tposney
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2 years ago It's something that I need to think about, but it's actually potentially hard, but there are cases in DND as well, reacting when another token is hit.
The current reaction check is quite naive and does a linear search of all items held by the character being checked, which is ok since it's only a single token (the target) to check.
Since any token could need to react to the movement it means checking every token whenever a token moves. And checking for reactions (currently) meas a linear search through every item held by every token on the canvas whenever a token moves.
It should be fine for small scenes but for big battle maps could actually be a problem.
I'm wondering if I need to maintain a list of triggers and associated tokens so that the search can be much quicker.
In GitLab by @TogaParty on Apr 7, 2022, 05:46
In SW5e, at least, there are a number of abilities that essentially trigger an opportunity attack when a marked character moves 5 feet (. It would be great if it were possible to prompt for a reaction attack when a character that is marked with a DAE effect moves.
An example of this includes "Sharpshooter Style", but there are also ranger and fighter abilities that essentially function the same way.