Text as rollable table token

Hello, I have a pretty basic question but I seem to be blind.  Can I use text (and how) for a rollable table token and have that text displayed or is it possible with images only? I want to randomly switch the headline displayed under the news anchor to another headline from a table like with the image table tokens marked in green.

You can do something like that with TokenMod.  You could then use a single command to change the sides and the text in the nameplate. Edit:  Taking another look at the image, it will just be a regular token nameplate.  If you wanted the text to be formatted a certain way and the background to be a certain color, you would probably need to make the "scrolling" text into images (and create a table for those), and then you could use tokenmod to change the side of that table as well.

It is a rolld20 text object. all backgrounds etc are on the map layer. So there is no "text based token" in rolld20?  Is it possible to have another way to work around? Like a macro that changes in a predetermined text from a table in a text field when selected? converting w100 different options from text to graphics, center them all and upload them into a table isn't very fun, especially how unfriendly the multi-side token selection is (you sadly cannot see the name of the field you choose which lets you sometimes just guess which one you picked.)

Hi Dresden RPG! It won't solve all of your problems, but a number of them could be solved with the Faces script. It provides the ability to choose and apply faces, names and token notes from a graphical chat interface, runs filters on the table to show only subsets, allows you to create rollable token tables from a mass of selected images. It does more, but those are the features that might address parts of your problem. It's waiting on one-click merging, but the thread and code link are here .

Fist of all, thank you for this script. Looks amazing for my struggle with lots of very small multi-sided tokens. And while this is better for handling a table with images that display "text" I'm in kinda disbelief there is no text based token option. I thought I must have missed something but seems it doesn't exist. Since I can be hardly the first guy that wants to display some variable text directly on the tabletop, how would you guys approach this? Settle for chat window output and manually edit? A "invisible" token with scripted name change and good positioning?

Yeah, as far as I know, there is no text-display token option. Those that appear in modules are manually created graphics. It could be horribly kludged together with a script by forcing a text label to follow a token, but the invisible token is probably the best bet. Especially if you want to generate a result in chat and then transfer/repurpose that result towards token generation. Possibility: Post your problem on the Scriptcards thread . There might be something that script can do to help coordinate the roll result. I don't use it myself, but it's worth exploring.