I have now finnished my SR4 record sheet. It has one front page and two different back pages, one for mundanes and one for awakened characters. My goal was to keep a simple, functional layout and tweak some things that I found lacking in the official record sheet. And off course to make it in the style that I would have wanted.

It´s made with Adobe Illustrator. These samples are regular .gif images. I can make separate .pdf´s of the originals, but I don´t know how to merge them into one file. There´s actually not much left but to find someone to host the files so that you can get them.

Enjoy.

Front page

Awakened

Mundane


(If you find any errors, please tell me and I will correct them)

Dashifen has been kind enough to compile two nice pdf´s for me, and he is now hosting them for download. Be my guest.

This is Dashifen´s site. Check it out it´s very pretty.




Download Mundane Record Sheet

Download Awakened Record Sheet

(added these links to sig as suggested by blakkie)

Ummmmm......it didn't display for me

Neither for me.

try now

Nope. Still seems broken for me.

damn it! It should work. try again

There´s like one person a second watching this page. Could someone tell me if it´s still broken now?

still broken

aargh. What could it be? I cant find anything wrong. It works for me

It's still broken for me. Even tried different browsers. If it isn't broken for someone else i would at least know, that the problem is somewhere in my side.


/Edit: It tells me [bla bla bla image] couldn't be displayed, because the image contains errors.

tried another host. say it works now

No. There seems to be something wrong with the image itself. Perhaps you should save it again with a different quality factor (as it is a .jpg), or something similar.

/Edit: Still getting the same error as above. Does it work for someone else?

Nope. What did you use to make the image?

I did what you said. now I need another confirmation.

Still nothing, even with forced reload.

Same here.

Works for me.

K. Now I exported the file as a straight windows bmp (using mac) loaded into photoshop and saved as gif using the "save for webb" option. If it doesnt work now it never will.

Now it does work for me also.

I like what I see so far.

Indeed. Nice Layout. Looks very good.

Nice. Better than the published one, IMO, at least in black and white. It looks at least as good and feels more like SR to me for reasons that are difficult to articulate.

Ellery: It's not puke green.

Neither is the other; it's more of a mixture of neon and snot.

I agree, this looks really good. In fact, it looks as good as Wordman's sheets for SR3

Thanks, I´m glad you like it. It´s past 2 a.m here so I´m gonna finnish the rest tomorrow.

I'm always fond of black/white character wheets with no grey-scales, since my printer can easily handle them.

Some points, in no particular order, as I'm looking over the sheet:
- You could make the interior lines of the description box somewhat thinner, to make it seem more like a closed box.
- I'd make armor a small separate list, since people tend to different combinations.
- The S-Logo might look better if it were more vertically centered on the black space.

So far I really like it. Looking forward to the back pages.

very nice look. when you have it done, I'd be willing to host it permanently for you if you need me to. Drop me a PM and we can chat if you need to.

If you have OpenOffice v2, you can import the graphic and create a form with text fields, then save it as a PDF. When you open it in Adobe Reader, viola!, you've got a PDF form that you can update and print. The only downside with a PDF form is that you can't save it (you can, however, send it to another PDF printer, thus creating a read-only copy of your filled-out character sheet, but that's another story entirely).

i was thinking that myself

OpenOffice 2. Has that been released?

hehe, sorry, reading the first part of the thread, reminded me of a calmer version of the garbage compactor scene in Star Wars.

Hm... hehe. It does

Toa said:

That alone would have necessitated making this record sheet.

DEVELOPEMENT. See the first post for the second page.

Nice one, but:
IIRC it's spelled "Handling" not Handeling.

Thank you. I appreciate if you point out any mistakes I might have made.

Looks impressive - especially the version with the centered Logo.

One question, though - is the original pixel- or vector-based?

In any case, CuteWriter is able to produce .pdf directly by mimicking a printer.

Answer to this is in the edited first post.

Thxalot - composition as one .pdf would require Adobe Acrobat though, indeed... would it be an option to release the vector versions for someone to compile?

BTW... does the position of the Logo on the front page intentionally differ from the position on both back pages?

I´ve checked the placement of the logo on the first page, and made some changes. It still looks as if it´s placed differently, but that´s unavoidable because the layout is different from the two other pages. Believe it or not, both the logo and the black space are now as close to being equal between the pages as they can be.

So you still need web space? If so fire it off to: send_junk_to_me_now(at)hotmail.com

Not anymore. The pdf´s are now available for download. Links are in the first post.

It's not too bad, but the gear/notes section is pretty small. Maybe a 4 page version would be able to remedy that later. I myself prefer a sheet that is a little less monochromatic and while I don't really like the official sheet's particular shade I like the color approach better. Maybe some kind of neon blue or something. Thanks for your efforts, mintcar; other than those minor notes I've made I think they look great.

You wont be seing any color, because I have a black and white laser printer. But more than that this is the way I like it.

Excellent work mintcar. It is both aesthetic and functional.

Only thing i see that may be a problem as is with the official sheet the spirit table and the power table are also for deckers. Sprites and complex forms. But I'm not sure how much that would play in? Just a thought as i was looking at it just now that jumped out at me.