Leave a Review PrismScroll Sheets
Ok, but not worth money
It’s a perfectly good online character sheet, but to have to pay for basically just a word doc you can write in is a bit disappointing. Wanted more, sorryD and d guy
Awesome tool!
I love this app, it does what I need for the most part and lets me create custom sheets without getting in my way. I play a lot of less popular ttrpgs (Mechwarrior 2e, EotE, Fudge, etc) so being able to create a custom digital sheet from a pdf is a godsend.
The main improvement I'd love to see is the option to remove the colors from input fields when editing a sheet as a player. I have a great custom character sheet but it's covered in big ugly red/gray/blue boxes and really takes away from the experience.
I love the simple equations you can create to auto calculate basic things like saving rolls. It would be awesome of you could dynamically set a value based on the contents of another field, but that's asking for a lot. The functionality right now lets me create 90% automated sheets and that is awesome on the go.
Thanks for creating this it has become an essential part of my GM and player toolkit!Show lesstdlnx
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Great job~refreshrate
When exporting to PDF, the result is noneditable
I bought this app specifically to make custom character sheets for my players, however when attempting to export the blank sheet/template that I had created from a PNG and added text boxes and fields and buttons, it was not form fillable and did not work for my players. This could be useful to players possibly, but not dungeon masters/ game masters.Show lessFifth Egg
A really nice character sheet app
I own most of Prism’s character sheet apps and to be honest Prismsheets is the one I use 99% of the time. For me I like it because I don’t play the regular RPGs all the time like D&D, Pathfinder, and CoC. The apps for D&D and CoC are nice, but I use sheets with those as well.
Now onto a wishlist of future improvements.
1. The equation section is not usable for me. Not sure if it is me, or just the setting does not work. I would see if possible doing it by saying text field 1 + text field 2= put answer is text field 28. Not sure if you already have it like that, but I just don’t fight with the equation function at all.
2. Have a way to click on linkable boxes. I use just a line paper PDF I put at the end of each character sheet I create. I do this for writing down things like feets/gift descriptions. I wouldn’t mind being able to link the boxes, so if I say I have X gift in Werewolf the Apocalypse. I can click on the text field and it sends me to the linked text box on a different page. That way I don’t have to scroll through my notes to see what I need to do for a gift.
3. More button option. To the best of my knowledge you have on and off. For games like vampire though giving us more options would help. When controlling health in vampire it has you fill in the boxes you can’t use. The remaining boxes you leave blank then go through with a slash then when each blank box has a slash you go back with an x. It would help if I could create a button that has four clicks. Like for vampire I would have blank square, square with a slash, square with an x, filled in square. Right now for vampire I just translate how many hits I can take and have two text boxes over the health squares.
For me this is a nice app. I can either download a picture of the character sheet and import it into the app, or take a picture of the sheet from the back of the app and import it for harder to find RPG character sheets. It take forever to create some character sheets but that is less of the app’s fault and more on the sheet design. Like Vampire/Werewolf took forever to make doing a button for each dot. Now that it is done I don’t need to do it again. Not sure how easy it would be to create it on my iPhone and send the file to my iPad. I have not tried it yet, but I am using my iPhone more now that the app is available on iPhone.
Overall if you just play D&D you would do better to just get Prism’s D&D app. If you are like me and play 2nd, 3.5, and 5th of D&D. Then switch to Maids, Justifiers, Vampire, CoC 7th, Night Witches, and more this app is the way to go. Not many app developers said let’s make a character sheet app for World Tree, or Tiny Supers because it would be a waste of time, but I am happy PrismSheets is here to make a digital character sheet for whatever RPG you are playing. I just wish at minimum they can come up with more button options with more than just on/off. If they don’t it is still my go to digital character sheet app even when I play some games they have other apps for just to keep everything in one place.
Just note make your sheet before session 0, so everyone is not waiting 40+ minutes for you to make a sheet before making the character. I learned that the hard way setting up my Werewolf sheet.Show lesstuballama
Hey! This is pretty good!
I was really looking for an app that would allow me to make character sheets for other RPGs that were not 5e, pathfinder, Starfinder etc. As I tend to branch out to other RPGs, such as RISUS, OVA and etc. Of course the problem with finding apps forsaking character sheets for those is impossible as they lack the popularity to get their own apps.
