How to Make a Character on Roll20 - WARNING! EDUCATIONAL! 

*Me already halfway through a campaign on roll20 "Better watch this, just to be safe."

This is easily the most beginner friendly breakdown of Roll20 that I've seen so far! Pleeeaaase do the version from a DM's perspective. Both campaigns that I'm in have started using Roll20 while we play remotely, but we just use our D&D Beyond character sheets that are open in another tab. It's already made and it's really simple to just toggle over. But one for the DMs who are new to using Roll20 that's as accessible as this one was would be such a huge help!

Fire bolt has a range of 120 feet good job

"Warning, educational!" Wait, since when this channel is dedicated to guides? I thought it was all about sexy voices, innuendos and hating the feys

Says coronavirus in the first 5 minutes: RU-vid: fine, I guess I'll keep all this money

HE IS MAKING EDUCATIONAL STUFF! OH NOOOOOO

Things you can put in chat to roll for ability checks: /r 1d20 + any modifiers (for checks) /r 2d20kh1 + modifiers (rolling for advantage) /r 2d20kl1 + modifiers (rolling for disadvantage)

Btw you can drag in your spells, weapons, equipment and Warnock invocations from the compendium and just put them into the sheet and it will do it for you. Hope this helps someone :)

I would be interested in seeing the GM side, I have run a few games with roll20 but you never know if you missed something... unless you read tutorials I guess.

I wish this was up earlier, I have been having such a hard time trying to lead my players through Roll20. Thank you so much Davvy for making this!

Heck yeah, I would like more of that sweet education juice. I'm really curious about the process from a DM's perspective!

The SRD compendium click & drag feature makes *some* of the pain go away. Getting the group to contribute so you can make the compendium work for you...? So good...

We just started a Roll20 campaign today, and this is by far the best tutorial on how to get a character made and how to use the sheet that I have seen. And as an added bonus, I learned about Beyond20 through the comments, streamlining everything! Well done Davvy!

This is hands down the most comprehensive and BRIEF roll20 explaination. Thank you.

Good timing! I just had to learn this myself the other day. I'm joining my first game in a week. Love you're work!

I would love a follow up of this targeted for DM's. Planning to make a campaign using Roll20 for some time now to give my normal DM a chance to play for once, but figuring out maps and such is daunting and slow progress. This was a very nice and comprehensive guide, so I look forward to such a follow up for DM's. Keep up the good work, good sir!

I was about to have by first run on roll 20! Keep them coming! This was super helpful

Over the past few days i played my first 2 games ever of DnD on roll20 and had so much fun

Now I can just link my players your video once more! Thank you Davvy for explaining things for me.

Exactally what I needed, I like the way you explain this man keep it up

Wow. I am shook. I didn't think you could speak slow enough to make a tutorial this easy to follow; then this video blew me away. What an absolutely amazing tutorial! Such a great job, Davvy! This is going to help so many people :D You the best! As a preference, I still use the charactermancer before editing manually (to save time + effort). Especially if creating a caster. That's just preference though.

Thank you, my 5 hour struggles of figuring out why sheets weren't appearing is over....

This is the most friendly and quick version I have seen, I just sent this to my whole table so hopefully we can use Roll20

I am dying for a DM version! This was super informative, thanks Davvy

Yo, as an avid D&D player, this video is a BIG help to me, and I appreciate the living HELL out of it! Keep up the good work, m'dude

I watched this video even though I have 2 ongoing roll20 campaigns going on and found the solution to the "constantly rolling with advantage problem", thanks davvy

dude not gonna lie I desperately need you to make that dm's guide one, I've been using roll 20 for about a year as a player and didn't know all the stuff you can do with spell cards, this was super helpful, and I'm mega excited to learn more

Been waiting for something like this for a while. THANK YOU

I just started a campaign on r20 so your timing is amazing.

I put this in my dnd server and it has helped so many new players Top tear work man

This must be the most entertaining Roll20 tutorial in the realms of RU-vid.

I definitely want that DMs perspective video! Had to move an ongoing game of Curse of Strahd from in person to Roll20 because of the Rona.

The whole 'dragging spells over' thing literally saved my life, thank you so much.

Please do make that video on DMing for Roll20. I’d like to start an online campaign some day soon, and your guide was the most new player friendly video I’ve seen about Roll20. You explained everything really well, thanks for the awesome video!

