Sends a pre-written message to the chat window.

Text that appears above the main body of text. Not affected by the Language setting below.

Main body of text to be shown.

Both the flavor & text fields accept handlebar expressions, which can be used to customize the message based on existing data.

• {{actor.name}} Sends the name of the actor of the current token to the message.
• {{scene.name}} Sends the name of the scene to the message.
• {{token.name}} Sends the name of the current token to the message.
• {{user.name}} Sends the name of the current user to the message.
• {{value.items.[0].name}} If used following an Add Item action, it will send the item name to the message.
• {{{value.text.[0]}}} If used following a Roll Table action, it will use the result if it was a text entry for the chat message; see the Random NPC Dialog sample tile.
• {{variable.valuename}} Displays a stored variable.

Both the flavor & text fields accept HTML formatting.

• <p> </p> Defines a paragraph. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_p.asp

If no specific speaker is selected and this is triggered with no tokens, the Gamemaster will the chat message's speaker.

Use this to directly select a token as the speaker.

• Tokens

Select this to use the triggering token as the speaker.

Select this to use the current token collection as the speaker.

Select this to use one or more tokens with a Tag matching your Use Tagger settings to be the speaker(s).

• Tokens ^Tagger

Out of character uses your player color; in character is gray.

Displays a chat bubble of the entered text (not Flavor Text) next to the selected token.

• Chat Message & Chat Bubble
• Chat Message Only
• Chat Bubble Only

This sets the privacy level of the chat message and who can see it.

• Everyone
• Players Only
• GM Only
• Triggering Player
• Triggering Token Owner
• Current Tokens Owner
• Current Users

Use this to directly target a user in the player list to have them receive the chat message.

Having Polyglot installed and active adds this dropdown; it will be populated by a list of languages in your world's settings. Leave it blank to have it visible regardless of language.

• This action continues to store its text information when swapped into another action, even if that action does not contain a text field. It's recommended just deleting this action instead if you need to replace it with something else to help keep data sizes down.

• Random NPC Dialog

MATT 11.17