D20 Adventurer’s Folio

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An open folio on a wooden table beside a candle, a coin pouch and a spill of polyhedral dice.

Character sheets worth framing. A hand-painted folio for classic tabletop roleplaying — keep your heroes as living sheets on iPhone and iPad, roll dice that feel like dice, and print a page worth putting on the table.

Getting it

The Folio is with Apple for review. The App Store link lands on this page the day it is approved — the app is free, with two complete rule sets and every live-play feature in it.

Most character-sheet apps are forms

A character sheet painted as an illuminated manuscript, with a portrait in an arched window and the character's numbers typeset into the page.

This one is a folio — an illuminated page you actually want to look at, with your character’s numbers typeset into it as though a scribe had filled them in.

Nothing is a text box. Every value is set into the painted art at the place the art left for it. Tap a saving throw and the dice roll. Tap a score and edit it where it sits.

Drop in a picture of your hero and it clips into the painted window, under the same stone-and-gilt arch the page was drawn with.

Dice with weight

A three-dimensional dice tray with polyhedral dice coming to rest on green felt.

A real tray, in three dimensions, with dice that tumble and settle. Tap a save, a check or an attack anywhere on the sheet and watch it land — then read the verdict off the felt.

The sets are collector-grade: gemstone, metal, wood and bone, each one modelled rather than tinted.

The dice-set gallery, showing many different collector-grade dice sets. — Every set in the tray, yours to switch between.

Three rule sets. Two of them free.

A 2024-revision character sheet: six ability modifiers, the Six Trials, a skills panel, and a Marshal's Board of racial and class bonuses.

1st Edition (1977–1988) and the 2024 revision are both in the app from the start. 5th Edition (2014) is a separate purchase for tables still playing it.

Each gets its own page architecture and its own correctly computed numbers — five saving throws or six, THAC0 or an attack bonus, weapon proficiencies or skills. Neither is a reskin of the other: the panels that have no meaning in your edition are not there.

And the pages themselves are painted separately, down to the class ledgers — a 2024 sheet is not a first-edition sheet with different numbers on it.*

Pick the ruleset when you make the hero. The sheet speaks your table’s dialect from then on.

Eleven classes, eleven painted pages

A gallery of class ledger pages, each painted for its own class.

The thief’s guild book, the paladin’s temple codex, the magic-user’s illuminated grimoire, the druid’s grove tome. Each class carries its own ledger page, its own seal and its own palette.

Your hero’s second page is the one that belongs to them.

The Adventurer's Ledger page: equipment, coins and gems, magic items, and an adventure log. — The ledger

The Grimoire page, listing spells by level. — The grimoire

The Quick Hero screen, with controls for edition, stat method and level. — Quick Hero

The things you always forget, where you can see them

The Marshal's Board: three columns headed Racial Traits, Class Abilities and Other Bonuses, filled with a dragonborn sorcerer's traits, saves, proficiencies and languages. — The Marshal’s Board, at the foot of the sheet.

Darkvision. Which saves you are good at. The tool your background gave you and the languages you speak. They live at the bottom of the page, in three painted columns, instead of in a book you have to put down your dice to open.

Roll a hero and the board arrives already filled from your edition’s own rules.* Build one by hand and the lines are yours to write.

Bring a character. Or roll one in ten seconds.

Quick Hero rolls a legal character for the edition you pick — class, race, alignment, scores, hit points and all — and lets you trade points around before you keep it. Or build one by hand, a line at a time.

Sir Adam, a human paladin in battered plate before a castle, holding a golden sword named the Holy Avenger. — Sir Adam · Paladin

Bram Ironfoot, an older dwarf fighter with a braided grey beard and a war axe. — Bram Ironfoot · Fighter

Rosalind, a dragonborn sorcerer holding violet flame. — Rosalind · Sorcerer

Theodric, a half-orc wizard in a library holding a crystal-topped staff. — Theodric · Wizard

What’s inside

Living sheets. Every value typeset onto painted art, editable in place.
Dice with weight. A 3D tray with collector-grade sets — tap a save or a check and watch it land.
A roll log. Every roll kept with the hero who made it and the arithmetic behind it, so “what did I actually get?” has an answer.
Three rule sets. 1st Edition and the 2024 revision included; 5th Edition (2014) as a purchase. Each with its own painted panels and its own derived stats — and its own painted pages.*
Eleven classes. Class-themed pages, ledgers and seals.
The Marshal’s Board. Racial traits, class abilities and what your background gave you, at the foot of the sheet — filled in for you on a rolled hero.*
Print-perfect PDFs. The painted sheet, the Adventurer’s Ledger, and more pages of Grimoire if your hero casts. US Letter, ready for pencil and ink.
Portraits. Drop in a picture of your hero; it clips into the painted window.

What it costs

No subscription and no renewals. Everything below is a single payment, and what you buy stays bought.

Free

One hero, and every live-play feature the app has.
Two complete rule sets — 1st Edition (1977–1988) and the 2024 revision.
Two dice sets, aged ivory and deep red resin, in the full 3D tray.
Printing. One thing to know: printing a free hero sets its name, class, race and ability scores in ink. Everything else still changes as you play.

The Folio

Unlimited heroes, and nothing set in ink.
The painted class pages and class ledgers.
Blank sheets to print for the whole party.

5th Edition (2014)

Adds the 2014 ruleset, its own sheet and its spell tables.

Premium Dice Pack

Ten more collector sets, from molten gold to charcoal veined with glowing ember.

Yours, on your device

The folio has no accounts, no sign-in and no servers. It collects nothing about you, and it never sends your characters anywhere. It works with no signal at all. See the privacy policy — it is short, because there is very little to say.

Questions people actually ask

Do I need to know the rules to use it?

No, and you do not need to look anything up either. The app knows the tables for the ruleset you picked and does the arithmetic as you play. It is not a teacher and it will not tell you what to do on your turn — that is what the table is for.

Can I bring a character I already have?

Yes. Build one by hand, a line at a time, and put in whatever your existing sheet says. Nothing is computed that you cannot overwrite.

Is there an Android version? A web version?

No. It is a native iPhone and iPad app, and the painted pages are the reason.

Does it work without signal?

Entirely. There is no server to reach.

What happens to my heroes if I delete the app?

They go with it, the same as any file on your device. Swipe a hero and tap Export and you get a .folio file — a complete copy you keep, and the same file that moves a character to another device. Import Character brings it back.

Is this an official product?

No. It is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by any game publisher. It ships no adventures, no monsters and no spell descriptions — bring your own books.

What the asterisks mean

* These arrive in the 1.1 update, free to everyone who has the app, shortly after launch. They are marked because a page that describes an app should describe the one you can actually download today. The screenshots throughout this page are taken from that build, so a few small things will look newer here than on your device until it lands.

Requirements

iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later.

Need a hand?

Questions, bugs and feature requests are all welcome — see the support page.