#character-sheets — Public Fediverse posts

Ghost Dog: A fillable character sheet for a one-player arthouse gangster RPG

There a lot of RPGs based on media properties. There are a few based on obscure media properties. I’m not sure there’s a RPG based on something odder or more obscure than Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, which is based on the 1999 Jim Jarmusch movie of the same name.

In the movie, Forest Whittaker plays Ghost Dog, a hit man for a local mobster. He lives his life according to the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, a guide for ancient Japanese samurai. It’s basically an arthouse gangster movie inspired by Japanese and French cinema. It’s worth seeing.

The game is sadly out-of-print, and Guardians of Order, the publisher, went out business in 2006.

One of the interesting things about the game is that it’s designed for one player and one GM. The player can play Ghost Dog, any other character in the movie, or a custom character of their own design.

It uses the Tri-Stat system. 2d6 rolls resolve most things.

A character sheet is included in the book, but I couldn’t find a copy online. I’ve taken the sheet from the book, made a separate PDF, and made it fillable.

I’ve added this post to my collection of character sheet posts, and my collection of character sheets for dead RPGs.

Ghost Dog: A fillable character sheet for a one-player arthouse gangster RPG

There a lot of RPGs based on media properties. There are a few based on obscure media properties. I’m not sure there’s a RPG based on something odder or more obscure than Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, which is based on the 1999 Jim Jarmusch movie of the same name.

In the movie, Forest Whittaker plays Ghost Dog, a hit man for a local mobster. He lives his life according to the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, a guide for ancient Japanese samurai. It’s basically an arthouse gangster movie inspired by Japanese and French cinema. It’s worth seeing.

The game is sadly out-of-print, and Guardians of Order, the publisher, went out business in 2006.

One of the interesting things about the game is that it’s designed for one player and one GM. The player can play Ghost Dog, any other character in the movie, or a custom character of their own design.

It uses the Tri-Stat system. 2d6 rolls resolve most things.

A character sheet is included in the book, but I couldn’t find a copy online. I’ve taken the sheet from the book, made a separate PDF, and made it fillable.

I’ve added this post to my collection of character sheet posts, and my collection of character sheets for dead RPGs.

Fringeworthy: Fillable Character Sheets for an interdimensional RPG

Fringeworthy is a science fiction RPG from Tri Tac games. The premise is that in the near future of 2008, scientists discovered an alien installation beneath the Antarctic ice. This installation contained a portal to other versions of Earth in parallel dimensions.

Only a small percentage of people (the titular Fringeworthy) can access these portals. The UN establishes an organization to send teams into the portals to explore the other Earths. It’s basically a cross between Sliders and Stargate SG-1.

This one is crunchy, even for an 1980s game. There are lots of stats, detailed weapon and vehicle rules, and very complex hit location rules. Possibly more than most people would be comfortable with. There are little charts and tables on almost every page. I haven’t actually played it yet, but the rules seem way more complicated than a pulpy setting needs.

While you can still get copies of this game, it’s not exactly active, and there only seem to be a few fan works on DriveThru,

There were three versions of this game 1982, 1984, and 1992. I’ve taken the character sheet for 1992 version, and a more recent color version and made them both fillable. The color version has the ability to add an image to the Character Portrait field.

I’ve added this post to my collection of character sheet posts, and my collection of character sheets for dead RPGs.

A fillable character sheet for Dicey Tales

Dicey Tales is a pulp adventure RPG using the same system as Barbarians of Lemuria and Everywhen

Everything is a 2d6 roll where you add a attribute and career. If you get a 9 or higher, you succeed. It’s a very effective, and fast-moving little system.

I’ve taken the character sheet and made it fillable. I have a version where you can add a picture by clicking the notes box, and another where it’s just text.

I’ve added this post to my ancient treasure hoard of character sheets.

A fillable character sheet for Dicey Tales

Dicey Tales is a pulp adventure RPG using the same system as Barbarians of Lemuria and Everywhen

Everything is a 2d6 roll where you add a attribute and career. If you get a 9 or higher, you succeed. It’s a very effective, and fast-moving little system.

