Characters sheet, pf

What do you find is the best way to distribute characters sheets with roll20? Naming character sheet in pathfinder. I would like to use the fer-real sheet from core, but I can't seam to find a good editable version. Does anyone have trouble with players finding their way around .txt stat blocks?

Are you specifically speaking about having formatted, editable character sheets within Roll20 or are you searching for editable character sheets to distribute to the players (pdf for exemple)? In the first case, there has been some suggestions about it in other posts, but nothing official. If it is the second case, you can turn any normal charsheet into an editable pdf using Open Office (and probably some other programs, but Open Office is free).

I meant to use as handouts. I can't seam to get openoffice writer to open my pdfs, so I'm guess there's some other openoffice software to use. Which would that be.

No, sorry, I was not clear. You can't turn directly a pdf into a fillable pdf. Here is how I do it: -I make a .png background using a graphic program (Photoshop, but GIMP would work also, of course, or any graphic program), at 150dpi and at the size I want the finale page to be (letter, A4,...). All the fields names should be visible on that background, because the next step, in Open Office, shall only place the fields to be filled. If you want to go from an already existing document in pdf, you'll have to open it in your graphic program and save it in an image format (I use png, but any image format usable in Open Office should work). -Then, I create a new document in Open Office, with all margins set to 0 and I import the .png image I have made as background (it should fill the whole document). I define the fillable fields (I mean the places where you can input the values) and export the document as fillable PDF. -That's it. I have made a few of my own, you can have a look at the result here: <a href="http://toybox-sw.blogspot.be/search/label/Character%20Sheet" rel="nofollow">http://toybox-sw.blogspot.be/search/label/Character%20Sheet</a> It is quite easy and you can use only free programs if you want. The placement of the fillable fields can take some times (depending on how much there are).

I was trying that already actually, but for some reason openoffice won't let me set the background to different image on different pages.

Use Notepad, it works with any text, paste the sheet into the Bio and edit In Game or when they leave they can copy it and paste it back into Notepad edit it and use the next time they play.

I was trying that already actually, but for some reason openoffice won't let me set the background to different image on different pages. I don't know if it is possible, because I have only worked with single page documents for now. I'll have to try. But you can always make all the pdf pages separately and then assemble them in one pdf document (on Mac, using preview, pdfsam or Pdf Toolkit; and on PC, there must be equivalents, maybe Foxit? or Merge PDF?)

I haven't worked with background images much, but I seem to recall that some page formatting is done as properties of the first paragraph on a page, for some reason, in OpenOffice (or maybe it was just LibreOffice). You might see if you can change the background image by looking through paragraph properties instead of page properties.

You can also try creating a Google Docs spreadsheet and keeping it open in another tab. This also makes it really easy to add and subtract from cells on the go

The problem with spreadsheet is that they have the flavor of a tax return. Too dry for my taste.

Well, if we're open to using other sites, you could always make sheets on Mythweavers. You do have to make an account, but the sheets are well-made, even do some of the math for you, and come in all sorts of different systems. You just sent the link and everyone but the creator gets a read-only version. you can run them for your PCS, or let PCs handle your own.

This is what I found yesterday while poking around on Google: <a href="http://www.robotviking.com/2012/01/16/track-your-stats-with-this-digital-pathfinder-character-sheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.robotviking.com/2012/01/16/track-your-stats-with-this-digital-pathfinder-character-sheet/</a> As best as I can tell, you can do just about everything for PF on here, save you're Char Sheet, then E-mail it to your GM. I haven't had the chance to play around with it much, but it looks promising. [Edit] Also, anyone who you E-mail this too, will obviously need the same program to open it. The saved file does not open as any sort of Microsoft Office or .pdf file. It will only open in the Robot Viking program.