Hidden/Special Description field in Handouts/Characters

I think this would be a pretty simple and straightforward addition to the current setup, but might have a lot of fun emergent behavior in the players meta-game. Currently in my 5e game we have an interesting smattering of languages, skills, and other perceptive abilities. It would be really great if DM's could add additional 'hidden' information to items that only certain characters could see when inspecting handouts or characters that have been added to their Journals. At the moment if I want to create a map or other item with language one character can read but perhaps others can't I must either create duplicate items, one with additional description, solely for those who can perceive this hidden information, or simply reveal it to all those who have it in their journal. This proposal would include a third description box to handouts/characters with an additional permissions field for those players able to see the 'hidden info' I'm particularly hoping this would help spark more player conversation and discussion as they determine whether anyone sees something the others don't, or perhaps even don't realize not everyone is privy to the same level of detail.

I like this idea-- I'm imagining something like the following: Add the ability to add additional description areas from the main one (add button or some such) Each additional description would have a Can Be Viewed By field that would work just like the dropdown with the players in it. This allows you to add special notes to specific party members. Allow the title to be custom. For instance, if the character can read Dwarvish there would be a Dwarvish Translation custom description with the translated text visible only to the Dwarves in the party. Image attached of what I was thinking. Thoughts?

For languages there is a work around that can be used to give only people who speak the language info. create a character sheet for each language in the campaign, then assign control of the languages to everyone who speaks the language. after that you can just archive the languages, but whenever you send a whisper to the language, the people who speak the language will get the whisper. There are also a couple of API scripts to give gibberish to people who don't speak the language. It gets fun when the dwarf reads a sign saying "Death To All Who Enter" and tells the others that it says "Fortune and Prosperity Await" I do think it would be cool to have something similar built in for handouts or on maps though...

Sean K. said: I like this idea-- I'm imagining something like the following: Add the ability to add additional description areas from the main one (add button or some such) Each additional description would have a Can Be Viewed By field that would work just like the dropdown with the players in it. This allows you to add special notes to specific party members. Allow the title to be custom. For instance, if the character can read Dwarvish there would be a Dwarvish Translation custom description with the translated text visible only to the Dwarves in the party. Image attached of what I was thinking. Thoughts? This is precisely what I was envisioning with the suggestion. Also Roger those are some interesting and clever stop gap solutions. I might have to try one in the future...

This could be useful with items to hide their magic properties or prices until someone was able to identify it.

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