Roll20 Wiki

Revision as of 16:32, 4 May 2020

The Roll20 Community Wiki is intended to serve as a community resource for help and documentation of the platform, as well as tips and tricks for best using Roll20 with your tabletop games. We welcome community contributions and would love for you to help us create the best resource we can for your fellow Roll20 users! See the Roll20 Help Desk for Official Documentation.

Check Category:Stubs and Category:NeedsUpdates for existing pages that need help

The wiki editor

Using the Wiki

If you're new to the MediaWiki software that we're utilizing (the same used to power Wikipedia), you can view a lot of helpful information on it here.

There are a few things we actively discourage at this time:

The wiki is for content that the entire community will find useful. Please don't use it to post information relevant to a specific game/Campaign that you are running.
The pages in the Category:Docs-Category are only to contain factual information on official Roll20 functionality. These pages are created and maintained only by the Roll20 Staff. Feel free to create additional pages outside that category using the Category:Guides, Category:Games and Category:Tips categories. See Help:Contents#Categories for more
Please do not use wiki pages to lobby for changes to Roll20 features. Instead use the Suggestions Forum. Talk pages should only be used to discuss changes that need to be made to the wiki page itself or to clarify existing functionality.
Don't use the wiki to ask questions, the Forums are better used for this.

Create New Page

If you want to create a new, page, use the Search option and search for the exact name of the page you want to create, and press enter. It now show you a search result of the term, and says Create the page "name-of-your-search" on this wiki! with a red link, which redirects you to the (non-existing) page, with the option to create it.

Page formatting

The exists a few tips and tricks how to make pages look better and more readable, here are few main pointers.

General

Bold text:

'''Bold text'''

Italic text:

''Italic text''

code tag

<code>code tag</code>

text block without formatting

Use <pre> tag to wrap your text to get text block without formatting.

no wiki formatting:

Use <nowiki> tag to wrap your text.

extra linebreak:

<br>

Headings

Use headings to structure a page if it contains multiple sections. If a page have enough sections, it will automatically generate a Table of Content. Heading Showcase

Message Boxes

Note: Occasionally, you may want a piece of text take precedence and draw the eye to something very important in the document you're writing. For this instance, use a message box

To add a message box to a wikipage, use this insert:

{{mbox | text = Insert Whatever You Want to Say Here}}

Collapsible Section

Example of a collapsable section
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse eget nunc id felis maximus ullamcorper. Quisque felis odio, commodo vitae lorem et, sagittis dictum mauris. Ut eu nibh et dolor vehicula gravida sit amet et sapien. Sed vel ullamcorper arcu, non ultrices tortor. Vestibulum massa risus, varius eget molestie in, posuere quis massa. Mauris sit amet ligula lorem. Sed pulvinar dapibus urna, et pellentesque quam commodo et.

Code for the collapsible section example:

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
| Example of a collapsable section
|-
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse eget nunc id felis maximus ullamcorper. Quisque felis odio, commodo vitae lorem et, sagittis dictum mauris. Ut eu nibh et dolor vehicula gravida sit amet et sapien.

Sed vel ullamcorper arcu, non ultrices tortor. Vestibulum massa risus, varius eget molestie in, posuere quis massa. Mauris sit amet ligula lorem. Sed pulvinar dapibus urna, et pellentesque quam commodo et.
|}

Table of Content

If you have 4 or more Headings, the page will automatically show a Table of Content(TOC) at the top of the page. You can force to have display it if you have fewer heading with adding this to the sheet:

__FORCETOC__

If you want to move the placement of the TOC on a page, you can place this in the appropriate place:

__TOC__

If youdon't want a TOC on the page, place this anywhere on the page:

__NOTOC__

Displaying Macros and other Code Snippets

If you want to share Macros, complicated dice rolls, or CSS and HTML code, it might be a good idea to put your examples inside <pre> tags.

A messy example:
/roll 2d5+@{attribute|max}+4d4
The 4d4 here is supposed to be surrounded by square brackets, but they disappear if they're left naked to WikiMedia's markup conventions. Worse still, in this case, markup attempts to link it to non-existent page called "4d4".

This looks cleaner (and appears precisely as written) when surrounded by <pre> tags:

/roll 2d5+@{attribute|max}+[[4d4]]

If you use the code tag, you sometime need to wrap the code first in a <nowiki>-tag before using <code> will look like this:
/roll 2d5+@{attribute|max}+[[4d4]]

For inline notes and asides you can use <code> tags to embellish things like /roll 3d10 or #macroname.

To avoid creating links to non-existing pages when writing inline rolls, use <pre> or <nowiki> tag. <nowiki> tag ignores all wiki formatting/templates/linkcreation as can at time be needed together with <code> tag to show some code without problem.

Click "Edit" for this page to see how the above examples work.

Pro Only

For pages describing content limited to Pro users, add the following at the start of the page:

{{pro only}}

Advanced

You can use HTML & CSS on the wiki to create some effects that the standard wiki features doesn't. The Front Page uses several tricks, so it's source code is worth checking out for ideas.

