Creating a revised character sheet for 5E

[msouthward]

I have a desire to make revisions to the 5e character sheet for my campaigns. I'm curious how difficult this would be to pull off. Could I just make it as an extension and if I changed the names of any values on the character sheet would that require diggin into the ruleset to change things up there as well?

Michael

[Trenloe]

You would be best creating an extension to do this.

However, be very careful with what you change - labels are OK (do this via the string resources), adding new fields with new names is OK, but changing field names that already exist could break some of the automation that is built into the ruleset.

[msouthward]

thanks trenloe. so changing up the names of ability scores would be some bad mojo is what you're saying?

[Trenloe]

thanks trenloe. so changing up the names of ability scores would be some bad mojo is what you're saying?
You could probably get away with just changing the label shown in the character sheet, but don't change the name of the control or the database node where the underlying data is stored.

You could probably change the string resource value (not the name of the resource) in strings\strings_5e.xml without too many issues (but run some tests to make sure it all works OK). Effects tied to abilities will have to use the old ability name (e.g. strength or STR).