Thread: Pin Color Extension
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April 24th, 2018, 00:43 #21
ok ... so that link confused me. Perhaps you meant this link: https://fg2app.idea.informer.com/proj/?ia=81597
and yes I voted
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December 14th, 2018, 13:54 #23
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I was just looking for this in my game, so my best option for now is a name system "Bandit Hideout - Story" and "Bandit Hideout - Encounter" so when I hover over the pin I can tell if it is a story or an encounter or a trap or whatever. It is a shame, colored pins by type would be a nice feature. Seems kind of silly to name my encounters in the encounters tab all with the word encounter just for the push pins
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December 14th, 2018, 14:08 #24
Go vote for it: https://fg2app.idea.informer.com/proj/?ia=81597
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December 14th, 2018, 15:22 #25
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Oh I did
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December 14th, 2018, 15:32 #26
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That is exactly what I am doing now, but it is kind of silly to have every story point ( I have hundreds of them in my campaign ) all with the text "Story" in the title, same with encounters with the text "Encounter" in the title, on the encounter table for an encounter just for the push pins. If I could color the story pins blue, and the encounter pins red and the sound pins Yellow, ext... it would be wonderful.
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December 14th, 2018, 15:59 #27
I don't pin the encounters to the map. I only pin the story entries to the map, and then in the story entry I have a link to the encounter. This is generally how you will see it done in the store adventures. Part of the reason is unless you know the adventure really well, how do you know when to add the NPCs to the tracker? They might only be activated in some situations and not other. (Note, I would still love multi-colored pins, and even pin shapes based on entity type, but, until that happens, this works well enough.) Also, don't forget that you can also group your story entries to help organize them too.
It works really well for Undermountain (and there are over 600 story entries on the first level)...
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December 14th, 2018, 18:28 #28
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And the reason you dont ( and I probably wont ), is because all pins look the same. Id like to have a lot of things pinned, sound changes, map changes, story changes etc, but that is difficult to do easily if all pins look alike. There is no difference activating an encounter by pin or by a link in the story board. Today I tested having a pin in a door, the sound of that door opening using DOE across discord... worked perfectly, but there is no tool tip saying that it is a sound ( like there is for Story or encounters or maps ) it would be nice if I could make those pins yellow so I knew it was a sound for example
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March 13th, 2021, 17:19 #29
I don't even need lots of colors. I just wish that encounter pins were one color (red, for example), and story pins were green. Or something.
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