Release v1.0.0 — Herald

Herald v1.0.0

First stable release. Herald gives GMs animated actor/NPC intro
announcements for Foundry VTT — slide, drop, or fade a token's portrait
onto every player's screen, with live actor data pulled straight from
the actor sheet.

✨ Highlights

• Trigger from Token HUD or the Actor Directory — right-click a
  token or an actor in the sidebar, no macro knowledge required.
• Two universal templates (PC and NPC) — configure once, works for
  every actor with zero per-actor setup.
• Live actor data in your text — {{path}} templating with a
  field-picker dropdown (PF2e field map included) plus a custom-path
  box for anything system-specific.
• Animated entrance — 4 animations × 5 positions, with an optional
  backdrop (color or image) in Portrait/Landscape/Square proportions.
  Three sample backdrops ship in assets/images/sample/ to try it
  immediately.
• Per-Actor Portrait Override — a small icon button on the
  Prototype Token config window lets one specific actor override just
  its portrait, independent of the global template.
• Chat Card companion (on by default) — every trigger also posts a
  chat message with the portrait, name, and subtext, so the
  announcement persists even if someone missed the live overlay.
• Card Size (Small/Medium/Large) — shared for the whole table,
  since everyone sees the same broadcast.
• GM-only, hidden from players outright, not just disabled.

Requirements

Foundry VTT V14 (verified against 14.364). Not tested against other
major versions.

Known Gaps

• The custom SYSTEM_FIELDS field-picker map currently only covers
  PF2e — D&D 5e support in the core trigger/render pipeline should work
  fine (nothing system-specific there), but the convenience dropdown
  needs real D&D 5e actor data verified the same way PF2e's was.
• game.modules.get("herald").api is a dev-testing surface, not yet a
  committed stable API — names/shapes may still change.

Full Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the complete version-by-version
history.