D&D 5E (2024) Character Sheet & Builder by Roll20

Rob V. said: On the 2024 character sheet, how can I keep track of the number of uses of an item or ability. Example: how many times I have Raged today. Thanx. Rob You can add resources to any item or feature using the Modifiers at the bottom! Tim S. said: Does Automatic Advantage/Disadvantage not work yet?   I know you can use the drop down at the top to set a roll as advantage, disadvantage age, automatic, or query.  All of those work except for Automatic.  I need it to just roll twice for all rolls so we can choose which roll to apply when needed as it did with the 2014 sheet instead of having an extra step before every roll. Also, can you format the damage results box to look slightly different (color) so rolling damage doesn't look like rolling attack and vice versa  Keith is correct, "Automatic" isn't equivalent to rolling two dice - it calculates whether or not you should have advantage or disadvantage and then rolls with that. For example, if you turn on Beacon of Hope's effect, then you would automatically get advantage on Wisdom and death saving throws because the sheet knows you should have it. To answer the various discussion here about damage: We have added a stopgap of putting the word "Damage" in the roll template. We also have new designs for the roll templates that do a lot to make them more readable, including some other differences between attack rolls and damage rolls, but they're still going through revisions for instances like rerolls and elven accuracy and other advanced rolling actions so they're not under development yet. Ben Z. said: While trying to fix things on my 2024 character sheet, I accidentally deleted the Rage feature from my Barbarian (originally built with the Charactermancer). Is there any way to add it back? I cannot recreate the feature with all its subtleties myself, and drag&drop of the class feature doesn't work. I don't think there's a fix for this yet. I'm going to see if we can't add a function to the builder to restore parts of the class to their compendium defaults to avoid this. Veo said: Hi, This is probably a dumb question asked a dozen times, but I can't scroll a 23 page monster thread and there's no way to search it.   - Why is the 2024 sheet not logging ability score rolls to the chat log any more?   Is this a known issue?  Will it be resolved any time soon? I'm going to talk to the team and get back to you on this one.

Bigfoot said: I was going through everyones sheets, gathering average damage total, lol. When I recognized that our warlock, who is level 4, is showing that they only have one, level one spell slot.  I've created a temporary fix by adding the two level two spell slots manually and telling them to just ignore the first level spell. But, Yeah, uh, that's the bug :D. Missing spell slots for warlock. We have noticed a few bits of weirdness with the warlock "spell slots" ourselves. We're currently in the middle of a big spells improvement on both the sheet and builder side, so that's on the list! Tom F. said: If I use the 2024 5E D&D character sheet for my game - do I lose the ability to make all NPC/Monster rolls default to Never Whisper to DM.  It doesn't seem like there is even an option to set that when you use the 2024 sheet - but I see it when I do the 2014 sheet. The campaign setting for this is coming - it got stymied as it came with a conversation of how "applying defaults to all sheets" is actually going to look in this new context. I can't give any promises on a timeline, though.

Veo said: Hi, This is probably a dumb question asked a dozen times, but I can't scroll a 23 page monster thread and there's no way to search it.   - Why is the 2024 sheet not logging ability score rolls to the chat log any more?   Is this a known issue?  Will it be resolved any time soon? Followup: talked to the team and the answer for this is that this is known and will be fixed, but it's not a very high priority compared to other bug fixes and improvements on the builder so there's no timeline on when it will be picked up.

