My Contribution To The Community

[h0rnman]

This site has been a source of great inspiration, wisdom, and more than a few laughs for me. With that in mind, I submit the following as contributions to the community. Hopefully, there are folks who will find these helpful:

Google Docs Link

Contents are:

• The Paizo 'official' character sheet in editable, auto-calculating, restriction free format.
  
• A 4 per page NPC sheet in editable, somewhat auto-calculating, restriction free format.
  **Note that this sheet's design was heavily borrowed from http://www.militaryfocus.com/dnd/index.htm
  
• A spontaneous caster spellsheet and a prepared caster spellsheet in ODT (Open Office) format. They aren't
  pretty, but they are functional.
  
• A single (for now) custom spell, with more hopefully on the way
  

All of these items will be periodically updated, when time allows.

[Vic Wertz]

h0rnman wrote:

The Paizo 'official' character sheet in editable, auto-calculating, restriction free format.

Please note that you're only allowed to redistribute copyrighted material like our character sheet if you follow the guidelines of our Community Use Policy... and even then, you're not allowed to modify certain materials, including the character sheet. (If you want to replace our graphics with your own, and adjust the copyright with your name instead of ours, that should pretty much take care of the sheet for you. As it stands now, it looks like we're responsible for the form-fillable-ness, and we're not.)

Also, if you're using game mechanics and game terms in your docs, you should really be publishing them under the OGL, which can be found in the back of every OGL product. (In this case, it's really just a matter of adding the OGL itself to your files, and updating the section 15 statement to reference your own product.)

I know this sounds like a pain, but the OGL and related licenses exist to allow you to do the kind of thing you're doing without having to worry about the potential legal issues that may exist—on your side as well as ours—if you don't follow them. Basically, it's safer for you, and it's safer for us, and it's not that difficult to do.

Once they're OGL-compliant, if you want, you can even spiff up the PDF with a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible logo—just check out the Compatibility License to see how you can do that.