Don's Coda Form/Sheet v3.2a

[Don Mappin]

As promised, and by popular demand…

Don’s Star Trek Coda Character Sheet and Form, version 3.2a. (It's almost entirely done, locked, sealed, and delivered.)

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
• New - Use Acrobat to 'black out' your unavailable Health Levels.
• New - Re-aligned text at 1200% magnification.

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.

Download it from here!

[qerlin]

At last! Looks great, Don!

[Novalar]

Looks great! My players will be very happy, not to mention their GM.

Ummm is the conversion doco working yet... I still get errors and can not open it.

[tmutant]

Yay! I copied "sheet". All unbuggy, and filled with crunchy skill goodness. Happiness.

[Don Mappin]

For those curious, the only thing left on my "to do" list with the form/sheet is to add checkboxes for favored attributes and reactions. Also, if I'm able to do so, I want to make the small professional skill boxes check-able as well. (They're pretty small so I don't know if I'll be able to do that easily.)

Any other suggestions welcomed as how to make the sheet better.

I "might" to a TOS/Movie version with the exact same layout (field placement) with simply a different presentation.

[Dr. Jonas Bashir]

Don, it's a PITA to add those checkboxes, but the result greatly merits the effort. Luckily, Acrobat 5 lets you work with any font, in any size, in forms, so you can flip 'em, toast 'em, and serve 'em as you want.

One development question now: what kind of checkbox did you use for Health? Even using 'round' (one selection only) checkboxes it gets complicated (if you name several them same, one gets selected and the rest gets deselected, obviously), so I had to opt with individual form fields for each health box.

Maybe a normal 'tick' box with the same name on every level would work? (ex: form field "health square #20", repeated on all six levels 20th square).

[Ineti]

Don, the sheet looks great! I'm going to create a couple characters tonight and see how it goes. Thanks for such a great tool.

[Don Mappin]

Doc, I tried that. What happens is that when you click the first box they all click "on." When you click it off, only that box turns off. When you click that first box back "on" all the other boxes then turn "off." It's wierd but I tried for a long time to get it to work. Just a funky way Acrobat works. Instead I had to individually setup each box (what, 20 x 6?) individually. A real pain in the ass. If you know of a way to make them all link together (that works) I'm all ears.

Those tick boxes for professional skills are pretty small (I wanted them that way) so I don't know if they'll lend themselves to being 'clickable' very well. I do realize that having to mark down your professional skills everytime you update and print out your character is a pain in the butt.

They're just standard check boxes with the 'circle' style. They looked best IMO.

[Dr. Jonas Bashir]

To solve the 'small box' problem, you'd like to try a big checkbox with a small font size. That way, the bix is easily clickable, but the check itself will be small.

And, about setting up boxes individually, I always make big cut & paste operations, then select groups of boxes and put them in position in a single block. That way I don't have to verify each one, and they all have the same properties. Then I go tabbing between them and changing their name (usually, same base name with progressive numbers, for easy identification). TAB, ENTER, new name, ENTER. In the end, you feel like a robot.

[Don Mappin]

Oh, don't worry. I know how to cut-and-paste and simplify using Acrobat. Even so, with over something like 1000 form fields, bits were a pain in the ass to setup. A lot of hours went into this character sheet.

[RaconteurX]

Once again, Don, you've surpassed yourself. Kudos...

[Don Mappin]

Originally posted by RaconteurX
Once again, Don, you've surpassed yourself. Kudos...

Hey, nice to hear that someone other than myself uses it.

Working on the "final" version so I can move onto a starship sheet!

[Don Mappin]

bumpty, bump, bump...

[ImperialOne]

Are we ready/worthy for the starship sheet yet?

[Squire]

Excellent work. Would LOVE to see a TOS flavoured version, if at all possible!