Making character sheets, Any good programs? |
Making character sheets, Any good programs? |
Jun 20 2006, 01:34 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 10-June 06 Member No.: 8,690 |
Yeah, I'm trying to make a character sheet, and tried using Excel, but after what felt like 4 hours of work all I had to show for it was a sheet that DOESN'T FIT ON THE FRIGGIN' PAGE! and doesn't look very cool. So any good stuff?
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Jun 20 2006, 01:58 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 27-May 04 Member No.: 6,361 |
It depends in what you're going for. If its an autocalc sheet you're going for, Excel is your best bet. If you're going for something that you want to look good, Adobe Professional is nice... but in the end its all in the ..erm... skill(if you would call it that. :grinbig: ) of the user. Its always okay to have multiple pages, and just remember to organize in a way that you feel looks good and limits confusion. You're not going to have flashy graphics or shapes on Excel, but theres always a way to make it look nice. It just tends to be a utilitarian style.
Me... I create the stuff in Word since I know a number of tiny details in that program. Then I use the PDF converter...(btw... the converter can only handle 1 page at a time. Annoying but... hey... you can put it back together with the Distiller.) I then use Adobe Prof to add the forms... I've yet to figure out any sort of Autocalc function with that... let alone put the effort into it. @_@ |
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Jun 20 2006, 02:10 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 4-June 06 Member No.: 8,643 |
There's a nice excel based character generator in the Community Projects forum (by Wizdoc.) I thought it did a pretty solid job with attributes, skills, and qualities. I found it helped me a lot keeping track of BP. My only real beef with it is it's pretty limited on the amount of gear you can have. I ended up having to make my own excel spreadsheet to keep track of gear.
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Jun 20 2006, 02:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-October 05 From: Arlington, TX Member No.: 7,909 |
Xenith, if you have Adobe Prof, you can print to PDF from word. No need for a converter, and it gets all the pages. |
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Jun 20 2006, 08:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 27-May 04 Member No.: 6,361 |
That is the program I refer to. On my comp it takes only 1 page at a time or it simply crashes and burns.
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Jun 20 2006, 08:27 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-October 05 From: Arlington, TX Member No.: 7,909 |
Ouch! Sorry to hear that.
I thought you were making one page, using a third party converter, and then a third party program to condense. My apologies for not understanding. |
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Jun 20 2006, 08:31 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 96 Joined: 13-April 06 Member No.: 8,459 |
Photoshop >_>
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Jun 20 2006, 09:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: 20-June 06 Member No.: 8,754 |
I made character sheets with Photoshop easily. I made them look exactly like the official ones, but redid the box categories to be more logical and specific to difference types of characters. So I took out spell/spirit boxes for mundanes, increased the size of the cyberware and weapon boxes for cyber sams, etc.
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