
Now for the best part - the program is free. Thanks to this functionality with a little planning you can ensure backwards compatibility with any character sheet that you design using the software. If you add a new field or feature to a character sheet’s design you simply reinstall the character sheet design into the viewer and existing sheets will be automatically updated with the new features as long as the objects in the character sheet have the same names.
NBOS CHARACTER SHEET DESIGNER TUTORIAL INSTALL
When you install the designer you also install a viewer that you or your players use to fill out and save a character sheet with. The designer also provides a JavaScript API that you can use to extend the program with.

You can create fields and labels for the various sections of your character sheet, and you can design these fields to accept input or to provide a drop down list of options that you populated a list with, and it can handle simple calculations for numerical fields. The character sheet designer is a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) tool. This program fills that gap nicely for the GMs of odd, older, or rare systems. Often it is rare that a smaller publisher or that a less well known game has such a program available.
NBOS CHARACTER SHEET DESIGNER TUTORIAL SOFTWARE
Many of the RPGs produced by the bigger players in the industry either provide their own software for character sheet management tools, another company creates a tool for that particular game, or the community creates such a tool. It runs on Windows XP and Vista only, but with virtual machines, WINE, and other solutions I am sure that users of other operating systems can find ways to use the program on the platform of their choice. One of their offerings is the Character Sheet Designer v1.0 and it is an easy to use product that allows you to do just what its name says it does - design a character sheet. Please check out their trial versions and see if you feel the same. To date I have purchased three of their four products and I have been very happy with each one. I like their products because they perform well and they are reasonably priced. I am not associated with the company in any way other than being a satisfied customer. One of my favorite companies for RPG programs is NBOS Software.