I didn't know about the SRD dragging spells! I've been manually writing spells for 50 some odd characters for 3 years! Thank you so much!

Wow Davvy! You made a tutorial about Roll20 that didn't take 2 hrs to explain. I applaud at thee. Now give us some sweet education as how to DM in it so that we all roll 20s like you

I would love a video from a DM's Perspective also just in case you forgot. YOU ARE AMAZING DAVVY!!!

That's so great! I've tried to find some tutorials for this but jeez: there's so difficult to follow. Thanks for the video!

Hey bro thanks for this vid has really made roll20 easier to understand and will definitely have to give my account another go also LV ur channel bro hope u are staying safe

Wow this was not only an informative tutorial, but it was very entertaining

I don't know who you are, or what you do (Probaly DnD stuff funny enough) but i subscribed and liked just for this video because it was so well made. Thank you for your help. -Random guy who refuse to spend all his money on DnD stuff to get expansions

I’ve always been confused by the roll20 stuff. This turned out to be a godsend.

super helpful video. Good info, to the point, entertaining. Thank you.

yo love the content keep up the great work

I would certainly love to see more about Roll20

you can drag stuff from the compendium onto a character sheet. so search for searing ray -> drag -> it'll auto-populate the spell (or the item, proficiency, etc). This is great cause it'll also populate attacks / ac+initiative calculations, which helps for new players.

Good video We use roll 20 and discord to play nowadays

Thank you Davvyy this video is great

This was super helpful and beginner friendly thank you! Hope you decide to do a GM specific one!

Not sure if you knew but most of the basic stuff can be searched on the compendium tab and dragged onto your sheet. That adds it and all it's macro stuff automatically. It is very helpful.

The compendium also has a ton of items, which come with attack stats for weapons, auto-AC calculation for armor, and macros for quite a few stat-boosting items.

That was actually very helpful Davvy. Didn’t know I could drag spells into character sheet! I will ditch chartomancy, always preferred fiddling.

If you do own all the content character mancer is really nice. I use it as a DM to keep my infrequent PCs sheets leveled. It's also really nice if you want to whip up a NPC with PC levels, or if you want to experiment with optimization and leveling through different builds. That and the drag and drop MM is really what keeps me on roll20 as a DM. Dynamic lighting is neat too, and adds a lot to dungeon exploration. You can also drag and drag every mundane item, which is really nice for weapons and armor. I think all the magic items outside of XGE are in there too.

Thanks for making this! I just started using Roll20 to DM my two campaigns so tips for DMs would be awesome!

Definitely sending this to my players, thanks dude

This is great!!! Thanks Davvy-Chan

You can also use the compendium to drag and drop items and weapons onto your character sheet as well.

Hell yes to the GM Guide video!

This was fantastic and made it easy to use

Absolutely interested in a DM perspective video. This has been a wonderful explanation, you're helpful today Davvy. Don't worry, I won't hold you to this standard lol

Davey, this was great, & yes a quick tutorial from DM perspective would be super helpful

Okay now I've been enlightening to the fact that that character sheet thing even exists I've never known in all my years of using roll20 and trying to make games by myself but that was a thing I just kept using Google docs to keep track of everything and thought that the character sheet thing was a paid for thing that people who bought the product got had no idea how to use it this will be very useful for my moving forward with things

Omg I just learned how to use roll20! I just finished ranting to my friend how I wished their was a video explaining how to use roll20!

When you are putting an attack cantrip like Fire Bolt on your sheet, be sure to change the level progression under the attack section of the spell to be “Cantrip Dice”. That way it will auto roll multiple damage dice when you reach the appropriate level. Use “cantrip beam”for eldritch blast only.

Very well done video. You are very entertaining to listen to lol

HEY DAVVY. Get educational again, I wanna see this from the DM's perspective! I've been floundering, getting it to work, but consider making another vid!!!! This one just turned out so well. I have used it numerous times for numerous groups

Hey thanks, Chappy I'm a new DM and just got all my friends into and before things kept us from meeting in person and one of my players wants to DM and is having a hard time using roll20 so I sat down over discord to try and help I will be sending this video as well to continue to help my new DM with Roll20 again thank you so much Chappy I really enjoy all your videos.

i would love to see your roll20 DM view. Great video Davvy

Great video, helped a lot. Thank you!

Trying to play d and d online because people in my country don't really play it and this vid is a godsend,hope you make the em version of this so I can actually get my friends to play it since we can't get the hard copy stuff

I would REALLY wanna watch the DM version of this video! >_< The video is great btw!

