Roll20 - Character Sheets 12+

Broken

This app is kind of a mess. It looks good, but most of it simply doesn’t work. First of all, you CANNOT ROLL DAMAGE. That’s a pretty ridiculous oversight. Apparently you have to open the character sheet in your browser and set it to roll damage automatically every time you make an attack roll.
Next, the spell list may as well not exist. You can’t see which spells are currently prepared or change that. The fields for things like range, duration, target etc are all empty. And the DCs listed are incorrect, because it just uses your base spellcasting DC for all of them and disregards any custom modifiers on the spell, meaning it may as well only have the base spellcasting DC at the top and not even try to list individual DCs.
The inventory may as well not exist either, because you can’t change anything. You can’t even delete items or change how many you have. You also have to click an Edit button before changing your money for literally no reason.
Finally Resources section, much like the Spell section, just doesn’t work. Most of the fields on my character were bugged out with a generic label and 0/0 amount. It also doesn’t integrate the Rest buttons from the character sheet, so you have to manually set all the amounts every time.

Limited Character Sheets

Was looking into this app for a friend who has a 16 year old computer that struggles with roll 20. Thinking this would be a good alternative for them to do the game on mobile. However the app does support all character sheets the issue is that it really only works with character sheets related to dnd 5e over character sheets like Pathfinder, Starfinder, Etc. Since we are running a pathfinder game guess we’ll have to try something else until they can add a working pathfinder character sheet to the app. If you’re looking for a dnd 5e game this app works good but if you’re running anything else its best to look elsewhere.

Another suggestion is the ability to customize the brightness with light/dark mode as a colorblind DM I struggled reading the black text on a dark gray background with white fill in bubbles. If by making the fill in bubbles a medium gray and the text white as you keep the dark gray background it could work but as of right now its not very accessible to those who have colorblindness or other vision struggles as it doesn’t stand out enough.

Promising but not seamless

I really wanted to love this app. I was excited to be able to view and use my character sheet on a different screen so I could use my computer screen exclusively for video chat and the vtt.

Unfortunately, certain information from the character sheet may not appear in the app. In my case, I play a wizard in a 5e campaign, which is a prepared spell caster. Unfortunately, the app’s spell list doesn’t have any indication of which spells are currently prepared. My options were to keep the sheet open in Roll20 (which I had hoped to avoid) or write my prepared spells down on scratch paper. Both are fine, but don’t have the ease or convenience I was hoping for. I would love to see unprepared spells greyed out, or have the check marks visible.

This being said, the interface is super intuitive, and it works well without lags or glitching thus far. The aesthetic is really clean and more visually appealing than playing on the browser version. I really *like* the app, but it doesn’t function the way I need it to at the moment. If I find out I’m missing something, or if updates are made that fix this, I would love to rate this 5 stars.

Developer Response ,

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