Don's Coda Sheet/Form v3!

As promised, and by popular demand…

Don’s Star Trek Coda Character Sheet and Form, version 3.

Features:

• Acrobat form-enabled for her pleasure; calculates all values
• Clean two-sheet design
• Optional 3rd skill-only page (non-form)
• Prints great in color or greyscale
• Areas for wound levels, psionic abilities, edges, flaws, and professional abilities
• Weapons section
• Generous background and note area
• Equipment area
• Easy reference action cost chart
• Fields auto-size to fit content
• Data compatible with earlier versions

Of course, entirely free!

If this isn’t the best Coda sheet you’ve used get your money back! (Tell me what you didn’t like—maybe I can fix it.)

Acrobat Reader 5.x required, full version of Acrobat recommended for saving form data.

Here's just the sheet for those that don't like forms...

Here's the Form version.

Updated: August 2nd, v3.15

At last! Looks fantastic, Don.

It's a tough choice between this & the Zoink's sheet: both have the self-calculating feature I like. This one's prettier.

And what is it with ICON????
Do you think about doing the same for the Icon Rules???


Illegal Notice: If this has been done in an another Thread, please Forgive me!!!!!

It's fab, Don... great work. Wish you would forms-enable the Skills sheet, even if you can't design it to auto-fill. Those of us playing Enterprise era games need much more space for languages.

A few quick nitpicks:

1) The Vitality Modifier field does not retain plus or minus signs; the other attribute modifier fields do.

2) The font size for the six blank skill fields at the bottom of page one is larger than that for the pre-printed skills.

3) There is way too much space for Flaws compared to Edges (characters are more apt to have many of the latter and few of the former).

4) There is no specific field for noting Species Abilities.

WOOHOO! It's done! :D

Seriously, Don, looks great.

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Originally posted by RaconteurX
1) The Vitality Modifier field does not retain plus or minus signs; the other attribute modifier fields do.

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I'll look into that.

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2) The font size for the six blank skill fields at the bottom of page one is larger than that for the pre-printed skills.

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Really? I copied the same fields over. Strange...

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3) There is way too much space for Flaws compared to Edges (characters are more apt to have many of the latter and few of the former).

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Opinion.

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4) There is no specific field for noting Species Abilities.

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Put in the ample space set aside for professional abilities, rather than giving its own section and wasting space.

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Originally posted by Cmdr. Maddox
And what is it with ICON????
Do you think about doing the same for the Icon Rules???

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Nope. I don't use/play them anymore.

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Originally posted by RaconteurX
It's fab, Don... great work. Wish you would forms-enable the Skills sheet, even if you can't design it to auto-fill. Those of us playing Enterprise era games need much more space for languages.

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I've had specific requests not to do this, as making them auto-calculate puts in the zeros. Plus, the optional skill-only sheet was done out of the generosity of my heart, not because I wanted it. :) In short, making that sheet form-capable would take 4+ hours and over 500+ fields setup for a page I don't even use.

In other words, it ain't gonna happen. :)

The good news is that I was able to add 4 more blank spots on the front page by tightening up the layout and ruthlessly killing whitespace. :D

Thats not fair!!!!!!!!!!!
There are many player playing Icon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pfui!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Cmdr. Maddox
Thats not fair!!!!!!!!!!!
There are many player playing Icon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pfui!!!!!!

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It's perfectly fair. Don didn't do this for money, you know. The product serves him for his own use, and he made it available for others. If you want him to do an Icon character form, my advice is to send him an email and start typing zeroes.

...or maybe get the ones already available at Trek-RPG.net's download section? Pfui! :p

No disrespect meant there, just being funny, but take my advice and look at the variety of forms available. ;)

**sigh**

When I go to download "the whole enchilada", I get a file with the suffix .php, rather than .zip or .war.

Any clues that you could give me as to this type of file would be a help...

(so sez Ramage, slowly bucking to get out of "Cadet" status...)

Don:
I believe I found a gremlin. In the form version of the pdf (a wonderful item by the way), in the upper right corner of page 1 there is an area for Initiative.

Quite frankly, I don't think the formula for adding the Quickness and Miscellaneous modifiers have been enabled, as when one types in the value for the Misc, the total never changes (and is wrong to begin with relative to the values of the Quickness).

