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in Searches site wide June 2020 edited June 2020

@Bronn1, there's currently not a way to "keyword search" across the OP campaigns from OP. It's on the list of requested features, but doesn't have a lot of requests yet. But you can do a "site search" on Google, which should get you exactly what yo…
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in Simpler Customization June 2020 edited June 2020

Haha! @Kallak has been championing "page templates" internally. Actually, he's been championing the ability to rename and/or add new sidebar "tabs" internally too, which sounds like what's being asked for here with "ability to rename menu options"…
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in looking for help on using Obsidian Portal with A VTT June 2020

I haven't really played with Roll20 much at all, so I don't know enough to say how to use the two together. When you create NPCs or documentation on Roll20...are you able to use urls to your OP stuff? Can you put HTML in there at all?
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in Using a PC as an NPC in a different campaign? June 2020

@twiggyleaf, yep, the cloning would work on DST characters as well as non-DST characters. I imagine a DST character is where it would be most useful actually. On a non-DST character, there are only a few fields that you'd need to copy/paste. But …
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in Using a PC as an NPC in a different campaign? June 2020

That does sound like the better UI experience for this particular feature. But if we have to build a new search screen that is only applicable to this specific feature, it's unlikely this feature will make it to the top of the dev list. From what I…
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in Using a PC as an NPC in a different campaign? May 2020

I don't think the actual "cloning" part would be that hard. Actually, I think it would be pretty straightforward. The part I'm having trouble seeing is how it would be accessed and how you would choose the things to clone. We have to make sure we…
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in Possible to pin posts to top of forum or sub-forum? May 2020

I just added the "Pin to top" checkbox to the "Forum Topic". If you Edit an existing Forum Topic (or create a new Forum Topic), you should see it. This pins the topic to the top of the forum or subforum that the topic is in. If you have multiple "…
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in Sending updates via email May 2020

@ragnarhawk, cool, noting that as a "vote" for the summaries emails idea.
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in How to tell the creator of a Character Sheet? May 2020

I thought so too, but I spot checked the "Basic D&D 5e" DST and didn't see an "author" anywhere on the sheet.
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in Possible Calendar Bug and Suggestion May 2020

Thanks for pointing this out. That solution could work. I'll put it in the dev queue to work on. From your screenshots, there's also an issue with the dates/times being in different formats (Starts at: 06/05/2020 vs Ends at: 2020-06-05, and the "PM…
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in Practical limit on number of characters in a single campaign? Is there one? May 2020

I just downloaded my test Campaign and the items tab was in the download and showed my one test Item, so Items do appear to be part of the backups now. Let me know if you're not seeing the same thing.
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in Sending updates via email May 2020

I was thinking we could leave the notifications at the bottom of the pages as they currently are, but add a slider just above the notification section that is "persistent". So you as the GM could turn it to "Don't send notifications" while you're m…
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in For Gamers, By Gamers, an Obsidian Portal Announcement May 2020

@GamingMegaverse, much appreciated!
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in How to tell the creator of a Character Sheet? May 2020

Here's the listing of all the character sheets with their Authors: https://www.obsidianportal.com/dynamic_sheet_templates The list is pretty long, so you might want to use CTRL+F to search the page for the one you're interested in.
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in Sending updates via email May 2020

@Krothos, thanks for bringing it back up. There aren't any new updates at the moment. (I don't like to promise anything until it's basically already done, so no one gets disappointed if things get off track.) From your list, is #4 the most pertine…
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in Some Feature Ideas May 2020

1. Awesome! "Copying an existing Campaign" is a feature we've talked about internally, but haven't done anything with yet. I understand why you would want to copy NPCs, but I'm not following why you would want PCs. Wouldn't the new Players want …
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in For Gamers, By Gamers, an Obsidian Portal Announcement May 2020

Glad to hear you think so @Krothos. And I heartily agree, @Kallak is awesome!
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in Discovery and SEO May 2020

@TheOldSchoolDM, here's an example of a post that was asking for some meta tags for Facebook where I was able to implement the requested change: https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/5467/meta-tags-i-e-facebook Can you give me something like …
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in Some Feature Ideas May 2020

1. Cool! Are you thinking you would create an empty Campaign, and then copy over the PCs and NPCs? Wouldn't you want all of the wiki pages and maps and uploaded files too? I'm guessing you wouldn't want the Adventure Logs or the Forums, but feel…
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in For Gamers, By Gamers, an Obsidian Portal Announcement May 2020

Thanks @SkidAce!
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in Some Feature Ideas May 2020

1. Can you give more details on when you would use this? Do you have a specific example of 2 campaigns where you would want to do this? Can you give a specific scenario of a problem that this would solve for you? I'm trying to nail down what all…
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in For Gamers, By Gamers, an Obsidian Portal Announcement May 2020

@UselessTriviaMan, thanks for the welcome!
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in Discovery and SEO May 2020 edited May 2020

@TheOldSchoolDM, thanks for bringing this topic back up! I'm an SEO idiot, so I'm going to need this spoon fed. Can you point to a specific page and specific changes you would want done to it? I can then generalize that and apply it across all th…
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in Some Feature Ideas May 2020

Thanks for the requests! Can you elaborate on how "link/copy/import PCs/NPCs" would need to work for the scenario where you want to use it? For example, you can do a straight link right now, so what's missing from that that you'd want? Can you elab…
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in Possible to pin posts to top of forum or sub-forum? May 2020

Welcome! It looks like there is some code and database columns to support "pinning", but it doesn't have a front end implementation yet. If you can tell me which posts you want to stay "pinned", I can manually set them pinned.
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in Map Maker May 2020

Thanks for that "representative argument" and explanation. That's really helpful to clarify what the possible options/alternatives/solutions are here. I don't know what the original reason for limiting to 10 maps per campaign was, but on the face "…
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in There is a MASSIVE elephant in the room! May 2020

@Pytheas thanks for the details! The DSTs are developed by community members, but OP could probably add a feature/tool/tag/something to the DST tools that allows the DST author to designate certain fields as "updatable on the fly". I'll add a "res…
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in There is a MASSIVE elephant in the room! May 2020

@Pytheas, thanks for the insights! One downside of the OP interface is that changes need to be saved before they are visible to others. It would be much easier to use of it synced automatically (like DnDBeyond, for example). What kinds of changes…
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in Practical limit on number of characters in a single campaign? Is there one? May 2020

@DungeonMasterLoki, here's a campaign that has more than 350 Characters, AND more than 1000 Items: https://the-farscape-campaign.obsidianportal.com/characters https://the-farscape-campaign.obsidianportal.com/items The Items section still exists. If…
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in There is a MASSIVE elephant in the room! May 2020

@Pytheas, previously were your Players not updating their Characters at all, or just not updating their Character Sheets on OP? The OP team is wanting to help encourage Players to be more engaged with the Campaigns, so any insights you have into wh…

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