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- From gt2939b@prism (Vernard Martin) Sun Jun 17 15:24:51 1990
- From: gt2939b@prism.gatech.EDU (Vernard Martin)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.frp
- Subject: PostScript AD&D Character Sheets
- Message-ID: <10562@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 16 Jun 90 23:17:18 GMT
- Followup-To: rec.games.frp
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 1272
- Keywords: dungeons and dragons character sheets
-
- Well folks. As of this morning at around 11am, I am now graduate of the
- Georgia Institute of Technology's Information and Computer Science Dept.
- As a direct result, I know have relaxed enough to go ahead and post my
- AD&D 1st edition character sheets that I promised a lot of you (around 30
- people). I think that they can also be used for 2nd edition by I don't
- know, nor do I care at the moment.
-
- I originaly intended design a character sheet for each and every possible
- character class available under the Arcana Errata Rules published in an
- issue of Dragon (c) magazine (the issue numgber escapes me at the moment).
-
- To make this possible I created (or rather expounded on since Johhny
- Tamplin had the original idead) a modular system of component pieces
- that represented a particular class characteristic and simply pasted
- together the pieces necessary to give a particular character class
- possibility all of its necessary information. There is a base character
- sheet and additional sheets are created as needed.
-
- Just fooling around, I ended up with around 14 pages with each page
- tailored towards one particular class or multiclass. For sake of brevity
- I am only posting the base character sheet and the info sheets for clerics,
- magic-users, and thiefs. The cleric sheet can be used for druids,the m-u sheet
- for illusionists,and the thief sheet for assassins.
-
- All the sheets were done in LaTeX with some macros and style files custom to
- Georgia Tech and myself. There resulting dvi files created by LaTeX were
- converted to postscript using the dvi2ps software on our machines. It has test
- printed on a QMS-22000, an apple Laserwriter II, a NEC silentwriter, and a
- Xerox 9000 laser printer. If you can't print it as is, I might be able to
- arrange to get you the dvi file and let you work with it from there. I am
- NOT giving out the latex "source" right now and may never do it. I need to
- check into some GaTech policy first.
-
- I would appreciate it if someone could email me the info of where I can put
- the postscript versions of theses character sheets to make them publically
- available. I will only post the rest of the sheets (monks, bards, multiclasses,
- and subclasses) if I cannot do this and even then only if a substantial amount
- of people need them. I would also appreciate any feedback you can give me on
- these sheet designs as these came from personal preferences.
- Enjoy!
-