Phil's PF2e Action Colours 🚥
Visualizing the Pathfinder 2e Remaster 3-Action (and 4-Action Quickened) Economy directly on the ruler in Foundry VTT.
No more counting squares or guessing movement penalties! Phil's PF2e Action Colours acts as an intelligent visual guide during combat and exploration. It automatically calculates rule-accurate movement costs based on your character's speed, conditions, and feats — displaying clear, color-coded bands for each action directly on the drag ruler.
The spiritual successor to the legendary Drag Ruler, completely reimagined and optimized for Pathfinder 2e Remaster on Foundry V13 & V14.
✨ Key Features
- 🚦 3-Action & 4-Action Economy Colors: Instant, live visual feedback while dragging tokens:
- 🟢 Green: 1 Action (1× Stride)
- 🟡 Gold-Yellow: 2 Actions (2× Stride)
- 🟠 Orange: 3 Actions (3× Stride)
- 🔵 Cyan: 4 Actions (Quickened / Haste — dynamically unlocked!)
- 🔴 Red: Unreachable / Movement Blocked
- 🤸 Automated PF2e Tumble Through & Enemy Barriers: Authentic enemy obstacle handling during movement:
- Tactical Stop & Roll: Moving through an opposing creature automatically halts on the last valid square and rolls a Pathfinder 2e Acrobatics check against the enemy's Reflex DC.
- Dynamic Outcome: On a Success or Critical Success, your character effortlessly continues along the remainder of their path — even through multiple consecutive foes. On a Failure, movement halts safely in front of the defender.
- Configurable Exploration: Choose whether out-of-combat movement rolls, halts safely, or ignores collisions for fast-paced travel.
- 🌫️ Fog of War Anti-Spoiler Shield: Smart pathfinding guides tokens smoothly through explored rooms while actively safeguarding unseen territory. Dragging into unexplored darkness immediately displays an unreachable red preview, preventing route calculation from ever spoiling secret rooms, walls, or hidden corridors.
- 🚪 Closed Door Smart Routing & Auto-Stop: Rulers display valid movement up to closed doors in familiar action colors, switching to warning red beyond the doorway. Releasing a token past a closed door automatically walks the creature right up to the doorstep and halts safely, while secret doors remain completely hidden.
- 👁️ Corner Ambush Detection: Unseen or lurking enemies in explored areas are never spoiled in advance. If a token rounds a bend and spots a hidden adversary, movement pauses at the corner and prompts the player with an interactive tactical decision: halt and replan, or charge forward.
- 🧭 Live Tumble Toggle Hotkey: Tap a customizable hotkey (default: T) while dragging to switch on the fly between routing safely around enemies and tumbling directly through them.
- 🎨 Dedicated Exploration Palette: Full action economy colors shine in combat encounters, while out-of-combat exploration cleanly switches to a streamlined green-and-red palette to keep battlemaps visually clear.
- 👁️ Full Accessibility & 3 Colorblind Modes: 1-Click scientifically calibrated palettes for:
- Deuteranopia (Red-Green / Green-Weakness)
- Protanopia (Red-Green / Red-Weakness)
- Tritanopia (Blue-Yellow Blindness)
- 🎲 PF2e Remaster Dynamic Condition Engine:
- 🛌 Prone: Automatically restricts ground movement to Crawl (5 ft per action).
- 🏃 Feat Integration: Automatically detects Nimble Crawl (half or full speed crawl) and Swift Sneak (full speed sneak).
- 🛑 Movement Blocked: Tokens that are Immobilized, Paralyzed, Restrained, Grabbed, Petrified, or Unconscious immediately show the entire ruler locked to 0 ft (Red).
- ⏳ Slowed & Stunned: Dynamically reduces your action budget — excessive distance turns Red.
- ⚡ Quickened: Automatically unlocks a 4th action ring!
- 🧭 Intelligent Tactical Pathfinding: Tokens automatically navigate around walls and obstacles without clipping through corners. (Automatically relaxes on gridless and hex maps for smooth free movement).
- 👻 Ghost Trail: Hover over any token during combat to reveal the exact, pixel-perfect path it traveled during its turn.
- 🎨 Modern Side-by-Side Settings Menu: Sleek Dark-Gold theme featuring a real-time Live Action Ruler Preview Bar, 1-click style/colorblind presets, and clear GM setting protections.
- 🦅 Multiple Speeds & Native Sync: Supports Fly, Swim, Burrow, and Climb! Right-click while dragging to switch movement modes. If a character lacks a flight or burrow speed, the module accurately locks the distance to 0 ft.
- ⚡ Teleport Mode (GM Only): Hold Alt while dragging to bypass collision and instantly drop-teleport without animations.
- 🚀 High Performance: Ultra-lightweight native overlay built directly into core Foundry V13 & V14 measurement pipelines for fluid 60 FPS movement.
🌟 What's New in v3.0.0
- Automated Tumble Through Workflow: Full Pathfinder 2e obstacle integration — tokens pause in front of opposing creatures and automatically roll Acrobatics vs. Reflex DC, continuing onward on success or stopping on failure.
- Fog of War Anti-Spoiler Shield: Intelligent routing seamlessly traverses explored areas while preventing accidental dungeon spoilers in unexplored black fog.
- Closed Door Smart Routing & Auto-Stop: Previews clear movement up to doors with warning red beyond, walking right up to the doorstep on release while keeping secret doors completely concealed.
- Corner Ambush Detection: Surprise encounters pause movement the moment line of sight is established around a corner, giving players an interactive prompt to replan or advance.
- Live Tumble Hotkey (T): Tap a customizable hotkey while dragging to toggle live between pathing around enemies and tumbling directly through them.
- Exploration Color Palette: Clean, uncluttered green and red ruler display outside of combat encounters.
- High-Speed Path Caching: Fluid, stutter-free token dragging across expansive, densely populated battlemaps.