However when I heard about this app and the fact you could create any type of character sheet for any type of game, I was excited but skeptical. I jumped right into making a template for a RISUS character sheet, using an image of a RISUS character sheet template. To my surprise I was able to make a character sheet just like the original RISUS character sheet! The level of customization and detail you can put into the character sheets is incredible and met my relatively simple needs. I am going to try and make a more complicated sheet next from OVA and look forward to making that work as well. With all the customization options for creating easily translatable character sheets, I see myself using this app for a long time to come!Show lessGeneralnormak
Developer Response
Thank you for the indepth review! I think the sheets app is great for the exact reason that you mentioned and it is the main reason I created the app. There are so many awesome rpg games and many of them unfortunately do not have as much developer support as they deserve. The sheets app gives people an option, that may not have the professional grade Adobe acrobat style pdf editors which can be clunky for a task like this/overcomplicated, to create something for the games that they play. I am glad you have been able to put it to good use :)Good
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Developer Response
Thanks!Editable
I imported a editable PDF but I cant edit it.
Edit: Nvm figured it out.1iEnVy548
Developer Response
Awesome! I think once you play around with it a bit, youll find why it is useful. If not, I hope you find something else to suit your needs! Hello! So the app creates editable PDFs, it doesn’t interact with items that may already be on the item you import. Essentially you are just importing a background image and then you can add different elements. Sorry about the confusion! Hope you can still find some usefulness out of itIt Has Potential, But...
I love the idea for this app. However, in its current state, it’s hard to recommend it. I tried it out hoping to take all my favorite character sheets and, with time and effort, make them work digitally. However, even the default built in sheets feel cluttered due to the big opaque colored rectangles present wherever you want to put a text box, and when I try to use a sheet, I found the way the screen immediately zoomed and snapped away to move the text box I’m typing in to the top left corner jarring and inconvenient.
The functionality is also in my opinion FAR too limited. With the only 4 options being a single line text box, a multi line text box, a toggle-able button, and an image, it lacks any option to utilize more advanced tools to make it match up with non-custom character sheet apps like the ability to create a numerical box you could add or subtract from, tie values together so changes to one are reflected in another, or set defaults to instantly reset a characters health and the like.
I’m torn, because while I love the idea and think with some improvements this app could be a game-changer, in its current state I can’t recommend it over a PDF editor to somebody looking to use their favorite custom character sheets or build their own on iOS, and I can’t recommend it over other character sheet apps to somebody looking for a functional digital character sheet.Show lessn8opot8oW
Developer Response
Hello n8opot8oW! Thank you for taking the time to write this in-depth review! I agree with all your points and I think you bring up a couple of interesting thoughts. I would to address some of your comments below: 1. As far as cluttered goes, I think that maybe having the option to make these boxes transparent or change the color to something less aggressive might help this be easier to visualize. 2. Zooming - So I have played with this a ton and have yet to really find a really good mixture of zooming and positioning that is consistent. I think that your comment has brought up a thought that I am about to implement into the prismscroll dnd player app which allows users to change a setting that lets you edit content through a popup window instead of editing the content directly on the sheet. This would solve the weird zooming issues by removing them entirely while also providing a consistent way to present content. With there only being a few types content types, this would be pretty easy to implement, so look into that 3. So this is a work in progress! So I know that you posted this review right when i released an update that added 4 new views that you can add (static labels/images/a pop up detail button/static background shapes and the ability to make single line textfields a numberfield instead of letters). So the ability to add connections between content is the end goal but I have a few more things I need to get set up before I can. One thing I can do now since it is related to individual views and something I hadnt really thought about is having a reset value. That is something I can add this week so stay tuned! 4. Yeah, I think the main point is that right now, this app isnt the "best" at anything right now when you think about the other tools out there. I think that it does have simplicity and cost efficiency when you compare it to things like a pdf editor. But yes, I think once there are connections and some more flexibility, this will be a pretty awesome app! I like the potential of the app and I think once I implement some of the things you mentioned and some of my own plans that it will be pretty amazing :) Thanks!I like the idea...
I really like the idea of this app. And wish to use it so I can add other sheets into my iPad other than 5e. But yet for some reason after spending my 7 dollars it doesn’t want to download and is all grayed out. I am annoyed. Idk if its the app or my internet so I say try it. It seems to be a good program. But note that this is a problem and might happen to you.Show lessDuran452
Developer Response
Hello Duran! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, especially in your frustration. It means a lot. I would love to take a whack at getting this issue resolved. If you could email me at sentrydevelopmentco@gmail.com or dm via our social media accounts (which you can access via the settings screen inside the app) with the pictures of this grayed out issue, I am sure I would be able to resolve your issue right quick! Thank you 🙏
