Available systems: official, Foundry and your own
The four classes of system, which have their own engine, how to choose one when creating a table or a character and what to do if your game is not listed.
In Roliando a campaign has a system, and the system decides which sheet the characters use, which dice are rolled and what automatic help there is at the table. There are four classes: official ones, Foundry ones, community ones and your own.
Where it is
When creating a table, in the System step of Your own table; when creating a character, in Pick the system (see Your sheets: the list, creating, importing and the trash). The list has a search box (Name, author…) and a filter by System kind. The official ones can also be read without an account on the public systems page, /sistemas.
Requirements and permissions
Any account can choose an official, Foundry or published community system. Your own are private until you publish them. Some features of custom systems (for example custom token frames) depend on the plan; see Plans, limits and downgrading.
The four classes
| Class | What it is | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Official | Systems Roliando includes, under their licence or with their authors' permission and with credit | D&D 5e has its own engine; the others rely on the system builder |
| Foundry | Foundry systems you have installed | The system's own sheet and rules; see Foundry VTT in Roliando: systems, modules and worlds |
| From the community | Systems published by other people in the Workshop | A sheet and rolls built in the builder |
| Yours | Your own | Whatever you build in the builder; see System Builder: first steps |
The ones with their own engine
Three games have their sheet and combat programmed apart from the builder, which is why they are called native: D&D 5e, Fate Core and GUMSHOE. Foundry systems and the ones you build in the builder are two other routes. With D&D the table automates the compendium, the sheet, combat and dice (see Automated D&D: what the app rolls for you). Fate and GUMSHOE have their own sheet and rolls. The other official and community systems are played with the universal sheet (My game is not here: the universal sheet), with the rolls their author defined.
My game is not here
Below the list, Your game isn't in the list? offers two ways out: My game isn't here: universal system, which builds the sheet from scratch or on top of your PDF, and Create my own system, which opens the full builder. The system that gets created is private and yours. See My game is not here: the universal sheet and System Builder: first steps.
Changing system
If you change the system midway through creating a table, the rules and content chosen before go back to their default: You changed system: the rules and content chosen before go back to their default values.
Frequent problems
"I can't find my game." Search by author or by part of the title; if it does not exist, use "My game is not here".
"My Foundry system does not show." Only the ones you have installed appear; see Foundry VTT in Roliando: systems, modules and worlds.
See also
My game is not here: the universal sheet, The D&D 5e sheet, Foundry sheets, Foundry VTT in Roliando: systems, modules and worlds, System Builder: first steps, Your sheets: the list, creating, importing and the trash.