Some friends wanted to start a campaign and I’m trying to digitize my character sheet. Initially I was going to use d&dbeyond so I could send my DM the character sheet digitally and make it easier for them, but I can’t pick Drow without paying for the character, for whatever silly reason. I’ve been checking out all the apps I can find on the play store and I can’t find any with Drow.
Are their any apps that give you all the character options? I’m using Android but I don’t mind switching over to my laptop (Windows/Linux). I had originally wanted an offline app but opted for online to help the DM, but since that won’t be possible anymore I could care less. Still, online apps are fine as I can just block their access to the internet or suffer the occasional ad if I really must.
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I use Adventurer’s Codex. It only works for 5e, and you have to enter and maintain things manually, but it’s really flexible because of that. It’s a web app, but it works pretty well on phones or computers and it’s FOSS.
If you need stuff to reference and help fill it in, I recommend either 5e.tools or dnd5e.wikidot.com. Both of those sites have all the released content for 5e in a well-organized format. I prefer 5e.tools for spells and the wikidot for… basically everything else.
Sweet, thanks! I’ll add these to my dnd bookmarks
I’m surprised there’s been no mention of 5e.tools
Ive heard there’s a charactermancer (character creation tool) now, but I havent tried it.
Just took a look and didnt find a character creator
There’s an android app called 5e character sheet that has all the published options. It has an icon like a green d20.
Edit: it’s called “fifth edition character sheet”
So for me it’s got a red dragon icon, but I believe we have the same app. I wanted to use this one initially, but it was missing Drow, then I looked in the settings and found I could download a bunch of d&d info and Drow is an option! I think this might be what I use for Android!
If you had to download anything it’s not the same app. The one I’m referring to is actually called “Fifth Edition Character Sheet”
Here is a link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wgkammerer.testgui.basiccharactersheet.app
Man so many apps that are showing up as not supported for my phone, this is the third one now, I wonder what it is, besides my phone just being considered “old” by the corporate overlords haha
+1 for this. Keeps all of my characters nice and tidy. Whenever you level up, you pick your new abilities from a list of options, and then it’ll autofill that into your character sheet. It won’t autofill your spells, though, so I use a different app for that. The only downside is that some of the abilities for certain classes aren’t named correctly, I assume due to copyright issues. But the names are pretty clear what they’re referencing (example: Agonizing Blast = Potent Cantrip).
For spells I would just use 5e tools
I realize that you can’t just move to a different game, but I’d still like to encourage people to play Pathfinder. All of its rules are available for free online.
A friend (fellow player) mentioned Pathfinder, but the DM wants to do D&D, he bought the books and everything already, but I think if this is a success among the group, we’ll be trying that out eventually.
Yeah, it’s totally understandable that they’d want to do D&D if they’ve recently sunk money into the books.
That said, not only are the rules free online, but there are a lot of very good (and free) tools built on top of those free rules that are worth checking out, even if just to see what could be. Pathbuilder (web and Android) and Wanderer’s Guide are two well liked digital character sheets. The Goblin’s Cauldron is another currently in early development, that looks like it’s going to be a great addition, too.
On the GM side of things, there lots of free online tools that really help GMs out:
There are several good encounter builders:
- Maxride’s Pathfinder 2e Encounter Builder
- PF2Easy Encounter Builder
- Stephane Doiron’s Yet Another Pathfinder 2E Encounter Calculator
- RPG Online Tools PF2E Encounter Generator
PF2Easy has a collections of ready-made and customizable reference sheets .
The creature creation rules have been used to create a creature creation tool.
Loot Dragon has a searchable and filterable list of items, as well as a random selection feature.
I lay all of this out just so you have some idea as to what could have been, in terms of support, in D&D, and also for reference for when the time comes that your group decides to actually give the system a view.
Thanks for all this! I’ll share it with my DM and see what he thinks.
As someone who has DM’d both, I can vouch for Pathfinder being the more well-designed game (and also it is totally free, unlike D&D). That said, there’s nothing really virtuous about playing one over the other. You play whatever the majority of your playgroup is open to playing, or whatever your DM wants to run.
I use Aurora, while the development has been “paused indefinitely” there are still plenty of features that make this app well worth it. There is a pretty exhaustive list of additional content that you can add to the application, making it super easy to build any kind of character you want. I’ve tried a few of the Android apps out there like 5E Character Sheet and while those might work well for you, I really appreciate the easy item management that Aurora provides.
I’ll definitely be checking out Aurora for my laptop, thanks!
I use PrismScroll for all my 5e character sheets! While it has a one-time payment for Pro features, the free version isn’t limited in the way of character creation.
UI looks nice, but I only see an iOS release, unfortunately I’m only on android.
Oh whoops, I didn’t think to check and assumed it was also available on Android. My bad!!
No worries!