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Add Letters to color markers for Conditions

Adding color markers to tokens to track conditions is helpful, but all too often, people ask "What is the blue one for again?" It would be nice to be able to assign letters in the colored circles.  Example "D" for Dazed or "i" for immobilized.  I only play D&D, so I'm not sure how this would work for other systems, but I could only assume it couldn't hurt.
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Pat S.
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Some other systems use "S" for stun, "B" for bloodied, and you could use "C" for charmed. Good suggestion. 
I like it. Not a bad idea. Could be any digit, really. a letter, a number, whatever, for whatever purpose.
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Konrad J.
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+!, to be able to add any graphic would be the best.  THen you can use letters, pictures, colours, whatever you want!
Making it that flexible would probably pose issues programmatically. To do it easily, it should be a set amount of options. Another way of doing it to add flexibility would be to all tokens to be resized to the size of the condition markers. That way, you could just use tokens for the conditions and they could be whatever you want. Just allow the tokens to be resize to tiny and have them snap into the upper right hand corner of a square. 
When I used to use GameTable, you could click on a pog and "Set Attribute" and it would pull open a fill-in box that you could write whatever you wanted. To see the notation, you would just mouse-over the pog. I'm no computer programmer, but if something like that could be done, it would be pretty sweet.
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Konrad J.
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todd t. said: Making it that flexible would probably pose issues programmatically. To do it easily, it should be a set amount of options. Another way of doing it to add flexibility would be to all tokens to be resized to the size of the condition markers. That way, you could just use tokens for the conditions and they could be whatever you want. Just allow the tokens to be resize to tiny and have them snap into the upper right hand corner of a square.  I don't think it would be a problem.  Maptools did it great.  You have a set amount of spaces around the token for the condition graphics, its not unlimited.  The system worked very well and the community made some really nice condition markers for all the various conditions you might have.
I like the set attribute idea. Maybe just have a have a check box list with the most come conditions that systems use.  Just click, check the dazed box and go....
+1. even if only 1 character/digit per was allowed, that would be an incredible help. as far as options go: just set it to allow all characters in a certain font. Not that hard to program the options that way.
+1 This is similar to a former suggestion for adding text to conditions. More customization is always good.
+1 for letters or a descriptive term like 'stun' or 'face-down'. The coloured dots are handy, but for what we play they aren't an intuitive way to portray some of the more important states.
That would be awesome, +1.
+1 but wouldn't it be nice to be able to add our own tokens to the list...Eyeballs for "overwatch" or a crosshair for temporary to hit enhancements.  Or a skull for something.  Not sure what but something!:)
+1
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Finderski
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+1