Action / Reaction icons

[Darrell Impey UK]

I'm trying to put together some crib sheets for an adventure, copy/pasting monster & hazard stats onto a document so that I can scribble onto the printouts. Obviously the new action icons don't copy accross, but I'd rather use them then just "A", "AA" etc, in an attempt to help me to learn the new system.

So, has anybody created a font or similar that would allow me to use them in a Word document?

Many thanks.

[Fumarole]

I use them as images in my custom magic item cards (created in Word). It works well enough.

[Salamileg]

I haven't made a font with them, but you can copy and paste the images off of Archives of Nethys.

[The Gleeful Grognard]

I ripped the font from the pdfs. I am sad they didn't provide options for people creating stuff for home games but -shrugs-

[sadie]

The action icons are supposed to be part of the Community Use Package, but I don't think they've got round to adding them yet.

[Darrell Impey UK]

Thanks all, I can work with that. :)

[Ascalaphus]

While researching for some good web/LaTeX-based options I settled on FontAwesome:

ACTION: fa-chevron-right

REACTION: fa-undo

FREE ACTION: fa-star-o

The free action is a bit more different from Paizo's but I personally like it:
- A bit easier to distinguish from the Action symbol
- The symmetry of the star, compared to the chevron pointing right and the reaction pointing left. This fits because some free actions are a reaction to something that happens, and others are just things you do.
- The emptiness of the star-o compared to the solid action and reaction symbols helps signify "free".

[Tender Tendrils]

I've just been using unicode symbols (which exist in most fonts) you can add them manually or with unicode shortcuts to word documents (you can even add them in here)

Action: ◆
Full Action: ◆◆◆
Free Action: ◇
Reaction: ↺

They usually get the job done okay(though I would really, really like the official symbols/font to be available for community use).

[Barnabas Eckleworth III]

Hadn't thought of that.

[1bent1]

Tender Tendrils wrote:

I've just been using unicode symbols (which exist in most fonts) you can add them manually or with unicode shortcuts to word documents (you can even add them in here)

Action: ◆
Full Action: ◆◆◆
Free Action: ◇
Reaction: ↺

They usually get the job done okay(though I would really, really like the official symbols/font to be available for community use).

these are really nice! How would I add these on to a word document? I haven't used unicode before.

[Fumarole]

You can copy it from the above post and then paste it into Word.

[Gary D Norton]

To insert while in Microsoft Word, select the Insert section on the ribbon. Select Symbol and then "More Symbols...". That brings up a dialogue box where you can scroll through all of the symbols in your data set.

An easy way to find specific symbols is to type in the 4-character Character Code:
2666 ◆ [Black Diamond Suit]
25CA ◊ [Lozenge]
I am unable to locate ↺ so far. Perhaps Tender Tendrils can provide the character code for this symbol.

[rooneg]

Gary D Norton wrote:

To insert while in Microsoft Word, select the Insert section on the ribbon. Select Symbol and then "More Symbols...". That brings up a dialogue box where you can scroll through all of the symbols in your data set.

An easy way to find specific symbols is to type in the 4-character Character Code:
2666 ◆ [Black Diamond Suit]
25CA ◊ [Lozenge]
I am unable to locate ↺ so far. Perhaps Tender Tendrils can provide the character code for this symbol.

It appears to be Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+21BA

[Tender Tendrils]

Gary D Norton wrote:

To insert while in Microsoft Word, select the Insert section on the ribbon. Select Symbol and then "More Symbols...". That brings up a dialogue box where you can scroll through all of the symbols in your data set.

An easy way to find specific symbols is to type in the 4-character Character Code:
2666 ◆ [Black Diamond Suit]
25CA ◊ [Lozenge]
I am unable to locate ↺ so far. Perhaps Tender Tendrils can provide the character code for this symbol.

I initially just googled them all and then just copy pasted them into documents, but the unicodes I currently use are;

◆ U+25C6 (Black Diamond)(though the 2666 that Gary mentions is basically identical)
◇ U+25C7 (White Diamond) (I prefer this to the lozenge as the lozenge is a bit narrower than I would prefer)
↺ U+21BA (Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow)

The main font I use for my rpg documents (Narkisim) doesn't include some of those symbols, so I have been using the Cambria Math font for the symbols as that has them all (many fonts have them all, Cambria Math just happened to be the one used when I initially copy pasted them, so I used that, so it is mostly a choice based on laziness)

[1bent1]

My Character Sheets look much better, Thanks!