Dungeons Dragons 4th Edition Character Builder

Has an Excel spreadsheet character sheet with pretty much everything you're looking for. While the sheet won't randomly roll your Ability scores, it will show you how many points you have remaining for point-buy.

Similarly, the sheet will tell you how many more skills you have to train. The sheet will highlight fields you need to fill in when you level up (eg, your new level grants a feat, the next feat slot will be highlighted yellow until you fill it in). Most fields with a finite number of options also have a dropdown menu to select from, filtered based on class/race/ability scores/level/etc. Requirements.It's not perfect, but in my opinion it's the next best thing to Wizards' character creator when it comes to 4e characters.I don't have experience with trying to use spreadsheets on a Mac, but since the sheet does not use any Macros (VB scripts), only calculations and data validation, I suspect it would work fine in something such as OpenOffice.

D&d 4th Edition Character Sheet

Character Creator WebsiteIf you cannot use the Wizard's Character Builder software (you don't want to pay, you use Linux, etc.) here is a great site which will guide you through character creation:It uses Java. All races and classes are there as well as feats and skills. Once you've completed all the steps, it will make you a character sheet you can save via your browser (as HTML,.txt or whatever).It doesn't spell out powers like the DDICB software, but it does list out your basic attacks, etc.Character Sheet Excel SpreadsheetHere is a link to a free 4E spreadsheet for 4E characters.It does some calculations automatically and has drop down lists of feats and skills. It uses the Wizards character sheet look.Two great free tools! I wanted to like this. But I found it kind of hard to use for some reason. Still, worth keeping in the bookmarks I suppose for when you need a quick character.You follow the red arrows.

You'll likely need the books to use the Character generator. And radio buttons aren't available for certain classes, skills, etc., based on what you picked. It's lengthy and a little bulky, but if you don't have the CB software, it's a nice help.Then again, I'm a traditionalist and would rather lay out a character by hand. I just became a corporate stooge by finally breaking down and paying for the character builder. Best bang for my buck on DnD yet! The wizards one is just too good.Plus if you don't want to keep paying subscription you can live with the options as they are now and just manually make changes on new powers as they come out. The program still runs after you quit your subscription you just cannot update it with new feats, powers, skills, races, classes, etc.But the big problem is, it only runs on Windows.

And I don't mean put it just on Apple, too, but also on Linux. I just became a corporate stooge by finally breaking down and paying for the character builder. Best bang for my buck on DnD yet!

The wizards one is just too good.Plus if you don't want to keep paying subscription you can live with the options as they are now and just manually make changes on new powers as they come out. The program still runs after you quit your subscription you just cannot update it with new feats, powers, skills, races, classes, etc.But the big problem is, it only runs on Windows. And I don't mean put it just on Apple, too, but also on Linux.Ah.I did not know that. I run windows so yeah.

You are right though, that was a bad call on their part.