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Dragging SRD Monster Stats to Character Sheet Doesn't Always Work

I've gotta say, the ability to drag monster stats from the SRD into a character sheet is an amazing feature! When combined with a few simple macros, it makes it really quick and easy to create tokens based on standard D&D monsters with buttons that automatically roll for their attacks, abilities, etc. The problem is it doesn't always work. Several SRD monster stats don't seem to carry over when dragged to NPC character sheets. The most common problem is that the actions don't copy over. However, sometimes other stats (like ability scores) are missing as well. It seems to depend on the monster. The monsters I had major issues with were: Giant Poisonous Snake Harpy Hill Giant Ogre Jackal Skeleton Stirge I encountered issues with other monsters, too, but the stats eventually copied over on them after a few tries. I also noticed that monsters' traits almost never copy over, but that's just a minor inconvenience. (Most traits don't include numerical stats—it's just a block of text that can be found by opening up the Monster description directly from the SRD database.) Steps to Reproduce the Problem: Create a new character sheet in a game set to use the D&D 5e SRD settings. Switch the character sheet to NPC. Drag the desired monster to the character sheet. My Setup:  I use Safari on a MacBook Pro. The OS is 10.10.2. Thanks for your help!
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Gid
Roll20 Team
We're in the process of patching the Compendium to handle Traits better (there's been an issue when there's a lack of entry bio) when doing a drag and drop. We've been doing a little bit of re-tooling to make way for tomorrow's release of the Monster Manual, and it impacted how the SRD is currently copying over in-app. Do you see the same problem when you drag the Compendium entry to the Tabletop to auto-generate the character sheet for you?
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Tetsuo
Forum Champion
Are you generating an NPC sheet, then dragging the monster to it to populate? If so, try dragging directly to the VTT instead of onto a sheet. It should generate a pre-filled sheet. See if that has the same issues.
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Thank you, Kristin and Franky! Dragging the monsters directly to the tabletop works much better, thanks.