Topic name should be hidden by default

[Mystic Lemur]

Originally Posted by ibecker

Right, that's true, but what I'm suggesting goes further: I'd like to reveal that they see "someone" with a dragon tattoo on his chest, but without revealing any name or alias for that "someone" at all. This is currently not possible, because in order to reveal the "dragon tattoo" snippet, I must reveal at least one name/alias for the person (the Topic itself). I'd like to remove that dependency.

Yes, this gets a +1 from me. It's either this, or create multiple "Unknown" topics in any sort of mystery, having the real names as an unrevealed alias. Either let us reveal snippets without revealing topics, or let us choose which alias to reveal as the topic name.

[Zaphod Beebledoc]

Originally Posted by Mystic Lemur

Yes, this gets a +1 from me. It's either this, or create multiple "Unknown" topics in any sort of mystery, having the real names as an unrevealed alias. Either let us reveal snippets without revealing topics, or let us choose which alias to reveal as the topic name.

If this was the case, you could set the alias to "Unknown".

[Vargr]

Originally Posted by Mystic Lemur

Wholly off topic, but I see this as a problematic GM decision. Players sometimes remember things you don't expect them to, and telling them "You remember, but your character forgot." may go over like a lead balloon. The point, as I understand it, of player view is to summarize things that the characters know but the players may have forgotten.

Correct - but sometimes players (and their characters) pay no attention to clues jumping up and biting them. If they (the players, not the characters) later ask me if they remember anything of relevance from the last week, I might say "you don't remember" (though more often I would give them a hint they apparently missed something when they visited there and there).

If the players remember I would never make them un-remember.

Sorry, back to topic again.

[weogarth]

+1 for a good solution to this. I'm a touch fuzzy on all the alias work as I haven't needed it myself but...

I think that if revealing the topic name was its own piece separate from the overriding 'The players know SOMETHING in here' reveal that currently shows the name, it would be a solid start but that more could/would be useful.