Ok I am at work so I'll have to test again when I'm at home but with quick roll enabled, digital dice enabled I do get the R20 icon when hovering over initiative and the roll did come over to Roll20. Although the roll came across to the roll20 chat it did not add me to the turn tracker. I'm fairly certain however on my home machine I do NOT have quick roll enabled. Could that be the cause?
I think I got what's wrong. This happens sometimes when I am playing with my group. In order to add the roll to the Roll20 Turn Tracker, the token must be selected on Roll20 (just click on the token before changing to the DDB tab and clicking Initiative).
But as players sometimes (I mean, everytime) forget to click on token before rolling init, I just add the token manually (right click, add to turn) and type the initiative they've already rolled.
Yep. The same thing will happen in Roll20's character sheet -- if you don't select the character's icon before rolling initiative, it wont add that character to the Turn Tracker. I actually have taken to making my players re-roll and take the lower of the two as a reminder to always select your icon/mini first >:-)
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Ok I am at work so I'll have to test again when I'm at home but with quick roll enabled, digital dice enabled I do get the R20 icon when hovering over initiative and the roll did come over to Roll20. Although the roll came across to the roll20 chat it did not add me to the turn tracker. I'm fairly certain however on my home machine I do NOT have quick roll enabled. Could that be the cause?
I think I got what's wrong. This happens sometimes when I am playing with my group. In order to add the roll to the Roll20 Turn Tracker, the token must be selected on Roll20 (just click on the token before changing to the DDB tab and clicking Initiative).
But as players sometimes (I mean, everytime) forget to click on token before rolling init, I just add the token manually (right click, add to turn) and type the initiative they've already rolled.
Yep. The same thing will happen in Roll20's character sheet -- if you don't select the character's icon before rolling initiative, it wont add that character to the Turn Tracker. I actually have taken to making my players re-roll and take the lower of the two as a reminder to always select your icon/mini first >:-)
Do be a little more diplomatic, I tell my players that until it shows up on the turn tracker, it doesn’t count. 🙂
Ok I am at work so I'll have to test again when I'm at home but with quick roll enabled, digital dice enabled I do get the R20 icon when hovering over initiative and the roll did come over to Roll20. Although the roll came across to the roll20 chat it did not add me to the turn tracker. I'm fairly certain however on my home machine I do NOT have quick roll enabled. Could that be the cause?
I think I got what's wrong. This happens sometimes when I am playing with my group. In order to add the roll to the Roll20 Turn Tracker, the token must be selected on Roll20 (just click on the token before changing to the DDB tab and clicking Initiative).
But as players sometimes (I mean, everytime) forget to click on token before rolling init, I just add the token manually (right click, add to turn) and type the initiative they've already rolled.
Yep. The same thing will happen in Roll20's character sheet -- if you don't select the character's icon before rolling initiative, it wont add that character to the Turn Tracker. I actually have taken to making my players re-roll and take the lower of the two as a reminder to always select your icon/mini first >:-)
Do be a little more diplomatic, I tell my players that until it shows up on the turn tracker, it doesn’t count. 🙂
Well, I do enforce it upon myself as well if I forget to select a monster or npc. ;-)
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I had a question I wanted to ask the more knowledgeable people here. I often use generic NPC stats blocks for villains, but when I roll attacks for them in Roll20, it shows the name of the NPC. It kind of lessens the magic when instead of seeing an attack from the Dreaded Sir Garol the Slain, they see "Champion." Is there a way I could change the page to send a custom name to Roll20?
I had a question I wanted to ask the more knowledgeable people here. I often use generic NPC stats blocks for villains, but when I roll attacks for them in Roll20, it shows the name of the NPC. It kind of lessens the magic when instead of seeing an attack from the Dreaded Sir Garol the Slain, they see "Champion." Is there a way I could change the page to send a custom name to Roll20?
I wonder if perhaps you could make a copy of the stat block but give it a character name via Homebrew in DDB and then use that statblock instead of the one out of the MM.
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~~~ James E. Carlisle - "Uhnk13", "Purple Scorpion" Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
I had a question I wanted to ask the more knowledgeable people here. I often use generic NPC stats blocks for villains, but when I roll attacks for them in Roll20, it shows the name of the NPC. It kind of lessens the magic when instead of seeing an attack from the Dreaded Sir Garol the Slain, they see "Champion." Is there a way I could change the page to send a custom name to Roll20?
