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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8672631" data-attributes="member: 58197">I can think of some ways to design the UI to make it less painful.I don't offhand recall any 4E reaction abilities, so I'll use 5E and shield as an example. Let's say you're fighting a goblin. You get hit and the &quot;Cast shield?&quot; bubble pops up. You can click &quot;Yes,&quot; &quot;Not This Time&quot;, or &quot;No.&quot; If you click &quot;No,&quot; it gives you a dialog where you can dismiss the option to cast shield for the rest of the encounter.Now say you're fighting some goblins and an ogre. If you get hit by a goblin, you click &quot;No&quot; and the dialog pops up, but now you can dismiss the option a) for the rest of the encounter, or b) for the rest of the encounter but only for goblins. If you pick the second option, you won't get the pop-up for goblins any more, but you will get it if you're hit by the ogre.(Obviously, you can always go back on your power list and re-enable shield if you decide you want to use it after all.)Another thing that could help would be a &quot;proceed with rollback&quot; approach. The idea here would be that when something triggers a potential reaction, everyone else can carry on combat without waiting on the reaction-player to decide. If the player decides to use the reaction, the VTT then rolls back its state to the moment when the reaction was triggered. (This would definitely need to be an optional mode, and there would be some issues to work through, like whether you can still proceed if doing so would reveal hidden information.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8672631, member: 58197"] I can think of some ways to design the UI to make it less painful. I don't offhand recall any 4E reaction abilities, so I'll use 5E and [I]shield[/I] as an example. Let's say you're fighting a goblin. You get hit and the "Cast [I]shield[/I]?" bubble pops up. You can click "Yes," "Not This Time", or "No." If you click "No," it gives you a dialog where you can dismiss the option to cast [I]shield[/I] for the rest of the encounter. Now say you're fighting some goblins and an ogre. If you get hit by a goblin, you click "No" and the dialog pops up, but now you can dismiss the option a) for the rest of the encounter, or b) for the rest of the encounter but only for goblins. If you pick the second option, you won't get the pop-up for goblins any more, but you will get it if you're hit by the ogre. (Obviously, you can always go back on your power list and re-enable [I]shield[/I] if you decide you want to use it after all.) Another thing that could help would be a "proceed with rollback" approach. The idea here would be that when something triggers a potential reaction, everyone else can carry on combat without waiting on the reaction-player to decide. If the player decides to use the reaction, the VTT then rolls back its state to the moment when the reaction was triggered. (This would definitely need to be an optional mode, and there would be some issues to work through, like whether you can still proceed if doing so would reveal hidden information.) [/QUOTE]

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