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PDF Form to Roll20 Character Sheet

Hey All, So, I have been playing World of Darkness and I had created my own Interactive PDF (Form) Character sheet modeled after the WOD 20th Anniversary PDF Interactive PDF character sheet (Form). I created new art for the background on the form and everything. Now, I have only used Roll20 once so my experience is very (vveeearrrrrryyyyy) lacking. My knowledge too. BUT here is why I am positing. I was thinking it might be nice to try to get my game group to perhaps use Roll20. That being said, the following are a few things I (me, not sure about the others) would want but don't know if Roll20 can accommodate. Can a person use their PDF Form (character sheet) on Roll 20 such that the GM can then view the sheet at any time during the game rather than having to use Acrobat? Is Roll20 so awesome as to be able to RE-Create a Custom character sheet in IT and have it be as cool as the PDF? IF a character sheet is created, is there a way to STORE it such that the GM and/or Players can look at and reference them any time, even when not in game? (kinda like emailing the PDF to the GM so they can look at it any time they want and perhaps even change stuff if they want to). Can all the players store their character sheets on line so the GM can access all of them when they want to? Now, we use Discord at this point. So I am also trying to determine if roll20 is BETTER, Equal to, or worse than Discord for the audio part as well as seeing that there are channels that can be created to keep things organized. As for the character sheet I created. Here is the URL for where it can be found on my website. It is multiple pages AND has buttons to create MORE pages. So as the character grows or you want to take notes, you can create more pages for that. Small pages for items and gifts and other stuff, larger pages for lots and lots of notes. IF anyone goes to check the Character sheet out, let me know if that can be recreated here on Roll20. Thanks, Nina I have no idea if the link will work once I post this or if they will permit me to keep it up and working so, if the link does not work then let me know. A World of Darkness Werewolf Character Sheet (3 page fillable (form) pages
It looks like there is already a "Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition" sheet template in Roll20. Here is the preview image:&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets/blob/master/CWOD-W20/W20.png" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets/blob/master/CWOD-W20/W20.png</a> Creating a sheet template from a PDF isn't exactly straightforward. They're created with manually-written HTML and CSS. Most of the sheet templates available in Roll20 are community-created, although there's a few maintained by Roll20 staff. You can find more information about creating character sheet templates in the wiki -&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Building_Character_Sheets" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Building_Character_Sheets</a> Character sheets can be accessed from the virtual table top. I don't know if a player can launch the virtual table top without the GM around. The GM can control which players can access and update each character sheet. (I'm pretty sure a player can't be given read-only access to a character sheet - if they can see it, they can update it.)
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Roll20 sheets are based on html and CSS, which are completely different and completely incompatible technologies to PDF. There's no way, and there will never be a way, to automatically convert from PDF to roll20 character sheets. The only option is to build a sheet from scratch (though you can copy code from any of the many existing sheets). You can create a sheet in roll20 to be as basic or as beautiful as you like, and your skills support. I looked at your sheet - yes, you'd be able&nbsp; to create that on roll20. But you'd have to start from scratch and build it entirely in HTML/CSS. As Zed says, there's an existing Werewolf sheet already, and I think the chronicles of darkness sheet supports werewolf too.&nbsp; Regarding storage and player access: In roll20, the term campaign is used for each separate game. Say you are running three separate games, using the same or different systems - you'd create a campaign for each of them. Once a campaign is created, it is persistent. Players can log into it at any time, and do not need the GM to be around. They can only see what campaign materials the GM leaves open for them to see, but they can always look at and edit their own character sheets. A/V: Many people use Discord instead of roll20 for audio/video. roll20's AV used to be terrible, apparently it's now 'adequate', but many people still prefer to use other methods, among them Discord.
&nbsp;As Zed says, there's an existing Werewolf sheet already, and I think the chronicles of darkness sheet supports werewolf too.&nbsp; While Chronicles of Darkness (New World of Darkness) is a successor-gameline to World of Darkness (Classic World of Darkness), they are different enough that I don't think you can play one with character sheets designed for the other. They both have "Werewolf", but in Classic World of Darkness it's "Werewolf: The Apocalypse" and in Chronicles of Darkness it's "Werewolf: The Forsaken". There's different mechanics and themes.
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Nina said: Can a person use their PDF Form (character sheet) on Roll 20 such that the GM can then view the sheet at any time during the game rather than having to use Acrobat? Is Roll20 so awesome as to be able to RE-Create a Custom character sheet in IT and have it be as cool as the PDF? For the other's that answered this part of the questions, the same thinks are stated in the "General" section of the Building Character Sheets Guide: Character sheets for Roll20 are created in HTML &amp; CSS,(and for more advanced features using Sheetworkers, a limited amount of JavaScript). Roll20 uses a number of changes to normal html/css, so they cannot properly be tested outside Roll20 in general web-dev environments such as Codepen or JSFiddle, and must be examined inside a game. Plain HTML/CSS code taken from elsewhere do not work right away, as there exists a number of Roll20-specific feature and definitions that need to be used to make this work. There are also a good number of known Restrictions that limits what features of HMTL/CSS/JavaScript can be used. Converting character sheets from sources such as pdfs is not possible either, and sheet must be manually created, either from scratch, or based on existing Roll20 sheets . In general, a Roll20 character sheet consists of a HTML-file, and a CSS-file. Some more advanced sheets also have a translation file. Using or creating Custom Character Sheets is a Pro-subscription feature, just want to point out as none of the others seem to have mention it.