Scanning and keeping Chronicle sheets electronically

[Lord Elsydeon]

I was wondering if scanning my Chronicle sheets and storing them electronically so I can reprint them if needed is ok.

[Redelia]

Yep. The only thing to watch for is that you use them properly when you reprint them. (i.e. don't use this to apply a race boon to multiple characters)

[Nefreet]

I recommend scanning them to some program that you can add text to later, so you can mark any check boxes with an "X".

You also have to be comfortable with GMs handling your electronic device when they do an audit.

[ronkay]

so i can keep them on my kindle ? and just show that ?

[Hmm]

Yes. That is a change that was announced at PaizoCon by Tonya. They made the change so that Tonya and other Paizo staffers did not have to pack additional suitcases just for their chronicles. It has made convention traveling so much easier for all of us!

Hmm

[Nefreet]

Kindle is probably exactly what I'll doing starting on Black Friday, actually ^_^

[BigNorseWolf]

Nefreet wrote:

Kindle is probably exactly what I'll doing starting on Black Friday, actually ^_^

i would spend the extra 20 bucks and get a different tablet of the same quality. Kindles are VERY hard mode locked into very specific apps and you need to flash the thing to get it to do a lot of useful things sometimes.

[Christopher Rowe]

I'm sure there are other pieces of hardware that can do the same job and do it well, but I've sure liked having an iPad Pro for Pathfinder. I've got pretty much all the Pathfinder PDFs, HeroLab, and my Chronicle sheets and Inventory Tracking sheets camera app-scanned onboard.

As it happens, I prefer to game from paper, but it sure is nice to be able to carry around absolutely everything I need to play on a device the approximate size and weight of a fashion magazine. The only book I carry these days is the paperback CRB and that's mainly from some atavistic instinct, I think.

[Nefreet]

I've been contemplating what device to get for years now. I'm the type that'll usually wait and wait until the perfect thing comes along (which means I'm not an Apple person).

But I also get easily distracted, and would rather relegate the task of forum browsing and archivesofnethys-ing to my unlimited data phone.

All I need for PFS is a PDF reader.

Sort of off-topic; sorry.

[doctor_wu]

This reminds me I need to backup recent chronicles in case I lose all of them.

[Nomadical]

I travel 20+ days a month and play during trips when I can. I use a Samsung Android tablet with a 10" screen for all my sourcebook and chronicle PDFs. (I was actually at the panel at Paizo Con with HMM when Tonya announced this new policy and we both cheered aloud.) I keep all my documents (sourcebook and chronicles) both in the cloud and on the device in case you need to show something to someone and the internet is spotty or non-existent.

One note of caution, tho. Since this is a new policy, you may encounter a GM or even a venture critter that is unfamiliar with the fact that scanned chronicles are okay now. The revised policy is at the bottom right corner of page 4 of the Season 9 Guide.

[MrBear]

I use an iPad for my pdf books and because hero lab is super handy but I haven't found a decent program to organize and track chronicle sheets. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Sebastian Hirsch]

I recently bought a new convertible laptop with a touchscreen, I while my Lenovo android tablet has served me rather well over the last couple of years... I can do so much more with a real laptop.
Even compared to my tablet, with the right kind of battery and energy options it can last for an entire convention.

[Ascalaphus]

I wish. My laptop's battery surrenders after 2.5 hours. I'm looking at tablets as a stamina alternative. Also as a lightweight alternative. My stack of chronicles is 4kg now and that's excluding a device for accessing additional resources. I gave up printing selected pages after I realized it tended to just about double a character's stack.

[TriOmegaZero]

My Macbook keeps enough of a charge to usually get through two scenarios, which is about all I want to play in a day anymore. So that works well for me.

[Lord Elsydeon]

I was thinking just for archive, in the event my binder got lost, damaged, etc.

Being able to use them electronically is nice, but something about having the sheets there physically is more comforting, especially since it means no need for worries about my battery dying on my phone.

Of course, I keep my watermarked PDFs on my phone and iPad, lol.

[Lord Elsydeon]

Christopher Rowe wrote:

I'm sure there are other pieces of hardware that can do the same job and do it well, but I've sure liked having an iPad Pro for Pathfinder. I've got pretty much all the Pathfinder PDFs, HeroLab, and my Chronicle sheets and Inventory Tracking sheets camera app-scanned onboard.

As it happens, I prefer to game from paper, but it sure is nice to be able to carry around absolutely everything I need to play on a device the approximate size and weight of a fashion magazine. The only book I carry these days is the paperback CRB and that's mainly from some atavistic instinct, I think.

You can sideload Google Play onto a Kindle and it'll be just like a normal Android tablet.