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The Roll20 Virtual Tabletop

Getting Started

In-App Tutorial for GMs: Roll20 has a built-in tutorial straight in the app to familiarze new GMs to the Roll20 platform
Introduction to tRPGs: Never played a tabletop RPG before, but would like to know how? This video series should help bring a new gamer up to speed.
Video and Voice Chat: How to get video and voice chatting set up in a Roll20 Game
Playing in Google+ Hangouts: A Walkthrough of how to run Roll20 with a Google+ Hangout
Forum Posting: A wakthrough on how navigate and post on our official forums
Keyboard Shortcuts Reference: Our list of keyboard shortcuts for experienced users
Changelog: A list of all major revisions and updates to the Roll20 Platform

The User Interface

The Roll20 Interface is broken down into four sections:

1. The Tabletop: This is the largest portion of the playspace. This is where you where you set up your battle maps or board game play mats and where you'd place your tokens or meeples. You can also use it as a dry erase board with the various text and drawing tools available.

2. The Tabletop Toolbar: This toolbar on the left side of the Tabletop lists the various tools used for moving art assets. It includes drawing, writing, measurement, rolling, and other tools that affect or interact with the Tabletop in some fashion.

3. The Page Toolbar: When you click on the little tab on the top of the screen, this pulls down the Page Toolbar. This is where you can store multiple scenes (Pages) for the Tabletop and bounce players between them.

4. The Sidebar: Lastly is the Sidebar on the right side of the screen. This has multiple tabs that manage the in-game chat, music/audio, character sheets and handouts, and Roll20's settings.

1. The Tabletop

2. The Tabletop Toolbox

3. The Page Toolbar

4. The Sidebar

Text Chat
Art Library
Journal
Collections
Jukebox
My Settings
- Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts

Gameplay

Rolling Dice

Tips

Geomorphic Map Tiles
Linking Tokens to Journals
Useful Macros
Using Roll20 while Playing In-Person

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Troubleshooting

Solving Technical Issues
Audio Visual Troubleshooting
Optimizing Roll20's Performance
Customer Support FAQ

System Guides

Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5
Pathfinder
Cypher System-Monte Cooke Games
Shadowrun
Savage Worlds
World of Darkness (WoD/nWoD)
OSR (Old School Revival)
GURPS 4th Edition
D00Lite
Warhammer 40,000 RPG Black Crusade
Dark Heresy 2nd Edition
Star Frontiers
Tavern Tales

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Beyond the Application

Your Games and Content

Finding A Group

Broadcasting your Games

Site Policy

Subscriber Features

Roll20 Plus & Pro Subscription FAQ

Custom Sheet Creation

Building Character Sheets: The How-To for making your own character sheets (for Pro Subscribers)
Beginner's Guide to GitHub: How to upload a character sheet for community use
Character Sheet i18n: How to set up your Sheet to be easily translated into other languages

Roll20 API Content

An Introduction
A Guide to the API
Use Guide
API Reference
- Objects
- Events
- Chat Events and Functions
- Utility Functions
- Function documentation
- Sandbox Model
- Debugging
- Cookbook