Custom Compendium

I mean everyone does realize they have the ability to create CUSTOM Compendiums alread y! Their focus is on monetization of the platform and not support of existing long term user needs.  If you go right now to DMS Guild you can buy Exploring Eberron which is converted into a Custom Compendium.  After 5 years of asking to be able to do this for my own world we still do not have that ability.  Heck I can't even get a good integration to allow me to access external content on Google Docs.  I just want to add that this is my #1 priority on Roll20.  .  As a member for many years, we have waited long enough for this and many other functions that we need.  They hide behind the "your idea didn't get enough votes wo we closing it".  A simple compendium editor as a first step would have been sufficient years ago. A simple integration to Google Docs would have made a lot of people happy many years ago as well.   I apologize if I come off as upset about this but I don't want to change platforms because I am vested in Roll20 but I am being pushed to the point, I may have not choice. 

Ye'Olde DM said: I mean everyone does realize they have the ability to create CUSTOM Compendiums alread y! Their focus is on monetization of the platform and not support of existing long term user needs.  If you go right now to DMS Guild you can buy Exploring Eberron which is converted into a Custom Compendium.  After 5 years of asking to be able to do this for my own world we still do not have that ability.  Heck I can't even get a good integration to allow me to access external content on Google Docs.  I just want to add that this is my #1 priority on Roll20.  .  As a member for many years, we have waited long enough for this and many other functions that we need.  They hide behind the "your idea didn't get enough votes wo we closing it".  A simple compendium editor as a first step would have been sufficient years ago. A simple integration to Google Docs would have made a lot of people happy many years ago as well.   I apologize if I come off as upset about this but I don't want to change platforms because I am vested in Roll20 but I am being pushed to the point, I may have not choice.  That is actually not a custom compendium. Someone from the Exploring Eberron side of things coded their compendium into Roll20 (or Roll20 did it for them). This probably took many many hours of coding.  Right now the compendium requires nothing less than coding skills.  The envisioned Custom Compendium would probably require no coding skills, everyone would probably be able to do it. But there is still the legal issues that would need to be resolved. 

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+1, this would save me so much time when I'm trying to add spells that aren't in the compendium to various NPCs. I have a hard time imagining any legal issues in a personal compendium that only I/maybe my players have access to.

+1 I dont know what this means But honestly having a way to add the custom compendium would be great a ton of other programs have this feature as well. Im currently running a Final Fantasy xiv dnd and want an easier way to add monsters from the book this would help out a ton.

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1+ I don't know what this means but +1

+1  This would be nice if only to be able to put in homebrew content that's not readily available in the marketplace.

Legally perhaps it might require the games to be privately locked not public and perhaps there might have to be a no'streaming' acceptance policy if a persons private compendium uses copyrighted material, maps, pictures, handouts, music of any type?  The legal nightmares would begin if someone uses such material for profit which is indelibly linked with streaming at this point and roll20 would be implicated.  No issue of personal use for no profit so that doesn't restrict creative homebrewing but I can see streaming being an issue.  Perhaps you might be able to sign off saying all copyrighted material would be presented as such with any streaming to absolve Roll20 it would include a signed contract to the game with the use of the private compendium.

TeresaS said: Legally perhaps it might require the games to be privately locked not public and perhaps there might have to be a no'streaming' acceptance policy if a persons private compendium uses copyrighted material, maps, pictures, handouts, music of any type?  The legal nightmares would begin if someone uses such material for profit which is indelibly linked with streaming at this point and roll20 would be implicated.  No issue of personal use for no profit so that doesn't restrict creative homebrewing but I can see streaming being an issue.  Perhaps you might be able to sign off saying all copyrighted material would be presented as such with any streaming to absolve Roll20 it would include a signed contract to the game with the use of the private compendium. You can already put copyrighted material in a game the slow manual way. Using the compendium doesn't actually change that in any way other than making life easier for the user when they need to enter the same thing multiple times.

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7 years ... this post is up for 7 years now. Unbelievable.  

+1… but 7 years? C’mon folks…. Sigh.

+1. Come on.... please let us have it soon. Custom spells and items are a central part of rpgs. Edit: Also consider by allowing more people to start down the path of making cool custom content and playtesting it you might start up a new generation of content creators for your own marketplace.

Mike D. said: +1… but 7 years? C’mon folks…. Sigh. Right!?! It's almost like Roll20 is 100% focused on marketplace and monetization features, and wants to do the bare minimum to keep players and GM's from jumping ship to another platform. 🤔

So if every other VTT can do this, why can't Roll20 now?

7 years old and still the feature that would help me enjoy the product more then anything else. a both private and customizable compendium where I can build and store my zillion house rules, and private world details. Instead of having like 10 games I use to store stuff then transfer stuff from into actual games. I mean work around right now is have a game for monsters (a few games eventually do to growing file number creating lag) a few games for maps, a game for magical gear ect ect then have to use transmog to transfer the stuff from those games to the current one.

+1 I have left roll20 because of the lack of this feature. If it were to come back, I may rejoin using the service.

Still would very much like a custom compendium :) I play a lot of homebrew and it's rather tedious ^^

+1 this feature would allow me to finally settle on roll20 as my Future Platform of choice instead of Partly moving to foundry already and looking into Alchemist RPG vtt

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Don't they know how hard it is to make a Zelda game when you have to input every creature or item into the game as there is nothing out there as a book that has everything? This needs to come soon... I'm driving myself nuts as I will rather be planning maps and plots than items and monster input stats. T_T for everything so many times.

+1 This is a great platform, but please: Don't be the ADP of TTRPG hosting. (IIRM: ADP, the worlds largest payroll processor, ignored a startup named Paychex taking small bites out of niche markets. Paychex was small, agile, and doing what the customer base in those niche markets needed, but of course they couldn't scale up like ADP could, The big fish companies in the Fortune 500 never bit and moved to Paychex, but all the little fish went for the lower price and newer features. That made Paychex bigger, and able to scale. Pretty soon, not only was ADP competing with Paychex for the big fish, but they were competing with so many other payroll companies like Paycom and others. In a decade, the corporate behemoth that was ADP had lost market dominance. Pathfinders LOVE Foundry like it's their baby, and with PF's growth, they feel a little like the Paychex of TTRPs - nothing compared to DnD, which is the majority of what goes on here on R20, but Foundry is one good hosting agreement that drops the double payment problem away from being real competitors)

Lmao 7 years. Not only can we not make a custom compendium, the compendium we do have has a lot of spelling errors, Drag & drop functionality mistakes that haven't been fixed in years either.  But thank god we have dark mode. What hope is there? 

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+1 here too