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Enable Movement of the Selected Token with WASD

Score + 7

This is a feature that would make moving tokens during combat more comfortable, as users typically have the mouse in their right hand for clicking on rolls and selecting abilities. Having movement controls on both left and right sides of the keyboard is also a useful accessibility feature.

Other popular VTT programs already have this functionality, and for those users that switch between the two, this is a feature that users will expect to be able to use by muscle memory, and notice its absence.

March 22 (1 week ago)
Gold
Forum Champion

You didn't directly say it, but I think you know this from where you mentioned using left-and-right-sides of the keyboard..

You can use Arrow keys to do it. They only work on tokens on maps with a grid enabled. You can also use Alt-Arrow to move a token by 1-pixel increments just barely slowly scooting off-grid and this method works even on maps that don't have Grid. 

Like you said, W-A-S-D keys could be added as a new Roll20 feature mirroring the Arrow Keys and that would be helpful 

March 22 (1 week ago)

Edited March 22 (1 week ago)

Yes, you get it. The Arrow Keys work fine, but it’s far more natural for a user with their right hand on a mouse to use WASD. It would be useful for maps with grids, less so for maps without grids. Other VTTs like FantasyGrounds and Foundry already have this feature.

Ctrl, Alt, and Shift functionality would also be mirrored from the arrow keys, ideally.

March 26 (4 days ago)
Gold
Forum Champion

It's a genuinely good and not-complicated Suggestion. We just have a long ways to go to get Roll20 Team attention on this. First hurdle is get +10 upvotes so the thread doesn't disappear in 30 days. So if you can get your Players, or folks on your discord, to come and cast their +1 Up-vote on this..

Thank you! I don’t really know how these things work, I just wanted to suggest a change. I’ll pass on a link where I can.