The D&D 5e sheet

The living D&D sheet: hit points, combat, features, spells, inventory and notes tabs, advantage and disadvantage, rests, levelling up and manual editing.

The D&D sheet is a living page: it works out armor class, bonuses, saves, spell slots and hit dice from the character's choices, and rolls the dice with their modifiers. It works with both the 2014 and the 2024 editions, and what changes at the table (hit points, conditions, resources) shows up on it.

Where it is

From My sheets (see Your sheets: the list, creating, importing and the trash), from your character's token at the table or from the campaign itself; the route is /dnd/ficha/<id>. At the table the sheet opens beside the map or in a window with C. Shift C opens the sheet's compendium without leaving it.

Requirements and permissions

Whoever plays the character uses all of it. Changing the structure (feats, class, spells by hand) depends on the campaign: with the Free sheet editing rule you can do it yourself; otherwise whoever runs the game does. See Sheet permissions: playing, editing and approval.

The sheet in parts

On the left is always what you look at most: name, class and level, Hit points, inspiration, hit dice and rests. Top right, the roll mode and the cog with Choose what shows here. Below, the tabs:

Tab	What it holds
Combat	Abilities with their saves, proficiency, initiative, AC, speed, passive Perception, skills, actions by type (action, bonus action, reaction), conditions, exhaustion, companions and mounts
Features	Class, subclass and species features, feats and their choices, with filters and uses that are spent and recharged
Spells	Spell save DC and attack, slots, known and prepared spells, filters by school and casting time (only if the character casts spells)
Inventory	Backpack, worn gear, attunement, coins, charges and weight; mounts
Notes	Backstory, appearance, personality, allies and free notes
Bastion	The bastion, still in testing and not offered to every account. See Companions, summons and mounts on the D&D sheet

Press the name of an attack, a feature or a spell to read it in full in the reader, with its upcasting damage. The cog chooses which tabs are shown and which actions stay next to the name.

Rolling: advantage, disadvantage and asking

The selector at the top sets the mode of the next roll: Normal, Advantage or Disadvantage. The Ask first switch opens, before each roll, a question with the mode and the difficulty, which the GM can also set. The sheet also applies by itself the advantage or disadvantage its rules give (a weapon, a condition). What each thing rolls: Automated D&D: what the app rolls for you.

Resting

Short rest lets you spend hit dice to heal and says what it restores; Long rest gives back hit points, slots, resources and part of the hit dice. Both apply immediately.

Levelling up

When it is your turn to level, the header offers Level up and a walkthrough guides the class, subclass and feat choices; if choices are left undone, the sheet warns with Choices still to make. There is also Undo the last level-up and going down a level.

Manual editing

The Manual switch in the left column, or Manual editing in the header's "···" menu, lets you adjust by hand values the sheet works out (max HP, AC, bonuses, senses, slots and resources) and add feats, spells or features from the compendium. What you touch is marked, and in Edited by hand you can undo it one by one or with Reset everything. The back-to-automatic button puts a value back on automatic.

Look and paper

Sheet appearance changes the density (comfortable or compact) and the text size, and is remembered on the device. The header's "···" menu also holds Export (Export to PDF or print), Image and token and Sections; see Exporting to PDF and group sheets.

Frequent problems

"I am missing a choice." The sheet says so in the left column with a button to fix it in the builder.

"I can't edit a field." Only whoever edits the sheet from the inside can change this. Ask whoever runs the game to change it or to turn on the free sheet.