This is a guide to creating character sheets in Roll20, intended for people who aren’t programmers or web designers. This covers every aspect of character sheet creation, with the tips focussed specifically on Roll20 design.
This guide is divided into the different topics (make sure to click each heading for more information on a topic). Also, check out Andreas’s Guide for another overview of things.
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The Basics
These three sections cover the basics of sheet authoring. You need some familiarity with these three things.
Advanced Skills
These cover skills that many sheets will need once you have mastered the basics. Remember to click the heading for extra posts that are useful (sometimes extremely useful), but not fundamentel.
Repeating Sections
Dynamic sections of your sheet like equipment lists, spells, and weapon lists. Requires HTML, CSS, and sometimes JavaScript.
There are important extra articles at the dedicated page. Click the title above.
Roll Templates
How rolls appear in chat, roll templates require HTML and CSS. They can sometimes benefit from Sheet Workers (JavaScript).
Custom Roll Parsing
An extremely useful but tricky technique which brings scripting to roll20 character sheets.
The Core Skills
CRP requires HTML, CSS, Sheet Workers, and Roll Templates, and sometimes Repeating Sections. It’s very complex, but there are some things you can’t do any other way.
Optional Articles
These articles cover things that are nice to add to a sheet, but which you can do without.
Translations
Making one sheet work in multiple languages. Its very tedious to set up, but a lot simpler with Templating (see below).
Yet More Tools
Useful tools and techniques that cross multiple disciplines and don’t fit neatly into a reference post.
More Speculative Stuff
These are things which are only added to a sheet in certain cases, and might not even be possible in come cases. These will probably be created eventually and slowly (but I have some other massive projects in mind that might consume my time).
Charactermancer
A charactermancer is only possible if you have the license for the system. I’ll probably write it up eventually, but its not a high priority because of that.
jQuery in Roll20
Coming one day (probably – it’s turning out to be less useful than originally envisaged, but Roll20 did state improvements were coming).
Compendium
Custom Compendiums are something Roll20 have said will be available, but they do not exist yet. If they do become available, I’ll add instructions here.
