1. The skills are selected by clickable arrows ... to instead use dropdown fields like you used in the Stress field?

Yea, the current widget is called a spin control and I was just a little excited to find it on the web so I put it in there without proper consideration. Since it isn't really needed, for the next version I already have it replaced with drop-down boxes, like in the stress section.

2. is it possible to have the Stress field automatically calculate your stress based upon powers and skills?

It is possible, and I plan to implement this, but I haven't decided for sure, so we'll have to see how things go.

On the whole though, this is an outstanding effort! Thank you for the hard work!
(you wouldn't happen to know how to program an iPad/iPhone app would you?) 

Without getting into the Mac topic, I will just say, no, I don't support, or program for, any Apple product for pure ethical reasons.

I wish to support mobile devices from the browser side of things as much as I can though, so I thank you for your input about viewing the page on a mini touch screen and appreciate the support in general.

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I'm back to work on the next, much improved, version and hope to have it posted this week some time.

Worksheet to output Dresden Files RPG characters into various formats such as, TXT, BBCode, HTML, and XML. Currently, Character and Player Name, Template, Musts, High Concept, Trouble, all five Phases, the twenty-five canon Skills, up to ten Stunts, up to ten Powers, and general notes can all be entered into the form. The values of Skills and the cost of Stunts and Powers can all range from ten to negative ten.

The entered data can be automagically formatted into TXT, BBCode, and HTML output. The output in XML format is under development and the loading in of data from output XML will also be supported. In addition, the output can be of either the simple type, which includes only Aspects of each Phase and omits all unset values, or of the full type, which includes all data fields and substitutes a single question-mark for all unset values.

The page is broken up into different sections, similar to the official character worksheet in the source books. Each section is made up of a header and a body. The visibility of the section body can be toggled at any time by clicking various places on the header, allowing sections to be hidden when they are not needed, and shown when they are.

The Worksheet page is written entirely in JavaScript, so if you have JavaScript disabled then you will have to enable it for the page. There are no advertisements of any kind and all scripting is done to provide the functionality of the page without requiring the page to constantly reload.

This project is in an active alpha stage of development. This means that the page may change. New things may appear and vanish just as quickly, the layout or colors may vary, but this will not happen often as the majority of development and testing is done offline. If something does happen, and the page blows up on you (or its just not there), just wait a few minutes, a new subversion is probably being uploaded and tested.

Online Character Worksheet - v2 Alpha (v2.0)

I seem to have a lot of problems connecting to this site, and I like to keep notes, ideas, and progress on my project threads, so I started a temporary one elsewhere. It contains random details of the page, what I'm working on, and various example outputs and what they look like when displayed. I will update this post, and add a new post about progress, when I can, but the following linked thread is where you can find the most up-to-date info.

OCW Information

for 18 drowning

waaaay later at like refresh cap 35, scuba diving

40 Aquatic ?

Desden-Level:  18 Refresh 45 Skill points (This is roughly the power level of Harry after Turn Coat give or take a refresh)

Epic-Level: 30 Refresh 60 sill points (This is for playing a Denarian or senior council member.)

45 area= Sleepin with da fishes
50=BIG FISHIE!!!!!nice

50 Benthic
60 Abyssal

70 Summon Bigger Fish

75 = Lower than whale poop?
100+ = Marianas?

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.

However, before I start listing out the extensions above PL10, a few things need to be laid out.

1) How does Refresh Rate grow after PL10?

Seeing as the canon stops growing by +1 at PL7-8, and then uses +2 for PL8-10, I'm guessing the devs decided that once you reach PL8, +1 refresh isn't big enough. So should the refresh grow by +2 for some amount of levels (ie PL10 -> PL12 -> PL14 -> etc)? Or, since the extension adds PL9 making it +1 up to PL10, should +2 be ignored completely and +5 used instead (ie PL10 -> PL15 -> PL20 -> etc)?

2) We need a cutoff for now, so what should it be?

Conceptually I see no need to place an upper limit on how larger a PL there can be, but for the purposes of developing these new levels, we need to place some limit and work to it, then place a higher limit and continue up to that, and so on.

