A character sheet and DM tool for 5E.
Sheetling is the character sheet and table tool I've been building for my own idea of how 5E should feel at the table: enough automation to remove the bookkeeping, with a way to inspect where each number came from.
If you already use Fight Club 5, Game Master 5 or 5eTools, supported characters, campaigns and content can come with you instead of being rebuilt by hand.
2014 + 2024 SRDs character sheets parties DM tools homebrew
Sheetling is still in early access. I'm particularly interested in old characters, long-running campaigns and homebrew files that do something I did not expect.
Bring what you already use
Trying another character sheet should not mean rebuilding years of characters and homebrew. Importing was important to me early on for exactly that reason.
Fight Club 5
Bring in supported character backups and compendiums, including the content collected inside them.
Game Master 5
Bring in supported campaigns and creature files. Campaign material becomes adventures, notes, encounters and NPCs for a party you run.
5eTools
Add supported JSON content to your private library: classes, species, spells, items, creatures and other entries.
Real files get messy, especially after years of edits. The preview names entries or details it could not carry. Closing it applies nothing; saving adds the supported parts you selected.
The sheet you use during play
Create a single-class character with the 2014 or 2024 rules, or import one you already have. Hit points, AC, saves, skills, attacks, spell slots and movement are calculated from the character's choices.
If your AC is 18, open it to see the armor, Dexterity, shield, feature or house rule contributing to that 18. Rolls show their breakdown and offer things such as Advantage, Sneak Attack, Smite or rerolls when the relevant rule applies.
Spells, equipment, conditions and limited-use features stay on the same sheet. A rest shows which resources will change before you confirm it, and level-up asks only for decisions introduced by the new level.
Keep using your own character
Join a party by link and seat one of your characters. The DM can read the sheet they need to run the game, but they cannot edit it or read your private notes.
While you are at the table, the party view shows useful shared information: party hit points and conditions, the current encounter, handouts and anything the DM has revealed on the DM screen.
If the DM gives you an item or XP, it appears on your sheet as an offer. You choose whether to accept or decline it. Purchases work the same way.
Party, adventure and encounter tools
You can create a party as the DM without making a character of your own. The DM side keeps the party, adventure notes, encounters, creatures and battle map together.
During play, track initiative, HP and conditions; reveal creatures as the party learns what they are facing; share handouts; and put individual rules, creatures, notes, links or pictures onto the players' DM screen. Adventures hold an outline, notes, encounters, NPCs and loot, with search across the campaign.
What the DM needs at a glance
The dashboard has separate views for combat, exploration and social details, skills and saves, resources, gear and an audit of the sheets. Open a character when you need the full read-only sheet.
A battle map can have its own scale, grid, fog, tokens and markers. Players see only the revealed area and tokens, and can move their own token when the encounter permits it.
Both SRDs, plus your own library
The 2014 and 2024 SRDs are included, and each character chooses its rules year independently. Your imported content stays in a private library until you share a file with a party.
Standard structured fields can become working Sheetling content automatically. More complicated homebrew can add Sheetling-specific mechanics when the source format does not describe enough. That technical layer is documented in the manual; most people importing an existing character never need to touch it.
House rules can change live character numbers or exist as notes for the table. Save a rule set for another character, or apply one to everyone seated at a party.
Why I'm building it
Sheetling started from wanting a character sheet that could do the repetitive work without turning the rules into a black box.
It grew because a character does not exist in isolation. DMs need to see some things, but should not own the player's sheet. Campaigns have notes, encounters and homebrew that need to stay together. People already have years of work in tools such as Fight Club 5 and Game Master 5.
I'm still building it. Some areas are newer than others, and early access is useful because real campaigns are much stranger than test data. If a real file imports badly, I want to see it.
How it grew
Character sheets
Sheetling began as a character sheet built around the 2014 and 2024 SRDs.
Bringing characters and content across
Fight Club 5 and 5eTools imports came next, so using Sheetling did not have to mean starting over.
Parties
A party began as a loose connection between characters. It still does not need a DM.
Running the table
Adventures, encounters, battle maps, handouts and the DM screen grew around those parties.
Campaign imports
Game Master 5 support came later, once Sheetling had somewhere sensible for campaign material to go.
What is stored, and where
You can use local characters without an account. They stay in that browser. An account adds sync, parties and a private content library.
- After the app has loaded once, characters can open offline. Signed-in edits wait locally and sync when the connection returns.
- Characters export as a backup file. Printing and PDF export use the browser's print dialog.
- A party's DM can read a seated sheet, but cannot edit it or read its private notes. Library content stays private until you share it with a party.
- Account data is stored in the EU. The public site uses cookieless, EU-hosted analytics and no advertising. Read the privacy notice.
FAQ
What can I import?
Supported Fight Club 5 backups and compendiums, Game Master 5 campaigns and creature files, 5eTools JSON, and Sheetling character backups. The exact mapping and known gaps are listed in the content guides.
Can I use Sheetling without an account?
Yes. Choose Continue without an account and characters stay in that browser. An account is needed for sync, parties and sharing content.
Does it support both rules years?
Yes. The 2014 and 2024 SRD content lives side by side, and each character chooses one. Multiclassing is not supported yet.
What happens when an import has a problem?
The preview reports entries that could not be imported and details that were dropped. Nothing is saved while you are still reviewing the preview. Supported parts can still be selected and saved.
Can I use the DM tools with players on paper?
Yes. A party can contain only the DM. You can prepare adventures, run encounters and use the battle map while the players keep paper sheets.
Is Sheetling finished?
No. It is a substantial working application in early access, but some areas are newer than others and it still changes regularly. Feedback and difficult import files are welcome.
Create an account
An account adds sync, parties and a private content library. Local characters still work without one.