mkscho63
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3 years ago Thank you so much for such a well thought out list of suggestions. I'll be taking a look at this in regards to future work. Some of these I had considered before and have some thoughts on (rank as a dropdown locks you into a Starfleet command structure, whereas I used the same character sheet for npc as a GM, like Cardassian Gul or a Romulan Subcommander) and using Okuda font (it was actually in the system until very recently but based on early feedback even though it looked more lcars, people thought the current font was more readable/easy on the eyes) but in general I'll try to revisit and get some more feedback on those as I move forward.
TheBalzan
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tokeidlom
First and foremost thank you so much for your work to create this system, it is already 10x better than what Roll20 first released. I have a series of recommendations to make it even better, I hope this is helpful and not rude. I understand some of these suggestions may be a bit hard to implement, but this is fanciful talk for how to make this the best character sheet out there.
My first recommendation is to change the fonts to make use of Swiss 911 Ultra Compressed font, it's a free font and readily available for anyone to use. https://www.fontsplace.com/swiss-911-ultra-compressed-bt-free-font-download.html
I would recommend changing all headings to Capitals to keep the LCARS appearance consistent.
Rank is currently set to an editable field, for some later features I'd recommend it were a drop down menu that can affect privelege and reputation using the list of ranks on page 140, (petty officers 127, admirals pp. 36-37 Command). Enlisted, Ensign, Lieutenant (j.g.), Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain, Fleet Captain, Commodore, Rear Admiral, Vice-Admiral, Admiral, Fleet Admiral.
Currently on character sheets Disciplines order does not seem to follow the character sheet or the method you used for Attributes, rather it'sjust alphabetical. I would suggest it should go: Command, Conn, Security, Engineering, Science, Medicine.
Weapons don't currently have an option to set how many hands are required for a weapon or the range of said weapon. Weapons also currently default to the base challenge dice, I would love an option to add security to the number on the weapon to automate the process a bit better.
There doesn't appear to be a place to enter Traits, I would recommend moving notes to the (to be discussed) bio tab, and adding Traits as a new field like focuses and talents, so these can be pressed and show up in the chat. I feel this should also happen with ship traits, at rhe moment it's just a large editable field.
For NPC ships I would recommend adding a new field to set crew quality, ie the table from page 225 (Core), so that when rolling for a challenge or task the GM can just use the one sheet.
Starship Weapons are not currently working at all, but I assume it currently defaults to the base challenge dice, like personal weapons. I would suggest creating a toggle for torpedo/energy weapon where the torpedo uses security+damage and the energy uses scale+security+damage to roll the challenge dice.
Momentum/Threat: Add a new button in-between the two or at the bottom for "New Session" that wipes the momentum and adds threat equal to 2x the players(-1 GM) in the game. Maybe also add a "Reversal" button for the threat spend scene change that decreases threat by the number or players x2 and 1 momentum is removed too (page 281, Core). If creating a button for Reversal, I would suggest it should create a pop up to ask the number of players in the scene before affecting the momentum/threat.
As it stands I can't seem to find a method for tracking used milestones on the sheet, I'd recommend creating a second tab to the sheet for things like bio and more importantly to help include options for the new Klingon advancement rules, for reference I will be referring to this tab as "Bio".
Under the "Bio" tab I'd recommend having options for entering the options made in the life path creation, with fields that can be entered so the player can keep track of their history, and the GM can double check their info. It would be nice to have on the bio tab an option to roll for reputation, this is where the benefits of the rank being a drop down come in handy, here it should just be two fields, a positive activity and negative activity field with a button to roll for the reputation check. When the roll for reputation is pressed it rolls the number of positive dice and checks against the difficulty of negative dice then adjusts reputation as per page 141 Core, using the ranks privilege and responsibility to affect whether a complication or success is rolled. Milestones should also be tracked on the bio page. Where there are three separate Headings, Normal, Spotlight, and Arc. At the top of the heading should be an editable field where you can enter the number of milestones the player has. It would be awesome if there was a separate field under Arc that says how many the milestones the character should have, based on the number of Spotlight milestones the player has received. Milestones should be editable like talents so a player can keep track of what modifications they made to their character. Milestones should also have a used/unused toggle, so that if it is set to unused the player can use it from their items page.
Now to the fun part I'd suggest creating a second sheet for Klingon rules with the following modifications to bring in the much better system that uses. The bio page needs to have a space for recording logs that can then reference the values fields and whether they were positively or negatively used in that log. The ability to check off if a log is used for a milestone and/or a character arc.
The ability to track however many Character Arcs the character has gone through (no longer so complicated as they just rely on existing milestones).
Support for the new and superior Acclaim and Reprimands (Glory/Shame for Klingons) system, with an option/ability to use the reputation instead of the normal department in normal challenges. I would move reputation down to the Systems for this to make the system more user friendly.