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 .
×

Can I customize?

Hello! Hope you're doing well. So I am new to Roll20 (and dming). I wanted to ask if there is a way to make custom items/monsters for a game of DnD? It is for a plot I am doing for my first ever time dming. If I'm reading it right, I wanna guess it's the API access that comes with the subscription; I'm not sure though. If not, it's no big deal. Thank you for any help!
1581831211
Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
It really depends on what you want and what you want to do with it. If you just want something to show the players then sure, just create some handouts with a graphic and text. When time, just select the handout and click show players. The monsters take a slightly longer time if you are creating a custom creature. You create a blank sheet and handfill the sheet. Any account can do that. The API is javascripting, limited programs, and requires a pro subscription. If there is not a script already created that does what you want, you could ask a scripter to help create one if they have time or you can try your hand at writing one yourself. Again, it really depends on what you want and how or what you want to do with it.
The main two features I'm looking to creature are six items, one to boost each stat by the same number of points. And for monsters, I want to merge stats of them. My plot is gonna have the worlds cave in on each other and I thought this would be a cool touch. Pat S. said: It really depends on what you want and what you want to do with it. If you just want something to show the players then sure, just create some handouts with a graphic and text. When time, just select the handout and click show players. The monsters take a slightly longer time if you are creating a custom creature. You create a blank sheet and handfill the sheet. Any account can do that. The API is javascripting, limited programs, and requires a pro subscription. If there is not a script already created that does what you want, you could ask a scripter to help create one if they have time or you can try your hand at writing one yourself. Again, it really depends on what you want and how or what you want to do with it.
1581860546

Edited 1581860590
Gold
Forum Champion
Hello USJapan and welcome to Roll20! 翻訳コンピューターを使って日本語の勉強を始めました。 ゴールドオトサンと名付けられました Short answer: Yes you can customize everything like you asked, even on the Free account. Pat gave a good answer! Longer comments. You can develop your game gradually. In the beginning, Roll20 has an empty whiteboard, empty text pages, and Audio-Video-Text chat communication in real time. Anything that you can run as a game at your kitchen table, you can communicate in Roll20 using just the basic tools. It is not necessary to type your custom monster into Roll20, for the first game. You (the dungeon master) can say it verbally. "You are seeing a custom monster. The teeth are very big." The players roll some dice to hit the monster? You can write the Hit Points on your notepad at home. It is not necessary to begin Roll20 gaming with fully-programmed monsters in the database. You can run any monster, and be the dungeon master, verbally and using paper. Roll20 will assist the communication, maps, dice, chat, even in the most basic empty starting form. Advanced Roll20: Yes, you can configure Roll20 to enter your custom monsters. It can have a character sheet, stats, attributes, macros, pre-programmed dice rolls, abilities, hit points, picture, language, everything. However this takes time & knowledge to set up. However the important message is, you can play a basic version of Roll20 as your first stepping stone towards doing Advanced later. Advice: The best place to begin is "Create Game" button on Free account. Invite your friends. Begin to communicate. Test the features. Then decide which features to type and automate.