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Player can change token size.

Not sure what happened or if I accidentally turned on a setting, but my players now can change their token size.  It creates a problem where they can accidentally resize their token while moving it and crossed a dynamic lighting line. Any setting where I can turn this back off?
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keithcurtis
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This has been reported in many threads, and appears to have been introduced in the latest DL update. I know it is being worked on.
Yeah that's what I thought, a shame there is no easy way to turn it off.
It should have an on (default off) toggle, but it's immensely helpful as a feature so GMs don't have to constantly fix token sizes.
it got annoying pretty fast though, as my players keep accidentally change their token sizes.  It annoys them more than I do since they need to move their token a lot.
I had my weekly game earlier this evening and yeah, same thing... the players discovered they could change their token sizes.
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Here is a workaround that I found: Leave the "Represent Character" to generic/none.  This will enable you to choose a player/s in the "Controlled By" section.  Give the control of this token to the player instead, do not link it with the represent character or they will be able to have the ability to resize the token.  The downside of this is that you cannot assign attributes such as HP, AC, temp HP, etc so they have to be manually tracked/updated.
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keithcurtis
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This is weird. As GM, I control dozens of tokens, which I move well over a hundred times in the course of a game. Almost never do I accidentally resize a token, yet all of them can be resized. Is it easier somehow for players to resize tokens? I'm having trouble understanding why this is such an annoyance. I know it's a bug and needs to be fixed. I just would have thought it to be extremely minor and rarely a problem. What about it it causing players to resize so easily or often?
In my game's case, it was only a minor issue... discovered by one of the players by accident during game play. I had not heard about this issue, so I asked the other players to see if they could change the size of their tokens too. And they all could. We had a laugh over it, I told them that Yeah, you're not supposed to be able to do that... Something has clearly been broken and I would look into it after we stopped for the night. Then we moved on with the game session, and no one had any issues with accidentally re-sizing their tokens for the rest of the night.
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I would say it depend heavily on the campaign itself whether you need to move the token frequently or not.  I have resized the token myself accidentally although only in a rare case now since I'm used to it and I don't have to move tokens a lot. My players on the other hand suddenly got the ability to resize the token, and have to frequently move their tokens in a large-sized map.  I'm running the dungeon of the mad mage which requires the player to traverse through the dungeon.  Thus, they need to click and move the token more frequently than I do.  Especially because I'm using dynamic lighting.   That's why it annoys them and that's why I posted here in the first place.  
We noticed this in last night's game also.  Dungeon of the Mad Mage with DL.  Players able to accidentally resize tokens.  A minor annoyance and delay but I still hope it gets fixed soon.
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keithcurtis
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The issue should be fixed now .