Oginme said: Nicole B. said: Keith is correct, "Automatic" isn't equivalent to rolling two dice - it calculates whether or not you should have advantage or disadvantage and then rolls with that. For example, if you turn on Beacon of Hope's effect, then you would automatically get advantage on Wisdom and death saving throws because the sheet knows you should have it. So, if I have a party with a character who can cast a Beacon of Hope spell, or any other area of effect spell that covers more than just the caster, I will need to go into every character sheet and add the effect to each?  And then each player will need to scroll down to that effect and switch it on and off each turn depending upon what happens?  This seems so clumsy and awkward.  A party with a cleric, a druid, and a paladin can end up with a long list of effects which constantly needs to be switched on and off.  We do have future plans for more sheet-to-sheet functionality that will allow someone to cast a spell on another person, but that's pretty far off in the future. MykeMyke said: Is calling character abilities in a chat roll on the roadmap? 2024 sheet is unusable for many without streamlining - e.g. Macro Mule by Jarren. This is one of the primary reasons for my community not yet migrating to JumpGate It is! We're working on it now. keithcurtis said: There are also multiple abilities in the game that expend a hit die for other reasons. I reported the need for marking off hit dice a couple of weeks ago. Editing hit dice is also on the list of improvements. The short rest modal is designed to allow for single rolls, one at a time, until HP is at the level the player is happy with, but the editing still needs to be there for features like you pointed out and mistake-fixing. More macro support is a higher priority right this second, though.

Erudo said: I play a wizard who uses a lot of scrolls and rituals. I'm not sure how to make these spells easily accessible since they are not prepared. Is my only choice to make them 'always prepared'? If so then in the rare case where a spell is both prepared and is a scroll (for extra casts), there's no good way to represent this. Side note managing a lot of spells feels practically difficult. Interested to understand what's in the roadmap to address these. Filters etc? Always Prepared is the way you would mark them right now to always show up, yes. Spell scrolls and items that give spells might benefit from a duplicate version of the spell regardless of this issue, because they pretty much always have a set DC/attack bonus, which wouldn't apply to the spell you cast normally. Spell scrolls have a set DC of 13/+5 attack bonus, for example. Don't tell the marketing people that I'm leaking to you all, but we're currently working a full revamp of spells that allows for things like filters, listing spells that aren't prepared, seeing charges for spells on the spells page, and seeing a LOT more spells on the page. This is just between you and me though. Erudo said: When you have auto damage roll toggled on and use a multi attack spell like Scorching Ray, the output will show 3 attacks in a row, followed by 3 damage rolls in a row. Instead of the expected attack-damage, attack-damage, attack-damage. In the moment, it is taxing to try to match the attack and the damage. Overall the splitting of attack roll and damage, compared to how they can be bundled in the 2014 sheet, seems to be creating a lot of usability issues. You're right, this should definitely be attack/damage paired together. I'll see what we can do about that.