I’ve taken the character sheet and made it fillable. I have a version where you can add a picture by clicking the notes box, and another where it’s just text.

I’ve added this post to my ancient treasure hoard of character sheets.

Sprawl Goons: Fillable Character Sheets for a cyberpunk RPG

A few years ago, Nate Treme put out a RPG called Tunnel Goons. It’s a simple, light 2D6 system.

You roll a 2d6 and add the value of an attribute to beat a Difficulty Score (DS). It’s a good game for beginners, as there aren’t a lot of rules to memorize.

Tunnel Goons was released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, so anyone can make their own game using the same system. As a result, there’s an enormous number of hacks based on Tunnel Goons.

One of my favorite of these hacks, is Sprawl Goons from Geist Hack Games. It uses the Tunnel Goons rules to run gritty cyberpunk adventures.

I like it because it’s light, it’s easy to create characters, and it’ll probably be my go-to system if I’m going to run any quick cyberpunk one-shots. It’s also quite inexpensive.

All you need to run the game is the Sprawl Goons: Upgraded book for the main rules, but I’d recommend getting the Sprawl Goons: Booster Pack and the Sprawl Goons:Plug-In Pack for supporting material.

Alternately, all of the books are compiled in the book Sprawl Goons: Upgraded CARBON EDITION

There are two versions of the official character sheet, available for free here. I’ve made fillable versions of each.

I’ve added this post to my overflowing cred-stick of RPG character sheets.

I’ve been running Mongoose Traveller 2E for a while now, and I haven’t found a MGT2 sheet I’m entirely happy with, so I’ve decided to start making my own. It’s still a work in progress, but I thought I’d post what I have so far with the hope of getting some feedback on the design.

Like most of my sheets, it will be fillable, and will auto-calculate stat modifiers and wound boxes.

Here’s some stuff I’m possibly adding (mostly from the Traveller Companion):

• Alternate stats – Wealth, Luck, Sanity
• Wound conditions – minor, major, severe, crippling, etc.
• More detailed allies & contact sheet
• Auto checkboxes for PSI
• It’ll total up the Kg of all of the equipment.

Here’s the 4 page character sheet as it is now. I’d be happy to hear any suggestions or additions.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/07/09/a-mongoose-traveller-character-sheet-looking-for-feedback/

#CharacterSheets #RPG #SciFi #Traveller

A while ago, I made some custom character sheets for Classic Traveller. There was a version with red highlights and an imperial logo, and one with green highlights and a Zhodani logo.

I recently decided to make a few more versions for other various empires and Major Races in the Third Imperium.

The sheets in order:

• Aslan – Orange. Pulled the logo from the Mongoose Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 1 book
• Darrian Confederation – Blue. Logo from the Traveller Wiki
• Solomani – Green. Logo from the Traveller Wiki
• Sword Worlds – Gray. Logo from the Traveller Wiki
• Vargr – Purple. The closest thing to a Vargr symbol I could find is the Traveller Wiki entry on Corsairs.

As with the original version, the sheets are all fillable, will auto-calculate the UPP, and will allow you to import a character image in the upper right corner. Both A4 and US Letter versions are provided.

I’ve added these to my main list of character sheets, and my Traveller/Cepheus page of sheets as well.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/06/01/more-character-sheets-for-classic-traveller/

#CharacterSheets #FreeStuff #RPG #SciFi #Traveller

I recently picked up a physical copy of Cloud Empress, an “ecological science fantasy” RPG from watt. It uses the same ruleset as the popular sci-fi game Mothership

The setting is a magic-poisoned world, with floating cities over a green, but dangerous landscape. This world is threatened by occasional outbreaks of giant magical cicadas, called the Imago, which feast on the bones of dead, and are the source of chalk, the substance that both poisons the land and powers the magic of the setting.

The 58-page book is well designed, with lots of interesting line art giving a nice sense of the world.

It’s inexplicably free to download.

