Its pretty tough to swing around a weapon that weighs a significant fraction of your mass.   I'd say over half of your weight and swinging that thing would send you flying off balance.

Half???

Heck, most zweihanders ran only 4-7 pounds in weight (ceremonial ones up to 16 pounds).
Battle axes tend to weigh under 6 pounds and even the Danish axes tended to weigh only 2-4 pounds.

You can purchase a Briar Axe from Lowes ... weight 4.6 pounds (36" handle).  I could see having a slightly heavier blade and it still being wieldable, but not too much heavier or the user would not be able to make an attack per second +/- (faster if striking for speed to distract, hook, or accomplish other such result).


There is a HUGE difference between being able to pick something up, being able to toss it a small distance, and being able wield it as a weapon and not get overbalanced by it.

Remember, E=MC^2 so once the mass is moving any appreciable speed it starts throwing you rather than you diverting its direction.

That is how it looks, unless the developers come in and say I am completely off the mark.


Hope this helps someone else.
I know this gave me fits for a couple days tracking it all down
initially since I want to play a Thaumaturgist and NEED ways to get those complexities down!!

Thank you.  I had already located most of these but it is good to have them all gathered in one place!  Also, I figure my response is a good way to help your post stand out.



To reiterate and expand slightly, beyond the sections on spellcasting the following is a list of applicable pages on workspaces probably applicable to researching or building things using arcane labs & arcane sanctums including possible ramifications if they are insufficient:

• pp.139-140 has basic information on workspaces (library, lab, workshop, arcane library, arcane sanctum)
• p.141 has brief blurb on Research & Lab Work, etc, which may be of use
• p.249 has information on preparation in Tools & Trappings.
• p.312 has information of the affects of being Ill-Prepared (which is likely what having too low level a lab or library would cause)
• p.320 has more on prep and workspaces.  In this case it is talking about workshops but still applicable. Also on Jury-Rigging.
• I would also add pp.322-323 on Resources which includes info on the probable legality of items, etc.

So, hope that all helps some

Given the "writable character sheet" thread is up to 5 pages I figured I start a whole new thread on programming character sheets.

Why?  Because a number of us may have some programming tips to pass on

Here is one:

Wingdings "m" creates a blank circle, Wingdings lower case "L" a filled in circle.
If you want check boxes you can look through the other Wingdings characters and select.



If you are making a character sheet in Excel or Open Office and you want to create a selectable list that can be automatically transferred into a character sheet you can use Wingdings m's & l's to indicate selection then use a numerical incrementation to pinpoint what values you want in, then the vlookup function to put things in the right spot.  Example:  You want to allow the players to be able to select three of the following 8 powers, but you don't know which they will select.  Below the player has selected powers 2, 5, and 7

A B C

.. 1  Power List
m 1 <power 1>
l 1 <power 2>
m 2 <power 3>
m 2 <power 4>
l 2 <power 5>
m 3 <power 6>
l 3 <power 7>
m 4 <power 8>
.. 4  <blank>

The cell for the powers (PowerLst) calls a table that includes the number list and powers (not the m's or L's).

So, the formula =vlookup(1;PowerLst;2) will yield <power 2> since that is the last call with a 1 and  =vlookup(2;PowerLst;2) will yield <power 5> and  =vlookup(3;PowerLst;2) will yield <power 7> in the example above.  Therefore a non-printable "Creation Worksheet" can be created without using any macros and yet you can still drop all the proper powers into the "Character Sheet" even if you don't know what the player may select.  Only requires the powers list and refresh costs to be coded.

Additional coding can be created to handle specialties (using a numeric), etc.

I hope this also serves to explain why it can take a while to do ... lots of typing.

Furthermore, since it would copy longer selections from the book it may be considered to be a type of infringement on EvilHat's copyright and thus why I would rather mention here HOW it can be done rather than distribute such a sheet.


Well, good luck, happy programming, and I hop others use this thread for other helpful character sheet programming suggestions as well as additional questions/comments of character sheets as well as other sheets (city, etc) 

I wanted to say thanks for putting this in as an alternative to just having the City locations - I'm stating out New York City right now and having a huge problem breaking down the city. While most cities are vast, New York takes it to a whole new level with boroughs, counties, neighborhoods, and then locations to do... it's a big issue. So it's kind of vast and daunting. This new breakdown level will help a LOT.

I was running into the same problem stating out a fictional city based on Milwaukee so I well imagine

I am planning my game to be a "Roaring 20's meets Sky Captain" with gang warfare in full swing, dirigibles in the air along side older planes (fewer jets as larger percent of population & many captains of industry prefers boats, trains and dirigibles for some odd reason), steam powered cars, and so on, yet set closer to the "modern day" in many ways.

In other words, since Dresden is written in the style of Mike Hammer, etc, it feels more right in a similar era, at least when I am running it. 

Yeah, a couple of games are going on at high levels. 60 skills and between 16 and 18 Refresh seems to be typical "Ridiculously Deep" level, but each individual game will have it's own variants. Heck, a starting Submerged game will likely get there eventually...

If people send me (PM, post & link, etc) an expanded table of the caps, skill points, and refresh I can program them in.   I can almost make Excel / Open Office stand up and dance the jig given sufficient information (and I avoid Macros where possible so it stays more portable).

For a good example, look at the Kalamar Atlas and realize that other than cities & towns listed in the KoK CS and other published works ALL of the towns and villages in the Kalamar Atlas, including distribution by size, were all randomly named using the various Kalamar naming conventions and assigned populations (with naming conventions held and varied for population size) using a spreadsheet.  Might not sound that impressive until you realize that due to the cut off determined by Dave maybe 80% of the named villages (down to 10 population) were not used.      Yup, I am one insane Dwarf.

So, people can feel free to PM me what they would like to see on character sheets (what works, what doesn't) and I will look at the PMs and contemplate adding such to modified generic sheets.  It may take me months depending on work loads, but I am game for it at least for the anon.

Just gotta figure out how to restrict certain files for anonymous downloads (like your sheet). I don't think it'd be fair to have everyone register for my site just to be able to download your sheet  (it's setup using Tiki-Wiki CMS, and contains all my notes not just for Dresden, but also my Doctor Who campaigns)...

I'll PM ya once I get it sorted

Well, until such time here is a sample ... an image of a character in an alternate format I have been tweaking.  I have a more pure version as well, but what's the point of posting THAT image?



Sorry for the small scale as I had to shrink the zoom to fit it all in.
I condensed Aspects a bit to fit the power level stuff up there.  It is obvious I have to reexamine the nested IF-THEN-ELSE statements for Skill Cap and bonus as they are reading incorrectly (yah, this form has them set on automatic ... also counts skills, calculates points spend and available, and handles the Fate points all automatically, as well as calculating Stress based on input skill levels (next task is to automate that)).

I added sections for Items, Skill Notes, and expanded armor.  Will almost certainly tweak more as I go along.
Yep, Caricature is an intentional misspelling.