Raven

6 minutes ago, Cloudlord said:

Done! Great! Thanks again!!!
Just noticed that I messed up the formatting of some of the shapes. But that'll be easy to fix. And I hope I'll notice when you upload the sheet with Allegiance and Passions - but take your time! I can make do with what I have atm. 😄

Looks great! 😊
I think the trick was changing the text wrapping. By default it's set to inline and then you can't bring it to the front (or back) 🙂

On 3/19/2024 at 9:05 AM, Cloudlord said:

I love this sheet very much, too, and above the already great sheet of Chaosium (finally a publicher that understood the omportance of great CS).
Right now I'm going through the SRD and customizing the text for my own game. While doing so I started looking at suitable CSs on the web and came across yours. Thanks for including a Word-version, which allows for integrating passions, Allegiance and removing of Hit Location (I want to go for Random AV instead, reminiscent of the old Stormbringer days). I have no idea where and how to do those mods, but I'll figure it out. Weird enough is already that I was not able to put a picture in the respective space - whenever I imported a picture into the document I could not get word to change it's behavioral formatting (placing it above or below text ec.). It was simply not possible to change the properties of the picture (except for size). Any idea why that might happen?

Hi Cloudlord 🙂
Glad you like it and find it helpful.
I might add another version with the Passions and Allegiance in it instead of Hit Locations, since this seems to be more in demand, but I'm a bit too busy right now, so it'll have to wait.

I did check the image functionality, and you are right, Word is not as straight forward with the sizing as I expected it to be 😯
(to be honest, I don't use Word very often for such things).
I did find two ways, but they are a bit cumbersome.

1. Select the portrait shape, right click and select "format shape", then choose "fill" in the side panel and select the "image and texture fill"
   (sorry, using the German Word, so the terms might be slightly different).
   Then choose the image you want. It works best with square images, although the shape is slightly wider than high.
   Once set, you can switch to the image properties and by adjusting the cropping (width, height, offset) you can minimize/remove the distortion.
    
2. If you want to add the image separately and place it above the portrait background shape, you can drag it onto the page, then change the "text wrapping" of the image to "in front of the text". That way you can change the layer it's displayed on.
   Before you drag it to the right place, I'd recommend that you select the "Name" label and banner first, then either right click or switch to "Format" on the top bar tab and click on "To the front". Otherwise the image will overlap them.
   After that you can move the image to the right spot and crop it or add other effects on it (I'd suggest double clicking the image and selecting the oval with blurred borders).
   The only downside to that is that it might stick out at the top ob the banner, so you need to make it a little smaller then the full shape.

22 minutes ago, Jason D said:

This is lovely! 

It's very reminiscent of the old RQ3 sheets. Is that intentional? 

 

Haha, actually it's not, as I didn't know the RQ3 sheet before 😄
But someone in the Discord channel (I believe it was VorpalMace) also mentioned it and it was very funny indeed to see how similar they look (after I googled it).
I guess it was just a natural color choice, and I must have a similar taste of style to the one of whoever designed the RQ3 sheet back then 😜

I intentionally planned to draw some custom frames around the boxes and things like that to give it a bit more flavor. This was really just a "layout test" to see how I can fit all the info 🙂 But it already took quite a few hours, so I haven't gotten around the more decorative enhancements.
But there sure are more character sheets to come from me 😉

On 1/25/2024 at 3:59 PM, FlooWAP said:

Das ist vom Layout her bis jetzt der beste Charakterbogen, den ich bisher gesehen habe. Vielen dank dafür. Wie hast du den erstellt, wenn ich fragen darf? 

Die erste Version war in "Mockplus DT" erstellt.
Die neuere habe ich nun in Word erstellt, damit sie editierbar ist für alle 😉

On 12/21/2023 at 2:46 PM, smiorgan said:

Beautiful! I'd love one with passions and allegiance in it.

 

 

I've added a Word version, so you can adjust it. Not sure how much space you'd need for those. If you're not using the Hit Locations I'd suggest removing those and adding the passions in that space. Otherwise you can maybe remove some of the power sections you don't need or make the notes smaller 🙂

13 hours ago, SDLeary said:

I love this sheet! 

Was an ancient sheet for a game called ZAON any sort of inspiration?

SDLeary

Hi SDLeary 🙂 Great that you like it!
No, ZAON was not an inspiration for it. I did have a look at various character sheets as inspiration, but most of them were custom ones made for DnD, and they don't look anything close to mine, since BRP has a lot more information than those. Plus, this here is actually only the "layout" of all the information. I wanted to give the boxes some nice frames, like scrolls or wooden frames or something like that. I just didn't get to that point yet.