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Home brew character sheets?

Is it possible to get a character sheet made for a home brew system and be able to select it?
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Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
One of the benefits of a Pro subscription is being able to use a custom character sheet in campaigns you create. If you don't know how to write HTML/CSS, you could ask someone in this forum to help you.
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None of the players in the game are pro, nor would any of us be willing to spend money to become pro. Is that the only way to ur a homebrew character sheet?
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Gold
Forum Champion
Hi Adran, You might wish to use the Bio Tab of a Character instead, if you have a custom game, and the creator of the game doesn't have Roll20 subscription. Bio Tab is a large free text area on a Character. You can even write a text-based character sheet template and place it in the Bio tab of a default or template Character, then duplicate that Character several times and assign permission to your Players so that they already have a text-based character sheet to fill-in-the-blanks on their Bio Tab. &nbsp;This would be similar to handing out a piece of paper, "write your character on this", and perhaps giving a list of stats and categories that they should type on that Bio Tab. This would also be similar to a Character Sheet that one could type in an email. It will not be a form-fill with Attributes that can be called from macros and chat, like the Character Sheet tab. Wiki docs for this, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Characters" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Characters</a> Note, also, if there is a game with a community-created Character Sheet that you like, and it is close but not perfect --- you can use that Character Sheet for your Character Sheet, and use the Bio Tab to fill in the extra details that you felt were missing. This is actually what I do for my game, even though I've got Pro, I'm happy with 90% of the built-in AD&D character sheet, and I just make a blank for the other details on the Bio tab, and my players fill that in. On a more sophisticated level, if you really need some form-fillable, macro-callable stats, you can make those without a subscription, on the Attributes & Abilities tab. The main difference between this and a Custom Character Sheet is it doesn't format like a pretty page, it's a long list of fields and values, that looks sort-of like a database. Believe it or not this is what we used to make character stats on Roll20 before Roll20 added the Character Sheet tab features! Wiki docs for the Attributes method, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Attributes_.26_Abi" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Attributes_.26_Abi</a>... Just so you know regarding the subscriptions, if the Creator of the game alone (usually the GM) has a Pro subscription then the entire game gets the Pro features. Not everyone in your group would need to subscribe to access that, if you decide to try the route that Brian described. Subscription features, <a href="https://app.roll20.net/account/supporter" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/account/supporter</a>
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vÍnce
Pro
Sheet Author
You might check out this&nbsp; series of videos from Table Top Gaming. &nbsp;He made his own Pathfinder sheet using the Bio tab as Gold has mentioned.
Gold said: Hi Adran, You might wish to use the Bio Tab of a Character instead, if you have a custom game, and the creator of the game doesn't have Roll20 subscription. Bio Tab is a large free text area on a Character. You can even write a text-based character sheet template and place it in the Bio tab of a default or template Character, then duplicate that Character several times and assign permission to your Players so that they already have a text-based character sheet to fill-in-the-blanks on their Bio Tab. &nbsp;This would be similar to handing out a piece of paper, "write your character on this", and perhaps giving a list of stats and categories that they should type on that Bio Tab. This would also be similar to a Character Sheet that one could type in an email. It will not be a form-fill with Attributes that can be called from macros and chat, like the Character Sheet tab. Wiki docs for this, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Characters" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Characters</a> Note, also, if there is a game with a community-created Character Sheet that you like, and it is close but not perfect --- you can use that Character Sheet for your Character Sheet, and use the Bio Tab to fill in the extra details that you felt were missing. This is actually what I do for my game, even though I've got Pro, I'm happy with 90% of the built-in AD&D character sheet, and I just make a blank for the other details on the Bio tab, and my players fill that in. On a more sophisticated level, if you really need some form-fillable, macro-callable stats, you can make those without a subscription, on the Attributes & Abilities tab. The main difference between this and a Custom Character Sheet is it doesn't format like a pretty page, it's a long list of fields and values, that looks sort-of like a database. Believe it or not this is what we used to make character stats on Roll20 before Roll20 added the Character Sheet tab features! Wiki docs for the Attributes method, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Attributes_.26_Abi" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Attributes_.26_Abi</a>... Just so you know regarding the subscriptions, if the Creator of the game alone (usually the GM) has a Pro subscription then the entire game gets the Pro features. Not everyone in your group would need to subscribe to access that, if you decide to try the route that Brian described. Subscription features, <a href="https://app.roll20.net/account/supporter" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/account/supporter</a> Thanks a lot! This should give us a way to do what we needed. I'm not 100% sure what the GM is going to do as far as the homebrew elements, but combining these options and using the M&M character sheet as a base should accomplish what we needed, even if it doesn't have everything right on the main character sheet (at least most of it will be there). We know we don't need to all subscribe, but the GM doesn't really have the income to afford to spend it on something that isn't guaranteed to last long (we have had inconsistent game lengths for a while, sometimes the games just end up dying). If I had any sort of income myself, I'd have subbed just because I can see myself using all those features for a long time, but alas, it's not an option I can do. Even without Pro though, this is still by far the best gaming service I've found (for free at least). I love Roll20. Again, thanks a lot for the help.
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Gold
Forum Champion
Super, Adran. From what you said I am confident your GM can run that game on the Free account. Just to let you know, it is possible for Players to Gift a subscription to GM, and that whole game gets the features. Multiple players could each put a few dollars your GM's gift subscription if someone wants to buy it for them.&nbsp;
Gold said: Super, Adran. From what you said I am confident your GM can run that game on the Free account. Just to let you know, it is possible for Players to Gift a subscription to GM, and that whole game gets the features. Multiple players could each put a few dollars your GM's gift subscription if someone wants to buy it for them.&nbsp; really? thats something i didnt know. it might be an option, if one we probably wont use. thanks again
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Adran06 said: Gold said: Just to let you know, it is possible for Players to Gift a subscription to GM, and that whole game gets the features. Multiple players could each put a few dollars your GM's gift subscription if someone wants to buy it for them.&nbsp; really? thats something i didnt know. it might be an option, if one we probably wont use. thanks again I believe it is still possible to gift a dollar amount also and not just a subscription. If there is 5 players, you each could gift the GM 2 dollars a month and let him use it to purchase a monthly pro subscription till the game ends.