Trying to get my group back together and am going Pathfinder, but with a few major tweeks. 1. Using Dodge and Parry table/Rules from Conan (keeping Armor as AC, but Sheilds now add to Perry). 2. keeping old skills of 3.5 (not skill system I like Pathfinder) and a few extra skills to boot (ie Craft Tech. Use Tech. Device from WOW RPG). 3 Using a lot of races and classes from 3PP including Wizards 3.5 stuff (which to me is now 3PP material). 4. new slots via WOW RPG for magic items. 5. tweeking a few core classes to better fit my needs. Normal stuff.
Well doing all this has not be easy but it has been fun, that is until my buddy asked, so who's character sheets are you using.
Well this is a problem. I putting together a character sheet that okay, one with a full page of Feats to dot in, and Wizards magic item slot sheet, but nothing I've seen has yet worked for the front sheet. I need something with Dodge and Parry from conan, but blank skill list that I can either write in or customize as needed. I like some of the fans Pathfinder sheets and I do like Emas web sight of sheets but I was wondering what kind of programs do people use to make your own Character sheets? I know Windows and Word fairly well but rarely use Publisher or Excel so I'm not as comfortable working with those programs, but to be honest I don't even know where to start. I can't change other peoples PDF files, and to be truthful I woudn't want to mess with other peoples work.
So what programs do you guys use, and also do you know of any place that has customizable sheets that fit what I'm doing.
Any help would be great.
Thanks Very Much in advace. DRE
I made a sheet once and I found that a scanner and a program to paste up the damn thing to make what I needed was just the job. That or have some way to chop up the PDFs you need then paste up.
There is always the old stand-by of 3 ring ruled binder paper. Ahh... Takes me back.
You could likly as not just make a fresh one.
I made up a sheet for a MATIX game using varations on Spycraft, there I used Corel draw but Illustrator would do the job as-well if not better. Any word processor would be more than up to the job as most are practically low-end desktop publishing apps by now.
Or a combination of whatever. Work up you tables in Word or Quark express - pring them then manually paste up and photocopy or can then distribute as a BMP or PDF.
I don't think this is the best advice you could get but it's the best I got. Your going with an ambitious blend and I hope it works out and is as fun as you hope. In the end the sheet is just the frame, the game is the art.
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Hey thanks for the help, almost forgot I posted this. I'll tell you that Dodge and Parry rules form Conan were very easy to add to any D20 as they were desinged for ease of use. The skills too are a simple matter. As for the sheet itself your advise is helpful, though at this point I'm simply going to try to make it from scracth. The hardest part of all this is finding the time to do it.
Thanks again.
I was wondering what kind of programs do people use to make your own Character sheets?
I prefer Scribus, but sometimes break down and use something less perfectly suited to the task, like The GIMP or OpenOffice.org. One of these days, I'll probably learn how to do this stuff properly, with LaTeX.
I've been toying with the idea of creating a character sheet generator of my own for the web, but haven't gotten around to it "yet". I put quotes around "yet", of course, because I'm not sure I ever will get around to it.
Spent good money on Adobe InDesign CS3. I love it.