Past News
- 08/09/00
- Moved AEon Trinity from Sheet Queue
- Fixed some spelling errors, got all the other formats, and documented. Due to the nature of the sheet and my system I haven't made a black and white version and probably won't unless someone requests it.
- Added Gamma World Sheet
- A replacement for the second page of the Alternity character sheet. Gamma World uses a smaller skill set than Alternity so I put all the skills on the second page (similar to the alt_skills sheet), got rid of the cybergear and psionics sections, updated the mutations and vehicles sections to reflect gamma world, and rearranged it all to fit (the combat reference chart got removed).
- Fixed Alternity Sheet
- The second page of the two page PDF version of the alternity sheet was off-centered. That's fixed now. As a strange result the PDF version is larger and the postscript version smaller. Any postscript wizards out there?
- Fixed Acrobat Reader Link
- The Acrobat link under Formats works now.
- 06/01/00
- The Sheet Queue, AEon Trinity, Combat and Tactics
- I added a Sheet Queue area which is for sheets that I've finished an initial version of but aren't quite ready to put in the full sheets area. Feedback on these sheets is welcome. Currently there is an AEon Trinity character sheet and a AD&D Combat and Tactics sheet there.
- 08/09/99
- Alternity Skills Sheet - Minor Update
- I moved the text down a little in the skills sheet so that it would look better in the PS and PDF versions. Also added ced files for both new sheets.
- 08/08/99
- Alternity Skills Sheet
- Similar to the skills worksheet in the PHB, this lists all skills from the PHB, Tangents, and Dataware with places for rank and score. Also has a section for psionics, and additional skills.
- Alternity Supporting Cast Sheet
- A sheet for supporting cast. Contains a mini-character sheet, and large sections for description.
- 7/19/99
- New Alternity Character Sheet
- The alternity character sheet has gone through a major revision. Besides a number of minor changes the weapons/attack forms have been combined and a new ammunitions table added. I also added two mini-sheets for vehicles. Feedback is most welcome.
- Sheet Filler Program Out
- I've finally put out a development version of my sheet filler script. It's available in both zip and tgz format. Included in the archive is a readme file with basic documentation. This is still in development, use at your own risk. You'll need both ced files and cse files of a sheet in order to "fill" it. See Tools below for ced versions of all the sheets.
- 5/17/99
- Joined The WebRing
- The site's been linked in and is now part of the Alternity WebRing.
- 05/10/99
- Joining the WebRing
- I've submitted this site for membership on the Alternity WebRing. Better graphics coming soon.
- 02/19/99
- Update Notifcation Archive
- All the messages sent out on the sheets list are archived and are now online. Go directly to them here.
- 02/02/99
- Major Update
- New look - New background, new layout, new organization.
- New Sheets - GM Record Sheet, black/white ship sheets
- Updated Sheets - Alternity page 2, Ship Sheet
- New Sheet Descriptions - All Alternity Sheets
- New Formats - PIC (tkpaint) format.
- New Information - All sheets have last updated dates and object counts.
- New Tools - csetool: display and modify cse files; csetopic: convert cse files to pic files.
- New Feedback Form - Use the form below to send feedback.
- New Mailing List - There is now an update notificationlist. Average two messages/month. Use the form below.
- 12/05/98 - Ship Sheets!
- Well, it's been over a month but they finally got the backups restored. The ship sheets are up. Actually the Ship Status Sheet is a new sheet I did while waiting for the original to be restored. I have a slightly old version of the original which I'll update and put up here as well. I still need to add descriptions, black and white versions, and compressed postscript files for the ship sheets. Those should all be up within a couple weeks (Probably after I've finished finals).
- Trivia: The ship status sheet has the largest number of objects to date at 1728. The ship sheet has only 471 and the Alternity character sheet has 858 and 872 (pages 1 and 2 respectively). An object in this case is a line, rectangle, oval, or piece of text.
- 11/05/98 - Roadblock
- I somehow lost all the original files for sheets. These are the files that I can easily edit. I'm in the process of trying to recover but how much success that will have is still to be seen. This has two major effects: first, the ship sheets will be delayed as I essentially have to recreate them; second, all current sheets will probably not be further developed. Sorry for the delay.
- 10/19/98 - Major Update
- Minor updates to ALL sheets. This is mostly due to some infrastructure changes at my end. The AD&D sheets are now in 4 colors.
- Page format change. The page has been rearranged, including sizes for all files and thumbnails of the sheets.
- Black and White versions. All sheets now have black and white versions available.
- Format change. For reasons I can't quite figure out the postscript files are slightly larger and the acrobat files are about 50%. This again is a result of the infrastructure change.
- CSE format for Thief character sheet.
- What's Coming section updated.
- Format Info section added.
- Expect the Ship sheets within a couple days.
- 10/18/98 - New alternity character sheet!
- I updated the Alternity character sheet. Page 1 now has a wealth box, appearance was changed to religion, and the Attributes box was fixed. There were also a number of minor corrections.
- The alternity character sheet postscript versions are now much smaller.
- Now list sizes by each file.
- 09/10/98 - alternity sheets, new format, mailing list gone
- Ok, the alternity sheets are up. So far just a character sheet, more coming.
- Due to lack of interest the mailing list has been canceled.
- The page has been reformated with frames and a better news service.
- 07/02/98 - charmaker mailing list available
- If you're interest in announcements of new character sheets and other changes to this page, I've started a mailing list. If you would like to join, send mail to calfeld@math.utah.edu . It's a very low volume list.
- 06/29/98 - !!! charmaker3 available !!!
- I went and brushed up my character making program, renamed it charmaker3, and am willing to release it to a small number of people for beta testing. The requirements are: Python1.4 or greater with Tkinter support, the _tkinter patch (available at ftp.python.org), a patch of my own to tkinter.py (I'll provide) which fixes a bug with canvas.itemconfigure, a fair level of Unix/X expertise (enough to apply the patches and compile Python); a large screen and a fast computer are also very helpful. The conditions for release would basically be no distributing charmaker3 and some limits on distributing any sheets made with it (we can discuss details, I'll be lenient). As a warning, charmaker3 is a powerful but unintuitive program. If you are interested, contact me at calfeld@math.utah.edu.
- 06/26/98 - CSE format available
- Added cse (charmaker export) format for charsheet1 and charsheet2. cse format is a raw format easily used by tcl/tk. I also added a small tcl/tk script to display cse files: showcse.tk.
- 02/08/98 - All sheets are now available in PDF format.
Chris Alfeld - calfeld@cs.utah.edu
calfeld@math.utah.edu
Last modified: Tue May 28 10:27:50 MDT 2002