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    • Bobotron
      Bobotron last edited by

      Anyone here have any good suggestions, outside of a Google Sheet, for an efficient way to store character sheets online for running tabletop games via Discord or other materials? I'd love thoughts on a way for player and ST to have access to view.

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      • Thenomain
        Thenomain @Bobotron last edited by

        @bobotron

        Does Roll20 not do what you need?

        Dropbox?

        “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
        ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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        • Bobotron
          Bobotron @Thenomain last edited by

          @thenomain

          There's not specifically a V5 dice roller set up for Roll20, and I hate Roll20's interface now, since you can't force the 'map' section to stay minimized. Dropbox and Google Drive would work, but I'm looking for alternate options, particularly for something that is viewable and editable on the fly.

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          • Thenomain
            Thenomain @Bobotron last edited by

            @bobotron

            I was just thinking about the sheet storage, not a full-featured 5e game-playing platform. You can do a lot with permissions and Dropbox (and a lot of tablet reader integration) which is why it was my second suggestion.

            “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
            ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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            • Bobotron
              Bobotron @Thenomain last edited by

              @thenomain

              I'll play around with it. I mostly use dropbox as a dump for file sharing, so I've never really played around with excess features.

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              • faraday
                faraday last edited by

                I've seen people use a wiki for sharing TTRPG data, including characters and session notes and whatnot. Usually wikidot because it's free and simple to set up.

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                • Too Old For This
                  Too Old For This last edited by

                  If you mean for D&D 5E, then D&D Beyond is actually pretty baller. And there's an extension you can get that will put up a dice roller you can use for it too.

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                  • Jeshin
                    Jeshin last edited by

                    DNDBEYOND is great for 5e and you don't need to buy any books that are not specifically for character gen because you can read almost all of them via a subscription account for 55 bucks a year.

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                    • Sparks
                      Sparks last edited by Sparks

                      Yeah, if this is for 5e, count one more for D&D Beyond. I use it for the campaign I run for co-workers at work, and it has been a godsend.

                      (Plus, it has a hilarious animated advertisement done in the style of 80's cartoon openings, thanks to Critical Role.)

                      a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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                      • reimesu
                        reimesu Admin last edited by

                        https://www.myth-weavers.com/

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                        • saosmash
                          saosmash last edited by

                          I use dndbeyond for all my 5e campaigns (4 at present). I love it.

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                          • Thenomain
                            Thenomain last edited by

                            @Bobotron

                            Is this for D&D 5e or Vampire 5e?

                            “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
                            ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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                              magee101 Banned @Thenomain last edited by

                              @thenomain said in Online character sheets?:

                              @Bobotron

                              Is this for D&D 5e or Vampire 5e?

                              He says V5 in the original answer to you, so I am thinking VtM 5e

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                              • Bobotron
                                Bobotron @Thenomain last edited by

                                @thenomain

                                Yes, V5.

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                                • Tat
                                  Tat last edited by Tat

                                  If you have someone with some CSS know-how, you might like google fusion tables. It's a pseduo-database, which you may not need, but it allows you to input things via a form and then display them prettily. You could make virtual sheets pretty easily this way, and even embed them elsewhere.

                                  For example, here is a spell card I've made for embedding on a wiki. Here's a card on a Mass Effect planet from years ago when I was building a stupid database of such for RP.

                                  They can look basically any way you want, if you can code it.

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                                  • Bobotron
                                    Bobotron @Tat last edited by

                                    @tat
                                    Hmm. This is interesting. I'll dig a little deeper into this.

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                                    • Thenomain
                                      Thenomain @Bobotron last edited by Thenomain

                                      @bobotron said in Online character sheets?:

                                      @thenomain

                                      Yes, V5.

                                      I didn’t know that V5 only refered to Vampire 5e. My bad.

                                      (Edit: The sarcastic part of me said that this could be read as sarcastic. It’s not. Just like I didn’t know that 5e meant D&D. Y’all are weird.)

                                      “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
                                      ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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                                      • Bobotron
                                        Bobotron @Thenomain last edited by

                                        @thenomain
                                        LOL sorry. I figured it would be obvious, and it was some other system is be sticking their acronym with it. My bad.

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                                          magee101 Banned @Thenomain last edited by

                                          @thenomain I mean I dont really hear dnd 5e called just 5e unless the people in the conversation only play dnd... which is rare.

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