Ominous Name Changes

This is a weird one, but I swear it’s happening. In my FFD20 game.(A 3rd Party Final Fantasy RPG based on Pathfinder) a strange glitch has occured, where my character’s name is replaced with Blame It. This time, other characters were renamed to You Live, Start, and Go Away. And on everybody else’s screens the seemed the same. I know this sounds fake as Hell, but I have a screenshot. Technical issues stopped me from taking others   what is this, and how do I stop this, is my computer haunted?

I'm in the game being talked talked about and can confirm... this is not the first time this has happened. Been going on for like... 4 years I wanna say?

I've been in the same game. It's happened twice that I know of

GM of that game here. I have not seen the names change but I dont know Nougatbar to be a liar. I also know that Roll20 has had a number of glitches during may games so I wonder personally if its a glitch of some kind. This here is my perspective from when they started telling us what they were seeing at the time. We talk over Discord for our games.

That one dragon said: I'm in the game being talked talked about and can confirm... this is not the first time this has happened. Been going on for like... 4 years I wanna say? The Phantom Tokens and the other weird stuff?  That could be similar but this is way more ominous.

Hi folks,  Are you using any Mods (API Scripts)?  Any extensions that might be renaming things?  Have you tried using an Incognito (Chrome) or Private (Firefox) browser to make sure you don't have an extension interferring?  There was a mention of this going on for 4 years, is that 4 years in the same game? Or 4 years across multiple games? Note: a game in this case is defined as one game you go to click Launch on. Not the same group of people in different games. 

Gauss said: Hi folks,  Are you using any Mods (API Scripts)?  Any extensions that might be renaming things?  Have you tried using an Incognito (Chrome) or Private (Firefox) browser to make sure you don't have an extension interferring?  No. No. And I could try, but the two incidents happened months apart. 

So I see that Carion Crow is GM, but are you the Creator too? If so, we can eliminate a Mod issue.  If Nougatbar is seeing the ominous names at the same time as Carion Crow is not, that points to it being at Nougatbar’s end.  You may want to run a thorough malware scanner over your computer, Nougatbar.  I’ve used Malwarebytes in the past with success. 

I am the creator and only GM in the game.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. — Goldfinger  

Twice? Months apart? On one activity alone?

The most-likely way this happens is: Someone in the game group, who has permission to Edit the names, is changing the names. Check the permissions settings, which can be on Characters or just on Tokens individually, and also check the permissions under game defaults.

Are you sometimes dragging out fresh tokens from the journal tab and sometimes copying and pasting from previous pages? It could be as simple as an oddly set default token.

Ah-HA! Not sure why it's happening, but my suspicion is that the affected players have a translation setting or extension that is "translating" the page on the fly:

Ok. So I…think that is what it is. I use Chrome, and it has a setting I have on where it automatically translates languages, because…I like Japanese media, I stumble onto Japanese sites regularly, I never considered that our names may mean things in other languages and there may be enough on screen that Chrome translates them, as indeed, I ran the affect names through Google translate and came up with similar words…if not the same. It just so happens, that they were ominous.  So…uh. I feel,pretty goofy not noticing that. 

I did not think that a page translator would be able to affect nameplates in a Canvas environment, but live and learn.

Huzzah! 

keithcurtis said: Ah-HA! Not sure why it's happening, but my suspicion is that the affected players have a translation setting or extension that is "translating" the page on the fly: For the record, we the players (and GM) are laughing at this.  It’s glorious xD!