Player Facing Labels for NPCs and Handouts

I know that in many purchased modules they include vast numbers of picture only handouts to account for this. But it would be great if when I click show to players there was a check box to hide the tile of the character/handout. This way I can put up the picture and a description within the Bio & Info section but it doesn't show the name until I uncheck the box. Several times I showed my players magic items and gave away the name before they identify it. This stinks cause I made sure to only put a description in the Bio & Info and all the stats in the GM notes, then blew the delivery cause the title gives a way what it is. The same with monsters. I can say "You see" and they can see a cool picture and read the description I am giving but they don't care because the already know its "Doppelganger." I tried naming things with short descriptions but then I can't find them easily cause I remember their regular names not the short description. This also lets me roll out information over time. Know you know that this a . . . whatever. 

This might bloat your game a little bit, depending on how many of these you want to create, but you could open the handout that you want to show, click edit, then duplicate the handout. Exit out of the original handout then rename and edit this duplicate however you want. Drag the renamed duplicate just below the original in your list. Now you you can scroll through your listing to look for the original name and your player's copy will be right there. You could also copy the image from the handout to a folder on your own computer, name it something useful, then upload that image onto your map where the player tokens can't see ( I leave a 5 or 6 grid square margin around my maps for this reason as well as for notes to myself). When you want the players to see the image, select it and press "SHIFT-Z" to display it to them. It's not something that's saved to their journal but gives them something to look at as you describe it.

That's one way. I suppose. In the end at the moment I try to remember to change the title bar of character to a short description if they don't know the name, and give the token a short description in the label tab so that when they roll the name is hidden or not listed in the initiative tracker. 

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