For a while now I’ve been using this German SVG character sheet for my Labyrinth Lord game (it uses the Purisa font):
I’ve now written a little Perl script that allows you to fill in some of these variables using parameters. (Source)
Here’s an example URL:
Result:
It needs more polishing and possibly the option of selecting different character sheets.
I’ve written a text formatting rule for my Campaign Wiki that makes it easy to put your character’s stats on a web page and have it render as a SVG character sheet.
a character page with the generated character sheet
raw text as you would write it
click on the sheet in order to print it, maybe
the same thing using the English template
the German character sheet explaining itself
the English character sheet explaining itself
the script listing the computed parameters
#RPG #Old School #SVG #Character Sheet
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Do they attributes have different bonus tables? If not, why is the bonus for „Geschick“ only +1 and the bonus for „Weisheit“ +2?
– Stefan 2012-09-03 06:11 UTC
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A bug that I had introduced while reshuffeling the code. Any value of 15+ resulted in a bonus of +1. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2012-09-03 08:16 UTC
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The default character sheet now supports a parameter named “portrait” with the value being the URL of an image to use. [Example](http://campaignwiki.org/halberdsnhelmets/de?name=Stefan;class=Kleriker;level=3;xp=3291;thac0=19;ac=6/5;hp=13;str=8;dex=11;con=13;int=7;wis=14;cha=14;petrify=11;wands=15;paralysis=16;breath=17;spells=17;property=11%20Gold,%206%20Silber%5C%5Cgoldener,%20verfluchter%20%20Anh%C3%A4nger%5C%5CSchuppenpanzer%20(AC%206)%20und%20Schild%5C%5CFlegel,%20Schleuder,%20heiliges%20Symbol%5C%5C%3Cb%3EVampire%3C/b%3E:%20Knoblauch%20(3),%5C%5CHammer,%20Pfl%C3%B6cke%20(3)%5C%5C%3Cb%3ESonstiges%3C/b%3E:%20Hanfseil%5C%5CRucksack,%20Feuerstein%20und%20Zunder%5C%5CFackeln%20(2),%20%C3%96lflaschen%20(5)%5C%5CWasserschlauch%5C%5C%E2%86%92%20Bewegung%2030'/Runde%5C%5C%3Cb%3ESchriftrollen%3C/b%3E:%20Lich,%20Schutz%20vor%5C%5CB%C3%B6sem ;abilities=%3Cb%3EUntote%20vertreiben%3C/b%3E%20(2W6):%20Skelett%20(3+),%5C%5CZombies%20(5+),%20Ghule%20(7+),%20Wraith%20(9+),%5C%5C5HD%20(11+)%5C%5C%3Cb%3ESprache%3C/b%3E:%20Taladarisch%5C%5C%3Cb%3ESpr%C3%BCche%3C/b%3E:%20B%C3%B6ses%20entdecken,%20leichte%20Heilung%5C%5CStille).
Too bad this doesn’t work when displaying SVG files using an image tag as part of an XHTML document. Example.
The reason is that the img tag will only load the URL provided. It will not follow further URLs (such as the font or the embedded image). I could use data URLs and waste a lot of bandwidth, or I could use a different tag (frame or object). When I tried using other tags, however, there’s a different kind of problem: clicking on the link resulted in the script being run in special frame, still inside the original page. That’s very confusing for users.
Embedding the entire SVG document “works” – the validators choke on it, however. The declaration that all style elements will be using CSS is missing, the namespace declarations on the svg tag are not allowed, and so on. It looks ok in my browser, however. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2012-12-11
