fvtt-mcp-molten5e: Skill for Claude Code

Journal builder

The judgment + prose layer for the written side of an adventure (design.md §5): handouts, lore, read-aloud (boxed) text, quest logs, GM notes — and the §8 landing zone for session recaps / campaign logs. This is the deliberate inverse of the old behaviour, where the tool fabricated quest prose (read-aloud, NPC dialogue, hooks). Now you write the words; the tools only structure + style them.

The line that matters — yours vs the tool's

• You (this skill) write every WORD — the read-aloud boxed text, the lore, the quest hook, the GM guidance, the handout copy. Authoring that narrative prose IS the job.
• The tool only STRUCTURES — it renders your typed blocks into the .mcp-journal house style, sets per-page visibility (player vs GM), and inserts real document links. It never writes a word.

Authoring policy — what compendium-first means HERE

Read _shared/authoring-policy.md (2024 · compendium-first · never SRD · ask-don't-invent). One journal-specific clarification:

• Compendium-first / ask-don't-invent govern the game CONTENT a journal REFERENCES — the monster in the ambush, the magic item in the reward, the spell on the trap. Point at the real compendium / world documents (mix-and-match) and @UUID-link them; never invent their stats.
• They do NOT constrain the GM's narrative prose — the story, the boxed text, the lore — which is yours to author. That's the whole point of this skill.
• Still don't fabricate canon you weren't given — a new region, a named NPC, a plot turn the user didn't ask for. Offer it as a suggestion or STOP and ASK; don't silently invent setting facts.

Tools

• create-quest-journal — the STRUCTURING creator (your main tool). Takes pages: [{ name, playerVisible?, blocks[] }] → renders each page's blocks into the house style. Despite the name it builds ANY structured journal (handout, lore, notes), not just quests.
• update-quest-journal — append a new styled section (from blocks) to a page, or start a new page (newPageName). The progress-log / §8 session-recap path.
• link-quest-to-npc — insert a real @UUID[Actor.id]{Name} link to a world NPC, labelled by relationship (questGiver / target / ally / enemy / contact). Refuses an unknown NPC (no dead links).
• create-journal / update-journal — generic pages: raw HTML content (+ per-page playerVisible). Use when you already have HTML, or want a plain page with no house style. A create-journal page can also be an image page — {name, kind:"image", src, caption?} — so a mixed text+image or image-only journal (e.g. a map-key pack) builds in one call (set sort to order).
• add-journal-image — append an image page (a map, a handout picture) to an EXISTING journal, with an optional caption and playerVisible (expose it as a handout; default GM-only).
• list-journals / search-journals — find/read existing journals + their page ids (needed to target pageId for updates/links).