*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!

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

Fire bolt has a range of 120 feet good job

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)

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!

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

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.

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 :)

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

HE IS MAKING EDUCATIONAL STUFF! OH NOOOOOO

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...

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

This must be the most entertaining Roll20 tutorial in the realms of KZfaq.

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 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

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.

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

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.

Good video We use roll 20 and discord to play nowadays

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

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.

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

"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*

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

8:04 Bro you cant catch me off guard like that i was drinking water XD

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

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.

PLEASE DO THE DM VERSION PLEASE

I would certainly love to see more about 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.

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!

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 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

If anyone is shopping for different virtual tabletops, Roll20 is, I think, pretty easily the best free option and probably the best option if you are using modules. That said, if you're running a homebrew campaign of any kind and don't mind throwing down a one-time $50, Foundry is vastly better and I absolutely recommend it.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

You can also!!! Download beyond20 browser extension, to roll straight from you character sheet on dnd beyond! OR... if everyone doesn’t want to download something, just use the “beyond importer” script they also have people’s characters sheets get imported in a few easy steps!

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

yo love the content keep up the great work

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.

Fucking subbed. +1 sir. Short, entertaining and your voice doesn't make me want to become a hermit in the woods with squirrel friends (haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay....) Well done.

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

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

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

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

Hints: - For macros that use your char stats, hover over the field of the stat to get the name of the modifier (for example, hover the mouse pointer over the AC number and a small popup with @{ac} will appear, wich you can use instead of a number with a macro), you do need to have the token of the character on the field and have it selected - You can drag stuff from the feature list (third tab above chat) to the sheet to add it - You can make sheets for NPCs and companions, check the settings to select the proper settings

Yes to DM's perspective, please. PS - You are my wife's fab D&D KZfaqr.

Been waiting for something like this for a while. 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

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!

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.

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!

Definitely sending this to my players, thanks dude

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

last time i was this early, especially the wizard was still funny

Hell yes to the GM Guide video!

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

Despite 3.x being more complex than 5e, the character creation on Roll20 is, I daresay, better than in paper. Except for equipment and spells. That's when you just gotta trust your friends and have them all make paper lists.

What video editing software do you use on your videos?

Oh a DM video like this would be really helpful!

After the Nolan T. controversy, I'm surprised guides are still being made. Good guide, maybe I'm holding a grudge.

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

I fucking love you man. Please make more R20 tutorials... I am begging you!

Kinda hoping this becomes a series of sorts. I know some of my friends could use some help with Roll20's GMing side.

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

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! :)

If you have a racial/clas feature that includes a roll, write it between square brackets and it will roll by itself. Example: Goliath's stone skin, write in the description the roll as [[1d12]] and when you click to show the features it will roll itself at once.

Heres a little trick - advanced but not pro - that I use as a DM. If you make a character sheet and set it so that only you can see it, but add multiple players to give them editing privileges. What happens is that no one (except you) can do things on the sheet, BUT all of the players listed on it can still receive Whispers (used by putting in a '/w' command and typing in the name of the sheet) and send whispers to the sheet. Why would you do this? Well, you can name the sheet something like "Common" or "Elven" or something else like that, and then give everyone who can speak that language editing privileges. Now instead of having to ask every time someone says something in another language "ok so who speaks Abyssal?" and then individually whispering each player who confirms and hoping that no one missed it, you can just '/w Abyssal' and everyone relevant gets the message, and you can just say 'the NPC says something in a guttural language' for everyone. It takes a bit of time to set up, and you have to make sure to give yourself editing privileges too so that way when players whisper in it to have conversations with each other or NPCs in their other languages you can actually see it. But it's really fun and makes it easier for people to engage with having a ton of languages, or very specific and rare ones! (I died inside when one of my players announced they were taking Flail Snail as a language.)

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

Dear god I wish you had made this video a month ago 😭 Please make more and fill my head with your Wisdom modifier

Roll20 is a great place to play. Hopefully even more people find their way there. No better time to learn to play online.