[Help] GM only sections in charactersheets

Is there a way to add GM only sections to the charactersheet? As far as I know we can not access the Document in the API and therefore I don't think it is possible. A cheap unsafe way which relies on your players to not cheat is to simply use display:none and overwrite that with a custom css browser plugin, but although I do trust my players I do not like those fruits to hang that low.

I know nothing about character sheets beyond the bare basics, but is this something for which you could use the GM Notes on the Bio & Info tab in the Character Journal ?

Thank you GenKitty but I mean't the ability to mark arbitrary sections in the charactersheet itself as GM only. I am aware of the GM Notes. I guess that would require a new feature for roll20 although it should be easy to markup a section as <gm></gm> and then let roll20 only include it if it is viewed by a GM. Do other sheet authors consider this as interesting? Is this something worth to add as a suggestion or do you think it is completly useless?

Why would you want certain parts of the sheet GM only? I see the value of a separate GM only sheet, but it seems awkward that parts of the sheet would be viewable to a GM and not the player? What sort of examples of usage do you see for this?

Also, things can get wonky and data can get out of sync if a sheet is opened by more than one person at the same time.

To actually answer your question, I don't think there is. There are various ways you could lock/unlock sections of the sheet, none very secure, but once a section was unlocked, it would be visible to anybody who accessed the sheet.

What sort of examples of usage do you see for this? The reason I personally asked the question are my NPC sheets where I would like to be able to hide some information from the player and have other information visible by everyone the character is shared with ("Is in players journal"). And no the GM area is not usable for that, as it is information which is part of the sheet and not just some text notes. It would require the full formatting and capabilties of a character sheet and not just a text field.

So your players can view your NPC character sheets and see their ability scores, hit points, skills, feats, spells, etc.? That will make it very hard to keep secrets... I think the vast majority of games intend NPC sheets to stay "behind the GM screen." What game are you looking for this for? Maybe there is another way to get what you need.

No, they can't see any character sheets, handouts, or journals unless you specifically give them access to see them.

So your players can view your NPC character sheets and see their ability scores, hit points, skills, feats, spells, etc.? That will make it very hard to keep secrets... Don't you see? This is the point of the question. A <gm></gm> section would allow to me to share the sheet and still keep some information secret :) Obviously I am the only one who can think of interesting uses for that, so just let this topic die. I will use what roll20 already offers. It is not worth creating a suggestion when there is not a group of other sheet authors which think the same as me. What game are you looking for this for? Shadowrun 5. There are several things where players can interact with NPC's, especially those which are "contacts" (connections in SR). A <gm></gm> sheet would allow players to open the sheet and interact directly with the NPC's, sharing the necessary information but not all.

There is already limited access to a target token's attributes via macro's. You could create a drop down menu of things that players can get from NPC's, and have certain standard ratings that NPC's might or might not have. The player could select the NPC by clicking on a target token of a macro. IE a player could have street doc roll Cybertechnology, or a fixer roll "Buy guns". But it would be a very limited interaction and the players would never open the targets character sheet.  Assuming you are a Pro user and have access to the API, and want to spend a lot of effort on this, there are a few more possibilities. My first idea was to create two characters sheets, one has full information for your eyes only (not openable by the players) and one that only has limited information and that is openable by the players.  You could program the API to automatically copy updates to sheet A to sheet B.  My 2nd idea is to not have two character sheets, but to have a tab on the Players sheet where they can interact with other sheets. They go to that tab, see a list of characters that their character can interact with. They select one, and the API copies selected information from that characters sheet to the tab on their own sheet.  It sounds like a lot of work, but it could be interesting.