Locked Records - Identified / Not Identified

[rocketvaultgames]

Was it always the case that locked records didn't have an Identified / Not Identified toggle?

[MrDDT]

Was it always the case that locked records didn't have an Identified / Not Identified toggle?

Do you mean read only? If they are locked and read only, then no you can't change anything on them, other than share status.

Because locked records can be ID'd currently.

[rocketvaultgames]

Do you mean read only? If they are locked and read only, then no you can't change anything on them, other than share status.

Because locked records can be ID'd currently.

Yes, sorry I meant Read Only... Did you use to be able to? Did it change in 4.5?

[MrDDT]

Yes, sorry I meant Read Only... Did you use to be able to? Did it change in 4.5?

I don't remember you able to edit Read Onlys.

[Zacchaeus]

Yes, sorry I meant Read Only... Did you use to be able to? Did it change in 4.5?

NO, read only files are just that - read only. You can't edit them. When an item or NPC is added to a parcel or encounter they become copies and you can edit those; maybe that's what you are thinking of.

[rocketvaultgames]

Thanks for all the replies. I think you are all correct, but I realized why I thought there might have been a change....

I've been recently showing more images to players from Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes and was surprised in the moment that I couldn't make them un-ID'd. All the monster images in those books are read-only. This is not true for the Monster Manual and (m)any of the adventure books.

I guess my real question turns out to be: Are the images in VGTM and MTOF supposed to be read-only?

[Moon Wizard]

WotC discontinued sales of those two products in May 2022, and replaced with Monsters of the Multiverse. Those modules still use an old data and image formats which mark the data as read-only.

Regards,
JPG