Dynamic Pathfinder Character Sheets? Please?

Dungeon_Master_Loki

I've only found one PFRPG character sheet on here and unfortunately it does not seem to work consistently. Is anyone else out there working on one?

ketherian

I hope someone is. I've not dug too deep into dynamic character sheets and could give feedback on my attempt to use the one that's out there if anyone's interested.

Dungeon_Master_Loki

Would love to hear your comments and shortcuts. Trying to get my game stuff transferred over from the old website and a PFRPG compatible sheet would make my life SO much easier.

So what glitches and workarounds have you found?

ketherian

When I turned the dynamic character sheet on - it did a great job at parsing the text and image that was already on the page. I lost no data and I really liked the look of it.
I found entering the information into the form very slow. It gave me a lot of time to come up with a lot of questions. Here's the list:

* It would be very nice, after entering all the values for a skill, to have the total provided automatically/
* Why did I have to manually enter the ability mod for a skill?
* I needed to add more armor.
* In the columns for feats - there's the option to add more feats. But really it's add more feats/special abilities -- because more rows are added and the two columns are side by side.
* Is the column beside traits and the column beside Languages really an area to enter more special abilities, or should the Traints/Languages headers be expanded?
* Equipment: you have two sets of columns for Item/Weight; why isn't the total weight provided automatically? At the least there should be a box for total weight carried.
* Also - having the two sets of columns is great for space, lousy for searching. I recommend only using 1 set.
* The sheet has three areas - both marked "spells known" (well - spells known and known spells). They should be named something like "Spells per day" and "Spells known"; or innate spells and spells known.

Overall - I went back to my own home-made form when I had to upgrade the character to the next level; mostly because updating the sheet took a lot longer and I had made numerous mistakes in all the manual entry.

ketherian

After typing all that in, I remembered a few good things:

* I love the overall look.
* I liked that it was selectable and printable (did it once in Chrome).
* Easy integration of existing text.
* A field for everything and and everything in its field. Other than a few labeling questions (mentioned previously) the sheet really works well.

I'm sorry to say I really didn't find any "work-arounds". I did use the special abilities column all the way down the list (because there were more special abilities than other items). And a work-around (I guess) was to enter them last on the sheet (so that you're not entering new lines half-way through the list of special abilities by adding a line to traits or feats).

I had thought there should be a text file that could be generated/mod'ed to be loaded with this sheet, but I couldn't find the like.

Dungeon_Master_Loki

Thanks, I'll certainly refer back to this when I start adapting character sheets to OP! Still putting all my campaign bible up on the wiki...