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Welcome to /r/Roll20! This is a community for Roll20.net, a digital tool to expand your pen-and-paper roleplaying experience.

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Rules:

  1. Top-level Posts should relate to Roll20. Questions, concerns, discussions, posts of resources, tricks, tips, etc are all encouraged. You are welcome to discuss alternatives to Roll20 in the comments.
  2. Be respectful and courteous to each other.
  3. No piracy, sharing of copyrighted materials, etc. This includes all discussion of VTTES, as it enables unfettered access to Copyright-protected content.
  4. Being critical of Roll20's software, asking for ways around problems, etc are all allowed, but do not suggest using a different VTT when someone is asking for help with a Roll20 issue. Please report any issues to the Roll20 tech issues forum, so the developers can be made aware of them.
  5. No LFG posts are allowed. If you are looking for a game to play, head over to the appropriate forums for that, such as /r/LFG, /r/Roll20LFG, or the official Roll20 LFG forum, or /r/LFGPremium (for paid games). See also our LFG Guide for more options
  6. Posts sharing maps are no longer allowed. See r/battlemaps or these subs for alternatives. Maps on the Roll20 marketplace must link directly to the marketplace item and use the MARKETPLACE flair. Other changes to this and/or self-promotion might be coming. See this post for details.
  7. Posts sharing AI-generated art are not allowed, including items on the Roll20 Marketplace which include AI-generated art.

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Norven Ship (15х20)

1 Comment
2024/12/13
19:27 UTC

2

Are formulas still available in D&D 2024 sheets?

I use a lot of [[]] stuff in my monster sheets to highlight save DCs and to write damage into the text. I've tried and it seems not to work in 2024 npc sheets. Did the format change, or is this feature not there yet?

7 Comments
2024/12/13
10:44 UTC

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Charactermancer Level UP (orig 2014) broken?

During last nights session, no one could level up our characters. Figured maybe it was a temp thing, but today it is still broken. I can progress to the end, but "apply" is grayed out. And roll/average for hit points toggles also seem really glitchy. You cannot select either, though it appears you can manually enter the HP to add. Anyone else having issues?

6 Comments
2024/12/12
23:20 UTC

1

Roll20 Level Up issue

Hello all!

We finished a session and I went to apply my well earned level up. However when I clicked on the level up button, I couldn't click on + sign to add a level to my character. Curiously, I clicked on the negative sign which allowed it to go back to one. Now I can't level up anything.

I opened a test character sheet and it allowed de-leveling but not adding levels.

Is my character sheet cooked or is there a fix for this?

Thanks for the help!

EDIT: Forgot to add: DnD 5e 2024 and I have the core book purchased.

EDIT 2: Tried rebuilding the sheet. Skilled feat is missing from the list for the human species.

EDIT 3: Clicked around in anger a little more (I know... I know...) Now it says I'm a warlock 1 warlock 1... What the hell is going on?

2 Comments
2024/12/12
22:30 UTC

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Сandy cane knoll (16х22)

1 Comment
2024/12/12
21:07 UTC

4

Keep Highest Roll on D&D 5e 2024 Sheets?

Is there any way to roll twice and use the higher roll for damage dice in the 2024 sheets? I have the Savage Attacker feat and the only way that I have been able to use it is by making a damage toggle of 1d12 and telling the DM to just ignore the total damage and add the higher roll to my flat bonus (which is rather annoying)

4 Comments
2024/12/12
20:51 UTC

0

Surprise!

Can roll20 roll initiative at disadvantage for surprise?

7 Comments
2024/12/12
16:40 UTC

0

help my panel got stuck like this. when i press the invisible ones, they work though. i've cleared the cache and cookies but didn't work. my game starts in 1.5 hours. does anyone know about it? no problem on other browsers but i would like to stay still on Opera.

4 Comments
2024/12/12
15:42 UTC

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Is roll20 the main place people DM for money?

Somebody help me I am just wondering if I wanna make money running games I'd d20 the main platform people use to find games

15 Comments
2024/12/12
14:55 UTC

3

5E2024: Adding toggleable effects to multiple categories?

On the D&D 5E 2024 character sheets, I noticed there are effects I can toggle on and off. For example, if the character has the Bless spell, there’s a toggleable effect added called bless, which adds 1d4 to both attacks and saves. Say now I want to have this effect on my fighter who doesn’t have the bless spell, I can try to replicate the bless effect by creating a custom effect on the fighter character sheet. However, it seems that I can only choose one category in the custom effect UI (either attack or save but not both). Is there anyway for us to choose multiple categories for the effect to apply to (just like the auto generated bless effect from having the spell)?

4 Comments
2024/12/12
10:45 UTC

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Safari iPhone not working

Normally I use Roll20 on my phone to make and edit sheets on the fly but ever since today it’s been constantly reloading and resetting over and over. When I’m actually in the site the icons vanish like I have low internet when I don’t. This is definitely a mobile problem because on my Chromebook I’m just fine.

3 Comments
2024/12/12
09:49 UTC

2

Newbie Learning the Ropes of Roll20

Hi, sorry to bother everyone.

I've had some modules and whatnot sitting in my Roll20 for quite a while, and because my friend group drug their feet on deciding when to start playing, we're only just now getting around to a lot of it.