Images & Videos

Images

The image from the wiki frontpage

If you are a new user adding content to the wiki, the option to upload images is disabled by default. If you want to be able to upload images, send email to team@roll20.net about it.

Example: image to the right:

[[File:Roll20 video sm.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|The image from the wiki frontpage]]

Some tag that can be used:

thumbnail, thumb, framed, frameless

The thumb tag is the easiest to use, as you can decide the position of the image, and the size of the image can be adjusted. For some of the other tags you can't change the size of the image

Roll20 UI Icons

If you want to display the actual icons used on the Roll20 interface (such as y, l, F, etc.) for clearer instructions in your wiki, you can add a span tag that briefly changes the needed font-family that is used for them.

The font families used for the Roll20 icons are Pictos, Pictos Custom, and dicefontd20, and they're available for use within the Roll20 wiki. Going to the font's storefront will give you the character key for the font. Use this key to identify which character displays which icon. Check the Icon Fonts section on the CSS Wizardry page for a full list of symbols from the fonts.

When you want to add an icon in your wiki, include these HTML snippets, substituting the letter you need for the Pictos or Pictos Custom font family.

Sidebar
- q q Text Chat tab
- P P Art Library tab
- N N Journal tab
- i i Compendium tab
- u u Jukebox tab
- l l Collections tab
- y y My Settings tab

Toolbox
- w w Select and Pan Tool
- b b Layers
 - @ @ Map & Background layer
 - b b Objects & Tokens layer
 - E E GM Info Overlay layer
 - r r Dynamic Lighting layer
- i i Drawing Tools
- e e FX Tool
- s s Zoom Tool
- [[File:Ruler.png|middle|15px]] Ruler Tool
- E E Fog of War
- t t Turn Tracker
- t <big>t</big> Dice Rolling GUI
- ? ? Help Tool

Dice

t t d20
d d d4
f f d6
h h d8
j j d10
l l d12

Youtube

You can have an embedded video on a page.

Tutorial for the Drawing Tools

This can be achieved with:

{{#evp:youtube|MH78AOhNyuA|Tutorial for the [[Drawing Tools]]|center|500}}

Structure

A few things makes the wiki easier to use and easier to find related pages.

Links

If an article mentions things that have a wiki page, it's useful to link to that page the first time it's mentioned. For example, there exists several Star Wars RPGs and some of them have guides on the wiki. Sometimes links outside the wiki is also useful.

External Link

If you want to link to a page outside the wiki, you need to use single brackets.

Example: Roll20 Forums

[https://app.roll20.net/forum/ Roll20 Forums]

Wiki Page

Example:

Simple link to Journal wiki page:

[[Journal]]

Link to the wiki's front page, with a custom link name.

[[Main_Page|front page]]

Link a subsection of an article. For example you might need to mentioning there are limits to compendium sharing. You can find the exact name of an sub-section, by copying the link from the ToC.

[[Compendium_Sharing#What_are_the_Limitations_of_Compendium_Sharing.3F|limits to compendium sharing]]

Wiki Category

Link to a Category page. It can be useful to link to a category page, such as all user-created Category:Tips. You need to place a ':' in front of the page name, like:

[[:Category:Tips]]

Roll20 User

You can also link directly to a Roll20 user's profile for the wiki, instead of typing the full url. The second method doesn't show the symbol for the link going outside Roll20.

[https://app.roll20.net/users/4/ Roll20 Dev Team]

{{user profile|4|Roll20 Dev Team}}

'See Also' or 'Related Pages' section

Sometimes it's useful to have a section at the end of a page dedicated to a list of relevant other pages or links elsewhere. A character sheet guide could have a GitHub link to the sheet's source code, or pages on making maps could link to other map-related wiki pages. Toolbox Overview is a good example of a page listing higly related pages

@@ Line 146: / Line 146: @@
 ** <span style="font-family:Pictos Custom;">w</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos Custom;">w</span></nowiki></code> [[Select and Pan Tool]]
 ** <span style="font-family:Pictos;">b</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos;">b</span></nowiki></code> [[Layers]]
-** <span style="font-family:Pictos Three;">c</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos Three;">c</span></nowiki></code> [[Drawing Tools]]
+*** <span style="font-family:Pictos;">@</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos;">@</span></nowiki></code> Map & Background layer
+*** <span style="font-family:Pictos;">b</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos;">b</span></nowiki></code> Objects & Tokens layer
+*** <span style="font-family:Pictos;">E</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos;">E</span></nowiki></code> GM Info Overlay layer
+*** <span style="font-family:Pictos Custom;">r</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos Custom;">r</span></nowiki></code> Dynamic Lighting layer
+** <span style="font-family:Pictos Custom;">i</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos Custom;">i</span></nowiki></code> [[Drawing Tools]]
 ** <span style="font-family:Pictos;">e</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos;">e</span></nowiki></code> [[Custom FX|FX Tool]]
 ** <span style="font-family:Pictos;">s</span> <code><nowiki><span style="font-family:Pictos;">s</span></nowiki></code> [[Zoom|Zoom Tool]]