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'''{{user profile|235259|Brian Shields}}''' have been using Roll20 since August, 2013, and is the [[Sheet Author]] of several character sheets, and well as [[API scripts]]. He no longer actively updates them.

I started when I was trying to find an online battle grid for a D&D 4e campaign when we had multiple people joining via a conference call, and simply describing the layout of the battlefield was far too inefficient. One of the players, Eric V., recalled the Kickstarter for Roll20, and recommended that I look it up. My group has greatly enjoyed the features it grants, and I've gone as far as purchasing a Pro-level subscription.

== Background ==
I have approximately 10 years of experience with computer science, attending Rice University for computer science for four years. Since purchasing my Pro-level membership, I've been putting that knowledge to use when I can with the Roll20 API.

My first tabletop roleplaying game was Vampire: the Masquerade in 2004, and I have since played:
{{multicol|2=* Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
* Black Crusade
* Changeling: the Dreaming
* Dark Ages: Mage
* Dark Ages: Vampire
* Dark Heresy
* Deathwatch
* Demon: the Fallen
* The Dreaming
* Dresden Files RPG
* Dungeons & Dragons 3.5
* Dungeons & Dragons 4e
* Exalted
* Exalted 2e
* Fiasco
* Iron Kingdoms
* Legacy Crossing
* Mage: the Ascension
* Mage: the Awakening
* Mage: the Socerer's Crusade
* Mutants and Masterminds
* Nobilis
* Outbreak Undead
* Paranoia
* Unknown Armies
* Unknown Ponies: Failure is Awesome
* Vampire: the Masquerade
* Werewolf: the Apocalypse
* Wraith: the Oblivion}}


I have also participated in three LARPs: Vampire: the Masquerade, an oWoD crossover (Vampire, Werewolf, and Changeling), and Exalted 2e.

== Roll20 Creations ==

=== Wiki===
Wrote large parts of the original [[API]] documentation, as well as created the [[CSS Wizardry]] page. Wrote the [[Beginner's Guide to GitHub]]-article.

===API Scripts===
Have created several "meta"-APIs that are to this day utilized in creation of other APIs.

* splitArgs
* EASO
* Collision Detection
* Flight
* Flip Tokens

=== Character Sheets ===
Have created the following character sheets:
* [[Arkham Horror]]
* [[DFRPG]]
* [[Exalted 2e]] (with Benjamin Bandelow)
* [[Exalted 3e]] (version 2)
* [[Unknown Armies]]
* [[Unknown Ponies]]
* [[Yogsquest]]


Games using the Storyteller system (World of Darkness, etc.) are also heavily influenced by my work on the Exalted 2e sheet, which was runner-up in the Character Sheet contest held at feature launch of the community character sheets system. I have also assisted in solving problems encountered by other users in making various sheets, and I designed the Quintessence Wheel for the [[Mage: the Ascension]] sheet.

== Git Notes ==
These are simply some notes to myself on the git command line. The following are much more advanced processes than for example what I wrote about in [[Beginner's Guide to GitHub]]. These notes are intended for myself and no explanation is given to accompany them. Utilize at your own risk.

=== Delete a Commit ===
Back up to Head - N or a specific commit:
<pre data-language="git">
git reset --hard HEAD~1
git reset --hard sha1
</pre>

Force the push
<pre data-language="git">
git push origin HEAD --force
</pre>

=== Sync a Fork ===
<pre data-language="git">
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master
git push origin
</pre>

=== Force Overwrite of Fork ===
Overwrites everything in the local copy with the original (upstream, the official repo), then uses that to overwrite the fork (origin).
<pre data-language="git">
git fetch upstream
git reset --hard upstream/master
git push origin HEAD --force
</pre>

== Requests ==
I am not currently taking requests of any kind.