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Having Draggable Tokens / Rolls into chat messages (Like /roll)

Greetings, as anyone knows it is nice that you cannot cheat rolls in Roll20 as you can in Maptools. What I am proposing is the ability to make capable of adding a Token into the chat message that can be dragged from the chat message to the table (Like the normal /roll and roll-able tables allows you to do) How it could work: In the sendChat command do it like you do inline rolls with an easy identifier like this for example: {{ <a href="http://TokenImageLink.yeah/ExampleToken.png" rel="nofollow">http://TokenImageLink.yeah/ExampleToken.png</a>} }. The Chat parser will check if the chat message originated from the scripts or from the ingame chat system (Macro or player typed) Then it will do either one of two things, depending on how the developers would like to implement it (If they find it useful) Option 1) If it is send by a script it parses the message identifier into a token, akin to /roll and roll-able tables, if it is player written or directly from a macro, it will treat it as normal text. Option 2) If it was send by a script, all the tokens have a red border outline (As a box around the token) and if it was player sent or directly from a macro, it would have a Yellow or Black border. (This will allow the GM to identify whether the token came from his custom scripts, or if he attempted to cheat by creating a message himself.) This would be a nice feature (At least for me), as I am helping some friends of mine, creating scripts to roll in a very weird system, where they have to be able to save rolls for later, but they also need to be sorted, and the most important is the amount of each individual roll, and the result does not matter. To save their rolls they will drag the dice to the table. Examples of use: GM's that wish to reformat their roll window so that they take up less space (or nicer formatting, or system appropriate formatting) than the current normal /roll command, but still retain the ability to drag the tokens. GM's that wish (like WoD or other systems where successes matters, and not the individual rolls) the ability to be able to drag the result as a token. GM's that would like to have a script to easily fetch AoE temporary template tokens, instead of drawing on the map. Players who play summoners could have an easy to access chat command (Or even a macro command, as macros can call scripts) to get the specific token he needs for a summon. GM's who have specific tokens he uses often, so he does not need to copy and paste them and/or search through the library for them every time. And I'm sure there are lots more uses for it. Please leave your constructive feedback and criticism :)
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Looks like you posted this twice. If you take your vote away from one, it will remove the suggestion.
I posted this twice? Sorry if I did so, I'll try and check if I did.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1329802/having-draggable-tokens-slash-rolls-into-chat-messages-like-slash-roll#post-1329802" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1329802/having-draggable-tokens-slash-rolls-into-chat-messages-like-slash-roll#post-1329802</a>
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THANKS A TON! I couldn't find it myself. (Might just be blind) EDIT: Also if anyone would also enjoy something like this, it would be lovely for some support. I know it is very API Script specific, but for anyone wanting to make rollers that works almost identical to the normal rolls, or if you have a system that requires you to drag dice to the table, this will be very useful.
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