Customized Chronicle Sheets

[Deussu]

When I first laid my eyes upon my first chronicle sheet back in Season 0, I was a tad disappointed with how it looked. It has remained unchanged, and I don't mind that. Still, I've got time in my hands so I wondered if it'd be possible to create customized chronicle sheets.

I admit I 'nostalgize' Living Greyhawk and how every adventure record featured the coat of arms, signia, or seal of the country the adventure was located. Having this small image would distinguish the sheet from others, maybe make it more memorable.

Another thing I was thinking about was inserting a short paragraph, an epilogue or a summary of what the character went through. This way it's easier for all those memories to flood in as you browse through your old chronicle sheets.

Presently the chronicle sheet holds a lot of empty white space, primarily because all the acquired equipment from the scenario reserves a lot of space. So far I've seen very little of this space used, maybe two items per tier in average. Neat graphical thingies would liven it up, and I see nothing bad about that.

Ideas or thoughts? Anyhow, would creating a customized chronicle sheet be against the rules somehow? It would still hold all the same information as a regular CS, but the layout would be more ... exquisite.

[Michael Brock]

I don't know how much extra time that would take in editing but I like the idea.

[Mark Garringer]

Deussu wrote:

Ideas or thoughts? Anyhow, would creating a customized chronicle sheet be against the rules somehow? It would still hold all the same information as a regular CS, but the layout would be more ... exquisite.

I appreciate the willing to lend a hand, spirit of the community is awesome and has lead to some pretty fantastic resources.

I would suggest that you carry any supplemental 'pretty' Chronicle along with the original earned/signed Chronicle to avoid any potential questions of legality.

[Vinyc Kettlebek]

Since you would need to make the custom sheet after playing the module it may prove to be a problem. It is a bad idea to make homemade campaign documentation or to mess with official campaign documents. It will only cause problems for you later if you lose the official paperwork. The simplest solution would be to make a PFS journal. It would almost be like a passport with a stamp and a place for notes. It would be something to keep along side your Chronicle sheets instead of replacing them.

First list the basics like the module name, date and con played at. Then have a section for you to describe what your group did during the module. There are going to be times where your party may not get through a module as written, so a generic description may not be accurate. Just jot down the details as you play through the module.

Then have a section to put an emblem to represent the modules location. I’m sure it would be fairly easy for Paizo to offer a product with the artwork as a download from their site. A collection of artwork jpegs or tiffs for Deity Holy Symbols, National Crests, Faction, Organizational and major Character/Family Coat of Arms. Shouldn’t be too complicated to produce and should be a fairly inexpensive download. Then they could offer a small annual booster pack for the new images introduced in the past year’s products.

With the campaign staff’s limited manpower I wouldn’t like to see them wasting time re-editing old Chronicle Sheets for purely decorative reasons. Not to mention the headache of having multiple versions of official paperwork because of the changes not being retroactive with existing Chronicle Sheets.

[Arnim Thayer]

Another way to go about this is to make a custom layer, like a watermark, for your chronicle sheet that can be printed over the original sheet... just artwork (such as the main villain from the scenario cover) or a seal from the region/country the adventure takes place. This way, the original sheet remains the unaltered, but custom for your character. We used (briefly) a custom watermark for chronicle sheets for PFs with the logo of our host store. We would print about 30 sheets with the watermark, then print the chronicle sheet over that when it came time to run... this meant we only produced as many as we needed for that game session.

[Raymond Lambert]

consider printing this stuff on the reverse side of the regular sheet

[Don Walker]

Raymond Lambert wrote:

consider printing this stuff on the reverse side of the regular sheet

This is a great idea. Artwork on the front might confuse some GMs (depending on how busy it is and if it overlaps any of the original sheet).

As a PFS GM I rarely check previous sheets, but if something caused me to look ... a faint watermark probably wouldn't be a problem to me. Fancy art on the front would mean taking more time to review the sheet and wonder about it's authenticity. An unofficial, redesigned sheet would fail.