Issues Creating Custom role to use Lookups

Summary:

Due to licensing, we've had to re-evaluate and pull apart a Support role created by our implementer as it is using 7 licenses per person. We've determined a sub-team only needs a few features so we're trying to create a new Custom Role. We don't want to give everyone Application Implementation Consultant as it is too broad and also consume unneeded licenses, so same issue. I can see the Setup and Maintenance area with the new custom role, but no lookups are available to choose from, in fact nothing it is really just a header