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Improve attributes, saving throws & skills drawer #4

Open KitCat420 opened 3 months ago

KitCat420 commented 3 months ago

The drawer is currently rather unwieldy, requiring a lot of eye scanning to find what one is looking for due to the sheer mass of items included (looking at you skills!). Find a good way to slim this list down to make it more digestible to the eye and ultimately easier to use for the end user.

Possible solutions:

ManaHime commented 1 month ago

I think it might be worth it to start by filtering out skills that require training for which a character doesn't have ranks in. For example: disable device Then I wonder if it might worth it to just show the skills that have ranks in it with the ability to set certain skills as "always displayed" a bit like the "quick skills" from the default character sheet of the "always display in the overview" of the alt-sheet. That way at the very least you filter out everything that the player doesn't feel like they need to have quick access to. I guess you could add a submenu or something to allow the player to use those other skills but you'd be removing a lot of clutter.

KitCat420 commented 3 weeks ago

The quick skills section isn't actually part of the system, but of a module, and it doesn't appear to offer an API to plug into conveniently. It seems weird to reimplement that though for users that use both modules at the same time.

The problem with omitting skills that require training is that it doesn't necessarily mean you cannot roll them. Knowledge checks - making up the biggest category of them - can still be rolled if the target DC is 10 or less.