The first limit will depend on the answer to the first question.
Lets say we decided to increment the refresh rate by +5 per power level. How high do we want to use +5 before we start incrementing the level by, say, +10? If we want to use +5 till PL 50 and then use +10 from PL50 up, we could say PL50 is the current cutoff.

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My suggestion would be to use +2 from PL10 to PL20, giving 5 additional new Power Levels.. or +5 from PL10 to PL40, giving 6 additional new Power Levels. But that is just off the top of my head, and I'm not to sure about how special each new fate point would be at these levels.

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On a final note about the suggestion of new level names. The names must fit the theme of water, and more specifically "the character" and water.

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Keep up the good work guys. There is a lot of good information on this forum and I think a community developed standard extension to the Power Levels is a good place to start in building other extensions to the wonderful system we've been given.

I'm working on extending the Power Levels to cover each Refresh Rate from 1 to 10.

In the table below, the canon items are prefixed with a * character. The new items each list two names, the first follows the theme of water and the second follows the theme of transitioning from away from water to being "submerged".

I'm looking for opinions on which theme of names is better, as well as any advice or suggestions about the names, refresh rates, skill points, and skill caps. This is meant to be an extension, not a replacement, for the Power Levels, so changing the canon items is not an option.

EDIT: I've decide on a few of the names below, and have striked out the other name in those cases.

Names	Refresh Rate	Skill Points	Skill Cap
Hydrophobic and Proud or Under the Covers	1	10	Fair
Rain Doesn't Scare You or Out of the House	2	10	Fair
Playing in the Tub is Fun or Stuck in Traffic	3	15	Good
Almost Ready to Swim or Nearing the Shore	4	15	Good
King of the Water-park or Walking the Beach	5	20	Great
*Feet in the Water	6	20	Great
*Up to Your Waist	7	25	Great
*Chest-Deep	8	30	Superb
Out of the Shallows or Into the Deep	9	35	Superb
*Submerged	10	35	Superb

Update (Friday, July 30, 2010): Tbora posted a nice Custom Power Level list on the second page of this thread. Though ideally an extended list wouldn't move any of the canon level names around, I totally understand the choice to do so since it makes the thematic path of the names up the levels tons easier. Good job and much thanks to Tbora.

Here is the table for power levels I set up, because I could not really find a good way to work with the ones given in the books given what I was trying for.So I said to hell with it, and just built from the ground up.Hope you find it useful.

Custom Power Levels

Names	Refresh Rate	Skill Points	Skill Cap
Hydrophobic And Proud	1	10	Fair
Rain Doesn’t Scare Me	2	10	Fair
Playing In the Tub is Fun	3	15	Fair
Nearing the Shore	4	15	Good
Walking the Beach	5	20	Good
Feet in the Water	6	20	Good
Up To Your Knees	7	25	Great
At The Waist	8	30	Great
Chest Deep	9	30	Great
Neck High	10	35	Superb
Submerged	11	35	Superb
Bottom Of The Pool	12	40	Superb
In Need of A Snorkel	13	45	Superb
With The Fishes	14	45	Fantastic
SCUBA Gear Time!	15	50	Fantastic
Big Fish, Bigger Ocean	16	50	Fantastic
Punched a Shark in the Nose!	17	55	Fantastic
Wish I Had a Submarine...	18	60	Fantastic
I Spy Atlantis!	19	60	Epic
Swimming In Weeds	20	70	Epic

..., but the data entry for powers is going to take a while, especially with having to reword descriptions so as not to infringe on copyright. ...

I don't think you have to reword any of the descriptions. According to this article there should be no need to reword descriptions as per the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial license. Basically, just give credit to Jim B. and the The Dresden Files RPG where it is due, and don't try to make money off it, you should be good.

However, I am not sure how this applies to information taken from the pre-order PDFs. I personally am planning to hold off on releasing anything that includes blocks of text (like power/skill/etc descriptions) until after the books are officially released.

Short of Fred or another developer speaking to the contrary, I'm sure plenty of us would rather you got to spend your time making the workbook instead of rewording what the devs have already written.