Category: Sheet Author

Do you want to make a character sheet or tweak an existing one? You’ll need to grasp HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and roll20 has its own tweaks that makes each of those a little more complicated. Don’t worry though – that’s where this blog comes in. If you’re a newbie to any of these things, you’ll find help here.

03
Jul
2025
Posted in jQuery CSS Extras Turbopulp Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Colouring Using JQuery in Roll20

The sheet uses Roll20’s version of JQuery to add some optional colouring. Let’s see how that works.

26
Jun
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Wrapping Up

Our long journey is finally complete. Let’s look over the sheet and add some finishing touches.

19
Jun
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: the Sidebar

The sidebar is used for some handy opyions, but also has a back for configuration settinfs.

12
Jun
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Conflicts and Getting Hurt

Getting hurt is a part of every character’s life, at least potentially. Here’s how the sheet manages Stress and Conditions.

05
Jun
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Handling Traits

the traits section looks simple but has some quite complex logic and code running in the background.

29
May
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet – Finishing Advancement

Advancement has been a long road, but we have the end in sight.

22
May
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet – Advancing Skills, Traits, and Extras

The rest of the advancement section is fairly simple, but does have some curveballs.

15
May
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Calculating Advancement

We need to know how advancement is calculated. It’s pretty simple, but representing it through code is anything but.

08
May
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Hidden Advancement Pane

In this post we’ll look at the basics of the sheet – drop down selects and roll buttons.

01
May
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: The Bio Section

The bio section is interesting because it can switch roles, and also shows the character art normally only visible on the Bio tab.

24
Apr
2025
Posted in Character Sheet

Building a Character Sheet: Using Custom Roll Parsing

Most sheets have a rolltemplate and custom roll. Here’s how they’ll be handled in TurboPulp.

19
Apr
2025
Posted in Sheet Worker Extras Repeating Section Extras CSS Extras

Radio Buttons in a Repeating Section

Since it’s Easter weekend, lets have a break from the recent multi-month long posts. It’s pretty common to try to include a radio button in a repeating section, but there are problems with that. Here is the main problem and a solution.