That’s a you problem at this point man. Free templates at Marvel.com, just fill em out.
I just started a Tabletop game at a No Tech tolerated table. The DM has admitted this game was inspired by the Endgame movies.
As characters are going to die, I need a fast print to make characters.
Make printing possible.
At this point we’re gonna have to give up on printing characters.
Marvel is putting up a big Stop sign.
What happened?
Marvel is selling PDFs of the characters in the books. You can get them on DriveThruRPG. It is likely they don’t want people to have free access to PDFs of them by printing them out on Demiplane.
Even my custom characters?
How did Marvel start selling him?
No, they are selling all the pregenerated characters from the Core Rule Book and the X-Men Expansion book as PDFs. You can buy them on Drive-ThruRPG.com Since they are selling those characters, they likely do not want you to have the ability to make a copy of the character on Demiplane and print it out to PDF for free.
So you are saying it won’t affect my custom characters…
…And yet that sounds so problematic to print out THE POOL NOODLE!
Last update was in September of 2024 and that was more of the same on this, I think were being ignored now or abandoned.
Hi folks - we’ve been working to roll out Print to PDF options across our Character Sheet system over the past few months. You’ve likely seen those capabilities appear in your sheet or you’ve seen them announced in several places.
Since last fall, Marvel and Demiplane have been working to come to an agreed-upon method that allows for players to get their Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying Game characters exported to PDF. At this time, the agreed upon method is what @KevinH has highlighted above – offering the pre-generated Characters as PDFs over on DriveThru RPG.
This outcome doesn’t cover instances where folks are making custom characters. I know this approach won’t work for everyone. If it’s something that is directly inhibiting your ability to play, please reach out to me directly in our Discord.
The teams at Marvel and Demiplane continue to listen and watch this thread. This topic continues to be an important one for me. Keep sounding off for support of the topic below – it helps make sure our collective efforts and recommendations on features for this and all other great games on our platform are reinforced with community support.
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Being entirely honest, and apologies for being to the point on this, but this is a ludicrous situation.
There is no good reason to prevent people from exporting their custom characters to pdf, at all. If there is a reason, good or otherwise, then perhaps someone could share the reason(s) with us.
Also, and I know they are selling the character profiles in batches at DriveThruRPG (I have purchased them all), but they really should also allow exporting character sheets to pdf for existing Marvel characters contained in books that have already been purchased on Demiplane. At this point in time they are being anti-consumer by making life harder for their customers/fans for no good reason at all.
I really, really, hope that the decision makers on this see some sense and change their mind.
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This is really unfortunate. Custom characters are literally the only value that the Demiplane character tools bring to the table, and many of us use Demiplane to build our characters, and then play with pen and paper at the table. Can this please be re-evaluated, even if only for custom characters?
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This is beyond ridiculous having to basically pay multiple times for content you already have the only reason I got the rulebook on Demiplane was for the ability to create and print my custom characters. Marvel need to sort this out. Selling characters from the books on drivethrurpg.com is one thing but if i have already bought the book and demiplane content I shouldn’t have to pay again.
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I know that this is not your issue personally, but I am not happy with this. I have spent real money subscribing to your service (and Roll20) and purchasing game materials through Demiplane for compatibility with your application and I can’ even print out character sheets for my players to use. Since you haven’t got cross-platform up and running yet, I have to make three different versions of a character if I want quick access to information (a Demiplane, a Roll20, and an offline copy) because clicking through tabs/windows is tedious. One wonders if this isn’t a strategy to force all players to pay these costs to maximize your revenue. This needs fixing soon.
There’s a lot more to this than “Demiplane doesn’t want to do it.” They very obviously do. And the players like you and me both want them to.
This is coming from Marvel: they’re selling printed copies of their pre-generated heroes, and the ability to print one of those or re-create one and print it off cuts into Marvel’s revenue stream. It’s more profitable for Marvel to say “no” than for them to say “yes.”
So we wait and see. I realize it’s inconvenient… I really do. I bought a used Chromebook ($100 or so on Amazon!) so I could access Demiplane at the table, and it’s absolutely worth doing that. If that’s not an option, there are form fillable PDF versions available on the net. You can copy the information from Demiplane and paste them there quickly and easily, and then print all you like.
One final point here: being angry with Demiplane over this situation doesn’t help anyone. They’re working very hard to make our games easier for us to play, and they’re providing a valuable service for us in so many ways: focusing on what they HAVEN’T done or can’t do for whatever reason is less than helpful.
Let’s show them we’re grateful customers (because WE ARE!!) and enjoy this amazing RPG tool they have provided for us!
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Even if there were support to show our character is a layout like the pregen character (see image), in addition to the character sheet, it would be very helpful. Having all the information in one place, instead of hidden in character sheet tabs, helps.
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Not only is it an issue with original characters, it is a problem with the IP characters that we may want to change ranks or powers for our own personal games.
Maybe I don’t like how they stat’ed out Captain America. (I don’t).
So I want him to be built differently.
Or I want a rank 4 DareDevil.
This will continue to be a problem. I’m not going to have my kids play online. I want them with sheets in their hands of their own characters.
I mean, you can edit the official stat blocks if that’s what you mean.
If one tries using the PDF export in another Nexus one will see what the PDF export would even offer.
I tried the wizard in Pathfinder 2E which I assume is one of the longest on platform and well supported by publisher as it gets and we’d still only get just the names and levels of spells with no details into the spells (or feats or whatever else) on the PDF fields.
So what players would want on a Marvel PDF export likely wouldn’t have been enough for our purposes anyways if it had fallen in the same format. At most we’d likely have got the narrative/descriptive text of powers with no details into the Focus cost or whatever.
People are better off using the character sheet PDFs provided by Marvel for basic stuff and a Google Doc with the power details and download that as a PDF if needing an offline or printable copy.
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Just adding another voice here - just bought the Marvel Multiverse core rules and will not be purchasing anything else here until there is a reasonable character sheet printing option.