I have a Request for Paizo - Monster Sheet

[Dan Delaunois]

Hello Paizo (and all readers),

I think Pathfinder is awsome, thanks Paizo for taking the leap when you did and for pushing forward in a quality way.

Now for my request:

I need a Monster Sheet. I would like to create monsters of my own making and would love to put my monsters information onto a sheet that has the background and layout just like the pages in the Bestiary books.

I recall that older manuals of monsters often had a blank monster sheet in the back for writing up ones own creations. I would like one of these for my favorite RPG Pathfinder.

Now, what would be really awsome would be a pdf with fields that could be populated with text or even a picture. But I would be very happy with a blank Bestiary sheet that I could just photocopy or color print.

Is this something that would be possible?

Thank you for listening.

Dan

[Toadkiller Dog]

Copy/paste to Word and change attributes as appropriate?

[Dan Delaunois]

That will not get me the cool fancy background and match up with the books.

I know that I can always type up my own in word, but I was hoping for awsomesauce.

[AdamWarnock]

I honestly don't see Paizo doing this. A sheet with a blank background, sure, but not one that has all of the artwork and chrome that you get with the pages.

[Dan Delaunois]

It never hurts to ask.

Maybe they can put one in the next Bestiary book that is released.

I do not think it would be that hard. The layout is already done, it is just a matter of taking a few minutes to clearing it up and then makeing it available.

[Feegle]

I think the biggest obstacle to this is the fact that the fields that are necessary for some monsters aren't necessary for all monsters, so there will be a lot of blank spaces for a given monster. (take SR, for example. or DR.)

Ultimate wish: a PDF generator where you fill out the fields, and it creates a PDF monster page, complete with background image and font choices and so on, but only uses the fields that you filled in using the generator.

[Vic Wertz]

To be frank, making it easier for people to use our trade dress, while making your stuff prettier, also makes it easier for casual fans to confuse fan-made content with official content, and that's something we strive to avoid.

I also worry that it would make some publishers think they could use it in their own products too.

[Dan Delaunois]

What about something that was only able to have hand written stuff on the "trade dress" background.

That cannot be confusing or stolen by other publishers.

[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

Dan Delaunois wrote:

What about something that was only able to have hand written stuff on the "trade dress" background.

That cannot be confusing or stolen by other publishers.

What you're talking about is making stationery which can easily take non-handwritten stuff by the simple expedient of running it through a printer a second time.

My suggestion, since the "trade dress" is different for each AP anyway, is to make your own unique "trade dress" using the Pathfinder format and a few icons from the Community Use package. It will look neat and uniform, but won't cause confusion with official Pathfinder products. At most, someone will guess that it's something from one of the many third party publishers.

[Threeshades]

A typical stat-block like layout would not be feasible n sheetform i think, but i could see some sort of character-sheet for monsters, where you can track how they are built (skill point allocation, etc.) rather than just having the stats relevant for immediate use.

Then again i think a regular old character sheet does that well enough, I guess (i already statted out a dragon on a regular char sheet)