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Main Page: Compendium

You can not create Custom Compendium entries in Roll20 for normal i Compendium interaction or to be used in the Charactermancer.

Creating & Editing Compendiums is a popular feature request, but not a feature that exists in Roll20. Roll20 consider the current, internal tools used for the compendium system needing more work, before Custom Compendiums can even be considered to start working on a user-accessible version. No timeline have been give when it might eventually get done.

You can vote & follow the discussion on the Custom Compendium^(Forum) suggestion thread.

The latest Official Roll20 response (March 1st, 2022)^(Forum) in the thread (Last checked: Jan 2025 )

In the Roll2025 – A Peek into Roll20’s Future, by Ankit Lal (CEO)^(Blog)on Jan 17 2025, there was no mentions of Custom Compendium, but other popular requests like Foreground Map Layer was planned for released.

Workarounds

Pro
^{^info}: Creating a Library Campaign from where you transmogrify pages, NPCs, handouts, and maps when needed to your active game campaigns.
Pro
^{^info}: Creating Mod commands to quickly add new spells/items/weapons to your players, to skip having to manually enter the info into the section, having seen the handout for it.