Some of us, however, prefer not to spend hours digging through books just to find the costs of various traits we know we need.  I can make a detailed low-points character in GCS in twenty minutes or so (maybe less, since the latest update to the program is a good bit faster than the version I was using); doing it on paper will take at least three times that.

I'll go look at the example sheet again and make sure my HTML output template is right, but I recall it being very similar, if not identical, to the way characters are usually written up for publication in books or articles.  Color coding, well, I might be able to figure out how to make the exporter do that, if it's important.

I can make a 250 point DF character in maybe 10 minutes on paper, by using the Profession Templates.

Granted, the 125 pointers take more time as they are a lot more opne ended, and I haven't looked at the 75 pointers at all.


Or use the post editor?  Select the section, clicky-click the font color dropdown.

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 766):

Color coding just helps my ADD.

Putting racial templates back helps clarify pointvtotsls by category.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 768):

Happy Holidays
Peaceable Yule
Joyful Solstice
Happy Hanukkah
Merry Christmas

In reply to Narrator (msg # 769):

Chaotic Saturnalia

In reply to cultist (msg # 770):

"Good things come to those who ask when an 18 is rolled for reaction"

No matter what you celebrate, happy holidays to all.  May your dice rolls be blessed.

I'd rather make the exporter do it, if possible -- then I only have to do it once, instead of every time I update the RPoL copy of the character sheet.  I think it's possible, just have to look up the HTML coding for colored text.

I've heard rumors that a stealthy human cleric/ranger dressed in all red and white who hangs out with elves has possibly been spotted in the vicinity of Northport. Any truth to the rumors?

This is utmost important guild business and I need to know if the rumors are true quickly.

Warn a mate before you explode t'e blood vessels in his brain ya?

RPoL isn't quite using HTML.. it's <> tags but no font=, so it's:

<Red>Red</Red> for Red.

So, yeah, if you're up for sticking your fingers into the guts of the GCA an fiddlin... man, you gots it.  I used to be able to work that magic on the old GURPS GURU, but she was all spreadsheets, java, and minimal html...  I can't even get GCA to work properly, let alone think about gettin intimate with her inner workings.

santas workshop, and the lollipop guild both, should have representative envoys to the guild, i would think...being guildsmen, all.

In reply to Mancini (msg # 774):

Northport mostly gets Krampus... although the Triunists have a saint on the rolls...

I am surrounded by a bunch of nerds.  Why in the hell did I EVER let Haveron talk me into this gig....

May the Day King give good sport and run long enough to please the Old Mistresses and may their blood water deep the roots of the Heart of the Woods.  And in returning may the wild hunters come upon the great boar and lead him back that his flesh may bless the feast and ensure survival.

To feel at home...

Jareth, I'm using GCS, not GCA, and it exports plain HTML in a "published sheet" format that I then view with my browser as a local file to get what I copy/paste in RPoL's character sheet "editor".

And it, also, doesn't really use HTML in the parts I'll have to fiddle with; rather it's a very simple (and poorly documented, if at all) formatting language.

I wish you luck, that sounds more fiddly than I'd care to bother these days.

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 782):

But I can connect you with the  GCS author who has been very helpful over the years, PM me ... or I'll give you the HTML page I use ... with a bit of work, it might do everything the GM would like. I am not HTML literate.

I've been on the GCS mailing lists for years, but the author isn't much help with exporting character sheets (or wasn't last I checked) -- he's a pretty busy guy and GCS is freeware.  I think the exporter I already use just needs color tags added, and my sheets need the template sections reassembled (instead of broken out for my convenience in spotting what I can actually do).

OK, He is indeed a very busy fellow, but has always been helpful.
It's probably because we have a limited use for this that he hasn't taken time to fix it... I am sure RPOL is not the majority of his users.

The html page I use provides this display:

But that's not what the boss wants to see (and probably can't be dumped into the RPoL character sheet page, except possibly as an image file).  He likes a list format, like what we'd see for a character stat block published in a book or magazine.  Further, he likes to see the template blocks kept together -- which I concede makes it easier to be sure a new character is on template, but which the HTML export filter isn't going to affect.

It's remarkably similar to the way I keep my sheet.  It just requires understanding RPoL tables, which admittedly don't work like tables I've seen at any other site.


Sigh.  Cross site standardization is lost cause...

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 787):

Actually I use this format for most of my RPOL characters, many which have been around for a few years. It pastes in readily.
I am more than willing to adjust, but would like to see a converter that takes GCS files and turns them into RPOL/Northport files as an option.

My issue with this HTML sheet is that it doesn't show melee and missile stats.

If software developers can't keep their own stuff compatible with itself or avoid making big changes to the UI with every major version update, how can we expect anything better across web sites?