Put Your RPG Reference in your Pocket
Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Scot Newbury in Portable Gamer, Random Thoughts
Many of us have spreadsheets, text files, documents and so on for our role-playing endeavors regardless of whether we’re a GM or a player.
I thought it would be nice to have a backup plan in case my laptop wasn’t available during a session so I thought I would print out my character’s sheet and the spell list I created for him and I’d be all set. Then I got to thinking, maybe there’s a way I can put all this in a more portable format.
There is a way, it’s called Pocket Mod.
The actual use for Pocket Mod is to allow you to create a disposable planner – you create it and then once it’s used you can throw it away. It’s also portable, it creates a single sheet layout that when folded (with one small cut) creates an eight page booklet.
The best part is that the creator has released a version that will convert PDF files into this format.
Now the tricky part for me as that I couldn’t use the PDF export function in OpenOffice, it is an older engine, so I downloaded and installed doPDF 5 and printed both the character sheet and the spell list (doPDF once installed is used just like an installed printer).
Now I had two files and needed to put then together so I installed PDFill’s Free Tools which allowed me to put the two files together and then I ran it through PDF to Pocket Mod utility and I had wanted I was looking for.
The results, while not the most stellar, accomplished what I was looking for, a portable version of my character with the information I wanted to have with me. Here’s the PDF.
I should point out that all the tools mentioned are Windows based and are freeware.
May your dice roll well.
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