ffilz
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Houserule are the bane of VTTs since one of the things they really excel at is automation.
The problem is at the basic level, the systems I run aren't supported by Roll20 (and probably not by any other VTT either). The house rules are icing on the cake. And even if they get some better support, they are likely to have limited automation support.I also think the paid monster manuals for whatever your game system you use is money well spent. It saves a fair amount of time building them.
The character sheets would work a lot better if there was more flexibility in them. For example, Classic Traveller DOES have a character sheet. You can't add skills. So if you use anything beyond Book 1 chargen, you're out of luck. And I'm not sure whether it supports '77 or '81 (how does it handle Air/Raft, ATV, or Vehicle skill). The RQ (3 I think) charsheet does automatic calculations that are useless for RQ 1/2. But if there was a middling level of customization that didn't require a paid subscription maybe I could make them work.
On the other hand, for RQ, I really like the Google Sheet I use (example: ). Thanks to player Nate for starting it. I did a bit of coding and now have a summary sheet that makes it easy to pull up everyone's skill with any skill I need at the time. Last session I added a POW regain calculator. So I just took some of the automation out of the system.
I also do a lot of dice rolling using physical dice, and allow my players to do so. Honestly it's faster and I have all the NPC notes on scratch paper just like I would for in person gaming.