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Option - Make Character Abilities and Attributes GM ONLY

This is in conjunction with a previous suggestion to allow players to edit the bio field on NPC character sheets. It would also be helpful if there were the option, in the form of a check box, to make all character attributes and abilities viewable by the GM only. As far as I can tell, when I "rejoin as player" the only thing on the sheet that is private to the GM is the "GM notes" section. It would be better if I could show the players the character sheet when they encounter the character, and that sheet would remain in their journals and they could write notes in the bio section, but that they were not able to view or edit that character's abilities and attributes. If this is already the case, and I just can't tell because when I "rejoin as player" I still have GM privileges let me know.
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Dylan G.
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Sheet Author
+1 for allowing attributes to be GM only.
After more experimenting, the abilities and attributes were showing up because by default I have all NPCs set to be controlled and edited by my player name. When I deleted my name from that list and then rejoined as player, the attributes and abilities were not visible, they are only visible to those with control and edit privileges. Suggestion retracted. And apologies to the mod team who obviously thought of this one very early. However, having the option to let players write notes in the bio section if the character is in their journal still stands.
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Dylan G.
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Sheet Author
Personally, I'd still like the option of GM-only abilities. I like keeping the raw numbers for player health from the players in favor of more description, and it would make my life that much easier if I didn't need a separate handout/NPC sheet to handle this.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Dylan, if you want players to see your NPC (bio etc) but not see the attributes and abilities set it to "In Player's Journals" to all players but leave "Can be edited by..." blank.  - Gauss
How I solve this, is to double up, so that I have one handout for players to edit, and one character sheet for me to use. Then I don't have to think about what I type on the character sheet, it's for me only, and I even have the possibility to push the editable character to the players :)