New Character sheets

By Croma, in Dark Heresy

Me and some friends of mine wasn't quite happy about the existing character sheets, bouth in space and setup, so we made a new one and would like some feedback.

We also hav a player who always wants to buy new stuff, and spend a lott of time looking through the rule books for thing to buy, so we made him a wishlist, (to cutt down on the time spent on book serching) wich is also included inn the pdf.

Here is a link to download the pdf file: http://rapidshare.com/files/380033385/pr__ve.pdf.html

And if you where woundering about the 9 slots on the background sheet its a thing we picked up from another site, where each character makes a list of 3 friends,3 foes and 3 contacts,with som background, for the GM to use.

If you feel that som changes could be done to make it even bether, feel free to coment.

If rapidshare has a download limit on the files you put up, you can always use Mediafire . No download limits, no payed subscriptions, and people don't have to wait on little timers to tick off in order to download files hosted there. On the whole, i find Mediafire to be a far less annoying free file host site for both the uploader and the downloader... and they don't purge older files if they haven't been downloaded in a while insuring that folks who want your character sheet will be able to get your character sheet. ;-)

On the character sheets, they are damned pretty! However, I can't help but notice a LOT of empty space on each page, especially in the lower right corners. A bit of tweaking with the boxes and layout could not only reduce it to 3 pages (two for the actual character sheet and one for the wish list) but also open up room for a lot more of everything (more room for talents as those build up, more room for psychic powers and multiple disciplines as psykers tend to gather a good hand full of those things, etc). Pretty is good, but so is functionality. At the moment, functionality seems to have taken a back seat to pretty. Nice sheet, but if you work to balance the pretty with the functionality, it'll be even better.

Edit: and that's a prity sweet idea using the career images for the Armour Guy!

Here's the files on mediafire instead. I hope this fixes any problems with downloads.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=dd4ec79fb73677524c17ca8801618ef7ff665d76f86ca34ff0a154af670496da

Graver: These sheets are only a few days old, so we still have some work to do on the layout. Thanks for the feedback anyway. I've alrady started to look at some other placements as you suggested. If any new versions are done soon I'll put them out there for your admiration and critique :)

Ragaa said:

Here's the files on mediafire instead. I hope this fixes any problems with downloads.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=dd4ec79fb73677524c17ca8801618ef7ff665d76f86ca34ff0a154af670496da

Graver: These sheets are only a few days old, so we still have some work to do on the layout. Thanks for the feedback anyway. I've alrady started to look at some other placements as you suggested. If any new versions are done soon I'll put them out there for your admiration and critique :)

Awesome! And thank you for sharing these!

Looking good.

A few layout preferences I would change, though again they are gorgeous and look wonderful as is.

On the last two pages I would drop the Advancements Taken column all the way down. Then Move Ranks over to where Psyker Powers are and relabel it Ranks Taken and box it 1-16 so people know which alt advances they may have taken right alongside what they bought. This will also alleviate that "empty space" mentioned by another poster.

Then make a 6th page, and base it off the Psyker Powers page from Ascension. That would round the sheets out to 6 pages (3 double sided) and make the Psyker page completely optional and much more comprehensive.

Alexis

*smiles*

I like them. I might use them if you made a neutral sheet (one with out careers). One thing though, remove on of the basic training, pistol training, and melee training. I alwasy advise my players to just write the one and leave more space for other traits and talents.

so they would write

Basic Training (Las, Sp, Launcher...etc)

rather than

Basic Training (las)

Basic Training (Sp)

etc...

Here's the new versions of the character sheets. I've done some considerable changes, rearranging quite brutally.

I've also added a dedicated sheet for the psychers powers, based on the Ascension sheet.

If anyone likes the old ones better, they are still out on the previous link for mediafire.

Keep up the critique and even more improvements may appear.

Have fun!

some good looking sheets. now i just have to find a game to play in so i can use them.. partido_risa.gif

Ragaa said:

You have some text on the wishlist for the adept career that should be removed. I saved it before looking at it :P

Looks like the text I referenced is present on every download provided. I'd like to provide my players with these sheets, but don't feel like fielding the "What's this stuff on the wish list page..." questions.

Go into Photoshop and remove the text, that is what I did.

If the author is ok with it I can post the cleaned up wishlist page.

Alexis

*smiles*

Cailieg said:

Go into Photoshop and remove the text, that is what I did.

If the author is ok with it I can post the cleaned up wishlist page.

Alexis

*smiles*

Good idea...hadn't thought of that when I posted late last night :D Tired posting is bad!

Cailieg said:

Go into Photoshop and remove the text, that is what I did.

If the author is ok with it I can post the cleaned up wishlist page.

Alexis

*smiles*

Shure, no problem ^^

It was som internal jokes in my groupe, and we forgot to remove it before posting :P

The link I provided above was the page from the scum characters sheet. The wishlist page. With internal jokes removed. The other pages were fine as they were.

It was all ready to go.

Alexis

*smiles*