I wonder if perhaps you could make a copy of the stat block but give it a character name via Homebrew in DDB and then use that statblock instead of the one out of the MM.
Yep. Just tried my own suggestion.
Create a New Monster. Select the monster you are basing the NPC on (Veteran for example). Change the name from "Copy_of_Monster_Name" to your Villain's Name and save it. Then pull up that stat block instead of the generic stat block.
The resulting rolls in R20 will show the NPC Name instead of the Generic "Veteran" (or whatever) name.
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~~~ James E. Carlisle - "Uhnk13", "Purple Scorpion" Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
The other option you can do is under the settings there is Whisper monster rolls, you can change it to either always whisper so they don't see anything or hide monster name and attack type.
The other option you can do is under the settings there is Whisper monster rolls, you can change it to either always whisper so they don't see anything or hide monster name and attack type.
This works great without having to do any extra work. The players just see ??? and then the roll.
I use this extension all the time now due to the 'rona. I kind of wish there was an option to quickly change to GM rolls, how Shift+click, and Ctrl+ click are options, perhaps an Alt+click for 'roll to GM'??
Just want to give a big thank you to KaKaRoTo. Adam and DDB should really look at acquiring this extension and making it official. This literally takes DDB from a few functional tools and compendium to something you can actually use to play the game. This extension alone is probably convincing people to buy books, or buy subs to share books with their party, etc...
I use this extension all the time now due to the 'rona. I kind of wish there was an option to quickly change to GM rolls, how Shift+click, and Ctrl+ click are options, perhaps an Alt+click for 'roll to GM'??
That's an often requested feature and it will be done. Alt is already used (to force a normal roll when someone has their setting to always roll twice or with advantage). The idea is to have a hotkey manager so you can set whichever hotkey you want for specific actions.
I'm sorry if my question has been answered before, but I did not feel like reading through seventeen pages to find out if anyone has answered it. (Although I am beginning to make my way through it.)
Question: If I'm using Beyond20, is there any need to fill out the Roll20 sheet?
What are the advantages of Beyond20 over Roll20's character sheet?
I'm a player in a game and I've been using Beyond20, which has been great. Our DM hasn't made the D&D 5e character sheet available to us in-game (or Charactermancer, unless I am doing something wrong, which is possible) so I haven't been able to try it out in our game. Now I'm about the DM a game and I'm probably going to have the players use Beyond20. I figure Beyond20 is superior to using the Roll20 character sheet, I just don't know why. And trying to google that is not really giving me any results with a comparison.
I'm sorry if my question has been answered before, but I did not feel like reading through seventeen pages to find out if anyone has answered it. (Although I am beginning to make my way through it.)
Question: If I'm using Beyond20, is there any need to fill out the Roll20 sheet?
What are the advantages of Beyond20 over Roll20's character sheet?
I'm a player in a game and I've been using Beyond20, which has been great. Our DM hasn't made the D&D 5e character sheet available to us in-game (or Charactermancer, unless I am doing something wrong, which is possible) so I haven't been able to try it out in our game. Now I'm about the DM a game and I'm probably going to have the players use Beyond20. I figure Beyond20 is superior to using the Roll20 character sheet, I just don't know why. And trying to google that is not really giving me any results with a comparison.
Thank you!
Personally, I have always found the Roll20 5e sheet to be lacking - you have to do a lot of manual entry and get inventive sometimes. I've also seen the Charactormancer make some pretty significant mistakes with calculating Ability scores.
While I'm new to using Beyond20, so far my testing has shown that no, you do not need a Roll20 sheet to be present for the character - but you may still need there to be a Token. Otherwise I've made rolls from D&D Beyond using the extension that sill show up in the Roll20 chat even without that character having a Roll20 sheet in that game.
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I use a lot of apis and some of them rely on the character sheet. As long as my players have that filled in on their character sheet (say passive perception), even as the only thing filled out, all works fine. Give your players a choice. Those who like roll20 will gravitate towards that, those that don't will stick with dnd beyond. It won't matter to you unless you monitor character sheets, then you have 2 places to look.
