Character Creation - My Table Will be Open Most of Today

[Gwydion]

Morning, all. So as I am excited about running players through the Pathfinder Playtest, so I created a Character Creation module for my players. When they join my table, they can open the module and it uses the Paizo character creation process to walk through the process of character creation, with appropriate links to specific portions of the ruleset (e.g. ancestries) to make it easier to review specific info without searching. It also has a link to Trenloe's video on character creation to help you understand how to create a character within FG. Finally, it has a section on playing the game that has links to important items such as combat actions, conditions, etc.

My intent is to have an easy way for players to start creating their character within FG, and if they have specific questions about the process, they can use the module to jump to certain sections (like ancestries to understand better their options).

I can't share the module of course and all my links are to my google drive which I've set to read only (no download). Trying to avoid any copyright issues. Of course, all official material, including the full ruleset are available for free pdf download at paizo.

So, I'm posting this as I'm going to leave my table up most of the day in case anyone want to mess around with character creation. I won't be able to jump on and answer questions much, but feel free to jump on and create some characters and poke around if you'd like. A message of the day will pop up when you log on that goes through what is in the module.

My table alias is puny nail daring thief

I'll keep it up as much as I can today. Happy Friday!

[Gwydion]

Shutting table down. Might put back up some this weekend. Will see..

[Trenloe]

Did you get many people joining?

[Gwydion]

Did you get many people joining?

Unfortunately no one. But I do understand it was during the day on a weekday with no notice. If I think about doing this again I'll post to the FG and FGC discord channels and give some advance notice. Might do some over the weekend. We will see. Maybe even tonight when I get home and just leave it open until sometime tomorrow as I will be away from home most of the day and can just leave it up.

[Gwydion]

Ok. So I got home and posted this to FGC discord and I've got one person on now and I think some others that will jump on later. I'll have the table up all night tonight and most of tomorrow if anyone wants to play around with creating characters. Check it out!

[Gwydion]

Morning all! So, it looks like I had a couple people jump on the table last night to mess around with creating PF2 characters. Given I will be driving to Cheyenne, Wyoming this morning for my daugther's soccer game, I'll leave the table up for a most of the day. If anyone wants to jump on, feel free. Alias info is listed above in the first post.

[ShadeRaven]

Excellent work, Gwydion! That is first and foremost, so don't take any comments or corrections as anything but appreciation of what you've done and wanting to help out.

1) MOTD: It starts with a directive to click the link on "Creating a Character (Official Paizo)" in the character creation module. Not there. I can go into Story and then Find 0.2 Create a Character, which is what I expect you were intending us to reach. It might be useful to explain about the Library and it's use...it seems silly, but I've had players using FG for almost 10 years now that I still have to explain to them how to open up modules/books and interact with them.

2) Minor thing, but I would think Creating a Character should be 1.0 rather than 0.2 as it does launch into the rest of the process.

3) Okay, so this is something I honestly don't know. What are the rules for sharing and using our Playtest PDF? Are you running into any potential copyright infringements by parsing it up and sharing it out? I am not trying to be a whistleblower in any capacity (egad, no!), because I would love if I could use their material and share it out. In fact, I could then share my version of Doomsday Dawn to those interested...but that seems...somehow wrong, if it'll eventually be a purchasable product here. IDK. Not that I would recommend buying it anyway, as supporting this awesome product and the guaranteed quality of said purchase would be both desired.

4) Which brings me to another suggestion, based on 3). Often, the sharing of a Character Sheet is allowed so why not offer a clean sheet for players to load? The end of the rulebook as 3 pages that you could easily port out for players to link to (as you did other pages), so if someone has the ability to print out these things, you'd give them a character sheet to write on as you progress right from the start! I think offering your image as a PDF that has all the field indicators (your first character sheet image), could be useful, too. That way, you'd have a couple of easily printable pages that players can use on hand.

All-in-all, though.. how fantastic! Great work and it does certainly show your enthusiasm for the product!

PS: Has that MOTD thing been in FG all along? Have I missed out on the ability to do so in my campaigns?
PPS: And where is that font extension? I really need that larger print myself!

[Gwydion]

Excellent work, Gwydion! That is first and foremost, so don't take any comments or corrections as anything but appreciation of what you've done and wanting to help out.

1) MOTD: It starts with a directive to click the link on "Creating a Character (Official Paizo)" in the character creation module. Not there. I can go into Story and then Find 0.2 Create a Character, which is what I expect you were intending us to reach. It might be useful to explain about the Library and it's use...it seems silly, but I've had players using FG for almost 10 years now that I still have to explain to them how to open up modules/books and interact with them.

2) Minor thing, but I would think Creating a Character should be 1.0 rather than 0.2 as it does launch into the rest of the process.

3) Okay, so this is something I honestly don't know. What are the rules for sharing and using our Playtest PDF? Are you running into any potential copyright infringements by parsing it up and sharing it out? I am not trying to be a whistleblower in any capacity (egad, no!), because I would love if I could use their material and share it out. In fact, I could then share my version of Doomsday Dawn to those interested...but that seems...somehow wrong, if it'll eventually be a purchasable product here. IDK. Not that I would recommend buying it anyway, as supporting this awesome product and the guaranteed quality of said purchase would be both desired.

4) Which brings me to another suggestion, based on 3). Often, the sharing of a Character Sheet is allowed so why not offer a clean sheet for players to load? The end of the rulebook as 3 pages that you could easily port out for players to link to (as you did other pages), so if someone has the ability to print out these things, you'd give them a character sheet to write on as you progress right from the start! I think offering your image as a PDF that has all the field indicators (your first character sheet image), could be useful, too. That way, you'd have a couple of easily printable pages that players can use on hand.

All-in-all, though.. how fantastic! Great work and it does certainly show your enthusiasm for the product!

PS: Has that MOTD thing been in FG all along? Have I missed out on the ability to do so in my campaigns?
PPS: And where is that font extension? I really need that larger print myself!

Thanks so much for the feedback! Need to get home to respond as I’m traveling. I’ll reply in full in a few hrs. As to copyright I’m not sharing the module. Just letting u on my table as a player so I thinks it should be fine. I definitely can’t distribute the module.

[Gwydion]

Oh... and MOTD is an extension. It has been around for some time. I’ll link to the font extension when I get home unless I find it before then on my phone!

[Gwydion]

MOTD:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...6&d=1413858546
14 pt font:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...6&d=1481925929