Der Arkanier said: Hi everyone, I was on a desperate search for a centralized feedback and communication channel for bugs and changes with the new (2024) character sheet and character builder and I hope I found it with that thread. If there is a different feedback channel or an overview of already reported problems with the new 2024 sheets, that would help me to keep track of the planned fixes vs the reported problems, it would be very helpful for me if someone has a post. My DM just bought the new rulebooks and upgraded to pro account because he wants to share rule books in several games, in order to be able to keep on playing with 2014 sheets while also trying out the 2024 sheets and builder. I'm the one of my group to do some testing of the 2024 sheet and builder by trying to replicate a 2014 hexblade with a 2024 fighter/warlock multiclass. However, I found the character builder to be lackluster if not to say borderline unusable for that purpose and run into these problems and bugs: - Generally, I cannot customize the race or the background by any means, nor can I select old 2014 backgrounds or races. I have no idea if that's planned in the future. So, I picked 2024 background and races and tried to change them manually by deleting some of their feats and professions. Problem ist when levelling further up, the deleted feats would be back in again in the builder, so that I have to delete them again. You should be able to choose 2014 backgrounds and races. Maybe you don't have content sharing set up to allow that? I was also able to confirm that if you delete a background from the sheet, even though it looks like it's readding it in the builder, it is not. You can also finish the builder and drag & drop a background, or add a custom one, although you'll have to manually make any choices for it. - I cannot select the Edritch Invocation Lessons of the First Ones more than once, although the rules say, I could. It's just not available in the respective dropdown menu. I haven't tried but I assume that goes for other invocations, too. The fix for Lessons of the First Ones is in code review now, so may be out this week dependent on review speeds, QA speeds, and what else is moving through. - When swapping out Invocations when levelling up, the dropdown menu to select the invocation that I want to change shows all invocations that I already replaced at earlier levels. So, at the next level, I can swap an already replaced invocationn against a new one again. The dropdown eventually grows by any invocation I had picked ever and that I already replaced, so that I can add a new invocation at every character level without actually replacing any. We made a ticket for this, thanks. This is due to the builder's ability to move backwards and forwards in levels, in that specific dropdown it has a little trouble distinguishing "had this last level" and "have this in the current level". - The spell list in the character builder is categorized in sections by spell level. So, when I level up (e.g. at warlock level 4) and want to replace let's say a level 1 spell (such as hex) against a level 2 spell (such as invisibility), the menu for replacement spells offers only level 1 spells as replacement. I don't see invisibility on that menu. In the section for level 2 spells I can learn invisibility as a new spell, though. That might make sense for other classes but is just wrong for the warlock whose spell slots are all levelling up. I would expect that the menu for replacements for level 1 spells at warlock level 4 shows the same level 2 spells as a replacement that the menu for new level 2 spells contain. This is part of the larger spells work that we're doing right now! At that point I gave up and my group decided to stick with 2014 rules and 2014 character sheet. But we are considering to leave the platform which would force us to the buy the 2024 rule books again which atm is the only reason not to leave. Thanks! EDIT: - The 1st level spell Detect Magic is not selectable as a spell for my Warlock This is a data issue, someone missed the addition of Warlock to this spell in the new edition. I've alerted the data team so it should be fixed soon. - At level 4 I can only select 4 spells for preparation (learn 4 spells) but it should be 5. I wasn't able to replicate this, either with complicated multiclasses or just a straight warlock. Every time I tried, I got 5 spells. Maybe I'm missing a step that triggered this? - I get 4 skill proficiencies when multiclassing with fighter and warlock. I believe I should only get the proficiencies for the first class (fighter in my case.) I also wasn't able to replicate this. I rolled up a Fighter/Warlock really quick and it just showed me the choices for fighter in the skills slide. Am I missing something? I understand your frustration. We've updated the sheet 14 times in the last week, with 9 of them being bug fixes, so we're still furiously working towards our ideal vision. I hope you stick with us in the meantime.

