Reposting this suggestion: Disabling the options to "Speak as" for players

Tiny suggestion. This isn't a huge issue but one that has come up. In my game I give my players individual character sheets for things like spell templates and conjured animals. So for some players the list of things they can speak as is very long, 100's of things, and it makes no sense that they can speak as a 10 foot cone, or a Conjured Brown Bear anyway. With the new player avatar's update they can change their portraits to these things too. It'd be nice if we could shorten that list for players and preemptively stop the inevitable corny jokes spoken as a fireball. So I propose you give GM's the ability to not allow speaking as for character sheets. Ideally it'd just be another option under the "edited and controlled by" option on character sheets.

Wouldn't it be better to create items as handouts instead? I get that it's unavoidable to make the animals, but you should be able to reduce the clutter by creating handouts instead of character sheets for most things.

Making characters for spell templates is useful because it let's you save the token's size (and any light settings), and set it up so only the player who drags that spell's token to the map can control it. I think this suggestion would be even more useful for the GM! I have so many utility characters that the Speaking As drop down is almost too long to find anything easily.

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Thanks for the info, everyone.  I'll try disabling the "Speaking As" Avatar as you suggested, Kilter, but I wonder if that'll turn it off for me (the DM) as well.

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