OldSchoolGM wrote:

I can work up form-fillable versions of one or more of the sheets I've posted at Unpossible Labs. NewAgeOfPower has already mentioned that he'd like more Armor slots. If you have suggestions for changes that could be made to the sheets I already have up, I'll try to incorporate them as I make the sheets form-fillable. Just let me know either by private message or email (erik@unpossiblelabs.com).

Oh man, if you can make form-fillable versions, that would be damn awesome. If you are going to make them form-fillable, might I suggest you arrange the skill section differently? I would remove the field skills and list the rest of the standard active skills in the first and perhaps second column (so, everything except Exotic Melee, Exotic Ranged, Hardware, Medicine, Networking and Pilot), while leaving a bunch of simply empty spaces for us to fill out our own field skills. I might recommend the same thing for the knowledge skill column, simply leaving it void of lettering so players can fill in what they need. I might recommend blanking out the rep section, in case a playgroup is using custom rep systems, or the player is taking part in rep systems outside the standard 7 (like x-rep, and other rep systems that might come out in the future). And honestly, I'd say it's unnecessary to make the sheet do any math. A lot of fillable sheets do this, and it oftentimes leads to multiple edits and alterations to make sure the math works out perfectly, not to mention the occasional discovery that something on another page references something you might not notice (like SOM affecting melee weapon bonus damage). It just gets irritating. Just leave us to math things out for ourselves. We're grown ups, we go pee-pee standing up (or sitting down, depending on our genders). Other than that though, I'd say leave it as it is. You did a great job with the layouts, especially in the landscape version. But as a bonus request, if you find a way to format the landscape version so that it can be tri-folded like a brochure (or like an Apocalypse World character sheet, because I absolutely love their character sheet layouts) without the text falling on creases, I will love it forever.

Interesting that both of you mentioned calculations. I was thinking about that just today, and came to the same conclusion. Also, thanks for your thoughts, Decivre. Looking forward to your further feedback, NewAgeofPower.

OldSchoolGM wrote:

Just created v1.1 of the landscape sheet. It incorporates changes to the layout of skills on the front page and rejiggers the back page to provide a lot more space for armor and weapons. I haven't made it form-fillable yet, but please let me know what you think of this revision. It's at Unpossible Labs, along with the OmniGraffle source doc.

Oh, this is much nicer. I love the new setup for the first page. A lot more open space for us to arrange field skills as we like. Excellent. One thing I do have to ask is why you went with 5 armor slots, 4 ranged weapon slots, and 3 melee weapon slots on the second page, rather than just 4 of each. I suppose people are more likely to wear more armor, though. I definitely like the new setup. Gives me more space for my mercenary pilot character to fit his pilot and hardware skills.

1: Thanks for review. 2: Holy crap, that's a gnarly octomorph.

NewAgeOfPower wrote:

A guy in our previous playgroup had an octomorph wielding 7 Heavy Rail Pistols, 6 without penalty due to his 5x Ambidexterity, and an X-ray emitter (multiple team members could see x-rays) in the 8th hand. The -10 Penalty might have caused a few failures, but he was pretty optimized.

That configuration honestly works fine on the existent sheet. It only uses one actual weapon, just many of that one weapon. So it should work fine. Now if that octomorph was using 7 different varieties of pistol, then you might have a problem.