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

GM - Game Master, can access all tools in a Roll20 game. (in some game systems this role is called things like Dungeon Master/DM, Storyteller, Referee, Guide)
Explorer Mode - setting in Dynamic Lighting that leaves map revealed for players when their character no longer sees an area directly
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
Transmogrifier/Transmog - An
Pro
^{^info} feature that enables you to copy pages, characters, Decks
Token
- Link Token - When new characters are created, they need to be assigned tokens. Link Token for details
- Default Token - the token attached to a character that appears when you drag the character from the N Journal to the map.
Roll Template - template for roll outputs, where each game system have their own versions built into their character sheets
- Default Roll Template
Character Sheet
- Repeating Section - part of sheets that works a bit differently
A&A -tab - refers to Attributes & Abilities Tab that all Characters have, the two other being Bio & Info-tab and (not always) Character Sheet tab.

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.