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It's early days and looking for feedback :-)

It took me a little while to figure out that the "Select" tool only selects tokens, not walls. Renaming it to "select tokens" or grouping with the token buttons would help.

It's not clear to me what the "radius" of a token is for. At least D&D 5e is played in a non-euclidean space where the diagonal of a 5ft square is the same length as the edges, so a "circle" looks the same as a square. A D&D monster that can attack adjacent spaces can attack all 8 adjacent spaces; a monster with 10ft reach can attack anywhere in the 5×5 square centred on themselves. As a result, your "10ft" radius highlights too few squares, your "15ft" radius highlights too many.

Of course, D&D is not the only game in town, and other systems (or even older versions of D&D) may have different rules you're more familiar with, so this isn't necessarily a "bug" but I figured I should mention it.

In Pathfinder 2e, for a different example, melee reach works on those non-Euclidean rules, while every other range/area measurement does the "every second diagonal square counts double" rule. So for that, you actually need both versions of radius measurement.

This is not generally true. Mechanics in 5e with a radius affect a sphere of that size, and for grids normally the rule is that grid spaces are affected if their center is within the radius. So TFA's token radius is probably meant for ongoing effects centered on the player - light cast by a torch, the range of a paladin aura, etc.

The funky diagonals you're describing are an optional variant rule that's often used to simplify movement, but I've never seen a group that measures spell effects with that rule.

Tokens and very basic walls with flawless click drag seems like all you need to make useful tool eventually, but...

Windows, Firefox 99.0.1. Click drag on tokens is inconsistent and broken, and the edit token popup shows up on mouse-down, I'd expect it on click (down + up on same token) and not show at all if I drag.

on firefox the drag detection is broken- once you drag, it sticks to the cursor until you click again, instead of on mouseup like you'd expect- seems like part of the drag event is captured by an offscreen element or something?

also the sign given by the 'angle' readout for shapes seems a bit odd

Would be cool to have resize handles on the shapes, and allow the shapes to go over buildings and tokens so they can be used to cover areas that aren't revealed yet.

Pretty slick, any options for more token icons? Only 4 appear

you mean like a larger pallet? it lets you search for more (three character minimum search string) but remembering more than four, atleast in the 'find a token' popup, seems pretty important

otherwise the search is nice, though not having anything under 'goblin' is pretty unfortunate

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