Chronicle Sheets for Online Play

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Chronicle Sheets are something of a nightmare for online play. You need a PDF editor that can extract the page and then painstakingly add in text boxes which are weird to edit on a PDF.

Everyone's got their own way of filling in chronicle sheets online, but the best I've seen is the one my crew uses, where possible, and that's a chronicle sheet generator on a website. That method involves working out the co-ordinates on each individual sheet for where text is meant to go. Great once it's in, but it is an immense amount of work for the guy who sets this up, and he's only done it with about a season's worth of sheets because a lot of it is trial and error.

Is it possible for chronicle sheets on PDFs to be set up with editable fields? Or is there another online solution that doesn't involve a printer and a scanner?

Online play is prevalent; we could really use some help with this. Feedback is welcome here.

[Skellan]

I GM online a lot using Fantasy Grounds and use an editable Chronicle sheet like what you are looking for. You can download this from the
Fantasy Grounds Forums.

These forms are great as you can sign the sheets electronically and it calculates the totals for gold/xp/prestige. It makes my job easier anyway :)

[Patrick Harris @ SD]

I don't know what the PC equivalent of this would be, but when I feel like filling them out before printing I just load the scenario in Preview, use text annotations to fill in the details, and print that one page. Which can also be "printed" to a new PDF file suitable for emailing.

[Dylos]

Skellan wrote:

I GM online a lot using Fantasy Grounds and use an editable Chronicle sheet like what you are looking for. You can download this from the

Fantasy Grounds Forums.

These forms are great as you can sign the sheets electronically and it calculates the totals for gold/xp/prestige. It makes my job easier anyway :)

Note that in the link you post someone brings up that Paizo has said that editable chronicle sheets are not pfs legal, see this link, there is also a discussion there on how to make the forms more legal, it might prove an interesting read.

[Dust Raven]

An editable sheet would not be legal, but once signed these PDFs can no longer be edited. So long as they have a valid signature they function no differently than any other official (and properly filled out) chronicle sheet.

[Rene Duquesnoy]

take a look at Chronicle

[Skellan]

Yep, once they are signed they cant be edited at all.

[Deran Castillian]

I have searched and read a lot about how to create legal Chronicle Sheets. I am still confused on what is considered legal. It is obvious that the sheet should not be editable after it has been signed. My question is, what is the proper way to sign the sheet? Can it be digitally signed, or does it have to have an image of my signature embedded in it? I really like the PDF versions that I got from my first experiences as a player. They were cleaner and easy to read. I would like to deliver my Chronicle Sheets in PDF format for games that I GM, but want them to be legal. Thanks for helping me out.

[BigNorseWolf]

Don't worry about it. Digital signatures are fine. If it has your pfs number on there somewhere its probably good.

If you can't figure out how to sign digitally (someone would have to walk me through) i suppose you could always send it out in paintshop with mouse drawn fill ins. You could even copy/paste numbers from all over the web, ransom note style.

[wvpolarbear]

I use http://www.pdfescape.com/

Sample sheet: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51641909/03182013/03182013Atu.pdf

I know that most of the Pathfinder Society Online Collective folk use scanners to print sheets, write it out, and upload.

[Sior]

wvpolarbear wrote:

I know that most of the Pathfinder Society Online Collective folk use scanners to print sheets, write it out, and upload.

*raises hand* Guilty...

[TetsujinOni]

I have been using PDFFill since the Living Greyhawk days, saving with a permissions password. It works pretty well.

Example, for a player who played a pregen for Fortress of the Nail (so, spoilers for Fortress of the Nail's chronicle through the link):