Character Sheet

Cloud Empress has its own character sheet, so I won’t be making my own custom version. The official version is attractive and well-designed. It comes in a color & black-and-white version.

However, I wasn’t 100% happy with how the fillable fields were implemented, so I’ve made my own modified version of the official Cloud Empress character sheets. Here are the changes I made to the fields:

• The stat numbers are now in a Serif Gothic font to match the book formatting and are centered to look a little nicer.
• The job condition and notes boxes are now set to wrap text.
• Fixed a small bug in the Skills check boxes.
• I’ve added the ability to import an image into the portrait frame in the center of the sheet. Just click in the center.

The B&W version wasn’t fillable, so I’ve made it fillable as well. The color version has an off-white background that might be difficult to print, so I’ve made a version without the parchment-colored background.

I’ve added these to my ever-growing swarm of character sheets.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/05/31/cloud-empress-a-revised-character-sheet-for-the-ecological-fantasy-rpg/

#CharacterSheets #CloudEmpress #FreeStuff #Mothership #OSR #RPG

Added updated versions of a Battlestar Galactica Classic Traveller character sheet.

Battlestar Galactica: Traveller/Cepheus character sheets https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/05/30/battlestar-galactica-traveller-cepheus-character-sheets/ #BattlestarGalactica, #CepheusEngine, #CharacterSheets, #FreeStuff, #RPG, #TTRPG #Traveller

Added updated versions of a Battlestar Galactica Classic Traveller character sheet.

Battlestar Galactica: Traveller/Cepheus character sheets https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/05/30/battlestar-galactica-traveller-cepheus-character-sheets/ #BattlestarGalactica, #CepheusEngine, #CharacterSheets, #FreeStuff, #RPG, #TTRPG #Traveller

I designed these character sheets for Abbadon with some advice from MrGone of WoD character sheet fame. He also took my designs and made interactive fillable versions of them for me!

#ttrpg #indiettrpg #charactersheets #tabletop

I designed these character sheets for Abbadon with some advice from MrGone of WoD character sheet fame. He also took my designs and made interactive fillable versions of them for me!

#ttrpg #indiettrpg #charactersheets #tabletop

OneDice Pulp: Mini-Review and Custom Character Sheet for a pulp adventure RPG. https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2022/07/15/onedice-pulp-mini-review-and-custom-character-sheet-for-a-pulp-adventure-rpg/ #CharacterSheets, #FreeStuff, #OneDice, #OneDicePulp, #Pulp, #Review, #TTRPG

Just ran a one-shot of Thálassa, the Cairn-based OSR game about adventures in the Mythic Mediterranean.

My players fought water nymphs, a Kyklops, and rescued the Fire of Demeter from sea-raiders.

I wasn't crazy about the official character sheets, so I've made my own. Still a WIP. I'll post them when finished.
#TTRPG #Thalassa #Cairn #OSR #NotDnD #CharSheet #charactersheets

Just ran a one-shot of Thálassa, the Cairn-based OSR game about adventures in the Mythic Mediterranean.

My players fought water nymphs, a Kyklops, and rescued the Fire of Demeter from sea-raiders.

I wasn't crazy about the official character sheets, so I've made my own. Still a WIP. I'll post them when finished.
#TTRPG #Thalassa #Cairn #OSR #NotDnD #CharSheet #charactersheets

One of the things I really enjoy in the ttrpg hobby, is designing character sheets.

DTP is a subset of my gaming hobby.

#DTP #CharacterSheets #ttrpg

Form fillable sheets for Blasters + Intrigue are now available for free thanks to the Tome of Intriguing Options #Kickstarter Backers: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/445542/Blasters--Intrigue-Form-Fillable-Character-Sheets
#ttrpg #scifi #CharacterSheets @ttrpg

If you pickup #TinyCthulhu you can get my fillable custom character sheets here:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2022/04/25/tiny-cthulhu-mini-review-and-fillable-character-sheets/

#TTRPG #CharacterSheet #CharacterSheets

If you pickup #TinyCthulhu you can get my fillable custom character sheets here:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2022/04/25/tiny-cthulhu-mini-review-and-fillable-character-sheets/

