I am working on a Shadowrun 4th Ed. campaign framework for the virtual-tabletop software, MapTool. With MT, you can drop down tokens to represent characters. On these tokens, you can set "states" (tiny pictures that overlay your token) to represent what currently affects the character, such as "Prone" or "Sustaining a Spell." As you can imagine, this helps make running combat easier for GMs and players.
QUESTION #1: I have written up a number of possible SR4 states here. These states could apply to characters, spirits, vehicles, drones, etc. Are there any important ones I forgot? Is there anything I got wrong? Is there anything you'd like to see?
I want some of these states to be mutually exclusive: for instance, you can't set your PAN to both Active and Hidden at the same time. I am calling these states "modes." In effect, you can only select one of them from a small list at a time (ex. PAN has None, Active, Passive, and Hidden as choices).
Some states are NOT exclusive: you can be prone, on fire, and nauseated at the same time (there would be a checkbox for each one). In addition, some things that I thought were exclusive modes (vision modes) aren't exclusive at all, so there would probably be checkboxes for those too.
QUESTION #2: I came up with a few modes so far (see here). I learned that vision wouldn't work well as a mode, since it's possible to have 2+ vision modes action at the same time, so I made room for each type of vision. Is anything about the remaining modes incorrect? Are there any modes I am forgetting, or that you would like to suggest?
If you are really curious about why this exclusive/non-exclusive stuff matters, read the posts on that thread. Basically, I can put as many states as I want on a token and it will arrange them correctly in a grid, but I want to modes to show up in a specific spot (like the top-right). This post might show you what I visually mean by that.