[Script] PlayerCharacters -- List all Player Characters divided by Player for the GM, or all assigned Characters for a Player. Add Characters for GM and Players.

Example GM View:

Github: https://github.com/shdwjk/Roll20API/blob/master/PlayerCharacters/PlayerCharacters.js

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Looks good. I will be testing it later this week/end.

Will this work compatibly nicely enough with Message Of The Day also installed/running?

!list-pcs --config show-characters-on-login|on  

Yup.  BTW, all the config options are presented in the help, which makes setting them super easy:

The Aaron, Scriptomancer 18th level! How do you do this, somebody asks a question, ten minutes later you post an elaborate script with help files that does 3x more than the question and waxes your car while it does it. I think it is time for a promotion, The Aaron, God of JavaScript!

Oh noes!  Javascript please!!!!  =D

The secret is functional decomposition. =D  I have many, many parts already written which I can use to pull together functionality quickly.  In this case, I'd been meaning to rewrite that snippet into a script for a while now, and this was just the motivation I needed. =D

This is the 100x nicer version of a script i shared before on the roll20 discord (Feb 4th 2021). I have two feature requests:

- create the default-token when a player drops it in the avatar field.
- optionally automatically extend each charactername with (player displayname) between brackets

NotDumpsterFire at that time also listed a massive wishlist, but i am not going to repeat that list here.

Oh, I'd love to see what you put on discord.  (I assume that's February 4th?  Don't see day/month/year much, so at first I thought it was next month. =D)

Default token could only be created if the image they use is in a User library, but that's a nice idea, I'll see what I can do.

With the extending of character names, are you taking about renaming their character to have [The Aaron] or similar after the name?  That might cause some people problems, and tracking and updating the names of characters when players change their display name might be a pain.  Hopefully this isn't confusion over the screenshot I posted.  Most of the players had renamed themselves to match their characters, so it looks a bit strange...

I'll have to find NDF's wishlist, or maybe I'll just ask him on discord...

This is awesome.

Also, I support both of Martijen's requests.  (I guess, if it can set the Default Token AND set a bunch of token options, that'd be cool too, although I can & would use Token-Mod to set the token-options otherwise. Just saying if List-PCs script is going to set the "Default Token" yeah it would be nice to have it set with all the bars & nameplate options configured as desired).

Including the option to append PLAYER-NAME even if some Characters already wrote their name with player included like Scripto(T'Aaron) would, with this option turned on, would show as Scripto(T'Aaron) Played By The Aaron.

Anyway, all sounds good to me, and I plan to use this script as-it-is starting sometime this week, so I'll let you know then if any suggestions.

Also please be aware that my version crashes a few time per week with  Possible Infinite Loop detected, and i still did not find the reason for that.

After some discussions, I'm going to rename this script to just PlayerCharacters to better fit its expanded functionality.

The Aaron said:

After some discussions, I'm going to rename this script to just PlayerCharacters to better fit its expanded functionality.

A couple of related scripts from other script authors are:

• Welcome Package
• CreateCharacter

The Aaron's is a different approach though, with the foundation of listing out which Characters are assigned already to which Players.  The other 2 share the ability to create a Character Sheet and assign to a player, but both of them are geared towards using at the starting day of a new campaign, for new entrants, new group members, primarily. 

The Aaron's is looking better for managing the stable of Character Sheet assignments overall for the life of the game.

I've got some ideas that fall under the umbrella of "PlayerCharacters" to further solidify it firmly under the new name.  =D 

The Aaron said:

I've got some ideas that fall under the umbrella of "PlayerCharacters" to further solidify it firmly under the new name.  =D 

Renaming it PCManager, and having a short command for it, like !pc ?

I'm going to use:

!pcs

!pcs Power-Coding Scriptomancer

Am I still on your Patreon? I cancelled most of my Patreons in the past year, so I'm sending Thanks if not contributions, at this time.

Hm, need to try it out now and see how/if that roll20id autoassign thing works when importing from Character Vault.

This looks great, thanks Aaron!  I’m planning on running a death trap dungeon with new PCs being created as needed on the fly, and this seems like it will be perfect to let everyone create their own new PC before their next turn. :D

Hello o/
It's really pretty, and love the Idea for Hub all character on the chat when player login !

If you are open for suggestions, i would have some ideas :

1 - Adding a Config Toggle "Public/Private" for Change the default "In Player Journal" Stats From "All Player"(By Default) to "Creator". (Like that, if on "Public" the behavior of the script remains the same as now, but if it's on "Private", The "In Player Journal" input of the sheet is instead auto filled by the "Creator" for make it private by default.)

2 - Adding an Option to configure a Template to duplicate when creating a new sheet rather than a new blank sheet. (That second point is for the moment not done by any other Mod. Sometime your system need use of Macro(Abilities) or/and Stats(Attribute) inside the Attribute & Abilities Part of a character. For ease creation it's frequent to Edit a Template where all Abilities and Attribute are Pre-Formated. And like that we just Duplicate the Template for Rename and Assign it to a new player by hand. But if the mod would be able to register the existence of a template and simply duplicate, rename and reassign it to the new player. It's would be mind blowing xD !) _{[I would know a lot of Fire Emblem, Pokemon or Different Homemade System Lover who would love this mod just for that !]}

In all case, thank you for this great module ! °u°)/

_{Edit: Modified the "1" Cause I have forgot some word and inversed other one !}

Those are great ideas, I need to work on this script some more and I'll add them to my board!