Character name links

Hello, I had a quick question about a site feature and I was wondering if I was missing something.

When I look at a game I'm playing in while not logged in, all the character names next to the posts link to the character pages. For example, in , the text "Meilin Shun" is a link to my character of that name. The same is true of all the other posts by other players and their characters. When I'm logged in and viewing the same game, however, the character names do not act as links for any character except my own. Is there a way to fix that? Having the names link to the characters is handy!

If players in a game wish to see each others characters they will share them The game DM, who can see all characters in their game.

To make a character visible to others go to "Characters", find the character you wish to be visible, and select the book icon. Icons that are grey indicate not shared, those that are red are shared.

This is indeed a weird bug. Being a player/user should not prevent one from seeing the links to character sheets, but it does.

• A logged in GM of a game can see the links in their game.
• A not logged in user can see the links (though they can not view the sheet).
• A logged in user does not see links to characters in posts.

Everyone should be able to see the links at the side of posts and click on them to try get to the sheets.
(It might be nice if the system tracked whether we would be allowed to view the contents of the sheet and maybe removed links to sheets we don't have permission for, but that is very much secondary.)

I can not be sure, but I seem to remember being able to follow links to sheets before? Maybe before we got the Characters Menu on the bottom red bar? But since I am mostly a GM, I can not recall if this was so, nor when this might have changed.

I just went to one of my games while logged in and clicked the post character link, and it worked fine. Might be user-specific, or contingent upon other factors. Oh wait, the link is in the avatar, not the name text.

This is not the issue, I can see the other character sheets if I navigate to them directly, or if I click on the avatar links (when they exist).
Yeah the avatar links work fine for me, I'm just curious about the name text.

Bizarre; I never saw this, because I'm always logged in. The default for all characters on GP is that they are NOT public, so there shouldn't be links to any of them, unless the player of that character has set their character to be "in the Character Library" (ie, publicly searchable/visible). This requires the player to explicitly set that for each character they want visible.

Assuming that the players have set their characters to publicly visible, the links should work regardless of login status.
If, however, the characters are not in the Character Library/publicly visible, the existence of links to the character sheet when not logged in is definitely a bug - no one should be able to seem them except for the player (and the GM, if the character is in a game).

So You Meant Player's Can't see Each Other's PCs? But GM Can See if PCs In Games?
Sorry for Grammars.

I can confirm that the bug still exists for me too. But it is mostly just an inconvenience since guests can't look at the sheets anyway and players can click the avatar or bottom menu, so probably not a big priority to fix. Kinda funky though.

(Also I'm not sure if allowing guests to see public sheets is a good idea. Then again, I have been asking for a Library overhaul for a while, so I might be biased here. :D)
GMs can view (and edit) their players' sheets regardless of their public/private status. Players can only see other players' sheets if they are public (aka in the Library).

The bug in question is about guests seeing the links to character sheets both private and public, when logged in users do not see either (except for their own characters). Or at least that's how it works for me. :'D