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Integration with a Campaign Management System

There was some talk around a year ago about possibly providing integration with a campaign management system, such as Obsidian Portal or Epic Words? Has there been any sort formal integration, such as the ability to draw information from character sheets?
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Gold
Forum Champion
No, there is no formal integration like that in place currently. You can just copy-paste from another site, or give out the URL link to your players, or keep the other site open in another browser tab. They don't integrate yet, and I could see where someone would want that, but I try to keep in mind that Roll20 is trying to reduce programming bloat / learning curve / potential slowdowns, and keep this site flexible for all types of RPG's. In some cases it may be best to just use another website for whatever that website is good for (Campaign management, making maps, etc), and use Roll20 as just your tabletop that can benefit from the output or collaboration of other websites without formally integrating line by line.
Yes, I can certainly understand the that avoiding programing bloat would be desirable. I can also see some benefits to integrating things like character sheets, to avoid having to duplicate entries. Reasonable minds could differ over whether that would be worthwhile or not. The reason I asked was not just to suggest a feature that might be cool, but because Riley D ( <a href="https://app.roll20.net/users/1/riley-d" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/users/1/riley-d</a>) on the Development Team wrote in a thread last June that "Obsidian Portal integration is already on the roadmap!" <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1250/#post-11586" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1250/#post-11586</a>... I was just wondering whether it is something that is no longer "on the road map", or if instead it is still on the map, only still a little bit further down the road.
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Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
The reference may be to the RESTful API, which would allow other sites to interface with Roll20.
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Gid
Roll20 Team
It involves two commercial products from two different businesses jiving with each other. That's going to take some private company discussion to see if it'll be mutually palatable business decision for both Roll20 and Obsidian Portal. If a cooperation deal happens, it'll be publically announced (probably pretty loudly, heh).