Video - Giving player control of an NPC

[LordEntrails]

I'm following along, but PC cannot move any of the NPCs that I've given to them. They can open the character sheet, do all of the checks, saves, attacks, etc., but cannot move them. I have tried toggling token lock mode on and off, and still no joy. Thoughts?

Option "Party Vision & Movement", set it to "On".

[Zacchaeus]

If you are using Unity then you'll ned to turn on Party Vision and Movement (in options). Otherwise players can only interact with tokens they own. (Shared NPCs are never owned by the player - the DM still owns it - it's only shared with the player).

[ZelieDad]

I looked at options, but that one isn't listed on the help guide "?" link, but either way that worked. Thanks!

[Darklochnagar]

Since this subject comes up quite often here and on Discord here's a short video showing you how to give control of an NPC to a player and what pitfalls you should look out for.

Link here.

Thanks a million - that's brilliant. I'm DM-ing our group and finding FG both amazing, but also highly technical. Simple guides like yours are very much welcomed.

[rpbryan]

Does anyone know
(1) how to stop sharing the NPC with the player (other than the player ending their session or deleting the NPC)? Other record that are shared with a PC or the party show a "s" or "p" or have an right-click option to stop sharing but I can not find anything like that for a NPC shared from the CT to a PC portrait...

Also (2) any place for the DM to see how a NPC has been shared with? (I do not even see a note in the chat)?

thanks much

[LordEntrails]

Does anyone know
(1) how to stop sharing the NPC with the player (other than the player ending their session or deleting the NPC)? Other record that are shared with a PC or the party show a "s" or "p" or have an right-click option to stop sharing but I can not find anything like that for a NPC shared from the CT to a PC portrait...

Also (2) any place for the DM to see how a NPC has been shared with? (I do not even see a note in the chat)?

thanks much

Not that I can find. NPCs on the CT are unique instances from those that are in the NPC records list (i.e. they are copies) So it makes sense that they will not show on the NPC list as being shared. If you share directly from the NPC list, then the S/P shows up as well as the ability to unshare, But that has other issues as far as controlling the CT NPC (because the CT version is a copy).

Deleting the NPC from the CT effectively unshares it though as that record gets deleted.

[Korvaak]

Excellent video!

Thank's very much.