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New (?) Alien Roleplaying Game character sheet by Free league

Our new ALIEN roleplaying games have featured a different character sheet, but this new sheet doesn't roll weapon attacks properly after all bonuses and damage info is entered, and we can't find an initiative dice roller anywhere on the sheet.  Also, monster attack rolls on some sheets I've used thus far (in the Heart of Darkness module) don't work properly.  Anyone have any idea what's going on here, or what I might be missing?
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Scott C.
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can you provide a screenshot of the sheet you are using?
I think I have one thing figured out...  Closing the sheet after entering the weapons, then reiopening, they seem to roll properly.  STILL can't locate any initiative function, and the game compendium doesn't come with a deck like Dragonbane does.
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Scott C.
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hmm, ok, that is the official sheet that I helped author. Can you do me a favor and submit a bug report about the weapons not rolling when they are first created to Sigil via our support portal ? For initiative, the Aliens sheet was built just before some things became available to character sheets that allowed the Dragonbane initiative page; unfortunately, I don't think it will get the same treatment soon. The best way to roll initiative would be to use Roll20 deck.
I'm curious why the change needed to be made; we had no complaints with the old sheet, and an important function has been removed from the new iteration.  I'm off to make my own initiative cards.
Last comment: talents do not populate in chat when clicked, also.  There is absolutely no way this sheet was playtested before being rolled out, or someone would have realised there's no way to roll or draw initiative, among several other things wrong here.  It isn't my job to test the sheet and correct obvious errors, and simply saying "oh well, it won't be corrected anytime soon" is poor form.
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Scott C.
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I'm not sure what sheet change happened, we haven't released any changes to the sheet lately that would have caused massive changes.
Oh, wow, I understand what happened here.  I've been playing on Roll20 for years with a sheet made in the community, not the one that says "by Free League".  The old one still exists, it's simply called "Aliens", and still works properly to play the game. When I set up my new "Heart of Darkness" game, it defaulted to the Free League one rather than the "old"one, hence my confusion.  The old one still works fine, Initiative button and all. Unfortunately, switching to the old sheet creates problems with accessing NPC sheets in the compendium.  Any chance someone could get the new sheet working properly with all the necessary functions and properly playtest it, without expecting the communtiy to do troubleshooting and aid in development  free of charge?