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The experience boxes, "Current" and "Next level" seems to be bugged. When you type a value in one of them, the other receives that value as well.
Hey guys.. sorry I've been absent recently. Lots of real life getting in the way! Here's a quick fix for this bug. BTW, thanks for doing the powers & rituals sheets that I never got around to finishing! At some point, I'd like to redo the form on the newer sheet, but I wouldn't expect it to be real soon. (I need to start gearing up for GenCon! )
I have no technical expertise with which to contribute to the sheet. I can however let you guys know that your work is appreciated by my entire group. We use the Shado form fillable sheet exclusively and check here constantly, hoping for a new and improved version. Keep up the good work, and many thanks!!
I know, I'm a bit late, but keep the landscape... it's the only character sheet we use in our games (3x) and ll think the are the best. We do our own math and are happy to do so. Only erk is the need for another page for personality stuff, portraits etc... .
Shado's sheets are great but I'd been trying to maintain electronic copies of my players' characters using Foxit Editor! Way time consuming. Thanks so much guys for creating these forms, they make my life SO much easier.
The one thing that I'm really struggling with, though, is the limited # of combat rows. Because you're sharing Basic Attack space with Power space, you do 2 rows of basic attacks and you only have room for 3 powers!
Whereas most of my characters only have 2 weapons, so they don't need 3 rows of weapons. Is there anything we can do to maybe eliminate one of the weapon rows in favor of squeezing in 2 more power rows?
The one thing that I'm really struggling with, though, is the limited # of combat rows. Because you're sharing Basic Attack space with Power space, you do 2 rows of basic attacks and you only have room for 3 powers!
Whereas most of my characters only have 2 weapons, so they don't need 3 rows of weapons. Is there anything we can do to maybe eliminate one of the weapon rows in favor of squeezing in 2 more power rows?
Awesome, exactly what I was after.
I run an NPC DBorn Pal as DM, and the players use cards but I don't have room for them! Your sheets are great, thanks
I spent some time this morning to make those very nice power and ritual sheets into forms. This is my first attempt to do such work, and I did some thing via "trial and error" method, please easy on the feedback
Here are the sheets, v.1.0 Hope you enjoy them!
Thank you, thank you!
I just wanted to say thanks to all involved for the beautiful sheet and the form-fillable version. This has got to be my favorite character sheet to date, beating out even Ema's (which I love, especially for powers).
I've been converting a few old characters for yucks, and this sheet has been a joy to work with. Especially since my handwriting is so bad!
Shado's characther sheets translated in portuguese
Hello Shado,
Surfing over the internet, I've found your Characther and Power Sheets for D&D 4E (version 1.1) and liked it a lot. I'am part of team who supports a blog about RPG here in Brazil (URL on footer) and, following the terms especified on the Creative Commons, I've translated ur work to our language and posted it in our blog.
Except by some minor changes (on the power sheets, leaving some more space to write about the power effects), both sheets remains the same. I've made the changes using Illustrator CS3, but the files became a lot more heavy, coz a don't have the font files and I'll be very glad if u are willing to help sendind us these files (maybe version 1.2 already) to improve the portuguese files in some way.
However, this msg is not to ask u nothing, but more to tell u that ur work now have erupted international borders over the world. I've kept ur credits and included my ones. Hope u like our job, fell free to write me.
These character sheets are fantastic--light years ahead of the official sheets. My whole group is using them now. Thanks so much for all the hard work, Shado.
Valyar and Vesper--you guys are awesome. The fillable sheets work great. Thanks to you too.
Are there any plans from you guys (or anyone else) to do any more work on these? I have no idea how do do it myself, but I'd love to have a v1.2 fillable character sheet. Also, Vesper's character sheet has an awesome feature that resizes your text if you're running over the space in the box. The powers sheet doesn't have it, but it would be even more usable if it did. Anyone have the time and inclination to work on that?
Hey Shado, I jsut wanted to say that you sheets inspired me to make an Excel 2007 version.
