Thursday, March 21, 2013

D&D Next Character Sheet Form

Yes, yes.  Don't distribute.  Hardcopy forms are not useful for those of us that play online.  Fillable forms, though.  Much better.  If WotC had half a brain, they would provide them.  But then, the terms of the playtest are "in-person games only", so they clearly do not have half a brain.

So - a fillable pdf form for the new character sheet.


Update 4/11/13

I figured out Adobe Acrobat 11.  Here is the fillable, saveable form:  D&D Next PDF Character Sheet.

Couple of things:  First, you don't need to share it to play with it.  Open it in your browser, go to the File Menu option and select Download or Save a Copy.  Then you have your own copy to play with.

I won't be sharing it, so don't request that.  Just make a copy.

Second, saving problems, tab order, issue with it putting +1's in multiple fields are all fixed.  But let me know if there are other issues.




16 comments:

  1. Cool beans. I noticed in the recent playtest packet that the character sheet shows as not having changed since last fall, has nothing much happened with characters to warrant an updated sheet?

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  2. Nope, no changes. I just didn't bother to do this at that point.

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  3. FYI at some point last year they amended the in-person only rule and allowed oline games as well.

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  4. How astoundingly intelligent of them.

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  5. To allow others to edit it, you should be able to (from the original PDF you created) go to File -> Save As -> Reader Extended PDF -> Enable Additional Features.

    Even if not, thanks for putting this up!

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  6. I just made this today, too, and figured I'd share. It's not as nice as a PDF, but you can at least save the info. I formatted it to be as close to the actual layout of the character sheet as possible.

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MKo8Hq_yYTIjf_qiQbkpsPwAaBvlblmde9Zt_mOfWJA/edit?usp=sharing

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  7. That's a nice one, thanks Zosia. I'll see if I can modify the PDF so people can save it with contents intact.

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  8. I got a link to this one on Reddit, which is also nice:

    Spreadsheet Character Sheet

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  9. Is it just my version of Acrobat or are others having this issue... Some of the fields (Ability Modifiers, Atk, Dmg noticed so far) are "one number fits all". If I put in "1" for my Str Mod, it makes ALL my ability mods "1"... if I change my Dex mod after that... it changes ALL the mods including Str to match it. Weapon and Spell Atk/Dmg do the same.

    Anyone else?

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  10. Ah, yeah, I see that problem.

    I'll fix it up.

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  11. You may receive a request by me to share the file. Please feel free to ignore it. I clicked on the link and got taken to a page saying I don't have access rights and I accidentally clicked on "request access".

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    1. Yeah - this bears talking about. I'm getting a shit-ton of access requests, which I'm mostly going to ignore.

      The reason is - you don't NEED shared access to the file to get it. Just open the link, then go to the file-->download option to make yourself a copy.

      Now, I can't actually test this, because, well, I HAVE access to the file. But it should work. If it doesn't, let me know.

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  12. Well after this happened I did a little searching and there is a lot of people who've had issues with this request access feature. I can certainly see how it could get annoying fast.

    In any case I was able to get it now. Thanks

    PS: Note, when I first tried clicking the link it did not take me to the file, but rather to a page saying I had no access permission and offering the request access prompt. I am not too familiar with permissions in google docs, but it's possible the file is set to private so someone with no permissions can't open it.

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    1. Yeah, I figured out the problem with it. Solved now.

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  13. I created a fillable D&D Next sheet on theprocurator.net. It's not a pdf but an HTML form based thing. I'm not trying to spam, just saying, there's sheet over there that online fillable and savable if you're interested. It's totally free.

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  14. Thanks Sterling. That's another good one. Nice to see that there are several good sheets out there.

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