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The way to hide the name is to change the name. that is the only way currently.

If you set the team to unknown purple in color it will not show the pic you have but a generic head piece so when the player hover over they have no clue what it is, they can just see the size and location.

 

Yes, just change the monster name. For example, instead of Vampire I might use "dark figure" or whatever. I had a fight in a module where the party fought a stuffed dragon (animated object) but put ZOMBIE DRAGON!?! in the name. The party was only 4th level so they kinda flipped out. The name is what you want it to be.

Keep in mind that the creature on the map is an INSTANCE of the one in the library. That is, your Werewolf in the library is your template, and when you drag him to the map, you spawn a copy. You can then rename that werewolf on the map to Lumberjack and then use the CLONE command (C key or right-click menu) to create clones of that instance.

So you only need to rename a creature once and then clone it to make more just like it.

Even if we wanted to code another field (for Display Name and True Name) then you would still need to enter in the info. No time saved. Oh, and if you want to have the True name listed somewhere, just use the Notes tab - that information is never seen by a player unless they own the creature.

Also, if you want to "hide" the hit point damage, just give the creature Current hp as normal but reduce it's maximum. I do this for incorporeal creatures, since I don't think they should show damage. My specters for example have 40/1 hit points - so they don't appear to take damage until they die. This works for Bloodied too, so you could set a creature's hit points to 40/20 so that they don't appear to take damage until they drop below 20 hp.

Pretty kewl.

 

Monster health is already hidden - at least the actual values. The players only see a percentage of the monster's health bar - which makes sense for the general abstraction of damage in D&D. Monsters that are nearly dead should appear so - you just don't know whether they are at 20/200 or 1/20. Given a few rounds of fighting, seasoned combatant should be able to have a rough idea (red bar) of how hurt his/her opponent is.

 

While I agree this is true, I like the idea of at least having an option to disable this behavior altogether. I don't know if you would want a separate option per monster, or just a global on/off selection (like judge dice rolls), but either way I definitely think an option is a good idea.

 

I do not think it would be hard to turn off the red on a character.

Is there any other users that would be interested in turning off the damage % being shown?

We could do a global toggle show or not show.

 

It only gives you an approximation of hit points.

a creature with 1000 hitpoints that has taken 200 points of damage looks the same as a creature with 10 hitpoints that has taken 2 points of damage.

Though I can see how people may be interested in shutting it on and off at will. I'll look into it.

 

Hi,

Just wanted to add, besides the name, whatever you put into the "description" tab of the monster, pc, npc, etc will be visible by all connected to the GM. Only the GM can see everything, unless the GM assigns control of the creature / character to a player.

http://help.mindgene.com/basics/creatur ... cter-sheet

http://help.mindgene.com/libraries/crea ... iption-tab

We like to think of the "description" tab as the italics section of the mm.

Best,

Nick

 

I would like to see this feature as well. I can think of a number of uses for it.

As for the argument about players being able to judge the enemies actual HP value, my answer is that there is no good solution. There simply isn't.
If the player can see how "hurt" a mob is, then that adds a nice touch of realism and greatly reduces the amount of time the DM has to spend explaining the appearance of a monster ("He looks pretty badly injured... blah blah blah"). The trade off is that the players can start meta gaming.

If you want to remove that meta gaming, you have to take away the automation of how "hurt" they are. You will have to do it all manually through descriptions. Which can be tedious, but definitly doable.

The only other thing that could be done would be to hide the damage being dealt. Which is actually the most realistic thing in my opinion... So the barbarian sees that his sword did indeed make some form of contact with the apparition. Did it hurt it? How badly did it hurt it if it even did? Well, who knows? It's a freaking ghost. You can't tell how hurt it is OR how badly you may have hurt it. In this case the player couldn't see their own damage, or the red bar on the enemy.
If it were a big ass orc. Ok, now you would see the HP bar. But just because you took a nice slash to him doesn't mean you can quantify that slash. Putting numbers to it doesn't really make sense. It hit, and it seemed to hurt because now he's bleeding. But you can't quantify it...
But this would cause a riot from the players, as half the fun is seeing those big tasty numbers. So we've reached an impasse...

 

I think being able to toggle damage reports (like you toggle dice results) should be doable. Also, being able to toggle hp reporting should be possible too. I'll run it by the devs.

 

Whoooaah.... Notes tab works JUST like descriptions tab, but with an added quick note feature called Annotation.

The annotation is optional, and allows you to add a small bit of text to the creature's Tooltip. It's not the method you use to add notes.

Just click on the notes space and paste whole paragraphs if you want.

 

No worries, I just felt bad that you were frustrated and didn't need to be.

One thing that might throw you off (it did me) is that the NOTES section is now displayed in the Mini's Story Tab.

Note that this information is ONLY available to owners, not others. Again, the Story tab in the Mini now combines Description and Notes tabs for owners, and shows only Description for non-owners.