I've been setting up a campaign for a bit now, and played a session or two, and there's some added functionality that I would like to see in the Journal:
Realistic hopes:
When a character is Archived, don't have them show up in the "As:" dropdown.
If I've archived them, I most likely don't want to talk as them for the time being. I most certainly don't want to have to pour over 30+ names to find the person who I wish to speak as. (I only expect this number to grow larger as the campaign goes on)
Allow viewing the archived characters
Often, when I want to bring a character back to the journal, I have to return a whole mess of them to find the one I originally wanted to bring back. This would be helped if viewing were possible in the archive.
Create a 'folder' system for the characters in the journal
The idea here is to create a folder which contains all the characters which would be in City A, then archive that city when the players are not there. Making swaths of characters available / archived as necessary, instead of individually selecting them.
Save a token for the character
Very low priority, as this can be accomplished easily by having a 'token box' page, with pre-set tokens for just about everything. But it would be nice nevertheless.
Pie in the Sky hopes:
Character sheets
They don't have to be anything fancy, and there have been suggestions before, and I'm sure the dev team has thought of lots of things, but hey: in for a penny, in for a pound!
The best system would be one where it's essentially just a souped-up text editor, or even better, an embedded google doc, as it has all the functionality you need for a robust character sheet.
Case in point, here's a character sheet I created for my pathfinder players:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iq3PD22iwkU3OrYmVCqLLnucVenGXA41kSCgwHjKe1w/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iq3PD22iwkU3OrYmVCqLLnucVenGXA41kSCgwHjKe1w/edit</a>
It's essentially just a series of tables for each relevant stat, with description for other relevant stuff. If something that would allow the GM of a game to create a form like this, and allow the players to fill it in themselves, that would be ideal. Then the GM tailors the character sheet (or copies a premade character sheet for Roll20 with HTML formatting, or some such) to his system, and no harm (or infringement) to those that care in the legal sense.
Macros attached to characters in the journal
Again, fairly sure this one's come up before. But being able to create a macro for a character, and have it only be available when the character is active in the journal (as in, not archived) would be quite helpful to keep macro bloat down for GM's.
Feel free to weigh in on these as you see places that my ideas can be improved, I am not all-knowing. (Don't tell my players)
