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Overview

At the left of the page is the Menu. The large area at the bottom-right (here) is the Workspace, and at the top-right is the list of Commands.

The Menu

Click the black buttons in the Menu to select the sections of your character that you want to edit. The Workspace will change to a fill-out forms where you can enter the appropriate section of your character. (The HTML Hero logo is also a black button; clicking it will take you back to the Introduction.)

If you do not use a section in the Menu, that section will not show up on the final character sheet. (So don't worry if your character doesn't have any Martial Arts.) Note that the character's Name, Characteristics, Combat Stats and Costs will always show up.

The Workspace

The Workspace is where you actually enter the information about your character. Because the fill-out forms are generated by JavaScript "on the fly", they may take a while to load. If you don't have JavaScript, the pages will be blank!

If you start typing or clicking things before a page has finished loading, JavaScript may become unstable and crash your browser.

Most of the fill-out forms have titles that match the Menu name. For example, the first line from Powers and Talents has a box with "Powers and Talents" in it. You can replace this text with whatever you want. For example, you could replace it with "Spells" in a Fantasy Hero Campaign.

To move through the boxes without using a mouse, you can just press the Tab key to move forward by one box, and Shift-Tab to move backwards.

If you like, you can insert HTML tags directly into the forms.

The Commands

If you want to see what the current character sheet looks like, click View Sheet. The sheet will be shown in a Preview window.

When you are done with the character, click Save HTML. The sheet will be shown in a Preview window. When this Preview is the active window, select Save As from the File menu. Save the file as HTML Source, and you're done!

To erase the current character, click Start Over. You will be asked to confirm your decision. If you do, all the character information will be reset to the default values, and the Workspace will go back to the Introduction page.

You can change the default values that HTML Hero fills in for new characters by clicking Preferences. For example, HTML Hero normally lists Combat Stats at the bottom unless you request otherwise. With the Preferences, you can make all new characters list the Combat Stats at the top by default. The Preferences screen looks a lot like the Name and Options screen. Just click the values as you want them to appear.

Advanced Stuff

JavaScript adds a BASE HREF line to the top of documents generated "on the fly." While this line is harmless, people familiar with HTML should remove it with a text editor if they want links and images with relative addressing to work (i.e. URLs of the form my.file instead of http://my.site/mydirectory/my.file.)

When the program prints the character sheet, it will attempt to add up all the costs and balance your character. If there are too many Disadvantages, an Unspent Points entry will appear in the Skills and Talent Section of the final character sheet. If there too many Powers, and Experience entry will appear in the Disadvantages section.

These extra entries will only show up on the final character sheet, not in the sections where you enter information.

The program determines the costs by adding up all of the numbers it finds, ignoring any ignoring letters and other characters.

Examples of how HTML Hero calculates costs are on the right. Note that you can safely put text into cost fields; it is just ignored. Negative numbers should also be handled properly. Try to avoid characters with special meanings. The last three examples show the strange results HTML Hero can return.

If your character still isn't balancing, make sure to check the base cost (in the Disadvantages section).

20* = 20
100+100
15a15
5u5
3, 36
-10-10
2; -6-4
abc0
10/20 = 30
1.56
2-57

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