Latest revision as of 12:02, 10 May 2024

Page Updated:   2024-05-10

This is related to Editing(coding) Character Sheets, which require Pro info to be able to use. Main Page: Building Character Sheets

Main Page: Building Character Sheets

Tutorials to Roll20's Character Sheet Development-framework, & tips to get started. See also the Sheet Examples & Sheet Templates.

[edit] Tutorials

[edit] GiGs

In 2022, GiGs started writing a Roll20 Sheet Author Guide at cybersphere.me, breaking it down by topic. Articles are simple & approachable. As of May 2024, there are lots of articles, and in may cases his take on a topic is more useful than the community wiki page/section on the same thing. Andreas J. (talk) 12:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

• Forum discussion of the guide: Sheet Author Guide: Using HTML April 22, 2022

Below are listed a few highlights:

• Roll20 Sheet Master List Guide for Roll20 Sheet Authors - Groups articles by topic
• Guide to the Guide shorter rundown of some general sheet author stuff.
  • Publishing Sheets to GitHub
  • HTML – The Building Blocks - further split into smaller pages
    • Inputs and Attributes
  • RollTemplates and Translation Aug. & Dec. 2023
  • CSS
    • How To Hide and Reveal Things With CSS
    • Avoid Using Inline Styles
    • Don’t Use TABLE – use GRID

[edit] A Sheet Author's Journey

A series of forum posts by Scott C., going through the steps from start to finish with creating a new character sheet template, as he creates a sheet for The Hero’s Journey, 2nd edition. The guide is fairly advanced.

K-Scaffold, a PUG framework created by him, is used though the guide to create the sheet. K-scaffold Intro

• A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 1) - The Beginning^(Forum) Feb 2, 2022
• A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 2) - Do the PUG!^(Forum) Feb 9, 2022
• A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 3) - Repeating sections and writing sheetworkers!^(Forum) Feb 16, 2022
• A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 4) - Style and Layout^(Forum) Feb 22, 2022
• A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 5) - Finding our flair!^(Forum) March 15, 2022
• A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 6) - Roll on!^(Forum) March 30, 2022

[edit] Other

• Roll20 custom sheet step by step 5min (Sept. 2021) by GM Mike
• Creating a Paranoia 25th Anniversary Edition character sheet for Roll20 Blog post
• PT1 coding a Roll20 Character Sheet 40min (April 2021)
• Working on a Roll20 Sheet for Romance of the Perilous Land 120min stream, by "Live from Pellam's Wasteland" - show basics on how HTML work in Roll20, create from scratch.
• Roll20 tutorial custom character sheet I made my own Roll20 custom character sheet 8 min (Sept 2021) -- explains the sheet editor, and how they made their sheet

[edit] Resources

[edit] Translation

See Character Sheet Translation for how internationalization of sheets work.

[edit] Tools

To truly test sheets, one needs to do so inside Roll20 using either available tool, and any try at offline/local testing will lack connection to Roll20's backend & the default CSS libraries/styling Roll20 has for character sheet elements.

• Sheet Sandbox
• Sheet Editor
• VS Code Great cross-platform code editor, which even have a few Extensions specifically for Roll20 sheet development.

[edit] See Also

• Character Sheet Development/Bugs & Quirks
• Character Sheet Development/Common Mistakes
• Sheet Examples
• Character Sheet Development/CSS
  • Designing Character Sheet Layout
  • Image use in character sheets
• Sheet Author Tips
• Character Sheet Repository‎