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Quick-Reference Token Tooltips to Show Character Attributes

Really loving GMing in Roll20, but had a thought based on some other VTTs I've used. While I know we can always store information in the "bars" available on each token, it would be really nice to have a little more available "at a glance" and save the bars purely for statistics that need frequent modification (HP or other resources). I was wondering if it would be possible to have a quick reference window pop up showing more of the character's attributes when you hover over the character for a second. See Maptool for a good example of how this works: when you hover over a character, a little window shows several of their stats, as determined by the person building the campaign. Basically, when defining character attributes on a character, you could have a "show in quick reference" checkbox next to each, and the attributes checked there could show up if you hovered over that character for a moment or two. That way you wouldn't have to open the character entry and look through the sometimes lengthy full attributes list if you needed to reference a value. For instance, in a 13th Age game, I might check things like monster type, AC, PD, MD, and HP per Mook - all of these would be really helpful to show, but currently I only have three "bars" available and one of them is taken up by HP. Like the bars and such, you could set these to be viewable by all or only by the controlling player.
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I think adding mouseover status would be nice. Not as elegant, you can create a Macro that would display Any attributes you want using @{target} or @{select}. Use / w if you want to keep it hidden.
Yeah--I've used that a little bit, but I like to try to keep my chat window from getting too overfilled with system stuff, so I can see when my players have questions and all more easily. It gets pretty stuffed anyway with the rolls and all, but I don't want to toss even more in there. :-P
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Robert M. said: Yeah--I've used that a little bit, but I like to try to keep my chat window from getting too overfilled with system stuff, so I can see when my players have questions and all more easily. It gets pretty stuffed anyway with the rolls and all, but I don't want to toss even more in there. :-P I hear you. I use the powercard script and although it adds some much needed formating, the chat window quickly gets overwhelmed with posts.
You can go in and edit the margins/padding to make power cards smaller.
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HoneyBadger said: You can go in and edit the margins/padding to make power cards smaller. Thanks HB. I'll have to try out some global adjustments. I have played around with individual macros (spells come to mind), but mostly just colors.
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