I’m aware there’s a few issues affecting character sheets at
the moment but hadn’t seen these specific ones anywhere so figured it was worth
raising. This has happened across two separate games I GM on Tuesday
and Wednesday nights, both Pathfinder 1E, both using the official character
sheet. Wednesday game is using the published War for the Crown adventure path
content, Tuesday is homebrew, in case that matters. Full details below, but to summarise: character sheets seem
to be resetting or removing various elements (ability scores, class, skill
ranks, hp) possibly as a result of the sheet trying to run the charactermancer
on existing characters. This seems to happen at random, repeatedly, sometimes
just for the player sometimes for both player and GM. There were some issues on Tuesday evening with players not
being able to open sheets, these were similar to those that were happening all
over and that Roll20 were looking into fixing. The affected players managed to
eventually get them open with multiple attempts and switching browsers a couple
of times. Then later that evening one player reported that his ability
scores had reset to 10 and his class had been removed (along with the
spellcasting tab that he had been adding all his spells to). In case it makes a
difference that character was newer than all the others, having been created
last week and I had been in and out of the character that day helping the
player finish it before we started. He tried logging in and out a couple of
times but couldn’t seem to get it back. Eventually we decided to leave it on
the basis it might be as a result of the current issues and maybe would fix itself
by the following day or when we next ran. Then on Wednesday night as we were starting, one of the players
reported a similar issue, also noting that he was getting the prompt to start
the charactermancer. This was a character that was created some time ago. I looked
at the sheet and everything appeared fine for me. Thinking that the
charactermancer prompt might be causing the problem and remembering that it can
be turned off I had everyone log out, went into the game settings and set the
charactermancer prompt to off. We all logged back in at which point all of the
players started to report the characermancer prompt and their ability scores
resetting to 0, classes being removed etc. We spent some time trying various
things to fix this including: logging out and in again making sure only one person
was in the sheet, removing player view/edit permissions from and sheet and
reinstating them etc. We eventually managed to get all but one of the character
sheets working normally, though began to suspect that the issue might be caused
by the GM viewing the sheets so I stopped opening them. One character sheet however (again the newest one but not
the one that had the initial problem) could not seem to recover. Eventually we
decided to continue while that player worked to fill in the missing data. He
continued to have issues, the condition window refusing to open for example. In
addition while looking at the tokens linked to the sheets I noticed there are
now multiple instances of the hp tag. Some display 0/0 hit points others seem
to display the current hit points on the sheet. See screenshot below. Other
tokens have similar (though fewer) of these duplicates with all the characters
now having at least 2 hps in that drop-down menu. I saw on a different thread that Roll20 had done a rollback
this morning to address the character sheet issues so jumped on to see if it
has helped. The character from Tuesday with the issues is still showing as 10s
with no class, skill points or hit points. I also checked and he too has
multiple instances of hp showing on the dropdown menu for the assigned token. The problem character in the Wednesday game has also reset
back to 10s and removed class, skill and hit points removing all the work the player
had done to add those all back in during the session. Frankly I’ve not opened any other sheets for fear of this
happening with them as well and making the situation worse. Has anyone else
experienced this and is there a good way to address the issue or get back what
was lost?
I’m not a pro subscriber so I can’t roll back the games
myself. Is this something that Roll20 could do if they’ve stopped working and rolling them back might this fix the issue?