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Can you have 2 inititative tracks, or 2 values for each char's inititive?

Well, I thought this was more of a request for technical support, but suggestion forum it is... Hi, I'm using an experimental initiative system.  Character rolls initiative, and when it's their turn to decide what their activity is, the initiative is updated to the new activity time, based on what they are doing.  However this is prone to error as I cannot tell if I've updated their initiative, or if they are at the rolled initiative. I would like to have an initiative tracker for the players, and another one with the manually added and updated initiative values. Optionally if I could display two values for each character token that might be another way to do it.  Or even display updated initiative in another color... Any ideas?  It is pretty cludgy currently.
Currently the combat tracker is limited to 1 initiative per token. It uses the tokens ID as the unique key in the tracker. This is why your request is a suggestion rather than a bug or a specific use type of question: you want to have multiple entries associated to a single token. Alternative you can do, create a custom tracker entry for each character/player. You can drag a separate token onto the table to account for this, or manually add an entry to the tracker for each.
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You can display multiple entries in the Turn Tracker for each token, but you will need to manually adjust the values. You can right-click on a token and click Add Turn as much as you like. There are also API scripts that can handle similar things, but API scripts require the game's creator to have an active Pro subscription. See this post in a recent discussion: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/7153218/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/7153218/</a> about adding multiple Init values for tokens at defined increments.
Kyle G. said: Currently the combat tracker is limited to 1 initiative per token. It uses the tokens ID as the unique key in the tracker. This is why your request is a suggestion rather than a bug or a specific use type of question: you want to have multiple entries associated to a single token. Alternative you can do, create a custom tracker entry for each character/player. You can drag a separate token onto the table to account for this, or manually add an entry to the tracker for each. As I am only a Plus subscription, I'm guessing this is the best way to do the initiative to avoid timing mistakes.&nbsp; I'll just create additional character sheets for each party member and call it CharacterName Updated Initiative.
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Zorachus said: As I am only a Plus subscription, I'm guessing this is the best way to do the initiative to avoid timing mistakes.&nbsp; I'll just create additional character sheets for each party member and call it CharacterName Updated Initiative. No need to create extra character sheets. Just Add Turns for their existing tokens. You have to manually adjust them, but you will have to do that with extra character sheets too, if I am understanding your need correctly. To make different names in the Turn Tracker (for ex, "Bob Updated Init"), use the Add Custom Item in the Turn Order Settings ( <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Turn_Tracker#Turn_Order_Settings" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Turn_Tracker#Turn_Order_Settings</a> ). No need for a token or character sheet for this solution.
To add turns to the tracker, select the token and press Ctrl+u. Then manually enter the initiative for the entry.
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