using custom sheets

attempting to make a custom sheet. I have been attempting to create a simple custom sheet using AI. I do not know how to write code. I have been running in circles getting no where. Is it possible to use AI to help write HTML script and the CSS script.. The AI seems to think it can, but after 6 tries I am about to put my computer in the oven on broil. I have generated a lot of material and wanted to create a game, create a custom sheet within that would allow a few friends to test drive the PC build. A bit frustrated. 

Hi Alan, While there are many aspects of html, css and javascript that AI may be able to help with, Roll20 has specific requirements that an AI will know nothing about. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Building_Character_Sheets" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Building_Character_Sheets</a> I would highly recommend reading through GiGs site on roll20 sheet building <a href="https://cybersphere.me/roll20-sheet-author-master-list/" rel="nofollow">https://cybersphere.me/roll20-sheet-author-master-list/</a> Ask questions as you get stuck.&nbsp;

This looks a bit over my head. I would have to say that custom sheets is not very user friendly unless you have a pretty good grasp of code. I think i will go old school and grab some paper and pencil, at the most create a document in word and email it. Unfortunately, that means it will not be fluid enough to play on roll20. Is there not a simpler way to achieve a working character sheet, something a little more available for the less tech savvy.&nbsp;

I agree that creating sheets can be a little daunting for non-coders.&nbsp; Many sheet authors learned much of their html/css/js skills solely from developing sheets on roll20.&nbsp; Myself included. Sheets can be as simple or as complex as you decide to make them.&nbsp; Before sheet templates were introduced on roll20 we only had access to Attributes and Abilities from the character journal.&nbsp; You created attributes for any value that you wanted to store for a given character and would use macros to call those values for rolls in chat.&nbsp; Most character sheets are just fancy window dressing of those basic features.&nbsp; You can still use attributes and macros method without a sheet if you so desire.

Lol, so much less daunting. That is sarcasm by the way. So if i was to go this way, i read the page 4 times and still don't quite grasp it, Do i still pick custom sheet in the game setting. How do i begin, where do i begin. And once i get there, will AI be able to help me write the code to achieve the task?

So AI has offered a work around, does this sound like it might make life easier for me. It has suggested take an existing sheet from github which, supposedly, it can then manipulate some of the code for me after i download the RAW into the HTML and the CSS. It looked like it had around 12000 lines of code. Not sure this is viable, does this sound like it might be a cheat that would get me the ability to effectively use AI to create a working sheet with my own shape to it?&nbsp;

Creating custom attributes and abilities does not require any sheet template. You modify each character journal directly while in the game. It's tedious.&nbsp; You'll often make an npc/monster "boilerplate" that you copy/paste to create new npc/monsters.&nbsp; PC's are done similarly.&nbsp; Use macros to make your rpg system's common rolls.&nbsp; Having character sheets for a game is way more convienant. ;-)&nbsp; Modifying an existing sheet's code is a great way to learn and may be all you need to do depending on your game.

Thanks Vince, I think I will give the modifying existing sheets a try with the hope that AI can help with some of the heavy lifting.&nbsp;

AI is a tool. Like any other tool, you have to know how to use it, and what it is that you want to do with it. I've built quite a few sheets on Roll20, and even knowing how they should be built, I can't get AI to create a cohesive and working character sheet. My assumption is that even though there are over 1200 character sheets in the repo, that still isn't enough data for AI to generalize from. Plus the fact that the quality of sheet code on the repo varies DRAMATICALLY means that even if it could be made to work, you'd probably only get a below average sheet out of it.

I've used AI to help learn "concepts" of programming that I may be struggling with. Then I try to apply what I've learned to Roll20's sheets using the knowledge I've gained through LOTS of brick-bashing. ;-P