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Is there an interactive character sheet for Dungeons & Dragons 4E like there is for Gamma World?

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Are you looking for a character sheet builder or an actual interactive character sheet where you can keep track of HP, healing surges, etc? – dpatchery May 20 '11 at 18:37
Also good information to have would be: Do you want this web-based, or on a specific operating system? – Cthos May 20 '11 at 20:42
Are you using character builder to generate the characters, or is that part of the interactivity you require? – Brian Ballsun-Stanton♦ May 21 '11 at 1:25
I think interactive and web-based is what I'm looking for. I don't really need a builder. – Soup May 23 '11 at 20:47

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The only one I am aware of is the Character Builder. Though you do have to be a Dungeons and Dragons Insider Subscriber to use it.

It's browser-based and runs in Microsoft Silverlight (it doesn't work in Linux with Moonlight. Sigh).

On a side note, if you do use the Character Builder, you can upload that info to http://iplay4e.appspot.com and use it to dynamically keep track of your character.

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I wouldn't call the CB an interactive character sheet. It's a perfectly good sheet creator but once you're done it's not interactive at all. iplay4e on the other hand is a great answer, and much more than a side note! – dpatchery May 20 '11 at 18:23
To be fair, the Gamma World character sheet in the OP's question isn't a dynamic sheet either, you can't keep track of hit points, check any of the "Second Wind" and "Death Saving Throw" boxes, etc. – Cthos May 20 '11 at 18:35
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Isn't Moonlight a working Silverlight replacement on Linux? – CodesInChaos May 20 '11 at 23:00
It is, but whatever they did causes it to not work in moonlight. it'll load all the resources and then it more or less crashes out. probably something they haven't implemented yet. – Cthos May 21 '11 at 0:03
@CodeInChaos I updated the answer to make that distinction clear and gave your comment a +1 – Cthos May 21 '11 at 1:15
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4th Ed Excel Character Sheet might do what you want.

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Lone Wolf Development's Hero Lab is the best commercial character builder, and it supports 4e as well as 3.5e. Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, and many other game systems. I've used it a while and specifically baked it off against PCGen and RPGXplorer and it beats the pants off both.

Then besides a builder, it has full functionality to track in-play stuff, apply conditions, make rolls, etc.

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And it seems to run under Wine! Woo! +1. – Cthos May 21 '11 at 1:25
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PCGen

The free and venerable PCGen supports 4E - it's meant to be both used to generate character sheets and to be used "live".

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I downloaded this the other day, and I can't get it to support 4E. Suggestions? – Pureferret Dec 30 '11 at 15:14
The home page says it supports 4E. But this page explains why they can't distribute the content. – gomad Dec 31 '11 at 19:12
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If you are running Windows and can get your hands on the old D&D offline character builder the character sheet with that one is interactive. However, they stopped updating it before the essentials line came out. Some (read me) prefer the format of that character sheet to the one you can print online.

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