Once I got the ability to save the data in these sheets outside of the PDF, I found several ways (including collecting characters in spreadsheets) that I could store multiple characters and reload them into this character sheet as well, including storing all of a character’s stats in a database. This was a very crude structure but I’ve been working on a more nominal approach.

Here’s the idea for the project:

1. We’ll start with a Palladium character XML schema definition to hash out all relationships and dependencies between attributes, skills, etc. This will get published out at large and allow others to build compatible character sheets and move an entire character’s stats from one character sheet to another but dropping in your XML character data.
2. Taking the new XML format, we’ll develop a simple path to translate an entire character into any number of SQL relational databases. This will allow for central storage of multiple characters.
3. At this point, we can begin to fork the project several directions: GM campaign tools to keep track of vitals/bonuses/etc, online gaming tools, leveling tools, or any number of other possibilities.