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Making New Character Sheets Help?

Specifically, I'd like to start a few old school RPG games (Gangbusters and Top Secret) and create my own charcater sheets for them.  Is there a tutorial that could help me out? Both games are mostly percentile based. Thanks
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vÍnce
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Sheet Author
Hi Keeper Eric, I'm not aware of a specific tutorial, but have you read through the wiki on Building Character Sheets ?  Building sheets require at least a small amount of html and css knowledge and javascript depending on more advanced sheet features.  Lot's of tutorials on the web for all three of those.  I would recommend editing an existing sheet (copy the raw text for the html, css, and translation from the roll20 github repo ) that might be similar to Gangbusters and/or Top Secret (I still have that one in a box in the attic...). Paste the html, css, translation text into your ''custom" test game editor and play around with the code to get familiar with how roll20 sheets work.  Test your changes by saving your edits and loading the test game in a new tab.  Don't rely on the Preview tab in the editor since it is often known to be less than accurate. Later, after you get a little editing experience, you can make your own sheet since trying to mod someone else's sheet can have it's own pitfalls... Post back as you have questions.  Lot's of helpful people here.
I started making a character sheet a few days ago with almost no html or css knowledge at all. I had tried to modify an existing sheet but found it very hard to understand how it was built. Instead I started simple. With that I mean using the columns Roll20 provides and then just adding stuff like a place to put a name and the attributes for the characters. Buttons to roll the attributes and so on. After that I started having ideas on how to add the rest and tried to look up ways of doing it. The important step is to put something together, nevermind how ugly or barebones. That was the hurdle for me.  The wikipage that Vince linked is a fantastic resource. 
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Andreas J.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Translator
Shedcape said: The wikipage that Vince linked is a fantastic resource.  It's absolutely essential to read through to get an idea of how sheets are created, as there are a bunch of things that Roll20 does differently than standard HTML/CSS. Beyond that, it links to many good general resources.