Accelerator Tools

Does anyone use accelerator tools to speed up the development of a new character sheet template.  Is there an open source GUI Formbuilder / w CSS support?  I've tried using things like Exporting an Excel Spreadsheet, but it's not working as I expect it. I can do the back end coding in support of the spreadsheet, but HTML GUIs are not my strong suit.

I dont know of any way to speed up building a character sheet. You cant export from excel, you need to work in html and build it from the ground up (or use one of the existing roll20 sheets as a base).

Don't know if this is what you're looking for, but one of the master builders from back in the day created something that may fit your needs. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1411245/slug%7D" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1411245/slug%7D</a> I'd recommend using Chrome

I would definitely not recommend using that. Brian created it as a proof of concept, and himself warns against using it. It produces very clunky and hard to use code.

Generally speaking, converting something like a excel or a word document into a HTML sheet is a really bad idea, I tried it out two years ago, and the generated code is liekly night-unreadable for a human. And you'd have to make lot of changes to make the result work with Roll20, so much that it's less work to make a sheet from scratch or starting from an existing sheet. I suggest to check out the existing sheets for systems that are closest related to our system, and the ones having similar general layout. Furthermore you can find several character sheet templates on the Building Character Sheet wikipage. Edit: Even if the tool would have worked okay when is was made, there have been ton of improvement and changes to web design that wasn't around 4 years ago. Think CSS Grid was rolled out universally like 2 years ago, and don't think many(if any) sheets created back them used flexbox.

For clarity, I've never used the tool, and know Brian only recommended (if that's not too strong a word) for personal sheets that would never hit the GitHub repository as a selectable sheet. &nbsp;As I understand it, it mainly helped with fields and the such, and given the example of Excel, I figured there wasn't a lot of styling needed and assumed it was for a personal custom sheet, not one for inclusion in the list of selectable sheets by everyone. Given that, while it's not recommended, it could be beneficial to someone who has zero HTML/CSS skill and zero desire to learn and not likely to get someone else to code a sheet for them for their personal game. :) But, yeah, I wouldn't recommend using it, but I have skills and a desire to learn skills I don't already possess; for others...it could be a life raft in the ocean during a storm (wouldn't recommend using such, but if it's all you got...).