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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 7974469" data-attributes="member: 6687260">I've found Roll20 to be very oddly designed.It's both very unintuitive and very finicky.  To get dynamic lighting or tokens to work you have to click so many options and often you have to do them in the right order.  For example, players can't see the names of each others tokens unless you go in and click show nameplate (which seems obvious) but then you have to go into advanced options and also give them permission to see the name plate.  There's a lot of stuff like that - GMs have to do an awful lot for the players - and while I can see how that might suit some GM styles it seems an odd choice to frontload that level of control as the default.  Another example, with dynamic lighting you can set a player's token to emit light but no one can see it unless you also grant player's permission to 'see' the light.Tokens don't link to character sheets when you drag them from the journal unless you have already linked the token to the character before you link the character sheet to the token - just bizarre lack of common sense functionality.Even the character sheets seem to be a bizarre kludgy workaround for the fact that macros are overly complicated.  If they had a good interface for setting macros then character sheets wouldn't really be necessary and house rules would be much simpler.</blockquote>