I’ve started working on some software to improve management of Pathfinder character sheets. I play Pathfinder weekly, and while the game is quite nice, managing your character is an enormous pain in the ass. I constantly have to erase and rewrite stuff, people forget to bring their sheets and nobody knows how to level up. Surprisingly, nobody has really solved this problem with software. WOTC provides a pretty nice tool for electronic character management for D&D 4e, but it is surprisingly lacking in mobile support.

There isn’t even a section of the Pathfinder rulebook that explicitly states how leveling up works. The rules can be inferred by understanding multiple sections of the book, but surprisingly there is no flow chart or even simple paragraph explanation. I hope to fix that! The first goal of Hero Sheets is to make it simple to create and level up characters. A clear, wizard(hah!)-like interface and the ability to print a nicely formatted PDF will be a great start and should hopefully please players everywhere.

I plan on releasing the core rules module as an open source rubygem. I’ve mostly been working on the sign up page + blog right now, to help generate interest, but once the gem is a little more polished I’ll toss it up on github. Even if Hero Sheets isn’t successful, maybe the community can make something interesting!