[Help] Creating custom character sheets

Is there a way to create a character sheet only for the campaign you are running? For example, I run AD&D games but with several house rules, could I create my own sheet?

Yes, but you have to be a Pro Subscriber for it usually. I built one for a few of my campaigns and it was very time consuming and still not even done-done.  Definitely take one that is already in existence and build off that.

Thanks, good to know.

If the campaign creator has a Pro-level subscription, one of the character sheets you can select is "Custom", letting you write up your own HTML & CSS to make a custom sheet. Most sheet authors are (or were) Pro subscribers, because this is the only means to accurately test the sheet's code.

I imagine you could make some money making personal character sheets for people. Is there a way to get more than three total pages?

Alan W. said: I imagine you could make some money making personal character sheets for people. Probably not, with people like CoalPoweredPuppet churning out sheet after sheet for free. =P Alan W. said: Is there a way to get more than three total pages? I'm not sure what you mean?

  Alan W. said: Is there a way to get more than three total pages? Brian said: I'm not sure what you mean? Character sheets currently have three pages, the Bio page, which is open for all to see, the character sheet proper, and the obligatory bare-naked-lady of the game, the attributes page. Could you have two of the second kind? Or does it all have to be in one long, long, long extended second page.

Many character sheets implement their own tabs within the second tab, but no, there is no way currently to have multiple character sheet tabs. See  CSS Wizardry for an example.

The bio page, character sheet, and attributes page are referred, collectively, as the character journal.  The journal is pretty much hard coded, so that's it with adding more tabs to the journal. The character sheet part of the journal can have multiple tabs (or pages, if you will), within the journal.  Its actually pretty common to have multiple tabs on a character sheet. As for making character sheets for money...well...I know I  don't want to work on some one else's schedule when I make sheets.   Edit: What Brian said.  Ninja'ed! 

Query: By multiple tabs, do you mean the boxes that you can open and close on the sheet?

Additional query: can you have portions of the character sheet that only the GM can see? And yet another query, I see a button on one of the sheets I use that seems to imply the result will be whispered to the GM, but this is not what it does. It is part of the weapon section, with a heading of "/w GM?" and a yes or no box. If it says yes and I roll and attack, it pops up with a zero to hit, and the to hit chart across the bottom. If I roll with the answer no I also get a zero to hit roll, but no AC chart at the bottom of the box. And yet another query, is there some uber-whisper command where the result would go to the GM, but the sender would not see it?

Alan W. said: Additional query: can you have portions of the character sheet that only the GM can see? And yet another query, I see a button on one of the sheets I use that seems to imply the result will be whispered to the GM, but this is not what it does. It is part of the weapon section, with a heading of "/w GM?" and a yes or no box. If it says yes and I roll and attack, it pops up with a zero to hit, and the to hit chart across the bottom. If I roll with the answer no I also get a zero to hit roll, but no AC chart at the bottom of the box. And yet another query, is there some uber-whisper command where the result would go to the GM, but the sender would not see it? Hi Alan.  I'll have to take a look since I added the whisper option to the sheet.  It's supposed to whisper the attack table to the GM from that sheet.  The attack is public but the to-hit table should be whispered.  Like all whisper's to the GM, the player making the whisper also sees the whispered info, but other player would not. There isn't an "uber-whisper" option as you speak. The player sending and the GM will see the info.  There are API options however. If you ant the complete roll to be whispered(rolling for an NPC/monster perhaps), try editing the macro-text and adding "/w gm " at the beginning of the macro.  I could add a global whisper option to the sheet perhaps... update: there was a bug (missing line break) for whispering the to-hit table.  added to the PR on github. Just waiting for PR's to merge then this will be live.  Thanks Alan.

Alan W. said: And yet another query, is there some uber-whisper command where the result would go to the GM, but the sender would not see it? Pro users have the option of using the Powercards script , which allows for macros to do just that, whisper to the GM without the player seeing the results.  I do that for the majority of the skill rolls in my games.  Something to think about if that ability seriously interests you :)

Alan W. said: Additional query: can you have portions of the character sheet that only the GM can see? No, that is not possible. Of course, you can have a character only visible to the GM, or add stuff to the GM Notes section of a character, but you can't segregate part of the character sheet like that.

Brian said: Alan W. said: Additional query: can you have portions of the character sheet that only the GM can see? No, that is not possible. Of course, you can have a character only visible to the GM, or add stuff to the GM Notes section of a character, but you can't segregate part of the character sheet like that. That's a shame, it would be useful to keep track of some things secretly on the characters sheet, like charges on a wand or ammo. Sort of like the GM only section of a handout.

Alan W. said: Brian said: Alan W. said: Additional query: can you have portions of the character sheet that only the GM can see? No, that is not possible. Of course, you can have a character only visible to the GM, or add stuff to the GM Notes section of a character, but you can't segregate part of the character sheet like that. That's a shame, it would be useful to keep track of some things secretly on the characters sheet, like charges on a wand or ammo. Sort of like the GM only section of a handout. There is a GM only section of the Character Journal (just like on the handouts). There's Just not a GM only section on the Character Sheet tab of the Character Journal.