Full color PDF Character Sheets, complete with character art!
So yeah... after feasting my eyes on the full color 2-page pdf's of the PHB3 Worldwide Gameday pregen characters pdf's, you can go ahead and throw the existing black-and-white blocky blah-fest CB character sheet utterly right in the garbage.
Any chance a souped-up "it's 2010, not 1990" character sheet in the mold of the 2010 D&D Worldwide Gameday pregens is coming to the CB?
Pleeeeeease!!!
community.wizards.com/dndgameday/gallery...
Full size some of the pics there, I'd put some directly on here but they're huuuuuuge
edit: here's a pic
www.livingdice.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
I'd accept it if you could choose to do a printout like that..but..while they are very pretty they are greatly lacking in space for information...and information in general. Trust me I've played with them as, I think, level 1 chars....maybe up to level 3..either way they had to leave out some info in order to make sure the characters would fit on the sheet.
They are pretty..and do some things right, but they need a serious overhaul before we should think to use them ourselves.
I can see Paragon and Epic needing more unfortunately, but as an entry point or a simpler game in Heroic tier, I absolutely see this as the new gold standard character sheet.
2010 is the year of hooking new players into D&D right? More and more of us - especially younger generations - are highly visual learners and people... I mean, it makes perfect sense!
Again, this sheet is gorgeous and makes the current CB sheet look like an archaic, bland, ugly mistake!
Sorry I completely forgot that sparkles is more important than information.
Right, because I explicitly said I didn't want information and detail on them? Oh wait, no I didn't :P
I understand they're not perfect, I specifically said there's certainly ways to get on all the info you need. Some of it's as simple as font size changes to small character sheet design changes.
Let's not pretend it's some massive undertaking to make a more modern, yet both effective and aesthetic sheet - because it's not.
I'd rather have WoTC release a character creator like Cyptic uses in their games like Champions online, so I can make a portrait thats just right for my character.
A 3-D model for a background would also be awesome, agreed. I guess what I'm getting at is 1) the current CB sheet is woefully bland and inadequate, and 2) we need more modern yet effective options for digital character sheets.
Sorry I completely forgot that sparkles is more important than information.
Right, because I explicitly said I didn't want information and detail on them? Oh wait, no I didn't :P
I understand they're not perfect, I specifically said there's certainly ways to get on all the info you need. Some of it's as simple as font size changes to small character sheet design changes.
Let's not pretend it's some massive undertaking to make a more modern, yet both effective and aesthetic sheet - because it's not.
Didn't read a post somewhere I guess...I said I don't like them because they don't present enough information and they need a serious overhaul.
Your response pretty much amounted to "but they're pretty and shiney so we should use them!". So yes your response did state you didn't care about information, when you dismissed it so easily. And even those D&D miniature cards you mentioned..did not show every bit of important info about a char.
Again I'm ok with them being an option to print out, but I want the old char sheets in there as well, as the old char sheets actually presents the info needed.
I'm in the "function over flash" crowd as well, to be honest. People complain that the current CB sheets are hard on ink, with the black borders etc. Those would be a nightmare.
I can understand that. At the same time, I like playing using my laptop, so ink's not usually going to be a concern for digital play.
I guess the one thing we can all agree on is: we need more and better CB character sheet styles to choose from!
we need more and better CB character sheet styles to choose from!
Could someone just make a program to parse a standard sheet (pdf) and throw the values into a new custom format that lets you do whatever you want?
I havent really looked at the custom sheets because I'd have to spend time importing them in from CB.
