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Hopefully easy question on tokens

Hey all! As you might suspect, I have a question. So I've been playing around with as many options as I can in prep for a game tomorrow night, trying to make sure I know how things work. I am the GM, and I invited my wife to a trial game just to see how things like fog of war work from both GM and player perspective. Simple, right? Only we ran into a potential oddity; as a player, my wife couldn't access the art gallery to load a token for herself. For a work around I made her a GM and she could access the feature, but it struck me as odd that we couldn't figure out a way for a player to choose their own token. I looked over the docs and I'm not seeing anything though. Is there a way for players to load their own tokens, or does the GM have to pick them for everyone? I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I don't know. Any help is appreciated!
As I understand it, the only way for a player to add a token of their own is kind of a bug. All games I've played in had the GM solicit tokens from the players beforehand, so that they could be loaded in. Or the GM just picked somewhat relevant images to use.
The GM sets the tokens. Which seems quite logical if there is to be any harmonization or consistency between all the tokens (but I make my owns, so YMMV).
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Gauss
Forum Champion
The player should email the GM the token of her choice (or tell the GM which token). Then the GM can add it. - Gauss
Hm, I see. That's going to make things difficult, but we'll manage somehow. I wonder if we could request that become a feature, giving players permission to load a single token or something to take pressure off the GM. Or maybe a separate tab for players to look at tokens, and send the token to the GM to approve. I don't know. I'll make it work somehow.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Vicky, here is how you can do this (using current techniques): Create a separate 'game'. Have the players join that game as GMs. Have them select their tokens. Note the keywords used. Go to your main game, select the same tokens. This way your players will not look at your maps. :) - Gauss