I had a question directed towards the hack creators.

I had a question directed towards the hack creators.

I had a question directed towards the hack creators. how do you guys make your character sheets look so nice? My friends and I are working on a mecha themed hack, but right now it’s all just ugly lists of abilities and stuff in a google doc. I’d appreciate it if anyone could give advice as to how to actually make a playbook look nice. Sorry if this is confusing

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  1. InDesign is pretty much my go-to for anything rpg related. It’s pricey, but I was lucky enough to have it pre-installed when I bought my macbook off of Amazon.

    If you have some decent software and know some basic design principles, it’s not hard to make a homebrew character sheet look real slick!

  2. I do all my stuff in a program called Xara Designer Pro. It’s similar to Illustrator or Corel Draw (and at some point very early in its lifetime was actually a fork of Corel Draw). I export to pdf, and use Acrobat Pro to place the form fields and code the JavaScript to do stuff like toggle the background on and off, or in the case of some crunchier games automatically calculate some stats.

  3. I have a similar situation as Talison Crosby​​​​ and would second his recommendation. Good software is pretty essential because of the several reasons.

    However i would add that the skills to use it are more essential. And not everyone has this, or the time to learn it.

    So.. If you can afford the software and the time investment to learn it, do that (and I can provide tips but I bet a youtube channel I learned from will say it better). Or use a free design tool and make do until later. Consider outsourcing unless there’s a good reason not to.

  4. InDesign here. InDesign and a lot of work and practice. In good news, I only got the program last year and made my first sheets then – so while the learning curve is significant it’s not insurmountable.

    Also Mark – what channel do you use?

  5. There’s also scribus which is what I used before I decided to shell out for cc. InDesign is better/easier though. I too am interested to learn more about this YouTube channel.

  6. Stras Acimovic yea, thats true about the curve

    Levon Jihanian I did the same path (Scribus to Adobe)

    I dont subscribe to a single one, I use different teachers based on what I am learning. for understanding what a concept is or is called, I start with Adobe Creative Cloud. And try to find what I can from Lynda.com. or I’ll search for the concept on Google, and select Videos. I noticed my YouTube history has a lot of TastyTuts, Terry White, & Sean Foushee in it.

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