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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
• Roll20 Basics
• Video and Voice Chat: Get Video&Voice chat setup in your Game
• Game Management: Create, organize, & manage your games
  • Game Settings Page
• Keyboard Shortcuts & Advanced Shortcuts
• Forum Posting: How navigate & post on our official forums
• Code of Conduct
• Changelog

The Interface

Gameplay

Beyond the Application

• Introducing the Place Light tool^(Forum) Sept. 30th, 2021
• Legacy Dynamic Lighting will retire in the near future
• Category:New features in 2021

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 they work
  • Adding Character Sheet – how to add a sheet to your campaign, or to assign to individual players
  • Link Token – How to set up the Default Token for a character sheet
• 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(from the Sheet Template Menu).
• Building Character Sheets – How to edit/create your own character sheet templates (
  Pro
  ^info Feature).

System/Character Sheet Guide

• All Character Sheet Guides »
• Burn Bryte - Roll20's own game
• Dungeons and Dragons
  • D&D 5E by Roll20* (the most popular sheet)
  • 5E | 4E | 3.5E | AD&D 1&2E
• Pathfinder
  • Pathfinder Second Edition Official Sheet*
• Esper Genesis*
• Shadowrun
• GURPS (4E)
• Savage Worlds | Official Sheet | Savage Worlds Tabbed
• Stargate RPG
• Star Wars
  • D6/ WEG | Saga Edition | FFG
• Torg Eternity
• Zweihänder Grim & Perilous
• Genesys
• Earthdawn
• 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
• 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
• Character Sheet Translation: 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
• Character Sheet Requests Q3 2021^(Forum) Thread for requesting sheets. Read the first post^(Forum) or Sheet Requests before posting a new request.