QUOTE (mindcandy @ Jun 17 2008, 11:43 AM)
1). When I select active skills from the dropdown box there are no details relating to the associated attribute. Could this information be added easily?
2). It would help newer players if; when selecting a skill group, the skills within that group are automatically listed below. This tells players which skills are in the group but also allows them to easily increase skill levels should they choose to 'break' the group later without having to redo the character sheet.
PS; whould I be right in thinking this spreadsheet is widely regarded as the best one for 4th edition? I seem to have found many variants on the official character sheet which I can fill in by getting Adobe Acrobat to find the text fields but very few of them add up the build points like this one.
1) they could add it, but the thing is, this spreadsheet already treads a thin line between ok and copyright infringement. If they add too much information (IE: sufficient information to make buying the bbb unnecessary), then the big bad lawyers of the world will descend upon them to force them to remove this ever-so-useful tool.
2) it would be useful, but this character sheet is mostly intended to get the buildpoints calculated so that you can easily and non-messily transfer it to a proper character sheet afterwards.
PS) there are several excel sheets out there (I've collected them) that do well in helping with shadowrun 4 character generation. This one is one of the better ones, in my opinion. I do have one or two that are more complete than this one, but those are also more complex and confusing at the same time.