Garreth M. said: There is something I have to get off my chest. The thing that annoys me the absolute most about the 2024 sheet. Let's say I've got an NPC with a dagger. That NPC can deal sneak attack damage sometimes so I'd like that to be rolled along with the dagger attack. In the 2014 sheet, I can make this happen with the following steps, starting from an NPC sheet with a dagger attack already on it. 1. Mouse over the attack and click the cog 2. Type 2d6 in the On Hit 2 field 3. Type Sneak Attack in the damage type field 4. Click the cog wheel to close In the 2024 sheet, the same action takes the following steps: 1. Click the i button 2. Click to the damage tab 3. Click Add New Damage 4. Click Damage Type 5. Set to Piercing, for lack of an option to name this Sneak Attack 6. Click Damage Dice Type 7. Select d6 8. Type 2 in the Damage Dice field 9. Remember to click Ability and change from Automatic to None 10. Click Save 11. Groan cause this has somehow set the attack roll to +0 12. Go back into the i menu 13. Click Proficiency 14. Set from Automatic to Proficient (what does automatic mean anyway?) 15. Click Ability Override 16. Select Dexterity 17. Click Save again. Am I missing something? EDIT: I tried testing the damage rolls as well, but the 2024 sheet does not support damage rolls in /talktomyself mode so that's another gripe. We're working on ways to make this less clicky for sure, like possibly putting the damage under the attacks (although that would then require scroll, we're still working through options there) and having less fields. I'll definitely try to dig into the +0 bug you've mentioned here today. For the record, "automatic" means "calculated from what we know about the attack". For example, if you add an attack and say "this is linked to my Dagger", and you are proficient in daggers, "automatic" will recognize that and add proficiency to it. If you add a spell attack, automatic will default to no proficiency because spells don't work that way. Erudo said: I'm mindful that there's a spell management revamp on the way, but would like to point out a specific problem with preparing spells. Right now this can only be done with the Manage Spell window, which unfortunately does not sort / filter by spell level. Often when you're choosing which spells to prepare, you want to know how many spells you already have for Lv 1, how many you already have for Lv 2, and so on. You generally want a spread of levels, as your spell slots are similarly spread. This is very difficult with the current set up, you have to exit out to the main spell to see what's going on. Say you realise ok I need some Lv 5 spells. You go back to the Manage Spells window and you need to go through every single spell and manually check the level. For spellcasters with a lot of potential spells (wizards, clerics, and druids), this is very difficult. I've taken onto creating my own list out of Roll20. Some sort or filter option for spell levels in the Manage Spell window would address the issue on both fronts. The new version of the spells does fix this problem. I'm excited to show it off but we're still a bit out, I expect there will be some previews soon as we progress in development though :) ErrantX said: Jay W. said: You might already be aware of this, but the pact of the tome spell selection seems to be broken. For both cantrips and first-level spells, the builder brings up a blank list. I know pact of the tome spells are on the to-do list, so maybe I just caught a work in progress. I know I and many others have put in a ticket for this. Definitely vexing since my group is starting a new campaign right now and a player wants to use pact of the tome. The response to the ticket I got was sometime in the next week they're doing another round of patches so we'll see if they fix it. Hopefully, they do! For all the faults we're finding here, it's still leaps and bounds ahead of where that Mage by the Beach or whatever his name is has got going on that site. PatheticWretch said: I just bought the 2024 PHB and am DMing Curse of Strahd soon. The first character I created was a warlock--it's pretty disappointing to run into an error with the character creator (and Pact of the Tome spells not working) right out of the box. The reason I bought this was to make my DM job easier. I hope this gets fixed soon. :/ Pact of the Tome fix is moving into QA today. Bigfoot  said: Ok, no. I know the problem now. And this does bring up a genuine bug or maybe my impatience, lol. Closing out of the popup window that automatically comes up whenever it's being imported will not put in the spells for you. Like the process is interrupted.  Also, if you instantly close out of that window whenever you import it in, it creates kinda like a blank sheet. (Like when you first create a character and it's asking you to do the character maker thing.) So, it does import the spells and whatnot, you just gotta wait for it to do so. My bad. I'm glad you were able to sort this out! When the sheet opens, the data we get is "here's the page name and the book it came from", so we have to make a request to the compendium to get its full data. Then, we get a list of spell names, because we don't want to duplicate data or risk it getting outdated by rewriting all the spell data inside the NPC itself. So we then have to get the compendium entries for those spells to fill it in. I'll see if we can come up with some better messaging on the sheet to make it clear what's happening there. Danny D said: New to Roll20, migrating a Monk character sheet from DnD Beyond I noticed the following: The monk skills choices aren't correct. The choices are Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Religion and Stealth. Some of those are missing, while others like Perception are available. I somehow ended up with hand crossbow proficiency. This was removed in the playtesting of 2024 DnD. According to the 2024 PHB they just get melee simple weapons and melee martial weapons with the light property. So no ranged weapons of any kind. I've escalated the skill proficiency issue to the data team to update. Thanks! I think you might be mixing up "weapons that Monks have proficiency in" and "Monk weapons". Only one of those is defined as melee only. Monks are proficient in all Simple weapons and all Martial weapons that have the Light property. I checked this against our own internal sources, external official sources, and even went and dug out my own physical PHB to make sure this is correct.

Noodle said: Weekly feedback: - Guidance toggled on in Query mode rolls a 0 instead of a 1d4. Also Bless, seems that Effects in Queries are broken atm. If Query mode is off, both Bless and Guidance work as intended. Guidance is a premade effect on the Cleric's sheet, and Bless homemade on another player's sheet. - Would be nice for NPCs to roll twice (not adv/disadv) like on 2014 sheets, especially in Stat Block view where you can't toggle adv on/off. Just a nice time saver. David Q.  said: Anyone else notice that effects are not rolling I know it says bane but i didnt use a - just went straight 1d4 This bug is now fixed!