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Adding tokens to rollable tables

September 14 (10 years ago)
When setting up a rollable table as I learned from the Table Top Gaming tutorial, I learned that you can easily drag and drop an image from the market place to the table to make random creatures. But I can't take a token from the module tokens (I am trying to add the Kobolds from Crows Rest Island) and add those to the table. Is this right?
September 14 (10 years ago)
The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
hmm.. You should be able to. Where are you trying to drag it from? You might need to open Your Library and drag from there while in the VTT:

September 14 (10 years ago)

Edited September 14 (10 years ago)
Gauss
Forum Champion
Images from the Art Library Manager (the popup window) can only be dragged to the table.

Please use the Art Library sidebar for all other image needs (such as Rollable Tables). Search for the image in the sidebar and then drag it to where it says "drop a file".
September 14 (10 years ago)
The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Ah, I didn't realize that.
September 14 (10 years ago)
Just to add my two cents, but I have learned from experience that, even though it is possible to drag images directly to the tabletop, it is best to get into the habit of always putting them into the library first, tagging them, and then drag from there to tabletop or token or whatever.

Otherwise one can end up with multiple duplicate images in the library.
September 15 (10 years ago)
Riley D.
Roll20 Team
For module art in particular, it's pretty much locked to the module. That's because you're buying it as a "package deal" (i.e. the art may not be licensed for separate use outside that module). However, we are working with module creators to see if some would like to offer a bundle (e.g. a module + a token set of the art from the module). Finally, you can copy + paste the tokens/other art and paste it as much as you want inside that campaign, you can make new pages, etc. So you could start a new campaign (a copy of that module) and re-use the art in it even if you don't play through that module specifically, you just can't use that method to mix and match art from different modules.
September 16 (10 years ago)
Can the dragged-to-map tokens be incrementally numbered as they're dragged in? I'd like them to have their own initiative ranks to avoid the impulse to gank the pcs.
September 16 (10 years ago)

Edited September 16 (10 years ago)
The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
@paul - you can certainly do that with the API, but you can also set up a token macro with something like:

[[1d20+@{dex} &{tracker}]]

https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros#Rolling_For_Initiat...
September 16 (10 years ago)
Thanks,

I do generally use that macro Aaron, but since all the tokens share the same name there would be no way of tracking them in the initiative tracker, unless there was a way to incrementally name them as they were dragged in.

If it's an API solution I will just rename them by hand.
September 16 (10 years ago)
The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Ah, I see what you're asking. Yeah, you can do that with the API easily enough but not without it. You can make them each roll their own init and point to the init order to highlight the one it refers to. For mooks, I've sometimes used one of the colored status dots with a number to distinguish them, but that doesn't show up in the initiative tracker.
September 16 (10 years ago)
Ok, thanks Aaron.