Gaming

I play the Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder role playing games, as well as a variety of video games when I have the time.

The Resources page contains a number of gaming resources, most of which are for Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder.  Commentary and other information about gaming-related things appear below.

Type 2 4th Edition Character Sheet

posted Jan 5, 2010 12:45 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Oct 25, 2010 9:37 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

Back due to popular (?) demand is a 4th Edition New Character Sheet with its skills arranged vertically and the entire back side of the page being devoted to powers.  Head over to the Resources page to find it.  This does not replace the regular one, so fear not if you have become used to using that one.

Pathfinder Character Sheet

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:37 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:43 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

When my gaming group started test driving the Pathfinder RPG system I felt compelled to adapt the 3.5 Edition New Character Sheet to the system.  Try it out and see what you think.

Pathfinder New Character Sheet
Pathfinder Spell Reference Sheet

New Site Name

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:34 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:37 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

This site now has a new name with a matching domain name!

New Announcements Page

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:31 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:34 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

The site's layout has changed to follow more of an announcement-style layout now that Google has conveniently made one available.  As a side effect older posts have to go in with the wrong dates, although notes about their original posting dates are included for the curious.  Really old posts (those from the old host) went into the Archive page.

(Originally posted on 20 Nov 2009)

Fonts

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:30 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:31 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

Font management is annoying, and even worse, the only free font editor out there is unstable.  This makes keeping track of and installing the proper fonts difficult, to say the least.

Revision 11 of the
4th Edition New Character Sheet fixes the extra skill training bonuses everyone in my group tried to apply to themselves.  :)

(Originally posted on 27 Jun 2009)

Delicious Copypasta

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:29 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:30 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

There is a typo in the Skills section of the 4th Edition New Character Sheet where the bonus one gains for training in a skill varies by column.  I will fix this the next time I happen to have Office and Acrobat installed at the same time again.

(Originally posted on 8 May 2009)

Reboot

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:26 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:29 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

Here we have it:  a complete revamp of the 4th Edition New Character Sheet and Power Record Sheet.  One line per power / power-like feature, powers on the front of the sheet so you don't have to keep flipping the page back and forth, and more footnote references hopefully help make this rendition better than the last.  Everything that is no longer on the front went to the back.  Try this one out and let me know what you think.

(Originally posted on 13 Jan 2009)

Suggestions?

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:25 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:26 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

It's clear the Powers section of the New Character Sheet needs work, but I'm at a loss for how to reorganize it without leaving too much whitespace for people who don't have many of a certain type of power.  Let me know if you have any thoughts on how to fix it.  Maybe at some point they can add the ability for viewers to comment on this page instead.  *Grumble, grumble...*

(Originally posted on 17 Sep 2008)

New Site

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:25 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:25 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

New site.  Google Page Creator is closing down, so this will be the site's new location.

(Originally posted on 5 Aug 2008)

Doh!

posted Jan 3, 2010 9:24 PM by Garrett Holmstrom   [ updated Jan 3, 2010 9:24 PM by Garrett Holmstrom ]

I completely missed a formatting problem on the New Character Sheet, which is now fixed.

(Originally posted on 10 Aug 2008)

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