I've never used Roll20 before, and only used DND Beyond for about an hour. My biggest question is:

How do I merge two modules and all their stuff together? i.e. I want to take subclasses, items, races, backgrounds and some mechanics and maps from a third party module, and add them to an official module. The third party module is not showing up in the "add-on" drop down menu, so I'm trying to figure out how to mash it all together

10 Comments
2024/12/12
09:14 UTC

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Group initiative macro not including DEX modifier

As per the title, when I use the group initiative macro it just rolls a straight d20 for the enemies and doesn't take their DEX modifier into account. I'm using both SRD monsters and home-brew but all have their DEX in the linked character sheets.

What am I doing wrong?

7 Comments
2024/12/12
08:28 UTC

5

Making a Critical Success Count as Two Successes

Hello!

I was trying to figure out if it was possible to get Roll20's dice system to flag a critical success as two successes. I was using the roll "/r 6d10>6f1" to get Roll20 to identify anything 6 or higher as a success & a 1 as a failure, but I'd also like a 10 to flag as worth two successes.

I saw some forum posts saying it wasn't possible without API scripting, but those forum posts were ~10 years old, so I wasn't sure if anything had changed.

Thanks!

4 Comments
2024/12/11
21:54 UTC

6

Christmas Forest (20х30)

1 Comment
2024/12/11
19:28 UTC

4

Underground Laboratory [26x18]

1 Comment
2024/12/11
15:59 UTC

8

How i can get 220 pages of chat in one page? roll20.net says Gateway time-out after press "Show on One Page"

I trying to save game for history, game have 220+ pages, and Show on One Page button didn't work, site says "

^(Gateway time-out)

^(The web server reported a gateway time-out error.")

Roll20 have api for parsing page by page? or any another ways?

5 Comments
2024/12/11
03:30 UTC

0

Can you use the digital modules purchased from Amazon on Roll20?

I'd like to gift a module or two to my kiddo for Christmas. I can see modules available for purchase within Roll20.net, but the digital D&D Beyond codes are cheaper on Amazon. Can those be imported into Roll20?

10 Comments
2024/12/10
22:17 UTC

3

Spaceship (16х22)

1 Comment
2024/12/10
21:47 UTC

13

Spider's Nest | Battlemap | 30x30 — 5 Variants

1 Comment
2024/12/10
17:02 UTC

2

Winter -- New on the R20 Marketplace from Angela Maps

1 Comment
2024/12/10
09:00 UTC

10

Cave of crystals (30х22)

1 Comment
2024/12/09
19:05 UTC

5

2014 character sheets not working

Is anyone else dealing with issues like this? Around the start of October, my group and I started experiencing major problems with the 2014 character sheets on Roll20. The level-up screen is completely broken, making it nearly impossible to level up without spending half an hour fixing everything manually. This is especially frustrating for my players who aren’t very tech-savvy.

Choosing spells is also a nightmare—every spell ends up in the cantrips section with no descriptions, and we have to manually retype everything. Some of us assumed this was due to the Roll20 team transitioning to JumpGate, and as a result, the 2014 sheets either got broken accidentally or were intentionally neglected.

We decided to move to JumpGate and the 2024 character sheets since we wanted to start using the new PHB rules, which aren’t supported by the old sheets. But guess what? JumpGate and the 2024 sheets are an even bigger mess. API scripts don’t work at all, and the 2024 sheets are just as broken—if not worse—than the 2014 ones.

What is Roll20 even doing? I’m seriously considering switching to a different VTT. It feels like they’ve abandoned quality entirely, despite the fact that many of us have poured a lot of money into this platform. This is supposed to be the most widely used VTT, but the current state of things is unacceptable. What’s going on?

11 Comments
2024/12/09
13:08 UTC

0

Why can't my players move themselves?

As the question states. We played our first online game last week, our next one is tomorrow. In our first map and battle I put their token out on the map, but they were unable to move them themselves.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thank you

13 Comments
2024/12/09
03:08 UTC

3

Player has pro. GM has content.

My DnD group is looking to move to Roll20 after some discussion. One of my players purchased the Pro subscription under their account. If I have the digital copies PHB, DMG, XGE, TCE, MPMM, and JTRC in my compendium, can I GM a game and share/use my purchased content in a game he creates?

10 Comments
2024/12/09
01:31 UTC

1

Help! Macro in quick bar isn't listed in macro list

Can anyone assist? I've since changed characters and don't want to use this macro anymore but it won't go away from the quick bar; it does not show up in the list of macros so I can't see how to delete it.

7 Comments
2024/12/09
01:02 UTC

7

Winter house (30x40)

1 Comment
2024/12/08
21:42 UTC

0

Wish list for the coming year

Here's a couple of features I'd love to see in Roll20 in the coming year, in case the developers are listening. (Or, for that matter, in case anyone knows how to achieve these effects now.)

  • Invisibility for player character tokens. I can already make things "invisible" to players by moving them to a different level. If I do that with a PC token, they can't see them either and can't move them. I'd like to be able to indicate that a given token or other object on the map is invisible to everyone but the player controlling it. It would add a certain "realism" to the situation.
  • Multi-hex creatures. I'm playing a hex-based system that has 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 7-, and 14-hex creatures. I can make tokens that big by scaling them, but then they aren't centered correctly. It would help if I could designate the "center" of the token; then I could place the token in a way that makes sense.
  • Map layers. This has been mentioned before here, so I won't belabor the point.

I guess that's it for now. Any one of these features, particularly the first two, would go a long way toward improving the player experience.

12 Comments
2024/12/07
20:44 UTC

2

Help needed: jumpgate campaign does not load

I want to play a campaign with jumpgate, but I have an eternal loading screen. Normal campaign works without problems. Does the jumpgate feature need specific PC specs or why does it not work?

Thanks!

4 Comments
2024/12/07
19:14 UTC

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