Just want to give a big thank you to KaKaRoTo. Adam and DDB should really look at acquiring this extension and making it official. This literally takes DDB from a few functional tools and compendium to something you can actually use to play the game. This extension alone is probably convincing people to buy books, or buy subs to share books with their party, etc...
Accurate. This extension clinched my decision to buy $60 of books today, and someone else in my group is going to subscribe to be able to share the access.
I'm sorry if my question has been answered before, but I did not feel like reading through seventeen pages to find out if anyone has answered it. (Although I am beginning to make my way through it.)
Question: If I'm using Beyond20, is there any need to fill out the Roll20 sheet?
What are the advantages of Beyond20 over Roll20's character sheet?
I'm a player in a game and I've been using Beyond20, which has been great. Our DM hasn't made the D&D 5e character sheet available to us in-game (or Charactermancer, unless I am doing something wrong, which is possible) so I haven't been able to try it out in our game. Now I'm about the DM a game and I'm probably going to have the players use Beyond20. I figure Beyond20 is superior to using the Roll20 character sheet, I just don't know why. And trying to google that is not really giving me any results with a comparison.
Thank you!
1 - You don't need to fill anything out in the Roll20 sheet. You don't even need to have a sheet in Roll20. What you may want to do however is create one sheet with the same name and just set the HP and temp HP values to 0. This will allow Beyond20 to sync HP between the two, and that's the extent of what Beyond20 will use the Roll20 sheet for.
2 - The only real incentive to be honest is "OMG, Roll20 character sheets are ugly, hard to use, frustrating, buggy, and just ARRGHGHGHGHGH".
After a year of playing with my group on Roll20, I still had "how do I do X" from my players nearly every week, switched to Beyond20 and it all magically stopped right away, because it's just intuitive and there's no having to mess with complex macros to get it to do what it should just do on its own.
I'm sorry if my question has been answered before, but I did not feel like reading through seventeen pages to find out if anyone has answered it. (Although I am beginning to make my way through it.)
Question: If I'm using Beyond20, is there any need to fill out the Roll20 sheet?
What are the advantages of Beyond20 over Roll20's character sheet?
I'm a player in a game and I've been using Beyond20, which has been great. Our DM hasn't made the D&D 5e character sheet available to us in-game (or Charactermancer, unless I am doing something wrong, which is possible) so I haven't been able to try it out in our game. Now I'm about the DM a game and I'm probably going to have the players use Beyond20. I figure Beyond20 is superior to using the Roll20 character sheet, I just don't know why. And trying to google that is not really giving me any results with a comparison.
Thank you!
1 - You don't need to fill anything out in the Roll20 sheet. You don't even need to have a sheet in Roll20. What you may want to do however is create one sheet with the same name and just set the HP and temp HP values to 0. This will allow Beyond20 to sync HP between the two, and that's the extent of what Beyond20 will use the Roll20 sheet for.
2 - The only real incentive to be honest is "OMG, Roll20 character sheets are ugly, hard to use, frustrating, buggy, and just ARRGHGHGHGHGH".
After a year of playing with my group on Roll20, I still had "how do I do X" from my players nearly every week, switched to Beyond20 and it all magically stopped right away, because it's just intuitive and there's no having to mess with complex macros to get it to do what it should just do on its own.
Hope that helps!
You are being modest....my entire group is using your application and can't live without it on Roll20!!!
Yep. The same thing will happen in Roll20's character sheet -- if you don't select the character's icon before rolling initiative, it wont add that character to the Turn Tracker. I actually have taken to making my players re-roll and take the lower of the two as a reminder to always select your icon/mini first >:-)
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InsidersLol, that's just evil! :)
Maybe, but I impose the same upon myself for NPCs/Monsters.
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Do be a little more diplomatic, I tell my players that until it shows up on the turn tracker, it doesn’t count. 🙂
Well, I do enforce it upon myself as well if I forget to select a monster or npc. ;-)
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James E. Carlisle - "Uhnk13", "Purple Scorpion"
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
I had a question I wanted to ask the more knowledgeable people here. I often use generic NPC stats blocks for villains, but when I roll attacks for them in Roll20, it shows the name of the NPC. It kind of lessens the magic when instead of seeing an attack from the Dreaded Sir Garol the Slain, they see "Champion." Is there a way I could change the page to send a custom name to Roll20?