#TTRPG #CharacterSheet #CharacterSheets

Another interesting game in the itch TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Florida bundle is Gubat Banwa, a Southeast Asian fantasy RPG

I've taken the official character sheet and made it fillable:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/03/23/gubat-banwa-fillable-character-sheets-for-a-southeast-asian-fantasy-rpg/
#TTRPG #CharacterSheets #CharSheet #NotDnD

Another interesting game in the itch TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Florida bundle is Gubat Banwa, a Southeast Asian fantasy RPG

I've taken the official character sheet and made it fillable:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/03/23/gubat-banwa-fillable-character-sheets-for-a-southeast-asian-fantasy-rpg/
#TTRPG #CharacterSheets #CharSheet #NotDnD

I finished up my custom character sheets for the #BlackSwordHack

I also made some separate sheets for the various powers a character might have - Demonic Pacts, Faerie Ties, Twisted Science, etc.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/03/20/black-sword-hack-custom-character-sheets-for-a-moorcock-style-osr-game/
#OSR #TTRPG #CharSheet #CharacterSheets

I finished up my custom character sheets for the #BlackSwordHack

I also made some separate sheets for the various powers a character might have - Demonic Pacts, Faerie Ties, Twisted Science, etc.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/03/20/black-sword-hack-custom-character-sheets-for-a-moorcock-style-osr-game/
#OSR #TTRPG #CharSheet #CharacterSheets

Thanks everyone for the responses! You all got me to purchase Adobe Acrobat.

Anyone have any tips or tricks on how to make a *great* fillable PDF? They personally tend to frustrate the frig out of me.

My personal vote would have been Favorite = Slides ; Least Favorite= Fillable PDF. (I like printouts too when I can get my printer to work!)

Great example of why its best to listen to your intended audience and not just your own preferences 😂. #uxResearch #ttrpg #CharacterSheets

I don't like being of the Tome of Smirks (FB) but I sometimes get messages through my old page asking for my old #CharacterSheets.

So I made an announcement that my website where they were hosted won't be up anytime soon. Instead, I plan on uploading them to Google Drive as a temporary solution. The link is on (ugh) FaceBook
#TTRPG #ScionRPG #Scion2e #Exalted2e #Exalted3e #L5R4e

https://www.facebook.com/100046563141500/posts/pfbid0KuzpgeBSYJM2wkVunRvhPBVNkbXMSv6mqZNvHH5QsRcp5JMacmYzuanK59zKKsWLl/?app=fbl

I don't like being of the Tome of Smirks (FB) but I sometimes get messages through my old page asking for my old #CharacterSheets.

So I made an announcement that my website where they were hosted won't be up anytime soon. Instead, I plan on uploading them to Google Drive as a temporary solution. The link is on (ugh) FaceBook
#TTRPG #ScionRPG #Scion2e #Exalted2e #Exalted3e #L5R4e

https://www.facebook.com/100046563141500/posts/pfbid0KuzpgeBSYJM2wkVunRvhPBVNkbXMSv6mqZNvHH5QsRcp5JMacmYzuanK59zKKsWLl/?app=fbl

Our #DnD DM says we are moving over to 5th edition. So we’re going to be remaking our #characterSheets at our next session. I haven’t read up on the changes. Has anyone played the 5th edition? Thoughts? #DnD5 #RPG

Colour/Textured versions of my Abbadon character sheets. Just need to make the PDF version fillable and they're good to go!

#gamedesign #tttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpgdesign #ttrpgcommunity #charactersheets #indiegame #indiettrpg

Colour/Textured versions of my Abbadon character sheets. Just need to make the PDF version fillable and they're good to go!

#gamedesign #tttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpgdesign #ttrpgcommunity #charactersheets #indiegame #indiettrpg

Spent my day doing character sheets for Abbadon. Here's the initial draft ready to go (need to figure out how to make form fillable verisons.

#gamedesign #tttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpgdesign #ttrpgcommunity #charactersheets #indiegame #indiettrpg