Hiring for custom character sheet?

Is there a place where I can find someone with substantial experience on this website and hire them to make a custom sheet for me? It's honestly a lot harder to get what I want done myself than I thought it would be.

Um. Here. This is would be where you would try to do that. I have made several sheets for various folks, for example, but I am hardly the only one. G V. made the amazing Savage Worlds (tabbed) character sheet while Samuel , Nibrodooh , and Vince are responsible for the unparalleled Pathfinder sheet. I don't know if they take money for their work, or if they have time in their lives for other things, but it can't hurt to ask. It would help to know what system you are looking for, if was "officia"l, homebrew, or an adaption of a system, and so on. Like all things produced by people, quality varies based on the individual's skill level, available time, and care. Keep in mind that no one here has a career in character sheet creation.

It's homebrew and will take some time to explain. Good to know people do that. I suppose now I'll just wait and see if someone wants the job :P or should I go messaging the people you mentioned privately?

I'd wait for them to respond, either via this thread or they might message you. I'm pretty sure they all have jobs and families, so my knee-jerk reaction is to wait and not to pressure them. I am in the middle of making a sheet for Mekton. When it is done (a week, I think) I'll see what I can do about helping. I make no promises, but if you PM in a week in case I'll do what I can. If some one else takes up the task instead- or you find some one else's work more to your liking, go for it; no sweat off my brow.

Oh. Whoops. I already messaged one of them :P but I'll take your advice from there. No worries. Thanks for the offer I'll hit you up in a week.

I know that I likely don't have time at the moment, but it might help if you have a PDF version of a paper sheet? That might give people an idea of how much work is involved. Also, would you be providing the formulas for any roll buttons and/or calculated fields? And by formula, I mean roll-i-ified inline roll formulas, etc. :)

Awesome I'll get a PDF up with the basics. The only thing I think I'll need help with is how you guys managed to hide stuff with tabs. I'll need that functionality in mine.

How much are you looking to spend? A range would be sufficient. That makes it easiest for others to gauge if it's worth their time - though you may find someone who wants to do it.

Honestly not sure what it'd be worth for someone to do it. Usually in freelance, I find the bidder has more info on the market then they buyer. Especially in this circumstance where there is nothing to compare it to.

Well it's important to establish how serious you are. I doubt I'd want to pick it up due to time and I think my cost requirements to overcome the motivation wall of doing a sheet I won't use would be too high. It feels weird to charge for a hobby, but the only way I'd do it would be to charge typical freelance rates which are not cheap for front end devs (my day job and hobby with the 5e shaped sheet). Those rates range from $15-50/hr. Based on the time I've put into the shaped sheet that is thousands of dollars. I don't think you should pay that.

Mark said: Based on the time I've put into the shaped sheet that is thousands of dollars. I don't think you should pay that. ...I might bring myself to take that much. Ya know, if you twisted my arm...

Yeah if you asked for that I'd just kinda laugh at you. I was thinking $100-200 tops because it's honestly not that big of a deal. I'm looking into what I can even do with these sheets. I was originally thinking it has functionality equivalent to PHP or Python when in all reality it can't even do what Javascript does. Frontend this is literally gimped HTML and CSS. I'd be willing to pay, but I wouldn't bother wasting my time on someone who pretends it's more to it then there really is.

People often vastly underestimate the time it takes to make software. Though I agree the real price is likely too much. Maybe you'll find someone who wants the experience or enjoyment. Sheets aren't simple to make just because they only have html and css. In reality that limitation makes the sheet much harder to make as everyone still expects good functionality.

Actually was just going to ask for help with tabs but I'll figure that part out. The rest is copy pasta. Thanks though.

Tabs are as well. If you want to make it yourself I'll happily help with the tricky areas.

I use cortex, which the 'official' character sheet looks like this: But what I am looking for is probably much easier (but still hard for me). I was wondering what a rough price/time it would be to have someone make boxes that look like below. I would do all the roll button formulas and the names, but I just want about 9 rows and 3 columns of these thing (heck if you can just make me three, I could probably figure out how to make 8 more rows). I want the boxes to be named a Skill, but the three lines under it to be empty so players can type in things. I dont know much about CSS, but I can worm my way through HTML. I just want them to look somewhat pretty. These 27 boxes would hopefully go in a division (is it called a division?) below the top division where I would put things like Attributes, Derived Attributes, and names and what not.

If some one doesn't throw this together by tomorrow, I will do so. Its late and I have a lot of work to do in the morning (I know, whine and complain), But I can do this pretty quick, when my brain is funuctioning. Pretty quick for me, anyhow.

Here is what I produced: I used this html <div> <div class='sheet-3colrow'> <div class='sheet-col'> <table class="sheet-skill"> <tr> <td class="sheet-bold" colspan="3"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname_bold" name="attr_skillname_1" placeholder="Skill Name" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1-grey_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_1a" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1a-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1a-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_1b" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1b-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1b-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_1c" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1c-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_1c-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class='sheet-col'> <table class="sheet-skill"> <tr> <td class="sheet-bold" colspan="3"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname_bold" name="attr_skillname_2" placeholder="Skill Name" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2-grey_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_2a" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2a-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2a-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_2b" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2b-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2b-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_2c" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2c-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_2c-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class='sheet-col'> <table class="sheet-skill"> <tr> <td class="sheet-bold" colspan="3"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname_bold" name="attr_skillname_3" placeholder="Skill Name" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3-grey_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_3a" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3a-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3a-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_3b" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3b-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3b-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="sheet-norm"><input type="text" class="sheet-skillname" name="attr_skillname_3c" /></td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3c-yellow_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> <td class="sheet-norm">+</td> <td class="sheet-norm"><select class="sheet-skill_die" name="attr_skill_3c-red_die_select"> <option value="d0">0</option> <option value="d2">d2</option> <option value="d4">d4</option> <option value="d6">d6</option> <option value="d2">d8</option> <option value="d4">d10</option> <option value="d6">d12</option> </select></td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> and this css table.sheet-skill { background:white; border:1px solid black; } table.sheet-skill td { background:white; border:1px solid black; } select.sheet-skill_die { margin:0; width:50px; } input.sheet-skillname[type="text"] { width:100%; } input.sheet-skillname_bold[type="text"] { font-weight:bold; width:100%; }

Awesome! I'll definitely take a look at it after work. Looks perfect!

That looks awesome Coal Powered Puppet. Vis, if you have a pdf or design document to work off of, it would make making the sheet a lot easier.

Here is the progress so far! I added the buttons, changed some fonts, added some placeholders, and changed the color of the buttons. Took me about 2 hours to learn how. But the demon of this project... the button rolls... *shudders value='[[d(@{skill_1a-x}-[[ [[{(2*?{Down Step?|0})d1-@{skill_1a-y}d1, 0d1}kh1]]d1]])+d(@{skill_1a-y}-[[(2*?{Down Step?|0})]])cs13+{d(2*([[?{Plot Points|0}-[[(floor((?{Plot Points}-1)/6))*(?{Plot Points}-6)]]]])),[[?{Plot Points}-[[(floor((?{Plot Points}-1)/6))*(?{Plot Points}-6)]]]]d1cf2cs2}kh1 + {d(2*([[?{Plot Points|0}-6]])),[[?{Plot Points}-6]]d1cf2cs2}kh1 ]] This guy right here took me about 3.5 hours to finally get working. Was not fun. tl:dr So far, I have added color buttons in 5 hours

Looks good to me. Go for it.