What do I do when I'm depressed?
Apparently I start working on character sheets in LibreOffice Writer...
*sighs*
I hope I will be able to export it as a form-fillable PDF somehow.
Yeah, this is a lost cause.
I mean, it works, but it doesn't look very good.
But hey, I've got a nice looking printable version!
And I guess you can fill it out in LibreOffice, too, though I won't guarantee that it won't look completely different on someone else's computer 😅
Btw, #SavageWorlds' German translation SUUUUUCKS.
Tbf, I've never seen an RPG that translated well into German 🤔
If you think that sounds like a nightmare, you don't know the half of it.
But I don't have spoons to learn how to use a DTP program right now 😐
@Tobi what about shadowrun? from what i've seen it's surprisingly popular over there
(disclaimer: am not german, cannot read german, know nothing more about German shadowrun than what I just said)
@takelgryph It *is* rather popular, yes, there are several Germany-specific source books, iirc.
I can't speak to the translation, though, it's been ages since I read anything from it.
I'll just assume it's awful though.
Maybe I just don't like German?
@Tobi i'm going to assume that the translation is pretty good, but the editing is just as terrible as most german RPG translations are
simply because "bad editing" seems to be a constant for Shadowrun sourcebooks ever since FASA broke up
@takelgryph I might be wrong, but I suspect that many (most?) German translations for games aren't done by professional translators, and quite likely rather piecemeal, instead of treating it like - say - a novel.
I know for a fact that some video games are translated that way, and it really shows.
@Tobi i've heard a few horror stories about non-English translations and video games myself, yeah
@Tobi For character sheets I usually use Inkscape (similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW). I think it makes more sense and they're easier to use/learn.
It's not like you have paragraphs in your character sheets, right? It's more of a visual thing and some text. Aligning things, making boxes and such is more what you need.
Two (quite different) sheets I've made:
http://hardcorenarrativist.org/black-wolf/character-sheet.pdf
http://hardcorenarrativist.org/deedsnotwords/Character%20sheet.pdf
@hardcorenarrativist For paper only, sure.
But I like to be able to fill them out on the computer.
So if you need a German #SavageWorlds char sheet with #Fate Aspects built-in that probably won't look right on your computer, I'm your enby!