Savage Worlds Roll Template

With the Update of Holding coming later this quarter I figured I better start messing around with roll templates to see if I can get something working that people like. I'd love for this to be more collaborative, because I'm not much of a designer, so wanted to share what I've done so far to get your all's (I'm in Kentucky, so that language is allowed) opinions . Here's what I've come up with so far... Option 1: Option 2: If it looks familiar, it's because I stole Steve's wod template (but only as a jumping off point—I swear...) =) They are the same, I've just messed with the background to see what contrast works best. I'm kind of leaning toward option 2, myself. I would also love to see if you all have any thoughts on what a cool roll template might look like. To give you an idea where my head is, I'm thinking I might have 2 different templates: one for skill checks, and one for damage rolls. If I go that route, then I'm thinking this example may be more for the damage template (just because I like the splatter for damage). So, let me hear your thoughts, please. =)

I like it but I would lighten the splatter again by 50% or so. It also might be nice to vertically align the results so they track with the eye easily. Maybe put them in their own <td>. Or, have the final result highlighted?

Thanks for the input Steve, I appreciate it and will see what I can come up with. Definitely lightening the background some more will be on there.

Here are the next set of options... Option 1 Option 2 Let me know what you all think.

I like option 2. It's very clean and readable. But I'd still lighten the background more or drop it altogether. I don't think it really adds anything at this rate. How did you add that font at the top?

Tom - thanks for the input. I'll have to get you more specific information around the font at the top when I get home so I can grab the CSS that I used. It works with no problems in Safari, but in Chrome on OS X I have to click the shield icon in the URL bar when I launch the campaign so it will load the font.

Tom, now to fully answer your question about the font... Here's the beginning of the roll template: &lt;rolltemplate class="sheet-rolltemplate-nswdskill"&gt; &lt;h2 class="sheet-caption"&gt;{{name}}&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;div class="sheet-rtcard"&gt; &lt;table&gt; So, it's just an &lt;h2&gt; tag with the following CSS: @font-face { font-family: 'cinzelregular'; src: url('<a href="http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.eot" rel="nofollow">http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.eot</a>'); src: url('<a href="http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix" rel="nofollow">http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix</a>') format('embedded-opentype'), url('<a href="http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.woff" rel="nofollow">http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.woff</a>') format('woff'); src: url('<a href="http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.ttf" rel="nofollow">http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.ttf</a>') format('truetype'), url('<a href="http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.svg#cinzelregular" rel="nofollow">http://www.geeksville.us/fonts/Cinzel-Regular-webfont.svg#cinzelregular</a>') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .sheet-rolltemplate-nswdskill h2.sheet-caption { /*width: 80%;*/ width: 200px; text-align: center; color: #755b27; background-color: #dbc792; border-radius: 15px; font-family: "cinzelregular"; font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: bold; } Does that help?

And it's time for another version... Let me know what you think?

Thanks for posting your code, GV. Yes, it helps. I've been struggling with fonts on my character sheet FOREVER, so it's nice to know I'm not alone and to have solutions. I haven't started work on a roll template yet. I think my players need a few game sessions in row where I don't go tweaking or changing things at this point. But when I do, I'm hoping to work from a lot of examples. As to your new version, I think it looks great, but the contrast could be better. Go for white text against a darker brown for the player name and roll type. Lighten the cream from the background: add white, not yellow. Then maybe pick a more compatible color for the header bars. The one you have now doesn't really gel with the rest. Professional opinion anyway. I wonder...and maybe this is a a subject for the mentor board...but wouldn't it be cool if you could collapse the modifiers applied? Say have a little arrow that opens up a field that contains them? It would make the listing more clean and compact. In either case, I might consider listing the modifiers applied AFTER the roll results. That makes for faster reading.

Thanks Tom, I'll work on getting the values swapped (roll results then modifiers). If you could give me some color values, that would help a lot, because I'm really bad with that type of thing. The colors I've been using were chosen because they match the tabs and were pulled directly from the Savage Worlds logo. And I do think it would be awesome if you could collapse things within roll templates. That's a really cool idea.