I wonder if perhaps you could make a copy of the stat block but give it a character name via Homebrew in DDB and then use that statblock instead of the one out of the MM.
~~~
James E. Carlisle - "Uhnk13", "Purple Scorpion"
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
Yep. Just tried my own suggestion.
Create a New Monster. Select the monster you are basing the NPC on (Veteran for example). Change the name from "Copy_of_Monster_Name" to your Villain's Name and save it. Then pull up that stat block instead of the generic stat block.
The resulting rolls in R20 will show the NPC Name instead of the Generic "Veteran" (or whatever) name.
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James E. Carlisle - "Uhnk13", "Purple Scorpion"
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
The other option you can do is under the settings there is Whisper monster rolls, you can change it to either always whisper so they don't see anything or hide monster name and attack type.
This works great without having to do any extra work. The players just see ??? and then the roll.
Is this a place where we can make suggestions?
I use this extension all the time now due to the 'rona. I kind of wish there was an option to quickly change to GM rolls, how Shift+click, and Ctrl+ click are options, perhaps an Alt+click for 'roll to GM'??
Just want to give a big thank you to KaKaRoTo. Adam and DDB should really look at acquiring this extension and making it official. This literally takes DDB from a few functional tools and compendium to something you can actually use to play the game. This extension alone is probably convincing people to buy books, or buy subs to share books with their party, etc...
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InsidersThat's an often requested feature and it will be done. Alt is already used (to force a normal roll when someone has their setting to always roll twice or with advantage). The idea is to have a hotkey manager so you can set whichever hotkey you want for specific actions.
I'm sorry if my question has been answered before, but I did not feel like reading through seventeen pages to find out if anyone has answered it. (Although I am beginning to make my way through it.)
If I'm using Beyond20, is there any need to fill out the Roll20 sheet?
I'm a player in a game and I've been using Beyond20, which has been great. Our DM hasn't made the D&D 5e character sheet available to us in-game (or Charactermancer, unless I am doing something wrong, which is possible) so I haven't been able to try it out in our game. Now I'm about the DM a game and I'm probably going to have the players use Beyond20. I figure Beyond20 is superior to using the Roll20 character sheet, I just don't know why. And trying to google that is not really giving me any results with a comparison.
Thank you!
Personally, I have always found the Roll20 5e sheet to be lacking - you have to do a lot of manual entry and get inventive sometimes. I've also seen the Charactormancer make some pretty significant mistakes with calculating Ability scores.
While I'm new to using Beyond20, so far my testing has shown that no, you do not need a Roll20 sheet to be present for the character - but you may still need there to be a Token. Otherwise I've made rolls from D&D Beyond using the extension that sill show up in the Roll20 chat even without that character having a Roll20 sheet in that game.
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James E. Carlisle - "Uhnk13", "Purple Scorpion"
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
I use a lot of apis and some of them rely on the character sheet. As long as my players have that filled in on their character sheet (say passive perception), even as the only thing filled out, all works fine. Give your players a choice. Those who like roll20 will gravitate towards that, those that don't will stick with dnd beyond. It won't matter to you unless you monitor character sheets, then you have 2 places to look.
Accurate. This extension clinched my decision to buy $60 of books today, and someone else in my group is going to subscribe to be able to share the access.
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Insiders1 - You don't need to fill anything out in the Roll20 sheet. You don't even need to have a sheet in Roll20. What you may want to do however is create one sheet with the same name and just set the HP and temp HP values to 0. This will allow Beyond20 to sync HP between the two, and that's the extent of what Beyond20 will use the Roll20 sheet for.
2 - The only real incentive to be honest is "OMG, Roll20 character sheets are ugly, hard to use, frustrating, buggy, and just ARRGHGHGHGHGH".
After a year of playing with my group on Roll20, I still had "how do I do X" from my players nearly every week, switched to Beyond20 and it all magically stopped right away, because it's just intuitive and there's no having to mess with complex macros to get it to do what it should just do on its own.
Hope that helps!
You are being modest....my entire group is using your application and can't live without it on Roll20!!!
One of the Question we asked about FoundryVTT - Does it support Beyond20.
Pretty must how use our Roll20 group have become to use it.