Facebook is sinking ever deeper into the cesspit, so after consulting the members there about their preferred networks...
...I'm trying out Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dyslexic_charsheets/
2025-01-21 00:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon tell me that there's been a change in when and how you all get billed. I didn't get any choice over this, it's happening across the platform.
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-gb/articles/8779192853261-Subscription-billing-FAQ
2024-11-06 18:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis is an open question to the community.
We're living through an explosion of new RPGs with different ideas, or more often, different cuts of the same ideas. At the same time, the gravity well of 5e is hard to escape. No matter how many great games are out there, the one called "D&D" will always occupy a special position. The one called "D&D" will be a lot of people's introduction to RPGs, and the default. The one called "D&D" will get the most minutes on YouTube, the most...
2024-09-29 19:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostIn my first post, I went into a lot of details about the license changes, the possible reasons behind them, the implications for different types of creators, and what it meant for this project in particular.
As we'd hoped, Paizo have walked back some of their changes.
2024-08-26 13:35:44 +0000 UTC View PostPaizo have reversed their license changes.
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6w469?Updates-on-the-Community-Use-Policy-and-Fan
I'll do some more reading to make 100% sure I've not missed anything. You can expect a more full post in the next few days.
2024-08-22 19:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostDyslexic Character Sheets is in danger. In fact, all of Pathfinder is.
I realise that sounds clickbaity, but I promise I’ll explain. This will be quite a long article, in fact, explaining in detail. There’s a lot to cover.
A few days ago, Paizo announced some big changes to their licensing terms. The previous Community Use Policy is gone, replaced with a new Fan Content Policy that's quite different; and OGL content cannot be posted to the Infinite storefront any more. Here's ...
2024-08-05 18:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostExpect a post in the next few days regarding Paizo's new and revised licenses. I'm just waiting till after GenCon to see if anything gets announced.
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6vh12
Short version: it's bad. It might even be bad enough to make me give up entirely.
2024-08-02 19:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post(reposting from my facebook)
My thoughts on the global IT outage. I'll try and keep this layman-friendly.
For decades now, we've been adding IT to our key infrastructure, everything from railways to hospitals to emergency call lines, all the things that make life run properly. This isn't a bad thing - IT makes it possible to manage these large systems, to get information updates and act on them. Most of the time, planes fly on time and fire engines get to the right house because o...
2024-07-20 21:27:14 +0000 UTC View PostMany of you have been wondering what my plan is with the Pathfinder Remaster. The release of Howl of the Wild has brought this to the fore, so I figured I’d write a proper answer to fill you all in – and in the process, get some of my own thoughts clear.
tl;dr Yes I’m making character sheets for the Remaster, but it’ll take longer.
Let’s start with some context. Feel free to scroll down if you already know all this.
Somehow, it's been six months since I last published a character sheets release. In that time I've accumulated a great many little improvements, including:
New "Pages" button to quickly navigate round.
Fix for editable multi-line fields in Firefox.
Merged the Action and Focus Actions; rearranged the Focus and Shield sections; and moved the Weapon Specialisation to the Level Up page.
Fixed calculations for Armour Check Penalty when wea...
2024-05-26 16:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Rogue & Bard sell something they call the The World's Tiniest Character Sheet. And I took that personally! After all, my character sheets are famous for how small they are.
So anyway, this is 1mm smaller in each direction.
2024-04-01 11:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostIf you ignore the rest of this long, deeply technical and utterly subjective blog post, at least watch this video.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
The talk was given in 2014, but is written as if it was given in 2035. It's funny and prescient.
The gist is that JavaScript is one of the worst programming languages in the ...
2024-03-24 17:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a year now since the OGL crisis hit.
It's hard to explain just how deeply it affected everyone who creates things for TTRPGs. Just how worried, angry and betrayed it made us feel.
D&D is more than just a property that a company can own. It's a folk game, and a whole community and identity built around it. It's the product of countless people, some of them working for the hundreds of publishers, or the thousands of part-time creators, but most of all it's the many players ...
2024-01-05 01:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostI've just released a number of things:
Somebody was asking me about variant rules, so I created a poll over on Facebook to see which ones are most used.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dyslexiccharactersheets/posts/3299381117019526/
2023-10-25 11:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Kineticist is available to try on the preview site, with one exception: I haven't settled on the icon yet.
https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2
This includes the Kineticist archetype. Try them both, and let me know if you find anything to fix.
2023-09-26 00:12:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Kineticist from Rage of Elements is nearly here. Check out this preview, and let me know if you see any problems.
https://www.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/files/pathfinder2e/Kineticist%20preview.html
2023-09-22 12:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe recent server move has necessitated me rewriting the PDF builder for those older games. It's going fairly well, but in order to not spend forever on it, I'm thinking of removing some of the features I don't think it needs.
To avoid ruining everyone's day, I'd like to hear what features you really don't want to lose.
There's a poll on Facebook. Please complete it if you can. 2023-09-05 11:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post
It looks like new patrons who click through to Discord aren't getting the 'Patron' role assigned properly. This is related to Discord's decision to make everyone change their username.
If you're a new patron and you want the right role, just ask and I'll fix it.
2023-07-09 13:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe site was down this morning for some unscheduled, and frantic, maintenance.
The server it's on is both old and full, and getting increasingly temperamental. I need to move to a new server, and I'll hopefully be doing that in the next few weeks. There may be some disruption involved.
2023-07-08 13:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostI've added a whole pile of backgrounds for PF2e. These are on the dev site now, so go find me bugs:
https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2
I'd like to thank Foundry VTT for making all their data open source, which made it a lot easier for me to do all these.
2023-05-13 13:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostHappy coronation day!
The character sheets for Kingmaker for Pathfinder Second Edition are now live. This includes sheets for kingdoms, settlements, and armies.
There are also a number of other bug fixes and additions in this release, such as the Pine Leshy heritage from the Quest for the Frozen Flame adventure path..
2023-05-06 01:20:28 +0000 UTC View PostMy first post in this series was a history of D&D and the OGL, and my second was some of the thoughts and conclusions I've come to.
Here, finally, is how this all affects Dyslexic Character Sheets.
Without the OGL, I wouldn't be able to do any of this. Not legally.
I do try to be legal, becaus...
2023-03-10 01:57:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe first preview of Kingmaker character sheets is here:
https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2
This isn't complete yet. Notable absences include:
My previous, lengthy post was a history of D&D and the OGL, a review of recent events, and some of what we know about how the whole mess happened.
Here are some of my collected conclusions and thoughts for the future. The next post will be about how these events affect Dyslexic Character Sheets in particular. 2023-03-04 20:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a month or so now since the end of the OGL fiasco. While I was actively posting news during it, once it ended I wanted to take some time and get some perspective before posting my full thoughts.
Also this ended up being a really long post, so I've split it into three.
You can find my conclusions in the second and third<...
2023-03-02 18:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dark Archive release is now live!
https://www.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/
2023-01-17 00:54:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me longer than expected to get through all the Psychic subclasses, but it's finally done. You can take a look here:
https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2
Please try it out and find me problems to fix.
Also in this edition:
You've probably seen this already: Dungeons & Dragons’ New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition.
I was waiting to see what One D&D looked like before deciding whether to make character sheets for it. Well, if there's any truth at all to these reports (and they look pretty solid), then I won't be going anywhere near it.
2023-01-07 18:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe new Psychic and Thaumaturge are on the preview site. This doesn't include all the subclasses, and I'll get to those before publishing for real. Check it out here:
https://dev.dyslexic-charactersheets.com/build/pathfinder2
2022-09-22 22:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post