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List of common words and abbreviations frequently used with Roll20, that may not be common elsewhere.

General

• DL - Dynamic Lighting, a feature available to Plus and Pro subscribers
  • UDL - Updated Dynamic Lighting
  • LDL - (Legacy) Dynamic Lighting
• Charactermancer (or Charmancer) - The optional character creation & level-up tool integrated into some Roll20 Character sheets, such as D&D 5E by Roll20 & Burn Bryte
• FoW - Fog of War, a free feature to obscure player's vision
  • AFoW - Advanced Fog of War, a feature of the Legacy Dynamic Lighting. The equivalent tool in UDL is Darkness Tool
• Multi-Sided Token - a token that has a roll table linked to it, enabling the token to easily switch between which to show.
• OGL 5E - refers to the D&D 5E by Roll20 character sheet (was it's old name)
• SRD Compendium - The free i Compendium for D&D 5E by Roll20 in Roll20, which contains everything from the 5E SRD
  • The content not the same content as in the 5E Basic Rules. You need to by Player's Handbook (PHB)^(Market) and the others to get access to those parts in your compendium
• Link Token - When new characters are created, they need to be assigned tokens. Link Token for details

Character Sheet Development

Main Page: Building Character Sheets

• CSE - Character Sheet Enhancement
  • the new sheet creation framework/method released March 2021, with new features and less restrictions than LCS.
  • By default, The Sheet Editor and Sheet Sandbox assumes sheets added are CSE.
• LCS - Legacy Character Sheets(Legacy Sheet Sanitization)
  • refers to the older and more restricted framework/method used for creating custom character sheets.
• CRP - Custom Roll Parsing
  • new method(Summer 2021) for handling sheet dice rolls and how the result is parsed and displayed for the player
• Sheetworker - Sheetworker are the javascript code and special functions that can be used for making more advanced sheet features. Not all JS--features are available.

API

This section is about a Roll20 feature exclusive to Pro-subscribers (and often to players in a Game created by a Pro-subscriber). If you'd like to use this feature, consider upgrading your account.

Main Page: API

• GroupInit - Script:Group Initiative
• Roll20AM - Script:Roll20 Audio Master

See Also

• Community FAQ
• Roll20 Basics
• Intro to TTRPGs