Themes and Chassis

A theme is a shop’s look inside the vignette: palette, light, type, ornament, and voice. The theme is separate from the shop’s archetype, which decides what the shopkeeper says. Each archetype ships with a matching theme. Pick a different one with the Theme field in Shop settings.

Every theme sits on a chassis, which sets the layout of the vignette.

The chassis

Counter shows the shopkeeper and the customer in a shop room built around a counter.

Bench shows a workshop room above a work surface. Each bench archetype has its own centrepiece in the room.

Stall shows a scene under a masthead with a lantern rail and a countdown to closing. Each stall archetype has its own centrepiece.

Den shows a ledger desk or a case wall beside a trust panel. The panel lists the trust levels, marks the buyer’s current one, and shows a heat meter underneath when the shop tracks heat. A Browse node with a back-room choice also gets a back-room panel under the shelf. The panel shows locked or open, and an open panel has a button for the choice.

Menu fills the screen with stacked choices and bare rows.

Terminal renders a console readout with a list-first browse and a status rail. Shopkeeper lines print into a running log instead of speech bubbles. Underweb shops swap the log for a chat channel where players type slash commands.

The themes

Chassis	Themes
Counter	Lamplit Counter, Taproom Counter, Vellum Counter
Bench	Forge Bench, Herb Bench, Sigil Bench, Tack Bench
Stall	Festival Stall, Wagon Stall
Den	Lamplit Ledger, Case Wall
Menu	Red Lacquer, Verdigris Brass
Terminal	Cold Console, Amber Phosphor, Underweb

Every theme except the menu themes, Cold Console, and Amber Phosphor belongs to one archetype.

Default Look clears the shop’s theme. The shop then renders on the counter chassis with no palette, type, or voice applied.

Some themes offer more than one room. Pick one with the Room field in Shop settings. The stock, the shopkeeper, and the conversation stay the same in either room.

Theme	Rooms
Vellum Counter	Moonlit Hall, Drowned Archive
Sigil Bench	Orrery Study, Chalk Circle
Festival Stall	Striped Awning, Puppet Booth
Underweb	Terminal Client, Modern Client

Terminal Client is styled like IRC. Modern Client is styled like a chat app.

Interface wording follows the theme.

Peddler bundles its theme fonts and registers them with Foundry. Pick any font in Foundry’s font list with the Font Override field to change the shop’s body text.

Accent and ambience

Each shop has an accent color that tints the scene’s highlights. Set it with Accent Color in Shop settings, or leave it blank to use the theme’s accent. Dialogue tree nodes can override it. An accent too dark to read is lightened.

Most archetypes bring an ambient track that loops while the vignette is open. Set or clear it with Ambient Track in Shop settings. Ambient audio plays on Foundry’s environment audio channel on each player’s client.

Layout editor

Counter, bench, and stall shops have a layout editor for arranging the scene. While you have the shop open in the vignette, click the four-arrow button in the top bar to open Line up the scene. Players do not see the button.

Each change saves to the shop. Players see the saved layout.

• Shopkeeper: the shopkeeper’s art position, size, and facing, plus where their lines appear.
• Customer: the customer’s art position, size, and facing, plus where the player’s choices appear.
• Signboard: the shop sign’s position and size. Stall shops have no signboard panel.
• Scene: switches individual scenery props on or off. Only the caravan has props.

Some themes hide controls they do not use. Reset to defaults returns every position to the defaults for the current theme and room. A saved layout otherwise stays in place when you change the theme or room.

Window theming

The theme and chassis dress only the vignette. Peddler’s other windows, such as Shop settings and the dialogue tree editor, take their look from the theme picked for Peddler in 3DS Atlas, which defaults to Ember. Atlas lists the vignette separately as Shop Vignette, which defaults to Dark.