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Handouts and permissions

I think the "Show to Players" button should not require the handout to be in players journals... I like this function, but i'd rather just click the button to show the handout to players when applicable. ie: "You guys come around a corner, and see this", click the button, show an image of what they might see. Plus, i might not want them to see the title of the handout, i'd rather use that to easily choose the handout, without revealing any out of character knowledge.
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The reason for this is so that you have the ability to show the handout to some players and not others. For example, two investigators find a suicide note while split off from the rest of the party... and it implicates a third PC in a crime! Obviously, the third PC shouldn't necessarily be made immediately aware of the note, but you want to show the note to the two who found it. If "Show to Players" always shows the handout to everyone, it would be a terribly useless button in such a situation. A potentially more useful fix would be to alter what the default permissions are for a handout, so that you wouldn't be required to add all players to the view permissions whenever you made a new one, if that was your most common desire.