What I wish "improved initiative" told us...

I was VERY excited to see the latest blog post titled " Improved Initiative " with a product update.  Surely, there were going to be announcements of an improved initiative tracker and mechanism.  Sadly, it was just a title announcing some other cool things. So I would like to see or know how to do some of these things: Have the VTT highlight the token which has the current initiative in the initiative tracker Give me the option of having a separate initiative for each NPC of the same type (going with the above) Let me roll initiative for all the NPC tokens at the same time (or some mechanism where I don't have to click each one to roll its initiative) I think there is something available in the Pro accounts with the API capability, since I was on a game recently where this was happening.  But is there anything in the works to enable this for "Plus" or "Normal" game masters?  

Outside of the API, there are some browser extensions that might do this sort of per-token mass rolling, but they come with the caveat that they may give unexpected results elsewhere. As for " Have the VTT highlight the token which has the current initiative in the initiative tracker", you can do this by hovering on the name in the tracker, the token will be highlighted. For persistent highlighting, the API is the only current alternative.

Jack said: I was VERY excited to see the latest blog post titled " Improved Initiative " with a product update.  Surely, there were going to be announcements of an improved initiative tracker and mechanism.  Sadly, it was just a title announcing some other cool things. So I would like to see or know how to do some of these things: Have the VTT highlight the token which has the current initiative in the initiative tracker Give me the option of having a separate initiative for each NPC of the same type (going with the above) Let me roll initiative for all the NPC tokens at the same time (or some mechanism where I don't have to click each one to roll its initiative) I think there is something available in the Pro accounts with the API capability, since I was on a game recently where this was happening.  But is there anything in the works to enable this for "Plus" or "Normal" game masters?   All of what you ask for is available in the API scripts.  Upgrade your sub.  The highlight turn is already there free to all, mouse over the turn and it highlights the initiative if you aren't doing group initiative that is.  

Have the VTT highlight the token which has the current initiative in the initiative tracker <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:TurnMarker1" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:TurnMarker1</a> &nbsp; Give me the option of having a separate initiative for each NPC of the same type (going with the above) <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:Token_Name_Number" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:Token_Name_Number</a> pretty much Let me roll initiative for all the NPC tokens at the same time (or some mechanism where I don't have to click each one to roll its initiative) <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:Group_Initiative" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:Group_Initiative</a>

Keep in mind, Jack is specifically asking for non-API solutions.

keithcurtis said: Keep in mind, Jack is specifically asking for non-API solutions. Right but if its available to the next subscription level up, thats kinda unfair to ask for.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Thanks all.&nbsp; I understand that I could upgrade my subscription.&nbsp; I was just hoping that maybe something new was happening with the announcement...&nbsp; :-)