something between GM-only & visible

tetrasodium

I'm running a Dresden files RPG game, in it your player characters already live in the local area & are likely to know and/or know of different people in town than players with different backgrounds. It would be nice to have a classification I could give characters that moves them in between GM-Only & fully visible that hides the character sheet & just shows description+Secrets so I could fill in details on the character sheet without giving that level of detail to the players.

I'm sure that similar situations exist in other games, using D&D/Pathfinder as an example... Just because the players know who the bigbad is & are doing individual investigations about him between games, doesn't necessarily mean the GM wants the players to know his stats, saving throws, class levels, etc.

JaymesBolton

you could make the character visible but put the stats in the gm-only section of the character page. That way if they learn (D&D reference) that the big bad is a specialized necromancer wizard and has the forbidden school conjuration that could go in the visible part but his spell list, stats and other vitals could remain down below in the gm only section until you are ready to reveal that information. Hope that helps!

tetrasodium

The problem with that is the GM can't use the charactersheet themselves :(

wolfhound

For my Dresden game I preferred a different/simplified structure for the NPC sheets. I completely ignored the "character" feature and just use basic wiki pages for NPCs. I do keep GM only info in the GM hidden area on those pages.

"example npc":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/theresa-williams

My PCs do use jbteller4's DST that's currently in the system (at least for now anyway, I'm trying to get "my own approved":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/custom-dst-layout but it's slow going).

Black_Vulmea

You could create two character pages, one of which is gm-only, or a public wiki page and a private character page, for each character.

It's a kludge, but at lest you can use the character sheet that way.

Mike aka Black Vulmea
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GamingMegaverse

I put the character sheet in the GM only section personally.

killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt

Baalshamon

yeah that is what I do. It allows me to pull a character up on my phone that makes a Surprise appearance. It also helps if I forget something like a notebook or printout.

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