Skyrim Character Developer for Role Players

Provides Skyrim role players with a comprehensive, in-depth, interactive character sheet system for defining their character's personality and background in the form of a dynamic, UI-faithful spreadsheet file!

"character"

[Uncle KAR-IK]

noun

a: one of the attributes or characteristics that constitute and distinguish a person

b: Function for classifying distinguishable things into categories

c: A complex of spiritual and moral traits that mark and often individuate

individual, group or country

d: main or essential quality, especially strongly marked and used to distinguish

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary

describe

Skyrim Character Developer is a roleplaying-oriented character sheet utility, formatted in dynamic LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet files, allowing you to plan and create clear and unique profiles for your characters' personalities, motivations, social identities and backgrounds. It is not a game mode, but a resource for recording personally identifiable information about characters in role-playing games.

Many of the ideas, concepts, and terminology used in this spreadsheet are drawn from many online resources that I compiled into a convenient analysis system. This can be used for in-game or out-of-game character development. Whether you run a YouTube roleplay series or are involved in any other form of roleplay or fan fiction, you should be able to find this character sheet to build a clear idea of ​​who you want your character to be/want and how you want to roleplay them!

The layout and sequence of the sections reflect an approach designed to develop a good overall sense of the character. Broad properties like prototype, class, and escape are placed at the top of the table instead of character names, age, gender, appearance, etc. This is influenced by the fact that most of the time I come up with an idea for a character before I get a name and other details, and I often come up with these general ideas. While you can fill it out any way you want, this demo sequence is designed to encourage you to develop your character in this way.

New 0.8.5!

PROFILE SHEET TAB: Added an organized character profile display tab that automatically populates information as you build your character, including a character portrait area for adding your own image. Great for exporting as an image or pdf to share with others!

use

Download (manually) and extract the zip to any folder you wish

Open "Skyrim Character Developer Template.ods" using LibreOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel, or any other spreadsheet program that supports the od format.

Note the contents of the Welcome tab and switch to the Character Gen tab

Fill in the fields in the order you want them to be, and as complete or incomplete as you need, use the drop-down selection list to give you a variety of ideas, or enter your own

Once done, "Save As..." or "Save As Copy..." to save your character to any folder under any name you want (optionally saving to the character folder provided (build name/character name/etc)).

Require

This character table system was created in the free and open source LibreOffice suite using Calc, so LibreOffice (or Microsoft Excel) is the only requirement to use it.

Known issues

As of the latest version, I can't think of any, but if you come across any, feel free to share it in the posts section.

IF USING MICROSOFT EXCEL: According to most reviews from those who have tried it, this spreadsheet should work with Microsoft Excel since you are using the latest version. I don't own Excel myself, so if you encounter a bug, please feel free to report it on the post page so others can help.

Tip: Add a handy shortcut in the MOD Organizer

If you would like to conveniently access a new blank worksheet or an edited worksheet from within Mod Organizer, you can do so by following these steps:

Click the gear icon at the top to open the executable configurator

Fill in the title - "Character Developer" (if starting from blank), or your character name if linking to an edited …