Condition Tracking Comes to the Maps VTT

Quote from matteymattmatt >>

And still no condition tracking on the encounters tool after the community has asked for it for what feels like a solid decade now. Seriously?

 I think that encounter builder is low priority at the moment. 

Many of the questions asked have alerady been answered in the Maps program. each time you sign in, it tells you what updates have been.  

The one covering this update is as follows:

Latest Update: Condition Tracking

• Condition Tracking available on all tokens

• Conditions sync between Maps and Character Sheet! (Character Sheet may need to be manually refreshed)

• Future enhancements include: condition icons on token name badges, track status effects like Falling, Concentration, Sap, 3/4 Cover, or add your own custom conditions like Rage, Hunter’s Mark, or even “Bad Hair Day”

• Read more about our first version of Condition Tracking

This is a great addition! Thanks a lot!

I would have liked to have "Bloodied" as one condition though and I would also like to have "Effected by spell..." fillable by me and perhaps even "... cast by" added so I for instance can say that this mob is Effected by Hunter's Mark from Gwendolin and it's Effected by Curse from Razhmordin.

Finally I would love some high visibility marking on the token that there are Conditions on this mob. You don't need one marking for each condition IMHO, it's enough with one mark notifying us all that "this token has conditions".

Thank you very much!

We need concentration and custom conditions!

Did you not read my post two items up? They are working on them. 

• Future enhancements include: condition icons on token name badges, track status effects like Falling, Concentration, Sap, 3/4 Cover, or add your own custom conditions like Rage, Hunter’s Mark, or even “Bad Hair Day”

Great addition, could we have one added for Concentration, it would make life a lot esier.

Quote from __Q__9745 >>

I would have liked to have "Bloodied" as one condition though 

WOTC_Zac: We've been hesitant to add a bloodied feature because I'm worried about the universality of it. Will you always want it on? Will you always want it visible to players on every token? Will you always want to play by the official rules and use the 50% HP mark, or would you want it to trigger at other thresholds? Does it reveal information accidentally that the DM didn't want to reveal?

Very simple feature to implement from an engineering standpoint. Very complex set of questions it introduces. You could have options for all those things, but that starts to violate our Honda Accord versus F-16 policy.

We have a diverse audience of people who like to play many ways. With the rigidity of software it's very easy to railroad people into playing certain ways, which we try to avoid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1u0hlat/comment/oqjsw4w/  

Quote from __Q__9745 >>

I would also like to have "Effected by spell..." fillable by me and perhaps even "... cast by" added so I for instance can say that this mob is Effected by Hunter's Mark from Gwendolin and it's Effected by Curse from Razhmordin.

Finally I would love some high visibility marking on the token that there are Conditions on this mob. You don't need one marking for each condition IMHO, it's enough with one mark notifying us all that "this token has conditions".

Quote from Melfast >>

Many of the questions asked have alerady been answered in the Maps program. each time you sign in, it tells you what updates have been.  

The one covering this update is as follows:

Latest Update: Condition Tracking

• Condition Tracking available on all tokens

• Conditions sync between Maps and Character Sheet! (Character Sheet may need to be manually refreshed)

• Future enhancements include: condition icons on token name badges, track status effects like Falling, Concentration, Sap, 3/4 Cover, or add your own custom conditions like Rage, Hunter’s Mark, or even “Bad Hair Day”

• Read more about our first version of Condition Tracking

The encounter tracker is not low priority. It's deprecated.

Hopefully they'll release a standalone of the one in maps soon.

Quote from Perringaiden >>

Quote from __Q__9745 >>

I would have liked to have "Bloodied" as one condition though 

 

WOTC_Zac: We've been hesitant to add a bloodied feature because I'm worried about the universality of it. Will you always want it on? Will you always want it visible to players on every token? Will you always want to play by the official rules and use the 50% HP mark, or would you want it to trigger at other thresholds? Does it reveal information accidentally that the DM didn't want to reveal?

Very simple feature to implement from an engineering standpoint. Very complex set of questions it introduces. You could have options for all those things, but that starts to violate our Honda Accord versus F-16 policy.

We have a diverse audience of people who like to play many ways. With the rigidity of software it's very easy to railroad people into playing certain ways, which we try to avoid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1u0hlat/comment/oqjsw4w/  

Zac, I liked the flexibility of hiding/revealing the Bloodied condition from players...until one of them started playing a Scion of the Three Rogue. Now, every time something takes damage, I hear, "Is it Bloodied yet?" I've started adding red rings to every Bloodied creature now. If more officially published material is going to start utilizing Bloodied, I think it should be more visible to players.

Frankly, I don't really want to add tracking it to my DM responsibilities either. One feature I really liked from Encounters was how creature icons would turn red when Bloodied. That wasn't player-facing, but I think an elegant solution would be to add that to the initiative order portraits, triggered automatically by the hit point trackers (added benefit for the party healer if it worked on player characters too!). If DMs don't like it, maybe it could be switched on/off from the Settings menu.

This is awesome and a much needed feature, thank you :)

Quote from Ke20 >>

The encounter tracker is not low priority. It's deprecated.

 

Hopefully they'll release a standalone of the one in maps soon.

So I gotta wonder: is mapless use of the VTT EB a roadmapped use case and design consideration?

WOTC_Zac: As I said in my response to the OP, we made no changes to the functionality, ux, or number of clicks as part of this update. The goal of the token menu refresh was parity with the old menu, so I wouldn't read too much into the design intent here. I even reverted to the old menu on my local version to double check. There are no additional clicks necessary to do anything.

As I've said in other places, the standalone and encounter builder does a lot of things really really well, but is incredibly difficult to work. Meanwhile, the encounter manager in maps does a lot of other things really really well, but I understand it is not currently a drop-in replacement for the Old Encounter Builder.

This is a thing we're aware of, and want to tackle. I've been collecting a lot of the reasons why people like the old encounter Builder, and before we start building, I fully intend to do a bunch of open research with the community to make sure what we build is something that works well for as many people as possible.

Ultimately, we want to build tools that support you in playing the way that you want to play. If that's on a virtual tabletop, sweet. If you want to play fully analog with a physical map and physical minis and physical dice, but the DM still wants some digital assistance- sweet. We want to help with that too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1u2hiy3/comment/oqymy6f/

There is one Condition that I can't find on the table of conditions is Flying/Floating for character's speices and NPC's(hostile and non-hostile). I understand that condition may be hard to code for but hopefully it will made in the future. 

please add a chat!!

Outstanding, very stoked to try this, it's a factor that has held me back from implementing more in my games. Definitely will dig into this further, thank you for continuing to grow MAPS and please keep it going, I would love for this to flesh out to being an exceptional top-tier option.