
The GM of the game I'm going to be playing in suggested a site called charactersheet.net along with Google Docs and some other thing I can't recall at the moment, and so I went to the site and was happy to use that service. It works good, and if it's a bit spartan - well it's clean and free so no complaints from me. It looks to support multiple games and even has a free form sheet. It looks to be a suitable solution for G+ and maybe even for regular meat games. I do worry that it's web only however since I would like the option of playing a game in a spooky shack in the Carpathian mountains, or when the power goes out. I did want to know what other similar services were out there for managing character sheets, especially for the tablet platform.
I'm going to look into this more because I'd like to have character sheets on my iPad and preferably be able to store multiple characters from multiple games and port them between the Applesphere and desktops or even a hypothetical fancy Android tablet (the Toshiba Excite x10 one looks nice!). My regular gaming group is starting an L5R campaign and the GM is a real Apple fellow so we have a website/app for the campaign and I really want to electrify my character sheet and do everything but dice rolling on the tablet. There's no reason why this can't be done these days, even to the extent of having many fields on the sheet flowing back to the GM's dashboard. I can dream of a day when I have Beacon character sheets, indexed rules and various quick roll tables all packed into one nice little tablet app.
Also speaking of Google+, I did make a Beacon page on there as a ambassador of this blog and a way to co-ordinate activities should I get a game going. Don't bother checking it out now however since nothing is going on there yet.
* Actually I've wanted to try to run an online game since I found RogerWilco VoIP software back in 1998, but G+ multi-person video was the sauce on the goose.
**I made my daughter validate my rolls 3d6 in order. I got a Fighter. He could have been a dwarf with his 14 STR but I wanted to go with a two handed sword though. He has 4hp. I've certainly been thinking of the differences between this and my last post about starting HP. She also suggested the name: Marlin Densburg - kids are fun.
Me! I want to play if you run a Beacon game!
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Sure, I'll let you know when I set one up then.
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