dyslexic_charactersheets

Trying out Reddit

Facebook is sinking ever deeper into the cesspit, so after consulting the members there about their preferred networks...

...I'm trying out Reddit.

https://ww...

Billing change

Patreon tell me that there's been a change in when and how you all get billed. I didn't get any choice over this, it's happening across the platform.

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-gb/articles/8779192853261-Subscripti...

What would your D&D edition look like?

This is an open question to the community.

We're living through an explosion of new RPGs with different ideas, or more often, different cuts of the same ideas. At the same time, the gravity well of 5e is hard to escape. No matter how many great games are out there, the one called "D&D" will always occupy a special position. The one cal...

Paizo's license changes pt2

In my first post, I went into a lot of details about the license changes, the possible reasons behind them, the implications for different types of creators, and what it meant for this project in particular.

As we'd hoped, Paizo have walked back some of their c...

Paizo's license change: UPDATE

Paizo have reversed their license changes.

https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6w469?Updates-on-the-Community-Use-Policy-and-Fan

I'll do some more reading to make 100% sure I've not missed anything. ...

Paizo's license changes

Dyslexic Character Sheets is in danger. In fact, all of Pathfinder is.

I realise that sounds clickbaity, but I promise I’ll explain. This will be quite a long article, in fact, explaining in detail. There’s a lot to cover.

A few days ago, Paizo announced some big changes to their licensing terms. The previous Community Use Policy...

Post incoming: Paizo licensing changes

Expect a post in the next few days regarding Paizo's new and revised licenses. I'm just waiting till after GenCon to see if anything gets announced.

https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6vh12

Short version: it's bad. It might even be bad enough...

On the global IT outage

(reposting from my facebook)

My thoughts on the global IT outage. I'll try and keep this layman-friendly.

For decades now, we've been adding IT to our key infrastructure, everything from railways to hospitals to emergency call lines, all the things that make life run properly. This isn't a bad thing - IT makes it possible to manage t...

Pathfinder Remaster: The Plan™

Many of you have been wondering what my plan is with the Pathfinder Remaster. The release of Howl of the Wild has brought this to the fore, so I figured I’d write a proper answer to fill you all in – and in the process, get some of my own thoughts clear.

tl;dr  Yes I’m making character sheets for the Remast...

Bug fix release

Somehow, it's been six months since I last published a character sheets release. In that time I've accumulated a great many little improvements, including:

• New "Pages" button to quickly navigate round.

• Fix for editable multi-line fields in Firefox.

• Merged the Action and Focus Actions; rearranged the Fo...

  2024-05-26 16:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post

April 2024: Character Card

Rogue & Bard sell something they call the The World's Tiniest Character Sheet. And I took that personally! After all, my character sheets are famous for how small they are.

So anyway, this is 1mm smaller in each direction.

On web standards, frameworks and programming paradigms

If you ignore the rest of this long, deeply technical and utterly subjective blog post, at least watch this video.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

The talk was given in 2014, bu...

A year on

It's a year now since the OGL crisis hit.

It's hard to explain just how deeply it affected everyone who creates things for TTRPGs. Just how worried, angry and betrayed it made us feel.

D&D is more than just a property that a company can own. It's a folk game, and a whole community and identity built around it. It's the product of...

Kineticist live

I've just released a number of things:

• Kineticist (and the Kineticist archetype)
• Variant rules: Ancestry Paragon, Automatic Bonus Progression and Proficiency Without Level
• The new PDF builder for PF1, Starfinder and D&D 3.5
• The option to hide values for print (patrons only)
• A whole load of litt...
  2023-11-11 15:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Poll: variant rules

Somebody was asking me about variant rules, so I created a poll over on Facebook to see which ones are most used.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/dyslexiccharactersheets/posts/3299381117019526/ 

Kineticist preview

The Kineticist is available to try on the preview site, with one exception: I haven't settled on the icon yet.

https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2

This includes the Kineticist archetype. Try them both, and let me ...

Kineticist preview

The Kineticist from Rage of Elements is nearly here. Check out this preview, and let me know if you see any problems.

https://www.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/files/pathfinder2e/Kineticist%20preview.html

Attention players of PF1, Starfinder and D&D 3.5

The recent server move has necessitated me rewriting the PDF builder for those older games. It's going fairly well, but in order to not spend forever on it, I'm thinking of removing some of the features I don't think it needs.

To avoid ruining everyone's day, I'd like to hear what features you really don't want to lose.

There's a pol...

Patreon and Discord

It looks like new patrons who click through to Discord aren't getting the 'Patron' role assigned properly. This is related to Discord's decision to make everyone change their username.

If you're a new patron and you want the right role, just ask and I'll fix it.

Server maintenance

The site was down this morning for some unscheduled, and frantic, maintenance.

The server it's on is both old and full, and getting increasingly temperamental. I need to move to a new server, and I'll hopefully be doing that in the next few weeks. There may be some disruption involved.

More backgrounds

I've added a whole pile of backgrounds for PF2e. These are on the dev site now, so go find me bugs:

https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2 

I'd like to thank Foundry VTT for making all their data open source, wh...

Kingmaker

Happy coronation day!

The character sheets for Kingmaker for Pathfinder Second Edition are now live. This includes sheets for kingdoms, settlements, and armies.

There are also a number of other bug fixes and additions in this release, such as the Pine Leshy heritage from the Quest for the Frozen Flame adventure path..

The OGL Fiasco (part 3)

My first post in this series was a history of D&D and the OGL, and my second was some of the thoughts and conclusions I've come to.

Here, finally, is how this all affects Dyslexic...

Kingmaker preview

The first preview of Kingmaker character sheets is here:

https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2

• Kingdom character sheet
• Settlement sheet

This isn't complete yet. Notable absences include: 2023-03-06 01:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post

The OGL Fiasco (part 2)

My previous, lengthy post was a history of D&D and the OGL, a review of recent events, and some of what we know about how the whole mess happened.

Here are some of my collected conclusions and thoughts for the future. 2023-03-04 20:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post

The OGL Fiasco (part 1)

It's been a month or so now since the end of the OGL fiasco. While I was actively posting news during it, once it ended I wanted to take some time and get some perspective before posting my full thoughts.

Also this ended up being a really long post, so I've split it into three.

You can find my conclusions in 2023-03-02 18:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Dark Archive - live!

The Dark Archive release is now live!

https://www.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/

Dark Archive - nearly there

It took me longer than expected to get through all the Psychic subclasses, but it's finally done. You can take a look here:

https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2

Please try it out and find me problems to fix.

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On the OGL

You've probably seen this already: Dungeons & Dragons’ New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition.

I was waiting to see what One D&D looked like before deciding whether to make character sheets fo...

Dark Archive preview

The new Psychic and Thaumaturge are on the preview site. This doesn't include all the subclasses, and I'll get to those before publishing for real. Check it out here:

https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2...