Online tool to create characters for Roll20 games

[Aristophanes]

Is there somewhere online to create your character for play on Roll20?
D&D has D&D Beyond. Does PFS2 have anything?

Thanks.

[pauljathome]

Its not roll20 specific but there are two tools for creating PF2 characters

Herolab (web based version) or pathbuilder (runs on androids and android simulators).

If you're not a spell caster it should take less than 5 minutes to transfer a character from Pathbuilder to Roll20 (its not automated but there just isn't that much you need to do). And about 1 minute to level up.

For spellcasters it takes more time. But not that much more

[BigNorseWolf]

If you're getting a character for starfinder just wave me down on one of the discords or PM me here I can get you a quickie sheet in about 10 minutes

(I qualify as a tool right?)

[CigarPete]

If you don't already use one of the other tools, the thing I've found most effective is creating a table of my own with the character sheet I want to use, creating my characters there, then exporting them/importing them to the new table. I think you might need to pay for Pro to do that though.

[BigNorseWolf]

CigarPete wrote:

If you don't already use one of the other tools, the thing I've found most effective is creating a table of my own with the character sheet I want to use, creating my characters there, then exporting them/importing them to the new table. I think you might need to pay for Pro to do that though.

The 5 dollar a month account will let you import/export

You can also set your character to be edited and controlled by anyone, invite someone to your table, and if they have a paid account they can boop your character over.

[TwilightKnight]

Aristophanes wrote:

Is there somewhere online to create your character for play on Roll20?

I am admittedly new to roll20 but I know you can create your character within a scheduled event using a character sheet that is remarkably similar to the core character sheet. Then you can export that character to your main account and input it into any new games you join. Not only that, but the sheet writes nearly all the macros you’ll need to quick click your actions so you won’t have to do much manually in the dialog chat.

I’ve never been much of an online gaming fan, but this roll20 thing is pretty sweet. I really encourage anyone who hasn’t yet, to try it out. I think you will enjoy yourself.

[SCPRedMage]

CigarPete wrote:

If you don't already use one of the other tools, the thing I've found most effective is creating a table of my own with the character sheet I want to use, creating my characters there, then exporting them/importing them to the new table. I think you might need to pay for Pro to do that though.

To clarify this and BNW's response, there are two steps when using Roll20's Character Vault:

1. Import the character into the Vault. You can import any character you can control from any game you're a part of, regardless of subscription status.
2. Export the character from the Vault to the new game. The new game has to have character importing enabled (it's just a setting in the game's settings page, but it defaults to off), and either you or the game's creator must have a subscription, but as BNW said, the $5 "Plus" subscription is enough.

So if it says "Plus" or "Pro" under the creator's name on the landing page, you can import characters from your Vault without having to have a subscription. If it says "Free", you'll need to have your own sub to import.

As an alternative, you could look into the VTT Enhancement Suite, which has, among other features, the ability to download characters as JSON files, and then overwrite a character with that data, no subscription required. You could set your character up on one table, download them as a JSON file, then have the GM on the destination game create a character and assign it to you, then overwrite that new character with the data from the character you already set up. This is a third party browser extension, so this is a "at your own risk" kind of thing, although the worst that can happen is the character gets messed up and needs to be deleted.

Personally, I stick with using Roll20's Character Vault, both because I know it works, and because I want to support Roll20; I still use the VTT Enhancement Suite because it has other features I very much like.