D&D 5E (2024) Character Sheet & Builder by Roll20

Aleksi  said: Any chance we could get the "Always roll Advantage/Disadvantage" roll mode of the old sheet back? My players are tired of having to manually switch between Advantage/Disadvantage/Automatic, and Query mode is always extra steps. We thought of leaving it as Advantage but then the color coding in the chat message doesn't show if a player rolls a natural 1 since it greys out the lower result. That's still probably the best workaround in the meantime. It sounds like you found the "always roll advantage" button, it's just not displaying the crits/nat 1s as you would like, right? Would displaying those in the box of the one that's dropped serve your purposes as well? We may add something in the future that's a "roll two dice but don't roll them as advantage/disadvantage", but there aren't any immediate plans for that and I'm about to work on roll templates so if that would serve your needs I can roll that in as well with the other changes. Probably. Andrea L. said: Report from yesterday session: 1) performance: responsiveness of the sheet was overall very low and going worse with time on all of us it seems that refreshing the page made everything a little better for some time and then went worse again. on the bad moment, 2 players having trying to open the same sheet would lock everything and force both to refresh except at the beginning of the session (post refresh), the +/- by a resource would not work (typing the new resource number would). Note that sheet opening becomes worse even having the map open without any sheet so maybe it is some memory fight between the sheet and the jump gate engine?? We're working on performance right now, so I hope to see an update on that soon. Especially when it comes to two people with the same sheet open. 2) it seems some character features are not in the sheet.... for example fighter does not have the extra attack feature. probably this is due to the character being an oldish creation as the paladine that has been created more recently has the feature. I did not have time to test it yet so this is here not immediately for the developers tho check as it could be an already solved thing. I don't think we've made any major changes to the data or how the features are added, but I'll be sure to keep an eye out for this. 3) Bardic inspiration: how it is supposed to be recorded? as an effect? but the bardic inspiration could be used after a roll while effects seem supposed to be activated before the roll..... We have a ticket on the board to allow you to roll effects as their own thing after a roll. But what I would recommend, since you have to add it manually anyway, is to add it as a roll to your actions. Those can be clicked and rolled at any time and don't depend on the rest of the sheet in any way. 4) feature request: this was asked some times ago and liked but Nicole said it would be cool but very far in the making so not putting a lot of hope on it.... copy or move objects or features effect from one sheet to another would be so cool and time saving. useful for the aforementioned bardic inspiration or for item exchange between characters (very important for custom objects!!!) many thanks Andrea Sheet-to-sheet communication is a big topic that we've had a lot of discussions about, but it keeps shifting backwards based on other priorities like mobile support, printability, advanced dice syntax support, etc. It's definitely not lost though, it's in every conversation on what to pick up next!

Sorry for the weird formatting and/or short answers.  I clicked a permalink instead of a quote and lost my whole message and now I'm gonna cry. @Andrea: The potent spellcasting is definitely something we would do if I can get conditional bonuses like that onto the roadmap. I can replicate that Monk issue when clicking Damage in chat and will make a ticket for it today. @RPGeezer: It's a sheet-specific setting right now. We would need to probably build something more powerful as a campaign setting, because that doesn't actually change anything in the builder, just things like hit dice recovery. @Master Azroth: I'll bring this back to the team! In the meantime, the action does exist, it's just not a button: %{Character Name or ID|initiative} @Der Arkanier: I'll check into the builder bug and see if it's resolved. If it is, though, it won't show up on an existing artificer, you'd need to remove and re-add the class to see it. I do want to note that the builder doesn't stop you from going over the amount it tells you, so nothing can STOP you from selecting more if it's incorrect. As far as the spells, I'll see if I can find anything to replicate it - maybe because it's from a source that isn't a class? Effects is ticketed already, thanks for the report! I thiiiink the query for generic rolls might be ticketed as well but I'll double check and make sure it is if not.

