4e Character Generator now online

[Ed_Laprade]

Nice. Not perfect, but nice. Glad to see you're still willing to work on it.

 

[Tharian]

That was really cool. Thanks for the new tool. I was able to sit here with my GF and crank out an elven ranger for her in under 3 minutes. Awesome!

 

[darjr]

This is nice, thank you. I really like how at the end it doesn't dictate a character sheet, but just the text. Very cool.

 

[SlyFlourish]

Love it

I love it. I have two requests and I bet they're both hard.

1. I'd love an actual PDF character sheet at the end, although the text is nice.

2. I'd like to do levels other than 1.

Great stuff!

 

[Grimstaff]

You know, I got so used to the way things were in 3.5 that it honestly didn't occur to me to do things otherwise until someone mentioned it in one of the other forums. That said, with the exception of their order, each of the abilities do exactly what they're supposed to do in 4e... out of curiosity, how important is the arrangement of the abilities to everyone? Does everyone prefer it the 4e way? What do all of you think?

Well, its grouped the way it is in 4E for the abilities' relations to defenses. Str/Con for Fort, Dex/Int for Ref, Wis/Cha for Will. Not necessarily better, just...more organized?

Anyways, thanks for this generator, I always find a ton of uses for stuff like this, from pregens for pickup games, detailed NPCs, etc.

Any plans to support level 2+ generation?

 

[Brasswatchman]

I'd like to do levels other than 1.

Any plans to support level 2+ generation?

You know, I wish I could, but as it is I'm afraid I've got my hands full just trying to support Level 1. This is really the best that I can do for the moment, on my own.

Incidentally, it occurs to me that I don't actually mention this on the page - but if you click the "Show Work at End" checkbox on the Export page, the program will append a bit at the end of the program that will show you all the math it's done. Should make recalculating for a higher level a bit easier, I hope.

Anyway, I'm really glad that everyone's enjoying the program. Please keep the feedback coming, everyone, and thanks again for the kind words.

 

[Brasswatchman]

Well, its grouped the way it is in 4E for the abilities' relations to defenses. Str/Con for Fort, Dex/Int for Ref, Wis/Cha for Will. Not necessarily better, just...more organized?

Noted. Thanks for the feedback. Anyone else have any thoughts to share on the matter?

1. I'd love an actual PDF character sheet at the end, although the text is nice.

You're right... that is pretty hard, unfortunately. If it's any help, though, I am hoping to add on a "Print Character Data" feature, which should spit out a formatted HTML page that you can save, print off, whatever. Also, if you click the "Show Work At End" checkbox on the Export page, the program will spit out all the stuff you should need to quickly fill out a character sheet on the side. So there's that.

 

[Emryys]

Very Nice!

As long as it provides all the basic options for starting characters, it's a godsend... or is that dietysend...

 

[Brasswatchman]

Again, thanks for the feedback, everyone. I might post a few of your comments on the chargen's page; that's cool with all of you, right? If not, let me know.

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

Great job!