I am amazed, by roll20, but I got some pleas inside

me (You do not need to read) I played my fair share of roleplaying and now, that me and my friends fled our home city, I am really happy, that I can provide us with an oppotunity to "bond" again. I am a tinkerer with rules, always will be I suppose, there are not much games, that I played for a while that I have not customized. Therefore I am not playing here with the normal rules either My Attitude to roll 20 Thanks, thanks and Yeah! Although I tinker with every bit I can get my hands on (and understand ;-) ) I do not have the feeling that I am able to grasp even 60% of this platform yet. Some of the Infos are pretty well hidden, p.e. that you can " ?(name|Standardvalue) " in a macro was a great discovery. My System Is more or less DSA, very big in germany and even though we got no character sheets directly in the program, we have a program where we can create and exchange them Off Roll20 and that is fine. My tinkering with the rules are not even the tiniest problem, once I understood the basics and the scripts with the variables, I pretty much created most I need in just a few Minutes. My Pleas (The "important" part) I would really like to have some kind of inventory for the players/Token/Characters, since I want to keep track of their Items and how damaged they are. I would go with some kind of a Journal entry that is linked to the character, maybe one page per Item, but If I do that my Journal explodes. The second one would be something like folders to organize my journal. My players do not really worry yet. But I have so much stuff in it (rule reminder for me, the rituals of one player's shaman, the stuff for the campaign and so on.) And how cool would a spellbook be? The opportunity to give the players the power to edit an object, but not to change its name . Controlling a token, but not putting it on the plane (Players are like toddlers, aren't they?) One more thing in the formula would be nice, something where I can enter something like "the result is divided by 2 and that is the amount of successes, if it is negative, it is a failure" (I can imagine, that I just not have seen it yet and it exists? I would be very happy if someone can tell me how to!) A secret roll, where my player does something, where he prepares the roll, but can NOT see it by himself. It would feel better if they "roll" and get a "you rolled to the GM"-Message, but a "your magic knowledge skill is a success!". So I can tell them the wildest stories, and they do not know how right they are. I am rolling for them now, not that much of a deal, but ... cmon, you want to roll your own skillrolls, dont you? tl;dr: Found Roll20, exceeded my expectations YEY YEY YEYY!!! If the developer have spare time, I listed some Points under "My pleas" To end this post: I am not a native english speaker, so if some sentences sound, wrong, arrogant, cocky, blant, simple, stupid, it might not be meant like that. Thanks for reading, have fun and take care.

1. There are many ways. Some ideas. Each item could be a Token, then you'd be able to 'keep track of damage' with the red-green-blue bar settings. You could have a Journal of "Items", or each Player could have a Journal of "Bob's Items". I can see why you wouldn't want 1 journal for each item! How about combining them all onto 1 journal, or 5 journals? You could use a Text box and type them onto the Tabletop. You could list the items on each Character's Bio tab, or in the hidden GM Notes section of each Character's Bio tab. You could modify how Card Decks are used as another way to do this. Last idea, you could upgrade to Mentor subscription and that would allow you to take an existing Character Sheet for another game system and modify the code: This could let you make an Items tracking sheet area with features like radio-buttons or checkboxes that you can mark for the items damage. 2. Folders is an often-requested feature here. So far the Devs have said "Use tags" and there has been no hint of Folders coming. Many people still want folders as you've asked. Perhaps someone else can coach you on how to use Tags to achieve what you want instead. 3. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Features" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Features</a> As GM, Edit Token, then click the Advanced tab. Keep "SEE Name" checked. Uncheck "EDIT Name". Now they can't edit the token name but still can change the bars and other settings. 4. More complex macros -- you may be able to do that already, if not, it can be accomplished probably using the API, which is a coding feature available to paying subscribers. 5. A secret roll that doesn't even show the Player and only shows the GM, is available to Mentor subscribers using the API in a feature called broll or blind roll. Hope this helps! Welcome to the site. Enjoy.

