Greetings,

I just uploaded a Character Helper Worksheet. It's designed to allow you to fiddle around with character creation prior to committing to a character sheet. This is a beta release. Let me know if there are any issues.

Character Helper Worksheet

Haven't played with it much yet, but great work! Looking forward to mucking around with it over the weekend!

Just downloaded, I'm at work now, so I can't mess with it around, but it looks cool

Thanks Nezz

Looks very cool. I'll play around with it some, and see if it has any issues.

John

Great tool! The only thing I would add would be a column that shows the final Characteristic values. I know the math is easy, but as long as we're automating....

mac40k said:

The final characteristics are shown at the bottom, under the 'Your character starts with:' block.

My god(nurgle)

This is amazing well done.....

I have been playing around with it most of the day great so far...

Very useful

My reagrds

Wow, this is excellent!

This will be a lifesaver for building well developed NPCs for my chronicle (heck, even on the fly!)

Thank you very much.

Very nice.

I was actually working on something similar in Excel; so you saved me a lil bit of time.

In Father Gunther's pdf, it lists starting charactistics and gives him 3's in Willpower and Fellowship - at a cost of zero. As human, isn't the starting stat 2?

Rob

valvorik said:

Those are his career's primary characteristics. You get +1 to each of your career's primary characteristics at the beginning of character creation (WFRP: 28; Generate Characteristics; Paragraph 2). The primary characteristic increases are the two BLUE cells right under the one where you pick your career.

If you start at the top, and work your way down, the cells are ordered in the order they are listed in character creation (roughly).

It makes a difference what order you do the bumps in. If you purchase stat increases before you select your career primaries, it's cheaper. The book mentions them first, so I followed that order. The spreadsheet enforces that order. If you purchase stat increases first, then select career primaries, the spread sheet will correctly interpret the numbers as if you selected your career primaries first. It even warns you if you break the maximum of 5 for each stat.

Ah, thanks, hadn't tried the spreadsheet yet. Please keep up the great work.

Hey Nez,

I must have missed the part where it says you can't start with a stat over 5, is that in the character creation rules or the racial section?

Not Nez, but the answer is on page 28, last line of Generate Characteristics: During character creation, no single characteristic can
begin higher than five.

Thanks Mac. Yeah, the spreadsheet will let you do it, but gives you a warning if you go over 5.

This is awesome and will surely help my players. Thanks!

Hi NezziR,

First - thanks for the great work on the Character Helper. I was using it to get ready for my campaign and, having a bit of spare time on my hands, I updated it to include drop-down lists for careers, action cards, talents and skills. I didn't want to post anything until I got your approval.

It is still a bit rough, but I won't have time to update further until after Xmas.

Anyways, let me know if you will allow me to post this online or if you'd like me to send it to you first.

Thanks!

CG7

The stuff I make is open to the public. Mod away, it can only make it better.

I didn't put those things in there in deference to FFG, but honestly I doubt they will mind. You might ask Jay, but it's OK with me.

I left out all details of the cards, pre-requisites, etc. I basically just downloaded the component lists and put them into the sheet. The only additional information that I *did* include are the primary statistics and basic skills for the careers. Honestly, I don't think there is any way that you can play the game without having the cards or having purchased the main set. I will upload it, but if FFG has *any* issues, please let me know and I will remove it immediately.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a132c7a/n/Character_Helper_-_XL_-_CG7_Mod.xls

Thanks!

CG7

Hi all,

I just reviewed the file I uploaded and it has a few errors where validation lists fell off cells and where an errant find and replace created classic action cards like "Melee Strengthike."

I don't have access to the file from work, so any fixes will have to wait. Just wanted to let you know that I knew about this and will upload the fix sometime soon.

Cheers!

CG7

Great Work!

Can't wait to play around with this when I get more free time.

Hi all,

The fixed version of the Character creator has been uploaded here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/a14fee0/n/Character_Helper_-_XL_-_CG7_Mod.xls

Merry Christmas!

CG7

Awesome! How hard will it be to expand those lists when new stuff comes out? I haven't tried shifting stuff around yet...

Having trouble downloading it...any thoughts? My anti-virus keeps detecting a trojan horse!!! Anyway to put a direct link on this thread?

I'm not sure what purpose adding the drop downs for all the cards serves. You have to pick (randomly or by choice) the careers and for that you have to have the cards. Same for action cards and Talents, even moreso. You could probably write a macro to randomly generate starting career based on race, but action cards and Talents are all pretty much by choice. I can see the utility of the spreadsheet helping you keep track of the math when spending creation points, but what is the point of just listing your card choices in the spreadsheet after you've made them? Unless the data is going to be automatically transferred to a character sheet with career and card inventory populated along with Skill boxes colored in for Basic Skills trained or Advanced Skills listed in the right place (which would be really cool), I don't see the value add of the modifications.