Characters as NPCs or copy them between scenes

[FlamerShaftglutton]

I'm really liking Fari so far, but I have three closely related frustrations:

1. If I want an NPC in more than one scene I need to manually recreate them in each.
2. If an NPC is coming into a scene later than expected (because of the outcome of a previous scene) I have to delete the NPC, then recreate them later.
3. If I want multiple copies of an NPC (like 3 identical henchmen) I have to manually create them.

I feel like this could be solved by either allowing for Character sheets to be placed in a scene as an NPC, or if NPCs could be copied between scenes. Alternatively if a character or aspect can be hidden from the players then this could be hacked by recreating the NPC in every scene but hiding it until it's needed.

Is there already a way to do this that I'm missing? I've set them up as a Character and put them in the player list, but that's not intuitive since it's separated from the other NPCs who live in the scene.

[RPDeshaies]

You are correct. Since "NPCs" are basically just index cards (but green), they are not sticky for you entire session.

They are flushed when a scene is reinitialized.

In terms of solutions, you can, like you suggested, use a full on character sheet and import it in the scene.

FYI in the latest release where I added a new section to display index cards representing players so perhaps that alleviate the problem a bit but it's still not super intuitive.

But I think a better solution would be to have "pinned" aspects that are sticky for an entire session.

I could use a similar design as Google Keep for example

[RPDeshaies]

What do you think of something like this:

[FlamerShaftglutton]

If that works when loading a different scene then that would help with issue number 1.

Even if it only works for resetting I can see a lot of value in that, though.

[RPDeshaies]

you are totally right, I'll make sure it works for loading different scenes as well. Good catch

[RPDeshaies]

Will be deployed with #156

[pooya-raz]

This would be really helpful, especially if we can get clickable skills, same way that PCs have.

[RPDeshaies]

Pinned Cards are already live on fari.app so you can test it out right now.

Having NPCs with clickable skills could be an interesting addition though... but I don't really know what it would look like "interface wise"