Organizing characters

Sorry if it's already been asked before, but I couldn't find a post about that. Is it me or is it plain weird that there is no way to organise characters? I mean, I'm just starting creating a campaign in roll20, and I've already got a massive list of characters (started 2 days ago, already 14 NPCs and Vehicles). If I plan a full campaign, going through all the characters is going to be a nightmare. I'm already trying to organise NPCs by minions, great villains, vehicles, etc. by writing it in their names, but such a feature would be awesome. And if it were to be extended to handouts, that would be cool as well. Any thoughts on the matter? Is it already planned? Or is it simply impossible to program (God knows I know nothing about that.)? Thanks for your patience, Camille.

With the current tools you can tag character sheets and use the tags to focus the sheets. Edit the sheet, and add a tag. Then you can search for the tag at the top of the character sheet tab. - Gauss

Camille B. said: I mean, I'm just starting creating a campaign in roll20, and I've already got a massive list of characters (started 2 days ago, already 14 NPCs and Vehicles). If I plan a full campaign, going through all the characters is going to be a nightmare. I'm already trying to organise NPCs by minions, great villains, vehicles, etc. by writing it in their names, but such a feature would be awesome. And if it were to be extended to handouts, that would be cool as well. Gauss said: With the current tools you can tag character sheets and use the tags to focus the sheets. Edit the sheet, and add a tag. Then you can search for the tag at the top of the character sheet tab. - Gauss For now the way that Gauss indicates is the way to go. There is a suggestion thread somewhere about folder organization for various sheets and handouts. I would suggest that if you do tag your sheets, make a master sheet that has all your tags listed.

What do you mean a master sheet? Is it simply a character sheet with all the tags I created to remember them? Well it's still graphically ugly, but it's better than nothing. Thanks guys! Still, that feature would be better than having to tag everything and still see a list 3 kilometers longs.

I have a master sheet that I made with my word processor program that has every tag I typed up. This gives me a reference for when I either tag something or need to find something by a tag.

Thanks metroknight!

You could make your master sheet inside roll20 also. Have all your tags listed in a journal and have that sheet tagged as master. You leave master in your tag search and that will leave only your master sheet showing. This will allow you open it and look up a tag then search for it. If you leave a tag in the tag bar, only the sheets and journals that list that tag will stay showing then.

Here's another workaround: Put spaces at the start of the name, and it gives you a bit of a hacky but effective way to sort things.

Never thought of that Resident. Can you put in an example so people would understand what you mean?

FWIW, I think the changes they're rolling out in a couple of months might just solve this problem for you entirely. You'll be able to create links to other journal entries which will allow you to create a "Table of Contents" document.

Thanks for bringing that up Dickie! Can't wait to see that :) And thanks Kyantol, I was doing my own version of that by putting, (NPC) or (SHIP) or whatever before the names. Did the job, but that would be a pain if you have loads of characters ^^

Dickie said: FWIW, I think the changes they're rolling out in a couple of months might just solve this problem for you entirely. You'll be able to create links to other journal entries which will allow you to create a "Table of Contents" document. That would be very nice. The current (as far as I can tell) inability for anyone to see the journal entries without the GM being there with things launched while they read makes them much less useful than they could be