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NPC Spells? (DnD 5e)

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Hi everyone. With the recent update (I assume there was one, since things are different), all of the character's prepared spells in my game (PC and NPC alike) have been wiped, and there doesn't seem to be a way to re-prepare them. Additionally, every single spellcaster NPC (a lot of them!) has had its spellcaster level and ability erased, and even when restored, all spells cast have a DC of 0 and an attack bonus of 0. Is there a fix for this? Will I just have to do the math manually for my players? Please help! UPDATE: Three things. One, apparently spell attack modifiers work fine, just not saving throws. Two, all text in the token bubbles is shifted down a little bit. Three, apparently my players can only see two tokens on the initiative tracker.
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Stephanie B.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Hi, Olivia! Thanks for your report. We'll take a look at your NPCs and tokens; can you let us know the name of the affected game, so we can track it down? For the player spells, the red dot in the 5e OGL sheet is now the spell preparedness toggle. Are your players able to click/unclick that button?
The preparedness toggle works, thank you! My game is called Liv's Dark Sun 5e.
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Stephanie B.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Thanks, Olivia! We will check into your game tomorrow when the devs are less exhausted.
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Hi, everybody, I've noticed that with the OGL 5e sheets I'm having the same NPC problem with Spellcasting NPCs. This problem is that all information about NPC spellcaster levels, ability modifiers, and things that rely on those values such as Spell Save DCs and the proper maximum spell slot counts for a given NPC, are now missing from all NPC sheets. As a consequence, all Spellcasting from NPCs that calculate DC result in a DC of 0, and all spell attacks result in an error message in chat. NPCs that were created by a roll20 module itself, such as "Rise of Tiamat" and "Tomb of Annihilation" that I had purchased from the roll20 marketplace have also been affected. I proceeded to input the proper values that were missing back into one of the NPC sheets in an attempt to fix the issue, but found that spell attacks that require a spell attack roll still result in an error message for that action. From a talk with some of my DM friends, at least two other people have experienced this same problem of missing data and spellcasting errors in all of their games after recent updates. For me the problem is affecting the three current games that I DM, "For Whom the War Rages Arc 3", "Shadows of the Death Curse", and "Gaze of the Elder Eye" so in total quite a few Spellcaster NPCs have been affected.
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I am also having this problem with spellcasting NPCs. Even when I try to update the caster level, spell save DC modifiers, global spell attack bonus, and  the spellcasting ability score on their sheet, the spell save DC still reads 0 (hover-over text reads Rolling 0[SAVE] = 0) and spell attack rolls only add the proficiency bonus (always 2, no matter what the NPC's actual level is) to the d20 roll. Additionally, for my spellcaster PCs, I had to change their class level on their sheet and then change it back to the right thing in order to get their spellcasting ability, save DC, and attack bonuses to show up correctly (they had changed to "None," "0," and "0"). Their prepared spells also got wiped, and I had to click through to mark them as prepared again. As a side note, I'm also getting that thing Olivia mentioned about the values inside the token bubbles being off-center now. This is affecting my game titled "Out of the Abyss."
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Same issue here. All my NPC spells show a DC0 when cast, and the mouse over text reads " Rolling 0[SAVE] = 0 ". I've tried changing their modifiers, nothing works. The game name is " The New World ", I'm the DM.
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Stephanie B.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I've added this to our bugs backlog and we'll look at it as soon as we can!     John K. said: Hi, everybody, I've noticed that with the OGL 5e sheets I'm having the same NPC problem with Spellcasting NPCs. This problem is that all information about NPC spellcaster levels, ability modifiers, and things that rely on those values such as Spell Save DCs and the proper maximum spell slot counts for a given NPC, are now missing from all NPC sheets. As a consequence, all Spellcasting from NPCs that calculate DC result in a DC of 0, and all spell attacks result in an error message in chat. NPCs that were created by a roll20 module itself, such as "Rise of Tiamat" and "Tomb of Annihilation" that I had purchased from the roll20 marketplace have also been affected. I proceeded to input the proper values that were missing back into one of the NPC sheets in an attempt to fix the issue, but found that spell attacks that require a spell attack roll still result in an error message for that action. From a talk with some of my DM friends, at least two other people have experienced this same problem of missing data and spellcasting errors in all of their games after recent updates. For me the problem is affecting the three current games that I DM, "For Whom the War Rages Arc 3", "Shadows of the Death Curse", and "Gaze of the Elder Eye" so in total quite a few Spellcaster NPCs have been affected. Aleina K. said: I am also having this problem with spellcasting NPCs. Even when I try to update the caster level, spell save DC modifiers, global spell attack bonus, and  the spellcasting ability score on their sheet, the spell save DC still reads 0 (hover-over text reads Rolling 0[SAVE] = 0) and spell attack rolls only add the proficiency bonus (always 2, no matter what the NPC's actual level is) to the d20 roll. Additionally, for my spellcaster PCs, I had to change their class level on their sheet and then change it back to the right thing in order to get their spellcasting ability, save DC, and attack bonuses to show up correctly (they had changed to "None," "0," and "0"). Their prepared spells also got wiped, and I had to click through to mark them as prepared again. As a side note, I'm also getting that thing Olivia mentioned about the values inside the token bubbles being off-center now. This is affecting my game titled "Out of the Abyss."
Also, it seems like all NPC cantrips have been reset to "NONE" for "cantrip progression." Again, this only affects NPCs.
I have found a (temporary) fix! If you change the CR of the NPC, it should fix all of its save DCs. Just remember to change it back! :)
All the spell slots for my NPC's have vanished.