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List of common words and abbreviations frequently used with Roll20, that may not be common elsewhere.

General

• GM - Game Master, can access all tools in a Roll20 game. (in some game systems this role is called things like Dungeon Master/DM, Storyteller, Referee, Guide)
• Explorer Mode - setting in Dynamic Lighting that leaves map revealed for players when their character no longer sees an area directly
• DL - Dynamic Lighting, a feature available to Plus and Pro subscribers
  • UDL - Updated Dynamic Lighting
  • LDL - (Legacy) Dynamic Lighting
• Charactermancer (or Charmancer) - The optional character creation & level-up tool integrated into some Roll20 Character sheets, such as D&D 5E by Roll20 & Burn Bryte
• FoW - Fog of War, a free feature to obscure player's vision
  • AFoW - Advanced Fog of War, a feature of the Legacy Dynamic Lighting. The equivalent tool in UDL is Darkness Tool
• Multi-Sided Token - a token that has a roll table linked to it, enabling the token to easily switch between which to show.
• OGL 5E - refers to the D&D 5E by Roll20 character sheet (was it's old name)
• SRD Compendium - The free i Compendium for D&D 5E by Roll20 in Roll20, which contains everything from the 5E SRD
  • The content not the same content as in the 5E Basic Rules. You need to by Player's Handbook (PHB)^(Market) and the others to get access to those parts in your compendium
• Transmogrifier/Transmog - An
  Pro
  ^info feature that enables you to copy Pages, characters, Decks, playlists, macros form one game to another
• Token
  • Link Token - When new characters are created, they need to be assigned tokens. Link Token for details
  • Default Token - the token attached to a character that appears when you drag the character from the N Journal to the map.
• Roll Template - template for roll outputs, where each game system have their own versions built into their character sheets
  • Default Roll Template
• Character Sheet
  • Repeating Section - part of sheets that works a bit differently
• A&A -tab - refers to Attributes & Abilities Tab that all Characters have, the two other being Bio & Info-tab and (not always) Character Sheet tab.

Character Sheet Development

Main Page: Building Character Sheets

• Autouploader - a great char sheet development tool (Google Chrome Extension) that autouploads your code to your Sheet Sandbox each time you save your code locally(like in a text editor)
• Auto-calc - (Auto-calculated Formula) is the oldest & simplest method to have attributes be calculated based on other attributes in Roll20 character sheets. It's generally recommended to use Sheetworker instead, as Auto-Calc values doesn't interact well with sheetworkers. See Problems with using Auto-Calc
• Beacon - Beacon Sheet Development Kit - new sheet development system under work
• CSE - Character Sheet Enhancement
  • the sheet creation framework/method update released in March 2021, with new features and less restrictions than LCS.
  • By default, The Sheet Editor and Sheet Sandbox assumes sheets added are CSE.
• LCS - Legacy Character Sheets(Legacy Sheet Sanitization) The older format for sheet code with less features/options than CSE
  • refers to the older and more restricted framework/method used for creating custom character sheets.
• CRP - Custom Roll Parsing - A more advanced method of creating and parsing dice rolls, introduced in 2021
  • method for handling sheet dice rolls and how the result is parsed and displayed for the player
• Sheetworker - Sheetworker are the javascript code and special functions that can be used for making more advanced sheet features.
  • Sheetworkers are placed in a single <script type="text/worker">-element in the sheet's HTML-file. Not all JavaScript-features are available.
• Sheet Author - Sheet Authors are the people who have created character sheet that are published in roll20, and have a flair marking it on their roll20 profile.
• Sheet repo - The Character Sheet code repository is where the code for all community-created sheets, and some publisher-made ones
  • can be found: github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets

API

This section is about a Roll20 feature exclusive to Pro-subscribers (and often to players in a Game created by a Pro-subscriber). If you'd like to use this feature, consider upgrading your account.

Main Page: API

• CRL - Script:Customizable Roll Listener
• GroupInit - Script:Group Initiative
• Roll20AM - Script:Roll20 Audio Master
• TM could refer to TokenMod or TurnMarker

Other

• Stylus - Stylus is a browser extension that can be used to tweak how Roll20 looks with CSS, like hiding things you don't want, adjusting clor or size of boxes, and more.

See Also

• Community FAQ
• Roll20 Basics
• Intro to TTRPGs