Official Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition Character Sheet On Roll20 Is Live!

[Coryphon]

So your thinking like a box next to these components or programs that you check when on. Maybe even adds up power consumption for components or CPU power for software. Honestly just having the remind is good enough without doing he simple math. However, one thing I have learned is that anything in VTT that does some of the math for you, regardless what it is, is a big +.
Unrelated to this I noticed on the PC sheet there are many spots with the little i symbol I think it is and the popup says link to compendium.. but which compendium as they all seem to fail for me. Again what I own on roll20 is the Core Rules at this time.

Hi Valkyrie,

Regarding the Ship section, yes, something like that. It's a complex area and I need to revisit the rules in depth to work out what information needs to be captured, and work out the best user interface for it... I've mentioned before on various threads that the Ship section is very basic at the moment, only really capturing the bare essentials and not really fit for purpose for e.g. ship combat. TrooperSJP was making his own version as he understands the rules better than me so I will reach out to him again as I think he was kind enough to say I could use his stuff, but that's a while ago...

Regarding the (i) buttons for Compendium, all those reference the Core Rulebook so they should work. There was definitely an issue in the beginning that using the 'New Compendium' setting under settings did NOT work, but Roll20 apparently fixed that with a reindex or something...

If you are using 'New Compendium' (under the cog wheel settings panel) can you try unticking that to go back to the old compendium style and see if the (i) buttons work for you? Would be a useful diagnostic. When you say they fail I assume you get a 'page not found' or similar error...

Regards,
~ Coryphon~

 

[Coryphon]

For new groups like the one I am going to fire off in Roll20 having roll-able tables and a character building that walks you through character creation steps would be nice. I notice the Core Rule book adds roll-able tables bit they all seem to be around encounter creation if I recall. I was shocked that the career tables were not there..but maybe I am missing something.

Hi Valkyrie,

So, Roll20 has an 'in-character sheet' system called a Charactermancer which sheet authors can implement for step by step character creation...

I did look at this briefly just to understand how technically it worked, but character creation for Traveller is pretty complex when you break it down into a series of state machines for terms of service etc. I will talk to Mongoose and see if this is something they are interested in, but it does, by definition require usage of a large chunk of their intellectual property in a free character sheet, so I'm not sure what their feeling may be...

On the flip side when I first began revamping the old sheet they did allow me to implement all the Trade rules, sooooooooo...

This is why you currently see rollable tables for more GM-related stuff like quirks and encounters and so on...

As I say, I will make enquiries and see what comes back...

Regards,
~ Coryphon ~

PS (And just to mention, a lot of Roll20 internal systems in these areas are very clunky so I'm often kind of battling against them for Compendium creation. For example presumably a Charactermancer should only be available to buyers of the rulebook, but there doesn't seem to be a link between them, I could be wrong...)

 

[Terry Mixon]

Hi Valkyrie,

Regarding the Ship section, yes, something like that. It's a complex area and I need to revisit the rules in depth to work out what information needs to be captured, and work out the best user interface for it... I've mentioned before on various threads that the Ship section is very basic at the moment, only really capturing the bare essentials and not really fit for purpose for e.g. ship combat. TrooperSJP was making his own version as he understands the rules better than me so I will reach out to him again as I think he was kind enough to say I could use his stuff, but that's a while ago...

Regarding the (i) buttons for Compendium, all those reference the Core Rulebook so they should work. There was definitely an issue in the beginning that using the 'New Compendium' setting under settings did NOT work, but Roll20 apparently fixed that with a reindex or something...

If you are using 'New Compendium' (under the cog wheel settings panel) can you try unticking that to go back to the old compendium style and see if the (i) buttons work for you? Would be a useful diagnostic. When you say they fail I assume you get a 'page not found' or similar error...

Regards,
~ Coryphon~

Robots will need something, too, once you do the Robot Handbook. Robot building is like character generation. Sort of. And vehicles once the Vehicle Handbook Update 2026 goes live.