| 📏 Distances | Visualizes combat ranges with customizable rings and hover calculations. |
| 📦 Extra Content | Homebrew for Daggerheart. |
| 🤖 Fear Macros | Automatically executes macros when the Fear resource is changed. |
| 😱 Fear Tracker | Adds an animated slider bar with configurable fear tokens to the UI. |
| 🎁 Mystery Box | Introduces mystery box mechanics for random loot and surprises. |
| ⚡ Quick Actions | Quick access to common mechanics like Falling Damage, Downtime, etc. |
| 📜 Quick Rules | Fast and accessible reference guide for the core rules. |
| 🎲 Stats | Tracks dice rolls from GM and Players. |
| 🧠 Stats Toolbox | Import using a statblock. |
| 🛒 Store | A dynamic, interactive, and fully configurable store for Foundry VTT. |
| 🔍 Unidentified | Obfuscates item names and descriptions until they are identified by the players. |
🗺️ Adventures
| Adventure | Description |
|---|---|
| ✨ I Wish | A wealthy merchant is cursed; one final expedition may be the only hope. |
| 💣 Suicide Squad | Criminals forced to serve a ruthless master in a land on the brink of war. |