Roll20 uses cookies to improve your experience on our site. Cookies enable you to enjoy certain features, social sharing functionality, and tailor message and display ads to your interests on our site and others. They also help us understand how our site is being used. By continuing to use our site, you consent to our use of cookies. Update your cookie preferences .
×
×

Cookie Preferences

We use Cookies to help personalize and improve Roll20. For more information on our use of non-essential Cookies, visit our Privacy Policy here.
Create a free account

No Campaign Character Backgrounds?

  1. Community Forums
  2. Character Sheets & Compendium
  3. No Campaign Character Backgrounds?
1576345180
Starlight
Plus
Permalink for 7982191 Quote
One thing I'm kind of surprised at is that the optional character backgrounds listed in campaign books, like the Haunted one in Curse of Strahd, and the archeologist in Tomb of Annihilation, aren't added options in the charactermancer. Will there be an update later on to make them options in the charactermancer, or will we have to input them manually?
1576381407
Loren the GM
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Permalink for 7983608 Quote
Those modules were built before the charactermancer existed, so they do not support it. Devs have mentioned they’d like to add support for older modules but have never given a timeframe when they might actually get to that.
1576517450

Edited 1576517606
Jens F.
Pro
Permalink for 7986994 Quote
On the other hand,Tyranny of Dragons is recently released, and as far as I can see, the campaign backgrounds aren't available in the charactermancer.
1576547445
Loren the GM
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Permalink for 7988071 Quote
There aren't any full backgrounds in ToD, only background features and bonds. Newer releases like GoS, DiA, and AI have included new full backgrounds for the Charactermancer, but don't always update already existing backgrounds to add new information - you would have to pull that from the compendium text.
1577649471
Starlight
Plus
Permalink for 8013598 Quote
Even still, there should be updates to the old campaigns to be able to add campaign backgrounds to character sheets without doing it manually.
1577655690
Loren the GM
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Permalink for 8013775 Quote
I'd love for that to happen. As I mentioned before, Devs have mentioned they’d like to add support for older modules but have never given a timeframe when they might actually get to that.
You must Login to your Roll20 Account to post a reply.