Der Arkanier said: Hi Nicole, thanks so much for the fast reply - especially since the formatting in this forum can be challenging. On the Artificer I still have to check. TBH, I did not try to create a new one but will do soon and see if it works then. Thanks for pointing out to select more spells than "allowed". To give more detail on the spells. All of the spells were added in the builder or are on the subclass list. On the spell tab they all work the same and by clicking them I am asked whether to use a pact slot. The inconsistency occurs only on the combat tab. I might have confused the character sheet by initially having deleted some of the the respective actions from the combat tab because too many. Then I tried to bring them back when I needed them. If that's the problem, is there any way to "connect" spells from the spells section with the combat tab? EDIT: I tried adding new spells in the builder that I never selected before and I even leveled up to make sure that I selected a new spell. The only pattern, I see is that some spell's automatically generated actions do ask for a spell slot (e.g. fireball, wall of fire) and some don't (e.g. suggestion, burning hands). In the process of levelling up and down I found another bug, though. On Warlock LV 7 the character sheet (not the builder) gives me 2 more pact slots on the right level, although I can keep the pact slots from the previous level.  Correct behaviour would be only 2 slots in total on the hightest level: I've for sure seen that pact bug before and was able to reproduce it, I'll follow up with that ticket on Monday. We did recently fix a bug on the sheet side that now makes it possible to work around this by setting those spell slots to -X on the spells modal, X being the number you have or more. So if you have 2 slots at level 2 and 3 but should only have the level 3 ones, you can add a custom spell slot modifier to warlocks that say you have -2 level 2 spell slots and it'll even itself out. I know that's not a long-term solution for the bug, but at least a workaround to make it less painful. Okay, so I can't figure out what's going on with Burning Hands (it is working for me), but Suggestion is definitely an oversight. We set up the "cast at what level" modal a bit incorrectly on the attack side to only show up if upcasting would do anything, and Suggestion doesn't do anything on upcast. But that locks you out of using the spell slot. I'll make a ticket for that on Monday. Maybe because you tried to recreate Burning Hands as a custom value, there's also no upcasting attached to it and is causing the same problem? Jason K. said: Not sure if I'm posting in the correct spot, but anyone else notice issues with the clickable buttons that appear underneath an attack roll? They used to be stacked vertically, in a single line of text, allowing for the selection of potential on-hit effects that a player could apply.  For example, my attacks had the damage button, then a weapon mastery button (and I added some homebrew 'weapon masteries' as a way to properly apply other effects that weren't showing up when I'd make an attack). So instead of this (I don't know why it posted this image twice, and its not letting me delete one.....sorry): Now I have this: Any ideas? Thanks for the report, I have a ticket ready for Monday that I'm going to get pushed through ASAP because it's a quick fix. I do want to say this is the first time I've seen Weapon Masteries used as a sort of after-effect like this and I think it's really cool. As to your questions about other ways to handle that, I know that we have some macro masters that do just that with macro buttons that may be able to help you out. You can embed them in the "on hit" section of your sheet and have them behave similarly to what you're doing here. Light mode was fixed today. You may need to go into your Stylus and manually update, or wait for it to call back, I think the default is to check every 24 hours for an update. M D. said: Neither Minimum nor Maximum appear to work correctly when applied to Skill Modifiers. The Rogue's Reliable Talent makes any roll under 10 become a 10. As of today, setting a Minimum of Maximum just adds whatever value you put to the total. If I put in the minimum as 10, instead of returning my roll of 5 (+7) as 17 (replacing the 5 with a 10) or 10 (replacing the entire roll with a 10), it returns 22 (adding the 10 to the total as a flat bonus). Same thing happens when a Maximum is set, the amount is treated as a flat bonus. The modifier is listed as "Add:" so my hunch is that is has been hard-coded to look for a bonus, not a die roll override (which I realize is different from how the existing Override changes the final outcome.). Sheet functionality is coming along and I thoroughly enjoy how much can already be set up. I hope edge cases like the one above get sorted out soon. I think this might be a case of bad labeling on our part that's causing confusion. That modifier, the Skill Bonus one, is to set or change your skill bonus. So what you did there wasn't telling the sheet "make my roll at minimum a 10", but "make my skill bonus at minimum a 10". The roll bonus we use for skills isn't yet in the modifier builder, just the ones for attacks and saves. If you drag and drop the Reliable Talent feature from the compendium (or just select it in the builder if you're not going full custom), using query mode will apply this minimum though. I'm always trying to find time to slip in adding new modifiers so I'll be sure to add this to the list as a requested one.

