Files for playing Universe on Roll20

These are the files needed to play SPI's Universe on the virtual tabletop Roll20.

Prerequisites

In order to use custom character sheets and API access, you will need a Pro level subscription or higher. If I ever get my act together, clean up the character sheet and API scripts, and submit them for publication, and Roll20 actually publishes them, you won't need Pro access, but that's in the indefinite future. (It also assumed that Roll20 will publish materials in support of a 40+-year-old out-of-print RPG.)

Some knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is useful, but I think you can get by with the materials here as they are now.

Character Sheet

• USheet.html is the character sheet itself. I've renamed it so that you can view it as flat HTML. If you use it, you should probably change the name back.
  
  The sheet consists of three parts:
• The button bar (top). There are action buttons for shock checks (30.3), willpower checks (29.8), and rolling for initiative against NPCs or creatures (29.1). (The parentheses normally contain the base number, to which a d10 is added.) The row below that consists of seven panel switch buttons (which switch out the main panel at bottom) and one recalculate button. (Normally everything recalculates automatically when various values are changed; this is a fallback for when they do not.)
• The status bar (middle). Current environment, current movement allowance, and various character statuses (prone, unconscious, etc.) are listed here. Most of these update automatically, and changing them also updates status markers on the corresponding token.
• The main panel (bottom). There are three main and four additional panels:
• Summary: a quick summary of important stats and info.
• Combat: stats for unarmed, close and ranged combat. Next to each weapon listing is a button that automatically calculates for the attack. It also keeps track of weapons carried and armor worn, and allows for close combat with powered or unpowered armor.
• Skills: a list of all known skills.
• Equipment: all non-weapon, non-armor equipment. The mass and current weight of all equipment is tracked and movement adjusted accordingly.
• Heritage: This additional panel contains info generated during the heritage phase of character generation (5.0).
• Development: Contains info from the development phase (6.0). This is also where physical stats are manually changed when necessary.
• Profession: Contains info from the profession phase (7.0).
• There is another, hidden panel for creatures, since they take different stats and procedures. This is for GM use only. In the Attributes and Abilities section, change the variable sheetTab to southernwild. It's a hack but it works for now.
• USheet.css is the style sheet for the character sheet. It's of limited usefulness: many of the styles applied in the sheet are one-offs.

Mod scripts (API)

• UniverseCombat.js contains API commands for close combat, weapons fire, grenade throwing, shock and willpower checks, and damage rolls. Most of these are automatic and triggered by buttons on the Combat section of the character sheet.
• UniverseEnvironment.js contains commands for setting the date and current environment (environ and gravity), for use by the GM.
• UniverseStatus.js contains commands that update token markers when character status changes.

Additionally, you will need the ChatSetAttr and TokenMod published scripts, both for API use and for the macros.

Useful macros

The file macros.txt contains the actions programmed in as macros. Each is invoked in the chat box as # followed by the macro name (i.e., #clearall).

The macros are:

• clearall: clear all status markers for the selected token(s)
• creature: make the selected token a creature
• dead: mark the selected token(s) as dead and move them to the Map layer. That way players cannot interact with them. To undo this, you will need to go to the Map layer to select them.
• immobile: toggle the immobilie token marker (Paralyzed::7084079)
• prone: toggle the prone token marker (Prone::7084084).
• reloading: mark a token as reloading by clearing the brown dot and setting the yellow dot. Use this during the Action Round when a character is reloading.
• reset: set all physical stats back to their maximum. Used mainly to reset tokens for debugging.
• setup-token: set up a token as a player character or NPC in the following manner:
• Set bar1 (green) to show the Strength stat.
• Set bar2 (blue) to show the current Action Round movement allowance.
• Set bar3 (red) to show the Endurance stat.
• Set size to man-sized.
• Set the proper permissions.
• setup-token-creature: Similar, but set bar1 to the Combat stat and bar3 to the Agility stat.
• shock: toggle the shock token marker (Frightened::7084073).
• stunned: toggle the stunned token marker (Stunned::7084087).
• unconscious: toggle the unconscious token marker (Unconscious::7084089).
• undead: undo the dead status and move the token back to the Objects layer.
• will-reload: set the brown dot. Use this if a character will be reloading next Action Round.

The token markers use the 5e Simplified Token Marker Pack, but any marker pack should do. Be sure to change the macros and UniverseStatus.js to match.

	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
	Parent Directory		-
	macros.dat	2026-09-09 22:56	1.3K
	UniverseStatus.js	2026-08-30 16:47	1.9K
	USheet.css	2026-09-04 17:40	3.6K
	00HEADER.shtml	2026-09-09 23:02	7.3K
	UniverseEnvironment.js	2026-08-27 21:25	18K
	Character sheet 7 (profession).png	2026-09-08 19:33	55K
	Character sheet 5 (heritage).png	2026-09-08 19:33	64K
	Character sheet 4 (equipment).png	2026-09-08 19:33	65K
	Character sheet 6 (development).png	2026-09-08 19:33	66K
	UniverseCombat.js	2026-09-03 19:54	69K
	Character sheet 3 (skills).png	2026-09-08 19:33	71K
	Character sheet 2 (combat).png	2026-09-08 19:32	77K
	Character sheet 1 (summary).png	2026-09-08 19:32	78K
	USheet.html.txt	2026-09-04 17:39	123K