D&D 4E Halivar's 4E auto-calculating character sheet v.2.03 (OpenOffice, Excel & blank PDF)

Halivar · May 23, 2008

The character sheet I always use for 3.5E is an Excel spreadsheet I downloaded and heavily modified to suit my liking. Since there isn't one for 4E, I decided to write one up because I am soon to have need of it. It is based as closely as possible to the official 4E character sheet.

I don't use Microsoft Office, so I wrote it in OpenOffice.org Calc and exported it to Office XP. I can only guarantee that both versions work in O

. Download it, give it a test-drive, and tell me why you wouldn't want to touch it so I can fix it .

EDIT 2.0: Wow. It's now fully-functional for what I want. I owe a LOT of people for this. If you see bugs, please report them! Thanks.
EDIT 2.01: Forgot some stupid bugs; belorin pointed them out a week ago, and my friend Owen just reminded me. Stupid mistake!
EDIT 2.02: Fixed armor and shields. Info was based on pre-release info and had to update as per PHB. Also added masterwork armors.
EDIT 2.03: Fixed some formatting stuff and a bug related to weapons with parenthesis in O

rg.

Halivar's 4th Ed. Character Sheet 2.03 (Excel)
Halivar's 4th Ed. Character Sheet 2.03 (OpenOffice.org Calc)
Halivar's 4th Ed. Character Sheet 2.0 (blank PDF)

Piratecat · May 23, 2008

Thanks for posting this. Odd, the top bit is coming through as solid black. Is it for you?

I've got a nifty one as well, similar to yours in some places, but there's some stuff I auto-filled in that's covered by a NDA. I'll post it as soon as I can.

Halivar · May 23, 2008

You know, it may be that Excel doesn't do the auto-contrast thing I got on mine (must be O

). I'll try explicitly setting all the letters on black to white.

EDIT: It may also be the font: Georgia. It's supposed to be standard on Windows, but I may have been wrong. Is there a graphic I can use (legally) instead?

EDIT: Got a version 1.1 that I think fixes your problem PC. Just a simple image I did up in GIMP.

Halivar · May 23, 2008

Added a 1.2 revision to get rid of blue backgrounds on input fields; now I protect the whole sheet except for input fields. I think it looks better this way.

I've also verified that the Excel version works... you know... in Excel.

ShadowyFigure · May 23, 2008

THIS SHEET IS AWESOME will you have my babies?

ZetaStriker · May 24, 2008

One problem: the defenses are calculated wrong. It takes the best of Str or Con for Fort, Int or Dex for Ref, and Wis or Cha for Will. It forces just Con, Dex and Wis into those spots.

Halivar · May 24, 2008

Thanks, ZetaStriker! I've uploaded v. 1.3 to fix this.

Belorin · May 24, 2008

I'm getting hashmarks (####) in any skill that has n/a in the ACP column, is this something I can fix? I tried changing it, but it says it's protected. Also the Race Features section header has black font color on a black background. Great sheet otherwise!

Bel

Halivar · May 24, 2008

Hey Belorin, sorry about that. O

rg doesn't try to add text in math formulas, which I copy n' pasted. I cut out the "n/a" column from the formula to fix it, and changed the "Race Features" title to show up.

I've uploaded 1.4. Thanks!

EDIT: I also took off document protection because I think that's going to be more of a pain that is worth it.

ZetaStriker · May 25, 2008

Nice, Halivar, I'm glad to see this coming along. Hopefully it's about final now, but it's already looking to be a top notch tool. Thanks for making and uploading it for us!