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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 7975234" data-attributes="member: 6687260">I can turn a nameplate on or off.  That's fine.  What's not intuitive obvious is that if I do that players still can't see the nameplate unless I also go into advanced settings for the token and enable them to see the nameplate.This is extremely frustrating. I'm proceeding in a game with the assumption that I've enabled all the players to see each other's character names and enable each other's tokens.  I'm also assuming that if I label one goblin as "goblin boss" who has been clearly described as such then players can see that.  But then I discover they can't and after searching around I find that the option "show nameplate" in fact only shows the nameplate to the GM.Now I can see why you might want an option where the GM can see nameplates but players can't but it's seems deeply strange that should be the default.  I would imagine most people would assume "Show nameplate" does in fact show the name plate - especially as it's difficult for the GM to know exactly what the players can see.This is typical of the way Roll20 works.  It's unintuitive and to let players do anything or see anything you have to select options that really ought to be default.  If you use dynamic lighting you're going to get tripped up a time or too by the "players see light" option which you have to tick even for the light that there token emits.I mean for god's sake if you assign someone a character sheet you have to seperately assign them the right to edit it.  Yes it's just underneath, but I guarantee almost everyone is going to forget to do that a least once because it's unintuitve that you should have to do that.  (And how often would you give someone a character and not allow them the ability to edit it?  What a strange default option?).And yes you can eventually figure out that you can change the settings from outside the game.  That hardly contradicts the point I made that it was unituitve and finicky.And please stop trying to 'help'.  I didn't ask for help.  I am in fact making Roll20 work.  You're just wasting time because so far you've told me nothing I don't already know.  If you want to argue then argue but it's condescending to spuriously assume ignorance.</blockquote>

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