Hope you all like it, and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. As a Norn, I am able to quickly create and save a ton of denizens for my game. There is also a tab that I call "Norn Tools" which has a section to randomize initiative, a calculator for conditions, a randomized Wyrd tool, and a random loot builder (press ctrl R to use the randomizer).įor players/Dwellers, this can make creating new characters fast and easy. You will still need to reference the books for the archetype boards, and for out of combat descriptions. All skills, passives, and actives from the core rulebook and DotN are included. All descriptions are in my own words, and are not edited (so beware of typos and spelling errors etc). Simply select a skill, passive, or active power from the drop down menu, and a description of its combat ability will automatically fill in beside it (sometimes the passives take a little extra time to populate, not sure why). Using data validation drop down menus and vlookups, I made a sort of automatic dweller creator. Andrew gave me permission to share this with the community and I hope that you find it useful!
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If you don't play very often, you're probably better off with a free open-source option like Omae or Chummer5.I created a tool in google sheets that has been hugely helpful for me as a norn, as well as for my players. If you play SR5 frequently, especially with all of the currently published supplements, it's invaluable as it essentially does all the work for you. Too many times I’ve had a player show up to the table from a previous session and forget to bring their character sheet. Hopefully you’re gonna have some sweet dice to yeet, as well as the Funyuns and Mountain Dew. It's why I personally don't use D&D Beyond. The 5E DnD character sheet is one of the most important things you’re going to have on you and/or bring with you to the table.
While D&D Beyond is a very good, and probably the best tool for building PCs, perchasing all you need when you already own every physical book is a pretty bitter pill to swallow.
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The down side is that to get all of this content (assuming you don't already have a Hero Lab license) requires a steep $60 investment ($30 for the software itself, and then $10 for each of the three data packs which add the supplemental content). Just use D&D Beyond, you can export a PDF of the full sheet when you're done. It's also worth noting that as of the writing of this answer Hero Lab has all of the currently published supplemental material available (including errata) with the exception of Run Faster, which just came out recently (within the last month). There is just no substitute for having a licensed product that can include the entire long-form description of a particular item or ability without running afoul of copyright issues. If youre playing a spellcaster, ScoreSpell is available. I find that form-fillable character sheets for SR5 in particular simply don't adequately do the job because either they never have enough room for all the information I need to be able to reference quickly or they aren't flexible enough to accommodate a system with as many bells-and-whistles as SR5. The one youre looking for is Scoreforge, available here sCoreForge Pathfinder Character Creator.
Despite not being free, I personally find that Hero Lab is worth it for SR5, just because there is so much material that it's hard to keep your math straight with other tools or methods. It's easy to use, gives you plenty of options, and gets frequent updates to fix bugs or add more content.