Quick question

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere but I did do my best to google it. I have spent hours and hours (Which I found fun) building the [insert system here] book into Rool20 for my players and I to reference. But I have just broken 1000+ archived handouts. I cannot for the life of me find anywhere if this will cause significant performance issues. That is basically all I would like to know. Can I continue to go nuts archiving away, or will the game's performance start to lag eventually? Thanks all.

1000+ handouts!  Oh my.  My thoughts are that you shouldn't notice an impact unless a single handout had thousands of lines of text and/or images or if you opened lots of your handouts simultaneously.  That's my guess anyhow.  You could run a test and duplicate a big doc 100 x's and see if you notice any performance hit.

Interesting experiment and a lot of hard work (which fortunately, was fun), Dakotahorn. I believe that Archiving the handouts helps reduce the amount of pre-loading (errr, non-archived handouts cause more loading for each player), so the fact that most of your 1000+ handouts are Archived is probably helping a lot. To date I've not heard of an upper limit on number of archived handouts. I would recommend making backup copies of your game, in Roll20, in case a problem crops up later for any reason, at least have a save-point from the latest time with as much of your efforts as possible.

Cool. I would be lying if I didn't say I was terrified of a R20 server failure hahaha. But thanks for the info. I thought that was how archived handouts worked. And the only thing I didn't archive was the actual linked handout call PHB. But now I am building the entirety of the MM, 1 by 1 as I go of course, not everything up front, and am having doubts that I may well have to archive the NPC sheets too.  Hmmmmm I guess I will just go for it, and if they become a problem address them when I get to it.

Dakotahorn, another future-feature to be aware of, but this will not resolve your current efforts, in the long run I believe that what you are doing is what the Roll20 Compendium feature is being designed for (compiling books-worth of game information). But, the Compendium is currently just for Pathfinder, in the long run the idea has been stated that it could be possible for users to create Custom Compendium for your own game. Similar to the idea of a Custom Character Sheet, as opposed to the Community Character Sheets. For the time being I don't see this being any help for you unless you are inputting Pathfinder. If it's PF then take a look at this now because it might be duplicating the same sort of efforts to an extent (monsters, spells, classes, and so on). Roll20 Compendium, <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/</a>

Thanks Gold.&nbsp; It is not for Pathfinder. :-)