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How to create a character sheet

I'm a GM and I can't figure out how to make character sheets. I tried going to Game Settings, but all I see there is the Character Sheet Template without any way to actually make a new character. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

October 28 (6 years ago)
GiGs
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter

In Game settings, where you find those character sheet listings, pick one. Then load your campaign and go to the Journal Tab, in the sidebar to the right, and there'll be an Add Character option. Click that and you'll have a new character sheet.

October 28 (6 years ago)

You would actually need to launch the game you have created.

Once in the game, in the right panel (called the chat window), you will see a row of tokens across the top. As the GM, they are (in order):

- Chat (text balloon), Library (picture), Journal (book), I in a circle (compendium), 3 bars with note (jukebox), 3 bars (collection), and Gear (settings)

To create a character sheet, click the journal. Then from the "+Add" button, choose character sheet. Once you create the sheet, you (as GM) will have to open it up and set the name and permissions (click the "Edit" button top right), change the name, set the "in player's journal" entry (i like all players), and set the "edited & controlled by" to the name of the player whose character it is. (players need to be connected to your game to set this last one).


The Chat button is for messages back and forth and for the output of rolls and other input/output stuff.

The Library (GM only) is where you can search for images.

The Journal is for character sheets (pc and npc) and handouts

The Compendium is a resource (if available for your game system) that shows information about your system.

Jukebox is the music and sound effects

Collection is your macros, rollable tables and decks.

Settings is just that, settings.


Hope that helps, and feel free to ask any other questions you have.

October 28 (6 years ago)

Edited October 28 (6 years ago)
keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter

There are a couple of possible questions here, so I'm going to try to answer the most likely one.

If you have created a game, and chosen which character sheet that campaign is using, launch the game. Go to your Journals tab on the right (looks like a newspaper). Click the "+Add" button and choose "Character". This will create a new, blank character. Full instructions and explanations are here in the wiki.

If you are trying to make a new character sheet (not a character), that's a LOT more involved. A character sheet is a template shared by all characters in the game. Any given game will have exactly one character sheet (or zero--some people run without sheets). For most popular systems, you can choose a pre-made sheet at game creation time, either an official Roll20 or a community-contributed one.

I suspect you meant the first option, but let me know if this is incorrect and we can go from there.

Ahhh, thanks everyone!