I've been working on setting up a 5e character for several hours now. Some of this is that I'm a noob (lots of 4e experience, much less with 5e and first experience with Roll20). But a lot of it is that Roll20 doesn't seem to have any built-in smarts about 5e. (OK, it knows a lot at the meta level about WHAT should be there. But I can't select a spell from a list of options or have it walk me through the character building process. It's dumb in that sense.) I'm sure licensing would be a requirement to make it smarter, but something like orcpub's character builder, extended to cover more content, would make this a lot more useful as a site. That's the kind of thing I could imagine paying a subscription for as a player. (Right now, the subscription benefits seem to mostly accrue to DMs.) As-is, I would describe the process of building a character sheet as a misery, even worse than just using the player's guide. I don't mean to be unfairly harsh. Lots of problems to solve there. I'm just saying it's an opportunity to make Roll20 substantially more valuable.