Following up on the above, the roll actions being all squished and not wrapping correctly should be fixed!

Der Arkanier said: On the pact clots: I will use that work around as soon as I'm hitting the right level. Still at LV 6 right now. You might have fixed the bug by before I'm hitting LV7, though. On the spells: - You might very well be right with your ssumprion for burning hands. I could have caused the problem by myself. I just do not know how to fix it. In the spell section it's working fine but I don't know ahow to connect the action to the spell. I also cannot remove it from the builder and add it again, as it's a subclass feature. - Thanks for the explanation about the scaling spells - you are correct. I tested all my spells and all spells that cannot be upcast do not open that window. Just waiting for a fix then.  We did release a fix for pact slots in warlocks today, so hopefully you never have to use the workaround. We have some small upcasting updates on the horizon right now to hopefully allow for upcasting, but I also added a ticket to at least allow you to cast it at a higher level even if there's nothing you get from it. Tara said: Feature Request: A way to set the number of spells that can be prepared (per class) and either display it somewhere on the sheet along with how many are currently prepared (based on class) and/or an option to restrict how many the sheet will let you set based on the number Thanks for the feedback! This is something the sheet could do much better with making data manually. If you build a class using the builder, that amount shows up on the sheet, but there's no way to update it or set it on the sheet right now. We at least have a few modifiers in the wings to make it easier to see and edit.

Lemmy said: When using the '24 Sheet and my players use either of the rest buttons it broadcasts that to the chat. Is there anyway I can disable that? Not at this time, sorry - although they can whisper it to the GM if they want to hide it from other users using the toggles at the top of the sheet.

Der Arkanier said: Hi team, the new modifier to add an action to an item from the inventory does not allow to connect a resource to that action. Let's say I want my pool of healing potions on the combat tab as a bonus action, it would not show the respective resource on the combat sheet. The item would show up on the combat sheet but any resource connected to that item would not appear there. If I want to show the resources to also show up (e.g. the amount of my healing potions), as a workaround I have to create "resource" for the item, create a "feature" (e.g. "drink healing potion", then connect it to the "resource" of the item and then add an "bonus action" to the "feature". So, in short, the new modifier "action" does not work with the modifier "ressource" for any inventory items. On our deck for the next week or so is adding a limited modifier builder to actions that will let you add or link a resource there directly so you shouldn't have to worry about wonky workarounds and putting the resource in the "right" place for it to show up soon. The modifier builder is built to add single children to a parent, which I recently realized has to be rethought a bit for the idea of "that child might have children and they should be added too". That's why the action modifier builder doesn't include rolls, because a roll is a separate piece of data, and keeps us from adding an action and a resource at once as well. I am working on architecting the solution to that problem soon so we can do more complex things like adding resources, or spells (which can sometimes have over half a dozen varying pieces of data associated!).

Michael Patty said: Hey, can anyone suggest a way to adjust/create attributes on the fly with the 2024 character sheet? I have an old campaign (live campaign) I'd like to reproduce on here, but I have been running into issues doing it. In the campaign, they characters start as loosly defined lost souls. They eventually find their way back to life, but in the process they "recall" things about themselves which builds their character through discovery. Anyone have any bright ideas on how to make this happen with this highly restrictive sheet? I've even tried API and learned that chat --> API --> sheet adjustments is a no go. Guess I could just have them all keep their character builder open forever, but I was hoping for a better, more brilliant solution. Anyone? lol Hey, I'm interested in helping but I'm not really sure what you're trying to achieve here with the use of attributes. Could you explain a bit further? On the 2014 sheet, what does "recalling" look like, and what does it have to do with creating custom attributes? What kinds of things are they recalling, and how is using custom attributes on the 2014 sheet helping you with that process?