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Option for Players to Drag Art from Art Library into scene as simple objects/tokens

Score + 4
Our D&D group used Owlbear prior to migrating our current campaign to Roll20. One of the nicest aspects was any player could throw their own uploaded art into the scene to represent any number of things (summons, lingering spell f/x, broken tables, location of thrown/dropped items, etc.). Not having this in Roll20 made me realize two benefits we are missing: 1) The scene can remain more up to date and richer with minor things the GM is too busy to go and find in their own Art Library and place correctly, while trying to manage combat etc. 2) It gives something for players on "downtime" (not their turn, not active in a current dialog, play not focused on their character atm) to do and play with, and makes it overall more fun for everyone. Players can already draw on the scene, so this is just an extension of that permission to allow them to drop items from their Art Library in as well. I can also understand that not all games would want this, but for more casual play where the GM doesn't need as tight of control and is OK with offloading that attention budget to the players, it's really nice and something we miss from Owlbear. I would suggest a GM option in the game settings that allows this, defaulted to off, but just a simple toggle. And of course the GM has ultimate control to delete/adjust anything in the scene. I have no idea if this is difficult to implement in Roll20 architecture, but it would be a fantastic option that my players have been asking for since we switched to Roll20.
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Gold
Forum Champion
That could be cool, for a feature. There is a suboptimal way now, which is a hack or workaround. Have the GM create a Character under Journals, name it something like "Upload Pics here". Give control and edit permission to All Players or an individual player. The one place they can upload from Art Library is on their own Character Portrait/Avatar slot(s). The player uploads the pic there, then drag-and-drop the "Character" from the Journal onto the tabletop. This will place the image on the map as a Token. This method can be useful for ones like Summons (at token size). If it's a larger image like a meme or illustration you'll still want the GM to enlarge the Token (or to press Shift-Z on it) to full show the art to everyone at a proper viewing size.