D&D Beyond Maps

There is some weirdness around when a token becomes bloody/below half health: 

* In my DM view, the token art gets kind of a see-through red overlay to indicate that it is bloody. However, my players do not report this same overlay happening on the tokens in their view.

* Bloody does not show as a condition when you click on the token, for the DM or for the players.

* There is no condition toggle for bloody. A token can only show bloody (and again, only to the DM) if its hit points are below half.

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There is some weirdness around when a token becomes bloody/below half health: 

* In my DM view, the token art gets kind of a see-through red overlay to indicate that it is bloody. However, my players do not report this same overlay happening on the tokens in their view.

* Bloody does not show as a condition when you click on the token, for the DM or for the players.

* There is no condition toggle for bloody. A token can only show bloody (and again, only to the DM) if its hit points are below half.

Whether a creature is Bloodied or not isn't something that's necessarily meant to be obvious to the players, so it's probably a good thing that it's not automatically shown to them.

Since the definition of Bloodied depends solely on how many HP the creature has, does it really need a manual toggle?

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There is some weirdness around when a token becomes bloody/below half health: 

* In my DM view, the token art gets kind of a see-through red overlay to indicate that it is bloody. However, my players do not report this same overlay happening on the tokens in their view.

Open the settings and check that "Players can see when tokens have been bloodied" is enabled

* Bloody does not show as a condition when you click on the token, for the DM or for the players.

* There is no condition toggle for bloody. A token can only show bloody (and again, only to the DM) if its hit points are below half.

 Yep, that's because that's how Bloodied works and Maps handles toggling it on and off automatically

Bloodied works however the DM wants it to work. It's a condition like any other and I should be able to apply it, or not, at will.

I mean, the automation is nice and handy, but what if I want to make a creature appear bloody if its hit points don't actually agree? Or vice versa? I'm thinking things like multistage fights and I don't want to have to manually fudge a tokens HP to force a status indicator.

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Bloodied works however the DM wants it to work. It's a condition like any other and I should be able to apply it, or not, at will.

I mean, the automation is nice and handy, but what if I want to make a creature appear bloody if its hit points don't actually agree? Or vice versa? I'm thinking things like multistage fights and I don't want to have to manually fudge a tokens HP to force a status indicator.

From what I've seen, automatic bloodied indicator is something a lot of people were asking for. You unfortunately can't have it both ways

It looks like there's a setting for this (click the top-right hamburger icon and click 'Settings'): "Players can see when tokens have been bloodied" . Since some player abilities are based on this, I think it's important that they know when a monster (especially a boss) is bloodied, but I can imagine wanting to hide it for a multi-stage boss. Being able to override it on specific monsters would be a good feature.

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From what I've seen, automatic bloodied indicator is something a lot of people were asking for. You unfortunately can't have it both ways

 
This would not be difficult to accomplish.  Simple mockup:

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Quote from Davyd >>

From what I've seen, automatic bloodied indicator is something a lot of people were asking for. You unfortunately can't have it both ways

 
This would not be difficult to accomplish.  Simple mockup:

 How did you do this mockup, if you don't mind me asking?