TOS+
- LinusMundane
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TOS+
I gotta say, this thing rocks.
A little about me... I haven't played DnD since there was a seperation of DnD and ADnD and this was the books you used for DnD...
So a lot of this sheet may be over my head for the time being. My first campaign in 3.5 is starting this Friday and this is going to be invaluable to me for that session. Thanks so much for all your hard work and I hope that I can contribute in some way to make it even better.
A little about me... I haven't played DnD since there was a seperation of DnD and ADnD and this was the books you used for DnD...
So a lot of this sheet may be over my head for the time being. My first campaign in 3.5 is starting this Friday and this is going to be invaluable to me for that session. Thanks so much for all your hard work and I hope that I can contribute in some way to make it even better.
Re: TOS+
Thanks!!
One way to help is to talk about the Sheet - perhaps your friends will join us by subscribing to TOS+ !!!
Richard
One way to help is to talk about the Sheet - perhaps your friends will join us by subscribing to TOS+ !!!
Richard
- LinusMundane
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I am sure they will after they see it in action on Friday. What I am going to do this one time, is rename the .xls several times so I can open more than one and I am going to load their data into each one and keep track of effects and the like that are on them so that they see how useful it is in action. Then I am going to email them each a link here, so you may have about 7 or 8 subs incoming next week.
We are only playing from the PHB and DMG, I'd like them to open up to PHB 2 and beyond and maybe they will when they see the ease of use this provides.
We are only playing from the PHB and DMG, I'd like them to open up to PHB 2 and beyond and maybe they will when they see the ease of use this provides.
hmm I'm not sure that's a good idea (opening up many characters at once) - TOS+ has to do a ton and a half of computation to calculate the effects on a single character (and take into account the stacking rules!). This means that unless you are using a Cray Mainframe, your PC will be crawling along trying to compute all it has to (My slow PC usually takes 2-3 seconds to recompute when I add an effect, so if you have many .xls file loaded, you'll multiply this delay.LinusMundane wrote:I am sure they will after they see it in action on Friday. What I am going to do this one time, is rename the .xls several times so I can open more than one and I am going to load their data into each one and keep track of effects and the like that are on them so that they see how useful it is in action.
In anycase, be aware that when you change one value on one character, ALL the worksheets will be re-computed.... (unless you manually disable automatic computations and then manually force a re-compute!)
Ideally they'd all need their own sheet on their own laptops (if they want dynamic play!)... Also note that there is a DM tool around on the Forum - this might be helpful (I've not tried it as I'm not a DM...!)
That would be awesome!!LinusMundane wrote:Then I am going to email them each a link here, so you may have about 7 or 8 subs incoming next week.
My current character (the one I use with the laptop) is also limited to PHB... and I wouldn't try to hold a pen anymore!! (on the last game, my Bard and the Monk both suffered from a spell and we got 'exhausted'... I simply needed to type that on the laptop worksheet and voila!, my Bard was out of 6 points of STR and 6 points of Dex. The person playing the Monk had to scribble away on her character sheet, while I was grinning broadly awaiting on her.... HEHE)LinusMundane wrote:We are only playing from the PHB and DMG, I'd like them to open up to PHB 2 and beyond and maybe they will when they see the ease of use this provides.
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- LinusMundane
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Well, ok, I won't load up 8 sheets then if you say it will blow chunks, I am more than sure though, that based on what I will be able to do tonight I will convince people to buy this product.
I also wanna say that I did a search for and downloaded a ton of other sheets for creation and none of them hold a candle to TOS+. I can't wait for the reactions tonight.
I also wanna say that I did a search for and downloaded a ton of other sheets for creation and none of them hold a candle to TOS+. I can't wait for the reactions tonight.
It's not that it won't work - just that your PC will be slower and slower the more excel files you load up (of course, if you have a 43.2 Petaflops mainframe, it wouldn't be a problem...LinusMundane wrote:Well, ok, I won't load up 8 sheets then if you say it will blow chunks, I am more than sure though, that based on what I will be able to do tonight I will convince people to buy this product.
Thank you!!LinusMundane wrote:I also wanna say that I did a search for and downloaded a ton of other sheets for creation and none of them hold a candle to TOS+. I can't wait for the reactions tonight.
It took me 15 months to create TOS+, and that's with the help of many great people AND the experience of having created the initial Sheet (TOS)
I also think it is awesome, but then again I'm a bit biased... (I also did the search you did, and the low quality Sheets I found online was the reason why I started this project in the first place!!)
Richard
I tried to create a simple Excel character sheet once, but it didn't do so well, it only calculated things like ac from what was entered in the different boxes, everyone still had to do most things manually.
I'm so glad someone with more experience decided to come up with a really good one!
If I can ever help (unlikely), I will be happy to.
This really is an amazing sheet you've come up with!!
Right now I'm making some characters for a game we will be running soon, but nobody but me has a laptop. I'm gonna try making the characters in TOS+ and managing them with the DM sheet.
I have been telling everyone how great it is and I may have convinced some of them to get it too.
I am looking for a good tutorial for creating custom races/classes/gestalt classes/etc. so if you know of any good ones I'd appreciate any links you could give me. I hope to be an advanced user sometime soon.
I'm so glad someone with more experience decided to come up with a really good one!
If I can ever help (unlikely), I will be happy to.
This really is an amazing sheet you've come up with!!
Right now I'm making some characters for a game we will be running soon, but nobody but me has a laptop. I'm gonna try making the characters in TOS+ and managing them with the DM sheet.
I have been telling everyone how great it is and I may have convinced some of them to get it too.
I am looking for a good tutorial for creating custom races/classes/gestalt classes/etc. so if you know of any good ones I'd appreciate any links you could give me. I hope to be an advanced user sometime soon.
- LinusMundane
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- Posts: 121
- Joined: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:27 pm
- Location: Berlin, NJ
- LinusMundane
- Royal Guard
- Posts: 121
- Joined: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:27 pm
- Location: Berlin, NJ
Re: TOS+
Should have a new member I brought in just today, possibly one more following later, twwtww is his name here I think.
Re: TOS+
Just saw him - and processed his subscription - thanks!!!LinusMundane wrote:Should have a new member I brought in just today, possibly one more following later, twwtww is his name here I think.
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