Chat "As:" Drop-Down Overpopulated for Players

Due to recent pull-out of players, some of my 3 remaining players are having to double up on PC's. Now, any time 2 of them do a clickable roll from their character sheets, they have to change the "As:" setting at the bottom of the chat sidebar to ensure that the result in chat shows the action of the correct PC. One of my players pointed out that the drop-down is populated with all the monsters in the purchased module (Acquisitions Inc.). On testing it's true for other purchased modules too. So this is a bit of an issue in 2 ways. 1, it's a pain to pick from a list of several score options, when that are only 5 PC's. 2, it's a bit of a spoiler, as the players can see a list of the mobs. Can anyone suggest a solution? Thanks.

disable chat as in the options, rely upon selected token rolls?

What character sheet are you using?  Some sheets have an option to include the character name in rolls.  If the sheet you are using has that, then turning that option on should do what you need.

A few things: your players should only be able to select 'Speaking As' from the list of characters that they have Edit and Control access of.  So if they are able to 'Speak As' monsters, I'd first double check whether they inadvertently have incorrect access to those sheets.  I'm guessing that happened because of one of a few reasons: 1. You used a script (such as TokenMod) to update the tokens and accidentally changed the 'Controlling' setting and gave your players control 2. The module itself was set up to have Edit & Control set to 'All' for the character sheets. (I think this is unlikely, but it is possible.) 3. The player is set as GM. 4. These are not the actual NPC sheets with the monster tokens, but handouts that include whatever generic info about NPCs/Monsters and a picture, and that those are set to 'All Players' as default. These will still show up in the 'Speaking As' list. This is the most likely reason. If this is the case, you can leave the handouts set to be visible to players ('In Player's Journals') but not with Edit & Control access.   Nope this shouldn't be happening! As far as switching between 'Speaking As', since you have a Pro account, you can use a script to switch easily. The Aaron posted one a short while back . Another option, if you/your players use the Stylus Extension, you can modify a whole lot of the Roll20 interface, including the drop-down menu list of 'speaking as'. Depending on which items you want to show or hide, it may be really simple or really complicated. Here's the generic code depending on how you want to limit the list: /* Hide Specific Character */ #speakingas option[value=character\|character_id] {     display: none; } /* Hide all BUT specific characters */ #speakingas option:not([value=player\|player_id]):not([value=character\|character_id]) {     display: none; :not([value=]) } Here's the code I use to only show my name and PC names (this is the 'Hide all BUT specific characters option above): #speakingas option:not([value=character\|-KHIA-W9OoZp9eE6UdWy]):not([value=player\|-M4MqKQpTCRs8I6I65Rh]):not([value=character\|-M7YiSUD9rhnHKmKmBnY]):not([value=character\|-M7Yi0tFL482VJrJBblW]):not([value=character\|-M7Yi3hBPf_U-VYId7q0]):not([value=character\|-M7YiVxk1Hz1ebQYkDhh]):not([value=character\|-M7YiXjwmM2ztpWWzsj7])  {     display: none; }

Just a point of clarity on #4.  Handouts never show up in the Speaking As. If they ever do, that's a serious bug that Roll20 would need to address. 

Good answer from Jarren K (plus that #4 addendum from The Aaron). I recently tripped on that #3, the player is set as GM.  This was on-purpose and was agreed with the player (allowing them to resize tokens, which we wanted the Player to be able to do for this game).  I made him promise not to look under Gold's GM Folder(s) in the Journals, and not to look under Pages.  I forgot to tell him not to click "Speaking As" menu, he clicked it and saw all the spoilers of the monsters names. He confessed. He is 11. Jarren K. said: 3. The player is set as GM.

The Aaron said: Just a point of clarity on #4.  Handouts never show up in the Speaking As. If they ever do, that's a serious bug that Roll20 would need to address.  Whoops you're totally right.  I did a quick check on my dummy account and saw my list of 'Languages' in the dropdown and thought those were handouts. I'll edit my comment above!

Thanks very much for all the replies. To address specific suggestions and how helpful they have turned out to be:- DM Eddie: Thanks, but I can't find the disable chat as option. I've looked in game settings, sheet settings, window settings and page settings, and I'm still unclear where this option is. Kryanic: Thanks, this has solved half the problem! For some legacy reason, my players' sheets have this setting on 'off', whereas the default is 'on. I'm using Roll20 D&D5e sheets. Jarren K: Thanks, but none of suggestions 1-3 are true for my game. So now the residual problem is that one of my players, at least, is able to see the full list of monsters (and imported spell AoE templates) in my game. I note though that when I join the game as a player, I can't see them, nor can an alt account I use for troubleshooting. This player is definitely not set as a GM, but seems to have some of a GM's access privileges(?) I will investigate further.

Simon W. said: Thanks very much for all the replies. To address specific suggestions and how helpful they have turned out to be:- DM Eddie: Thanks, but I can't find the disable chat as option. I've looked in game settings, sheet settings, window settings and page settings, and I'm still unclear where this option is. Kryanic: Thanks, this has solved half the problem! For some legacy reason, my players' sheets have this setting on 'off', whereas the default is 'on. I'm using Roll20 D&D5e sheets. Jarren K: Thanks, but none of suggestions 1-3 are true for my game. So now the residual problem is that one of my players, at least, is able to see the full list of monsters (and imported spell AoE templates) in my game. I note though that when I join the game as a player, I can't see them, nor can an alt account I use for troubleshooting. This player is definitely not set as a GM, but seems to have some of a GM's access privileges(?) I will investigate further. So what I would do is this: work with the player, ask them a name of one of the monsters they see in the drop-down list, and then search in the journal for that monster to find that character. Open up the sheet and make sure that there is nothing in the "Can be Edited and Controlled by" field. If that is blank, and there are no other monsters with the same name, then that sounds like some kind of bug.  My next step would be to kick the player from the game and then reinvite them to see if that would 'refresh' which sheets they are controlling.

Simon W. said: So now the residual problem is that one of my players, at least, is able to see the full list of monsters (and imported spell AoE templates) in my game. I note though that when I join the game as a player, I can't see them, nor can an alt account I use for troubleshooting. This player is definitely not set as a GM, but seems to have some of a GM's access privileges(?) I will investigate further. If they have edit permissions on those sheets, then those sheets will show up in their drop down list.  If this player is playing a caster with access to those things for summons and the other players aren't, then the difference is the permissions.

Thanks to all who contributed. This is now resolved, though it's not clear why. The one player who seemed to be able to see all the mobs in the module now cannot. Erroneous access rights for that PC seem to have come and gone spontaneously. I cannot see that I gave him DM rights at any point; I have never had reason to do that at the site for anyone. So it remains a mystery, and nothing I can really report as a bug. But I got good advice about the 'chat as' facility, and that has helped my game.