Andreas R. said: My Pleas (The "important" part) I would really like to have some kind of inventory for the players/Token/Characters, since I want to keep track of their Items and how damaged they are. I would go with some kind of a Journal entry that is linked to the character, maybe one page per Item, but If I do that my Journal explodes. You can (I think) put hyper links into the journals so that it can references pages. If this is true then just make a blog with all your journal entries and have those links go to those specific pages. Just a suggestion. Andreas R. said: The second one would be something like folders to organize my journal. My players do not really worry yet. But I have so much stuff in it (rule reminder for me, the rituals of one player's shaman, the stuff for the campaign and so on.) And how cool would a spellbook be? Folders won't happen more than likely. There has been a ton of pleading for folders or pseudo-folders but we are constantly told no. Andreas R. said: The opportunity to give the players the power to edit an object, but not to change its name . Controlling a token, but not putting it on the plane (Players are like toddlers, aren't they?) I think that has been suggested in the suggestions forums below, if not then feel free to post it. Andreas R. said: One more thing in the formula would be nice, something where I can enter something like "the result is divided by 2 and that is the amount of successes, if it is negative, it is a failure" (I can imagine, that I just not have seen it yet and it exists? I would be very happy if someone can tell me how to!) I think you can do that now but I'm not a macro guru. You can set it up to divide the roll by 2 and then have it compare to a specific number which in your case would be 0: Computed rolls Andreas R. said: A secret roll, where my player does something, where he prepares the roll, but can NOT see it by himself. It would feel better if they "roll" and get a "you rolled to the GM"-Message, but a "your magic knowledge skill is a success!". So I can tell them the wildest stories, and they do not know how right they are. I am rolling for them now, not that much of a deal, but ... cmon, you want to roll your own skillrolls, dont you? That is possible but it requires the use of the API which is a mentor level feature.

Hey Gold, thanks for your kind advice. 1. These are really interesting ideas, I have to try them for a bit, but I am not completely sold. Maybe I should give every charakter a Page in the CampainBook (I am not sure, that was not what you meant, with Journal, was it? I only got one Journal, but I guess, you meant "handout"?) and place the Items as token there. Some loading time, but would be a nice kind of a "backpackinventory" :-) 2. Ah, Tags. Of course, never used them but this is a pretty good thing to use. (still like the idea of folders, but tags are pretty fine :-) ) 3. Derp - Thanks, as far I remember, I discovered that when in I was in a hurry for smth. else thought "too much text, not what I need" and discarded it, to never look at that tab again :-) 4. To be honest, I consider subscribing anyway. Will check that then :-) 5. Alright, I do not think, that I will bring my group to subscribe, is it enough if I subscribe?

Yes, only the GM need subscribe. Just be aware, to use the API stuff you need to be a subscriber at the Mentor level. Also, Gereon was working an DSA character sheet. This thread has more info. I don't know the current status of that effort, but I think he was planning on submitting it to Roll20 so it would be available to other DSA players. Also, if you are Mentor you can create your own character sheet for your group, too.

Hi Pat S., 1. What do you mean with "blog" an outside blog, or something within roll20? 2. I heard that from Gold as well, but the Tags are useful as well (just need to start using them ^^) 3. You can to it with a token, but as I just checked, the Handouts do not have that feature (They changed it from Symbol 1 to Water symbol, but it was important that the "S" was still in front, had to recollect them afterwards.) 4. I read that before, will try again, thank you :-) Maybe I did not see smth.(Or I am too stupid - always a possibility) 5. Ok, I will think about subscribing - as I asked Gold, do I need to get my Toddlers (sorry I mean adventures) to subscribe, or would my subscription suffice. (They are my age, but they do not behave like that - to make that clear ^^) Thanks for your kind words

If the GM is a Mentor, the whole group gets the benefits tablet support, API, Dynamic Lighting, free tokens and amazingly fast support. Also if you promote someone to co-GM they can use all of the goodies as well. I have posted a question at 2 AM on a weekend and had an answer in ten minutes, Riley never sleeps, or he codes in his sleep...

The price is reasonable as well for what they provide, but I will wait some more evenings, so I am sure, it works for my friends with this system. Thanks for the infos, al e. and G V.

G V. said: Yes, only the GM need subscribe. Just be aware, to use the API stuff you need to be a subscriber at the Mentor level. Also, Gereon was working an DSA character sheet. This thread has more info. I don't know the current status of that effort, but I think he was planning on submitting it to Roll20 so it would be available to other DSA players. Also, if you are Mentor you can create your own character sheet for your group, too. Forgot to mention, thanks for the link, I am not sure, if I can use it, will look into how to use it, but its doubtful that we will use it right away, since we are pretty ok, with the third party program right now. If they could provide me with a good way to store and change Items however, I will consider it ^^

Andreas R. said: Hi Pat S., 1. What do you mean with "blog" an outside blog, or something within roll20? Thanks for your kind words Blog outside of roll20. This would allow you to use the handouts (journal tab) and maintain information outside of roll20. Just a suggestion as I don't know if you blog (a lot of people do) or not. I know of a few people that use a wiki to hold all their info and allow players to update stuff there and put links into handouts for access.