Thanks for this man. It really helped out

to echo most of what was said: I just started using roll20 for my group during distancing, while also being quite new to the system. This will be a massive help, in making the dicerolling less akward. (sofar we used beyond/form fillable sheets and made individual rolls) any more tips like this for DMs would be welcome, i co-DM with another member of the group and I can use every help I can get once he finishes his storyarc and it's my turn again. And I doubt I can use my minis and big old sketchblock anytime soon. Great tutorial, thanks!

Awesome! Thank you for this and please, definitely do the DM video! :)

Ahh cool a new Davvy chappy video and.... aAAH AAAHHH AHHH I DIDN'T READ THIS IS EDUCATIONAL!! AHHHHHH NOO! I'M MELTING. HOW COULD YOU CHAPPY!

Love the vid, but I have to say charactermancer can be very helpful, despite its flaws, here's an example: youre making a half-orc barbarian, simply go to the charactermancer, pick halforc, then pick barbarian. it'll automatically present you with the race features anf skill profeciency choices of the class (choosing from a drop down box). On the equipment tab if you choose to start with class starting equipment it also gives you the choices. If the other tabs are unnecessary after that, simply finish using the charactermancer, and whatever you have input before is already in the sheet. -Rage? check -Battle axe & javelins? Check -Relentless endurance? Check -Brutal Critical? Check -Halforc profeciency with intimidation? Check -any other profeciencies you chose? Check each with their description (if applies) and in the correct place, hell even the starting pack of your choice and the equipment within it. Sure it isn't amazing without buying more content but it saves you from manually inputting the menial basic stuff.

Oh a DM video like this would be really helpful!

Me and my friends use dnd beyond and owlbear rodeo for the maps. If we found this out earlier we could have used this. Although 2 of the players only uses smartphones, I don't know how mobile phone friendly roll 20 is compared to dnd beyond. And we managed to finish a full campaign with two of us only using phones. In our next campaign we pooled in some cash so our dm can unlock races\subclasses\feats and share the content among the party.

This is painful. I literally finished my friends' sheets the DAY before this came out.

Wow thank for the vid And yeas I would totaly love a Gm tutorial since im looking to gm my first adventure.

Just like the spells, you can just drag a lot of things from the compendium into your sheet to save typing it all up, including items and language/armor and weapon proficiencies

Great video. Love to see more. Also do u use fantasy grounds?

System reference also works for the base class/ races in the PHB (not all subclass/ subraces included)

"But you just have to type it out and you'll never have to do it again" *Cries in casters that picks their spells each day*

there's also map tools , however , even if it gives you way more options, you need to do everything yourself, from writing the macros(or import them from the community) and preparing the maps

I played with the free version for almost a year without any issues at all. The only reasons I went Pro were because of Dynamic Lighting and API support. I do agree with the Charactermancer thing. I was using the Charactermancer for a while without buying the PHB or other books for Roll20. It was a pain in the ass where more than half the subclasses wouldn't be available.

Thank you for your videos!!!

Oh wow, I did not know you could drag and drop spells directly onto the sheet. This would've saved me so much headache!

Armour class is not actually calculated manually, it's calculated automatically based on your dex if you have no armour, and if you use items from the compendium which give you armour class then it will incorporate that. There are options in the options tab for changing how all of this works so that you can have automatic tracking of Unarmored Defense or similar things.

Thanks for this tutorial, I'm really tempted to start using this now! Can you edit things further? Like for example, if I were to play a Vedalken, is there a way for me to add the extra 1d4 they get on a skill check of choice to the skill check list?

I need more of this for my education.

Pleeease make a video on how to do this as a DM. I'm trying to do all of this through theater of the mind through Zoom and I would love to be able to do combat with a map. I am also like brand new to DMing when the pandemic hit. Keep up the great work!

I got the notification while watching the video so good job youtube

The crit part on the attack roll is extra damage for a crit, if your weapon doesn’t do anything special on a crit then you don’t need to change it.

Yes, make a DM video. Trying to figure this out for Mobile and maybe a basic knowledge from PC will help me break it down better

Good video, sending this to my players. I've never been good at explaining these things to them lol

Thank you, sir!

PLEASE DO THE DM VERSION PLEASE

As a non tech savvy individual I'm glad Tech Savvy Chappy was here to help

Best tutorial