Charles

I've uploaded a new version with the following fixes:

- Vitality field fixed
- Re-did how Initiative is calculated
- Adjusted all the form skill fields to align with fixed text and adjusted size. (I don't know how this got messed up from the earlier version.)

Let me know if you find any other errors!

Ramage

Try right clicking on the link, then click save target as...

This will download it as a zip file.

"Ramage

Try right clicking on the link, then click save target as...

This will download it as a zip file."

Sadly, that IS what I did, three times now -- I assumed that was SOP. :)

Well, I'll try a fourth time...

A very nice sheet, Don. The LCARS look is cool, the colours neither too garish nor to dark to write on. The auto calucation is very impressive. Many thanks.

Cmdr. Maddox: try Patrick Murphy's character sheets in the Computer Core. He has forms red, gold and blue for Starfleet, Romulan forms, Klingon forms and forms galore.

Hello all. I've uploaded a new version of my Coda Form (v3.15) on the first page of this thread. I recommend that everyone upgrade to this version.

Changes:
- Fixed a bug in the Reactions section
- Fixed a bug to now allow negative parry values
- Fixed a nasty bug in the weapon notes field (ooops!)
- Added BIG numbers for attributes and modifiers
- Again tweaked skill placement to align properly. (I did this at 600% magnification to make sure to get it right.)
- Redid the tab orders for both pages

Previous character data should import without any problems.

I only anticipate one more update to add "markers" for favored attributes and skills, plus any bug fixes/requests. Feedback is appreciated!

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Originally posted by Don Mappin
Hello all. I've uploaded a new version of my Coda Form (v3.15) on the first page of this thread. I recommend that everyone upgrade to this version.

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Don,

I'm getting a "Bad CRC" error when trying to extract the file from the zip. I've tried downloading it twice (clicking on it and doing the right-click-and-save-as method) with no success.

Do you (or anyone for that matter) know what might be causing this?

It means something in the pdf file is corrupted. One can try downloading it again.

I had the same problem last night and have yet to download again.
I used WinZip8beta.

Charles

Fixed the CRC error. Sorry about that!

I finishing changes on the latest iteration. Anyone using this form/sheet besides me? :D (Been real quiet...)

Next version has checkboxes in Acrobat for the Wound Levels, boxes for favored attributes, reactions, and professional skills. After that, I'm probably going to call the form "done" and move onto a starship combat sheet.

Any requests or feedback appreciated! :)

I like your sheet Don :)

I will use it :)

And I think the check boxes are a great idea :)

I've actually finished the Wound Level checkboxes and they're COOL! It's a little annoying as you have to check your boxes off for each level, but once you do it looks really cool. After you print it out it's easy to see how much damage your character can take.

I'm pretty stoked. :) Considering all the hours I've put in this form (egads, must be over 20 at least), I really like it.

Now to start planning for the starship combat sheet. (Bwahahaha!) ;)

What, you can't get the boxes to auto-fill based on the character's calculated Health? Disappointed! Disappointed!!!

:p

that "Bad CRC" error is back!!

Are you sure? I just downloaded the file fine.

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Originally posted by agdiv
that "Bad CRC" error is back!!

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I got the same error, running both Stuffit Expander 6.5.1 and ZipIt 1.4 on MacOS 8.6

I have been having trouble with it as well....

I have the same problems.

I also get the bad CRC. It looks like the zip directory is okay, because I see the file in the archive. It's when I try to extract it that WinZip complains.

Strange. I'll look into it. Thank you everyone for pointing this out! :D

I have the same problem:

"Bad CRC 91cf71cc (should be d23928d7)" says Winzip

ditto

Sorry. I forgot to fix this (the bad file) prior to my hiatus over the weekend. I'll try to rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.

I love you all. :D

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Originally posted by Don Mappin
I love you all. :D

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Awww :)

We love you too, Don!

* GROUP HUG * :)

Hi and thx (for everything).
I've got the CRC error too and another one, on the pdf sheet (not the form) :
each time I try to open it with Acorbat Reader 5.05 (patched), this message appears : "Too few operands" and then this one : "Unrecognized token '1k59375' ".