The PDF is pretty big, and my Acrobat 8 seems to chug along trying to fill it out. In short, PDF is very versatile but sluggish.
I tried to stay as faithful to yours as I could, but also took advantage of some Excel stuff too, like conditional formatting.
Here is mine (attached). Note that I am including the native 2007 version, plus a 2003 copy. I can't tell you what the 2003 will look like without the Office 2007 themes...
The design is very clean. It's probably the best looking sheet I've seen.
One thing that bugs me though (and lots of sheets have this problem) is that there isn't enough room on the sheet itself to describe the powers you use in every single round of combat. And the power sheet is too "diffuse". You'd be much better off with 10 lines (single spaced) like this:
(at-W/E/D) - (, , etc.) - (Range) - (Power Name) - ([xx] vs. [xx]) - (Description of Effect)
And that last line should be long enough to encompass crib notes on effects, durations, sustain, secondary attacks, miss effects, etc. Just putting down "Damage" doesn't cut it.
__________________ I don't "tell stories" when I play D&D. I adventure. Afterward, when the gold is counted and the bodies piled high, we may tell stories about how it all went down. Or not.
One thing that bugs me though (and lots of sheets have this problem) is that there isn't enough room on the sheet itself to describe the powers you use in every single round of combat.
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Originally Posted by Shado
The design is intended to be used with power cards, so it may not be appropriate for all tables.
If your powers are fully detailed on power cards, what's the point of duplicating that info on the main sheet?
If your powers are fully detailed on power cards, what's the point of duplicating that info on the main sheet?
What, like I'm supposed to read everything?
Sorry ...
__________________ I don't "tell stories" when I play D&D. I adventure. Afterward, when the gold is counted and the bodies piled high, we may tell stories about how it all went down. Or not.
Hey guys.. sorry I've been absent recently. Lots of real life getting in the way! Here's a quick fix for this bug. BTW, thanks for doing the powers & rituals sheets that I never got around to finishing! At some point, I'd like to redo the form on the newer sheet, but I wouldn't expect it to be real soon. (I need to start gearing up for GenCon! )
Hope you've recovered from GenCon.
If you're still looking at making edits here, would it be too much work to get the Item Weights to sum up under "Current Weight Carried" and to auto-calc the Loads?
Just little things to make life easier....
Also, would it be possible to center or right-align the Experience entries? Left-align just looks odd for numbers ....
Thank you so much! This sheet is awesome (not that I'm on the Power Card page).
__________________ I don't "tell stories" when I play D&D. I adventure. Afterward, when the gold is counted and the bodies piled high, we may tell stories about how it all went down. Or not.
The design is very clean. It's probably the best looking sheet I've seen.
One thing that bugs me though (and lots of sheets have this problem) is that there isn't enough room on the sheet itself to describe the powers you use in every single round of combat. And the power sheet is too "diffuse". You'd be much better off with 10 lines (single spaced) like this:
(at-W/E/D) - (, , etc.) - (Range) - (Power Name) - ([xx] vs. [xx]) - (Description of Effect)
And that last line should be long enough to encompass crib notes on effects, durations, sustain, secondary attacks, miss effects, etc. Just putting down "Damage" doesn't cut it.
That's exactly my thoughts, and why I chose Excel to re-envision Shado's work. Excel lets you get much tighter in your design. See the screenshots.
Edit: I'm attaching a PDF printout of a filled in character sheet. (1st level wizard). Note that we use Power and Item cards, so those pages have bogus data in them - just to give you an idea of what it would look like. The colors for power frequency are automatically applied when you select the appropriate value from a pull-down menu (conditional formatting).
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Last edited by tintagel; 24th September 2008 at 02:49 PM..
Just found your sheets Shado. I really like 'em!!! A few small things, there doesn't seem to be anyway to easily track ammo, a tracker for the number of times you've used magic item daily powers would be nice. Also, an initiative tracker in the same style would rule.
Thanks!
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