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Since I have started playing D&D again, I have been on the huint for the perfect character sheet. I happened upon a few character sheets from this Ema person. Ever since I have been in smitten by this woman's brain. I was wondering if this was even a real person if so, good job. I dont know who she is really I just know that anything I get with the name Ema on it has been good to me. Tell me what you think or maybe what you use for your perfect character sheet.
Since I have started playing D&D again, I have been on the huint for the perfect character sheet. I happened upon a few character sheets from this Ema person. Ever since I have been in smitten by this woman's brain. I was wondering if this was even a real person if so, good job. I dont know who she is really I just know that anything I get with the name Ema on it has been good to me. Tell me what you think or maybe what you use for your perfect character sheet.
Ema is actually short for Emanuele; he's a 36 year-old gentleman living in Italy who has a passion for the game. His character sheets are excellent, if for no reason other than the consolidated spell lists compiled from just about all of the current WotC releases. His website and all his character sheets can be found here:
I agree about Ema's character sheets. They are by far the best sheets I have seen. I never use any other.
http://www.emass-web.com is no more.
Sigh.
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http://www.emass-web.com is no more.
Sigh.
Wow, I just found out about this, and am surprised there isn't more outrage. Ema had a lot more than just D&D character sheet. I wonder why he shut the entire site down rather than just remove the wizards stuff.
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Let me get this right.... wotc has shut down a Web site that was dedicated to a former product that they no longer support, but only after wotc abandoned it?
Please help me understand. I am not beyond listening, I seek to understand before I reach any conclusions.
BTW - for really good character sheets, in loo of this EMA, you might try Mad Irishman Productions, or the classic retro-v.3.5 character sheet that I personally favor.
So .... really?!? A third edition site has been shut down, only now?
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Let me get this right.... wotc has shut down a Web site that was dedicated to a former product that they no longer support, but only after wotc abandoned it?
Please help me understand. I am not beyond listening, I seek to understand before I reach any conclusions.
BTW - for really good character sheets, in loo of this EMA, you might try Mad Irishman Productions, or the classic retro-v.3.5 character sheet that I personally favor.
So .... really?!? A third edition site has been shut down, only now?
Here's a response from emass-web.com himself.
Let me get this right.... wotc has shut down a Web site that was dedicated to a former product that they no longer support, but only after wotc abandoned it?
Please help me understand. I am not beyond listening, I seek to understand before I reach any conclusions.
BTW - for really good character sheets, in loo of this EMA, you might try Mad Irishman Productions, or the classic retro-v.3.5 character sheet that I personally favor.
So .... really?!? A third edition site has been shut down, only now?
Scuttlebutt on the WotC website said that he had 4e character sheets that provided the entire text of the powers, and/or some sort of power cards doing the same thing, and that he had a pay part of his site, and that was what WotC went after.
Probably had jack all to do with 3E; that just got killed in the radiation fallout from the nuke.
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Probably had jack all to do with 3E; that just got killed in the radiation fallout from the nuke.
I just found an old ema character sheet. It has "Dungeons & Dragons" on the top left-hand corner in this design. (Ignore the Wrath of the Dragon God text). If I remember correctly, that's not part of the OGL.
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Scuttlebutt on the WotC website said that he had 4e character sheets that provided the entire text of the powers, and/or some sort of power cards doing the same thing, and that he had a pay part of his site, and that was what WotC went after.
Was that text open per the GSL? And if he was asking for payment, had he obtain permission from WotC?
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What was on the site that made WotC shut it down? Must have been some non OGL stuff on there, and the flexed their legal muscles...
I'm glad they did. OGL was specifically develop to let designers know what was allowed, legally, to be used in their products while protecting the owners. I couldn't image Paizo, for example, standing back and allowing the Golarion gods or the company's trademarked blue golem being used by any Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Scuttlebutt on the WotC website said that he had 4e character sheets that provided the entire text of the powers, and/or some sort of power cards doing the same thing, and that he had a pay part of his site, and that was what WotC went after.Was that text open per the GSL? And if he was asking for payment, had he obtain permission from WotC?
That's nearly correct.
The power cards that were available on his site had the names of the powers, and paraphrased descriptions of their effects. (You would often have to look in the original sourcebook for things like "does this affect enemies only, or are allies in the blast too?".)
It probably was stepping over the line, and he had probably been below WOTC's radar for a while, and the power cards are probably what made them take notice.
His spell sheets for 3.5 were an incredible resource, and I'll miss them.