foundry-vtt-tidy-5e-sheets

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Currently, more advanced NPC sheets with things like legendary/mythic actions become harder and harder to read, especially when running battles and trying to decide what actions to take:

Ideas for approaches

At its core, the main ask is to divide up the different kinds of actions so they are not a blob. For example, here are Legendary, Mythic, and regular Actions divided up:

Update the Existing Abilities Tab Layout

We could simply reroll the Abilities tab to funnel items with action types into their own action-oriented sections. It could be

• An opt-in setting (probably world-scoped?)
• An update to the existing setup
• A toggle icon above the NPC item tables on Abilities tab

What About the Upcoming Native Actions List Feature?

There are plans to make a native actions tab / actions list: #1

The full specification has not been carved out, yet, but taking the existing module as inspiration, Mythic and Legendary actions (and any others we know about at time of implementation) could be given their own section instead of funneling into "Other". Then, it would be a matter of building settings around include Actions in the Abilities tab above/below the Features content.

Reference

https://discord.com/channels/732325252788387980/1116078321067892796/1171566026710851684

Gambet — Today at 3:45 PM @kgar Dunno if you've thought about this yet, but I just had a feature suggestion for you. Is there any way for NPC sheets you could add (maybe optionally) different sections for the types of actions a monster has?

You look at a character sheet in the book or on DnDBeyond and they'll have a separation between Features, Actions, Legendary Actions, Mythic Actions, etc, but in the current layout it's just Attacks, Actions, and Features. And Attacks really isn't even Attacks, it's Weapon-style inventory items, which not all attacks fall into, and so you wind up having weird situations where some of your attacks are in actions, other attacks are in attacks, and all of your actions/legendary actions/mythic actions/bonus action abilities are all mixed up together.

This is beginning to look like either a Native CCSS thing or a new default sectioning change kind of update. Either way, Tidy can provide the means.

Will be resolved by #507