Improve Tooltip

Is it possible to somehow extend Tooltip so that it doesn't have a 150 character limit and you can insert line breaks? This would be useful when playing Fate, where I need to see aspects and stunts of characters all the time.

A tooltip has a maximum of 150 characters, unless it is set by a Mod script. There’s no way to add line breaks. 

Hi Lethendris! I believe Tootlip is actually using browser technology to display, not Roll20-specific code. Browser tooltips do not allow for line breaks, AFAIK.

Tooltips would be so great for Card Decks if they could contain more-or-unlimited Text, or be linked to a Handout. There are Suggestion threads for this, if you want to look at vote +1

All right. Could a similar effect be achieved in some other way, for example by using an API?  For a game like Fate, I need to automatically display a bit of text for each character (token). Not in chat, but on the desktop. So some kind of text box, or maybe an image (with text) that would appear next to the token? Ideally when you mouse over the token like with the tooltip.

Is there a reason you do not wish to use chat? Does that game you are running have access to scripts?

I don't want to put it in chat because I want the information (aspects and stunts of characters mainly) to be traceable at any time and not have to spam it repeatedly. At the moment, the game doesn't have access to the scripts because I'm not a subscriber, but I'd pay that without a problem if I knew it would work the way I needed it to. I'm now deciding what VTT to base my new campaign in.

If you can shorthand the aspects and stunts, you could do it with token actions: If you need the actual full text, each of those token actions could be set up to display the text in chat, either publicly or as a GM whisper. You could also prepend each one with an emoji, to separate aspects from stunts. I'd give a more concrete example, but I haven't looked a tthe FATE rules in a decade, maybe.

Lethrendis said: All right. Could a similar effect be achieved in some other way, for example by using an API?  For a game like Fate, I need to automatically display a bit of text for each character (token). Not in chat, but on the desktop. So some kind of text box, or maybe an image (with text) that would appear next to the token? Ideally when you mouse over the token like with the tooltip. Here is a different idea for this (different from what keithcurtis offered). This is a method that has drawbacks, but miiiiiight work for you, I'm not sure.   The technique is Images with Shift-Z. You would create an image with text (for each Character). Then drop that image onto the Tabletop as a Token. Then either Group that token with the Character's token so it follows it around (works on FREE), or get API Mod scripts and use a Mount / Piggyback mod-script to cause the Image With Text to follow the Character's token around the map page. If/when you need to view the full text of the Image With Text, you select it and press "Z" (for yourself only) or "Shift-Z" for the whole group to see the image pop-up at full size, which makes the Text on the Image readable even if it has a lot of words.  Biggest drawback to this method is every Character would have 2 tokens to move around all the time, and if they are Grouped then you have to Ungroup them to interact with each token individually such as bars/bubbles/status icons. 

Another different point is, a lot of people play FATE on Roll20. There are already some API mod scripts designed for FATE gamers on here. You might want to rephrase your Subject Line and ask the Forums anew, "What is a good way to display Aspects and Stunts of Characters for FATE in roll20?"

Indeed thank you very much for the above ideas, using token action seems to me to be viable. The one with two tokens, on the other hand, seems quite convoluted to me. I'll try to ask other Fate players then.

Great, use the Token Actions if that works! I was afraid it just might not show enough Words for your needs.