Dan Ramteke

How I manage my D&D character.

I will describe my current workflow for keeping track of my D&D 4e characters.

I keep all my files for my characters on DropBox. I use DropBox’s iPad app to refer to these files while gaming.

• I have a PDF version of the character sheet. DropBox is able to load PDFs, although it is a little slower than a plain image.

• For powers, I use Skitch to copy small square sections out of various player handbooks. I drag copied powers out of Skitch into VectorDesigner to arrange as many powers as I can into one 8.5” by 11” sheet. I resize as necessary, and export it all as a jpeg.

• For items, I do the same thing as for my powers. I use Skitch to copy powers out of D&D handbooks and into VectorDesigner, which I then export as a jpeg.

• For things that change a lot, like amount of gold, action points, healing surges, and number of hit points, I make notes in SimpleNote on my iPhone.

Improvements:

• I’d like to be able to create my item sheets and power sheets directly from my iPad. It’d be awesome if there were an app that could take square shaped screen shots from PDFs, and then arrange these as sheets, or in a scroll view.