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Modifying the Character Sheet possible?

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MagicSN

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Hi!

Is it possible to modify the character sheet without the .dat files, only using the editor? As that's the part where I like my own 5e datasets better and it would be great if I could port some of my features over to the official version of the datafiles ;-)

MagicSN
 
Unfortunately, creating a custom character sheet isn't something that can be done in the editor.
 
Hollis said:
Unfortunately, creating a custom character sheet isn't something that can be done in the editor.
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That's what I feared - is it possible you will at least release the .dat files for the character sheet, if not for the whole thing? This would really help!

Alternatively I could send you code snippets for my must-have features and you could have a thought if you think it a good idea to implement them ;-)

For me some of the stuff I have in my datafiles but you not in yours is the prime reason why I don't switch over to the official datafiles right now. I really like what you did, it is in many ways better than my implementation - but some stuff I absolutely need is sadly missing and due to no .dat files I cannot implement it, mostly this is regarding the character sheet though probably some changes to core classes would also be needed :(

MagicSN
 
You can create custom sheets without access to the .dat files. There are a couple popular ones for pathfinder, but I'm not sure how the documentation for that would apply to this new game system. Custom sheets are sadly something I am not very familiar with. I'll check into this for you next week.
 
Aaron said:
You can create custom sheets without access to the .dat files. There are a couple popular ones for pathfinder, but I'm not sure how the documentation for that would apply to this new game system. Custom sheets are sadly something I am not very familiar with. I'll check into this for you next week.
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Thanks a lot, Aaron! This is much appreciated.

Best would be if I could just modify parts of the sheet, like adding a new box with some additional data and leave the rest itselves. Or for the optional Spellpoint rule from DMG I would want to display the sheet as normal if it is deactivated, but if it is activated I would want to disable the spell slots display and at the same place display my spellpoint cost list instead.

Maybe an option would be that the character sheet code is actually released as .dat files? Is it possible a dataset is done partially as .pkg, and partially as .dat files or do you need to do either the one or the other?

Best regards,
Steffen
 
Well, I checked into this and am told that the structures for this aren't in the 5e system yet, so you'd need to hold off for now. We'll try and get things set up in the next few phases.
 
Aaron said:
Well, I checked into this and am told that the structures for this aren't in the 5e system yet, so you'd need to hold off for now. We'll try and get things set up in the next few phases.
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Ok, Thanks!

Best regards,
MagicSN
 
Any further updates/information on this one? I remember AncientOne's Pathfinder sheet was pretty super awesome...especially with the fact that you'd automatically get updates through the tool...
 
Aaron said:
Well, I checked into this and am told that the structures for this aren't in the 5e system yet, so you'd need to hold off for now. We'll try and get things set up in the next few phases.
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Bummer. I bought Hero Lab to make it easier to create physical sheets. I wish I'd known they didn't look like the "standard" D&D character sheet.
 
jfjohnny5 said:
Bummer. I bought Hero Lab to make it easier to create physical sheets. I wish I'd known they didn't look like the "standard" D&D character sheet.
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I would already settle for looking a lot better than they currently do.:(

My whole reason for using Herolabs is to easily print out updated charactersheets.
 
Hollis said:
How would you like to see the character sheet improved?
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Customization is pretty much the best way to improve it. It allows everyone to get exactly what they want out of a Character Sheet. If you can change the look, rearrange the information to your liking, reize the information, add remove information to your liking, then you have an improved Character Sheet.
 
Hollis said:
How would you like to see the character sheet improved?
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I can't speak for everyone else- however personally I'd love to have ones that more closely resemble the default sheets, such as the one in the back of the PHB, or the Adventurer's league sheets.

EDIT: Though I don't know what the licensing on that would be, which might be a prickly issue
 
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When I print the character sheets off, the portraits tend to come out black and white. Whenever you save the sheet as a PDF then print it, the portrait prints in color. Is there some option that I'm missing when directly printing from hero lab?
 
It would be great if the app would turn sideways on the iPad Pro like all my other apps.

Currently, this app only uses Portrait view, not the Landscape view. I like to use the keyboard for typing, but it only works in Landscape view.

Peace
 
This is something that really needs to be focused on as the current character sheet is atrocious with information being cut, or entirely missing, and with such a hodge-podge arrangement that it really detracts from the usefulness of it.
 
Out of curiosity, has anyone created a custom sheet that reads the xlm output to a character sheet more like the official one?

AD
 
I'm getting the following error with the DnD5E.info Custom Output:

An error occurred while transforming the input file: Unknown error!
(Yea, oh joy, unknown).

I don't have a pdf plugin, as I'm on a mac and I don't see it listed.
(Reason I'm asking, I'm creating a .user file for custom output that generates a Fantasy Grounds xml file).




Dave
 
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