It would be really nice if there were a simple tool where I could choose from 3 or 4 fields, draw them on a blank sheet, put a label on them, repeat the process a few times, and build a character sheet in this manner. Let me save it, alter it if I need, and make it available to my players. I don't need pretty colors, fancy fonts, special layouts, just simple. I can't make heads or tails of the instructions for trying to build one, and these days I can't even find those instructions. I need a character sheet, but I can't use your tools. Help?
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Simplest of ways is just using the built in textile.
Using the | straight line as a column line you can make a table pretty quickly. You just have to know some of the tricks to working with textile.
| Headings Here |2nd|3rd|4th|
|Stuff 1|Other|Another|And so on|
The line breaks here are double spaced but it'll work in the campaign. Double line break to end a table like that. Make sure you're using the old editor or this won't work. Otherwise use a spreadsheet program of choice and link a pdf or a picture thereof into the character section.
Ckeditor has a built-in table maker so that could work too...maybe. I never use the ckeditor.
~Weasel0
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There's also coding a table by hand in html....by that can get tedious. Though much better granular control. I have a number of characters built with the aforementioned textile format and it works well, it's hard to control table and field sizes though so I do have things that run off the page...well, out of the center column anyway.
I may have to just make a html table but like I said, using the | is pretty quick and easy. It's also dirty.
~Weasel0
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Then I must be very much in need of a shower, because I use | a LOT in my campaign. ;-)
Yeah, Textile tables are pretty versatile once you get the hang of them.
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"Please pay attention very carefully, because this is the truest thing a stranger will ever say to you: In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least TRYING to accomplish all your wildest dreams in life." - - Kevin Smith
These days there are three things that my group does regarding character sheets.
1) Build a simple table/layout. I'll use html or textile depending on the table layout. Like with Shawn
2) I use form fillable pdfs that I upload to the media library. Like with Papa Midnite
3) I use a form fillable pdf/excel file that I take a screen shot of and upload it to the media library. Like with Grace
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Do you have those as shareable links for people to steal @cgregory? Would make a few people happy I am sure! (Here is how to do x sheet in code form is what I am requesting)
Thanks!
Just trying to help out.
Here is a super simple sheet I made up for a druid Bison familiar. It renders okay.
|Str|22|6|||||||||
|Dex|10|0||Ref|4|4|
|Con|16|3||Fort|7|4|
|Int|04|-3|||||
|Wis|11|0||Will|1|1|
|Cha|04|-3|||||
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||HP|00||||||||||||
|||total|||ar|sh|dex|sz|nat|def|misc|||
|||AC|22||10|0|0|0|4|0|0|0||
||Tch|09||||||||||||
||Flat|22||||||||||||
Obviously it doesn't scale well with the movement to phone sized real estate.
~Weasel0
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Hero labs usually creates a decent html output with only minimal changes needed.
Here is a example of one along with the code for it in the bio.
https://dead-men-tell-no-tales.obsidianportal.com/characters/test
If colspan still worked, I could make is look better.
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Hey @weasel0, you may already know this but you can use |\14.| instead of ||||||||||||||| and save yourself some headaches.
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"Please pay attention very carefully, because this is the truest thing a stranger will ever say to you: In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least TRYING to accomplish all your wildest dreams in life." - - Kevin Smith
Well...I did not. That can be handy. Thank you!
~Weasel0
A Parade of Black | ShadowRunHack |
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I've always used the trusty "|", works great. Organized and easy to read. No fancy learning required. Somewhere i've got a template but easy enough to make one.
http://arcanearth.obsidianportal.com/characters/finch
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