Locking coins

[baconslayer]

Does anyone know a way or an app that can lock my DND - 2024 players' coins? I am hoping to prevent my players from adding coins, as they can accidentally drag any number to it. Alternatively, if anyone has a workflow they use to audit character sheets, I could learn that too. Right now it seems like the wild-wild west.

[LordEntrails]

Well it kind of is the wild west. Just like if you were using paper and pencil, players could write whatever they wanted on their sheets.

But, does not just locking the character sheets work for you? Or I guess, are you worried about accidental changes or intentional ones?

[MrDDT]

Does anyone know a way or an app that can lock my DND - 2024 players' coins? I am hoping to prevent my players from adding coins, as they can accidentally drag any number to it. Alternatively, if anyone has a workflow they use to audit character sheets, I could learn that too. Right now it seems like the wild-wild west.

I use 5E and Mad Nomad's EXT called "Coin Manager" and it locks this down pretty well.

[Zacchaeus]

Well it kind of is the wild west. Just like if you were using paper and pencil, players could write whatever they wanted on their sheets.

But, does not just locking the character sheets work for you? Or I guess, are you worried about accidental changes or intentional ones?
Coins are always editable even when the sheet is locked.

[Moon Wizard]

It's because people often adjust the fields during play; so they were explicitly asked to be left unlocked by other users, even when the sheet is locked (similar to ammo and inventory counts).

Regards,
JPG

[Laerun]

Does anyone know a way or an app that can lock my DND - 2024 players' coins? I am hoping to prevent my players from adding coins, as they can accidentally drag any number to it. Alternatively, if anyone has a workflow they use to audit character sheets, I could learn that too. Right now it seems like the wild-wild west.

Work flow can be a screen shot showing the inventory tab. Line up the sheets, switch to the inventory tab and take a screen shot. There were earlier extensions that locked sheets, but I cannot recall if they still work or are being maintained.
Accidentally dragging numbers to a text field would need to be deliberate, and manually changing or typing values too. However, if this ever becomes an issue for me, gold would lose its value over time, only to be replaced by deeds, trade and barter, and such narratively. I just work out rules enforcement into the story rather than making gold suddenly worthless. This way it's done more naturally and less critically or like punishment. Unless you are constantly playing in an urban setting, coin seems cumbersome and less valuable than rations, water, and perhaps magic items or things that are more useful for survival. Tangible magic items, and artifacts. There are ways to keep your game sessions fair and flowing without real world enforcement or the need to rely on Fantasy Grounds to handle everything. Fantasy Grounds is like a database, a record sheet, and sandbox, it's original intent was such, and the map tools and some of the scripting have evolved in time, but running our games and managing people is on us.
I have seen feature requests and opinion tug-o-war in these forums and it makes development more challenging when trying to adapt fantasy grounds for the majority of us users, and still engaging with various requests when it comes to Fantasy Grounds features.
Speaking of which, there is a public feature request list too for Fantasy Grounds.

[baconslayer]

Thank you very much. I will look at the coin manager extension and see if this gets us there. I am seeing "accidental" happenings, where people are leaning too much on the automations, and when it doesn't work how they thought, there is no "undo" button. For example, in the coins section, you can drag any number into that field, which becomes confusing when the parcels are available to drag over. It doesn't reduce the parcel and it increases the coins. That was already addressed in another post, but I was hoping to learn how others enforce it.

Another thought for anyone experiencing it: in the party sheet, there is a feature in inventory for "Rebuild Party Inventory," which summarizes the party's belongings. I could copy/paste this after each session and track it that way I guess. It would be sweet if there was an export button in this area....wink...wink :-)