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Getting Started

• Introduction to TTRPGs: Never played a tabletop RPG before, but would like to know how? This video series should help.
• Roll20 Crash Course
• Video and Voice Chat: Get Video&Voice chat set up in a Roll20 Game
• Code of Conduct: The official Roll20 CoC expected on our site.
• Forum Posting: How navigate and post on our official forums^(Forum)
• Keyboard Shortcuts & Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts
• Changelog: A list of all major updates to the Roll20 Platform
• Game Management: How to create, organize, and manage your games
  • Game Settings Page

The Interface

The four sections of the Interface

Gameplay

Beyond the Application

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Character Sheets

This section explains how character sheets work within Roll20 as well as provide guides for some of the available community sheets.

• Character Sheet Basics: How to add a character sheet to a campaign
• Charactermancer: How to use the guided character creation and leveling tool
• Character Sheet Index: A mostly up-to-date list of character sheets available on Roll20.
• Building Character Sheets: How to go about building a character sheet

System/Character Sheet Guide

• All Character Sheet Guides »
• Burn Bryte
• Dungeons and Dragons
  • D&D 5E by Roll20* (the most popular sheet)
  • 5E | 4E | 3.5E
  • D&D 5E (Shaped)
• Pathfinder
  • Pathfinder Second Edition Official Sheet*
• Shadowrun
• GURPS (4E)
• Savage Worlds(Official Sheet)
• Savage Worlds Tabbed
• Star Wars RPG
  • D6/ WEG | Saga Edition | FFG
• Torg Eternity
• Zweihänder Grim & Perilous
• Genesys
• Earthdawn - FASA Official
• OSR (Old School Revival)
• World of Darkness
• Cypher System

* Character Sheets designed and supported officially by Roll20
See all System Specific Guides »

Custom Sheet Creation

• Building/Editing Character Sheets: The definitive starting point for editing existing character sheets or creating your own(for Pro Subscribers Only)
• Character Sheet Layout General advice on how to create the main layout of your sheet
• Custom Sheet Sandbox Great tool for working on custom sheets
• Sheetworkers: Allows the use of some limited JavaScript to edit character stats in a more complex manner.
• Roll Templates: These are a special facet of the Character Sheets system which provide additional layout and styling options for the display of roll results.
• Beginner's Guide to GitHub: How to upload a character sheet for community use
• Add translation capabilities: How to set up a Sheet to be easily translated into other languages
• Sheet Author Tips Misc. Advanced Tips for those who often works with this character sheets
• Character Sheets & Compendium^(Forum) Good place to ask for help on editing sheets
• Sheet Request Thread, Consolidated, mk II^(Forum) Thread for requesting sheets. Read the first post^(Forum) before posting a new request.