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Allowing players to view each other's character sheets.

This is a problem I've run into. Currently there are two modes of sharing character sheets that I know of: Putting a sheet into one or more players' journal, and granting full access and control of a sheet and character to one or more players. In theory this works out well, but my problem is that when you put a sheet into a player's journal, the ONLY thing that that player is now allowed to see is the character portrait and bio of that player. However, I want my players to be able to see each other's sheets, to make it easier for them to see what everyone is capable of, give advice on their builds, and have more eyes to potentially spot errors. However, the only way to do that is to give full control of all of the sheets to all of the players, which is...problematic. Being able to edit each other's sheets is bad enough, but you can also select their names in the chat, which for a game where everything is done through text, can be a big deal. I trust my players, and have gone through with giving control of all of them to all of them, but this seems like a massive oversight, and something that could cause a lot of problems. Even the most trustworthy player is going to be tempted to use this for pranks or to get back at another player that annoyed them. This simply should not be necessary to allow my players to look at each other's sheets. There needs to be a way to set this up without giving full control.
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Hello Byran. What I have done before is make the bios tab just a basic text sheet that is a copy of what the actual character sheet is. This allows you to maintain who can edit and control the sheet while allowing everyone to look over the text version for any errors or such.
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Gold
Forum Champion
I deeply agree with this. It was a major shock in my campaign when I found out that Players could only see each other's BIO and not their character sheet (when the Character Sheet feature was launched on here a few months ago). Like you said, currently the only way to let Players see each others character sheet is to give them full Editing power. Why can't you view someone's character sheet without being allowed to edit it? Hope to see this come up on the Suggestions board. Badly needs a new feature to be able to do this. At the physical game table you can easily ask to look at your friend's sheet.