[New user] Best way to manage character sheets

Hello everyone, We have always played D&D the old chool way, around a table with paper character sheets. Due to the lockdown, we're looking to alternatives like Roll20 and it seems it could do the job quite well if we can't meet face to face. However we're not sure how we should manage our existing character sheets. Should the GM (meaning me) create new character sheets in game and then type in the infos from the paper sheets ? Should each player do this instead ? If we want to go back to paper play, is there a way to export the character sheets from Roll20 to a pdf ? Or would it be simpler if everybody just keep their paper sheets, not creating new one in Roll20 ? Thanks for any guidance you could provide!   

The GM must create the sheets and assign the sheets and make them visible to the players. When that is done, it's up to you to decide who fills out the sheets, but letting the user to try to do it themselves is IMO best, you can always fix it afterwards or create a correctly filled version. HAving the people to fill out their Roll20 sheets themselves also serves as an introduction to the digital character sheet. There is no easy method of exporting character sheets, but it's a popular request on the Suggestion Forums. If you're new to the platform and already have a bunch of other things you want to learn/use first, you could for now start with everyone using paper sheets, there is no reason you must use a Roll20 feature just because it exists. Starting to use a few features at a time can be a good idea to a new group, and them as people get accommodated, you can try out using more features and see what you think. Which edition of D&amp;D are you playing? There exist character sheets for all editions, and some even have more than one option. There are also a handful of sheets like BECMI, Molday and for a bunch of D&amp;D retroclones &amp; OSRs, so depending on what paper sheet or rules you go with, there are options. Some info on the available D&amp;D character sheets: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/DnD" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/DnD</a>

Andreas J. said: Which edition of D&amp;D are you playing? Thanks for your answer Andreas! We're playing 5E. It's good to know it isn't mandatory to use the Roll20 sheet. If it's not possible to easily export the character sheets back to a pdf or even just print them, we'll keep using the paper sheets. Mainly because, after the lockdown, we'll certainly go back to "around a table" play or to a mix of virtual and real tabletop... At first we were looking to using only Skype. But after doing some research, it seems that Roll20 could be used in complement for the maps or other visual supports.

As Andreas says there is no need to use the character sheets at all if you don't want to. I'm currently DMing my first campaign using Roll20 (after having been a player for 2 years) and I have some players who are rolling physical dice and tracking everything on their printed player sheet and I have others who are using Roll20 for everything.&nbsp; For me, Roll20 ties everything together so that I as the GM can create hand outs, display battle mats.&nbsp; If you only used Roll20 for the virtual tabletop/battle mat then its perfect to get you started or to tie you over until lock down ends

The wiki have a page with useful info on the available 5e sheets, and other stuff: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/5E" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/5E</a>