Cloudlord

1 minute ago, Raven said:

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) 🙂

Yes - possibly. I'm sure I was looking in the wrong place to change the picture properties, too. All options were greyed out.
With your guidance it now works like a charm. Already fixed my formating mess. Now it's perfect. I love how the picture actually flows out of the portrait shape.  (btw. the image is chosen randomly...although a good choice. should make this my first NPC with this sheet...)

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. 😄

4 hours ago, Raven said:

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.

    

11 minutes ago, Cloudlord said:

Outstanding - thanks a lot (also a fellow German here). I'll try that right away although I doubt it will work. I'm using WORD on a MAC. And if WORD is already shitty on a Windows machine it's worse on my trusted Apple...(or has less and weird funtionality).
I remember that I found a way to add pictures to certain charactersheets. Not sure if it was PDF or whatever. Anyhow I can't recall how I did it, for the sake of it. Getting old, here...

ok, wow, that actually worked. For whatever reason I did not manage it the first time when I tried. Sorry for the inconvenience. Aparrently I'm a DAU.

Outstanding - thanks a lot (also a fellow German here). I'll try that right away although I doubt it will work. I'm using WORD on a MAC. And if WORD is already shitty on a Windows machine it's worse on my trusted Apple...(or has less and weird funtionality).
I remember that I found a way to add pictures to certain charactersheets. Not sure if it was PDF or whatever. Anyhow I can't recall how I did it, for the sake of it. Getting old, here...

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?