Sheetling is a 5E-compatible character companion for the table: phone, tablet or laptop, whichever is in your hand. Every number on the sheet is derived from the choices you made, every rest shows what it will change before it changes it, and the rule behind any row is one tap away.
Early access · by invitation · the 2014 and the 2024 fifth-edition rulesets
Pick a class, species, background and gear. Hit points, saves, attacks, spell slots and speed are calculated from those choices. A dwarf's extra hit points, a subclass's always-prepared spells, a fighting style's damage floor: applied because the rule says so, and labelled with the rule that did it.
Spell slots, rage, ki, channel divinity, item charges: created for you from the rules, never typed in. Every use costs what the rule says and comes back when the rule says, on the rest or the dawn it names. Anything the rules do not cover, add as your own tracker with its own reset rule.
Before a short or long rest happens, Sheetling lists exactly what it will restore, which dice it rolled, and what it leaves alone. Your own trackers are in that list too, on the reset you gave them. Confirm, and exactly that happens.
Tap to roll. The result shows every modifier that went in and where each one came from.
Every feature, spell and item on the sheet opens to its rule text, with the page of the System Reference Document it came from. Search the whole compendium from anywhere: spells, creatures, items, classes, species, backgrounds, feats and the rules glossary.
Before a rest, a long rest preview lists what comes back. Nothing changes until you confirm.
The 2014 and the 2024 rules ship side by side, each as its own content pack: all twelve classes with their SRD subclasses, the SRD species and backgrounds, the spells, the magic items, the conditions and the rules glossary. Pick a ruleset per character.
Sheetling ships the freely licensed System Reference Documents and nothing else. Everything beyond that is yours to add. Import a homebrew file in the 5eTools JSON format from the menu, and its classes, subclasses, species, spells, items, feats, backgrounds and creatures join your library as a content source. Tick that source on the characters that should see it; the creation wizard offers it too.
What you import stays in your account. It is never shared, published or visible to anyone else.
Mechanics that 5eTools can only store as prose can carry a small _sheetling block beside the text, in the engine's own effect language, so the sheet can act on them.
Turn on a house rule and every number it changes says so, right on the sheet. A catalog of common ones is ready to toggle per character: crunchier criticals, free weapon swaps, rolling hit points with advantage, awarded inspiration, natural 20s outside combat.
Save your table's rules as a set, export it as a file and hand it to the next player. Anything the catalog lacks, write as a custom rule in your own words.
Calm, not costumed. No parchment, no faux-medieval frames. One colour per character, chosen by you, tints the whole sheet, and the portrait leads it. The same sheet on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, whichever is in your hand.
Sheetling is a small, independent project. There is no advertising and no data business behind it.
Sheetling is in early access and accounts are by invitation. Leave your email and a line about your table, and a person will get back to you.
The two System Reference Documents, in full wherever they carry a mechanic. Content that is not in the SRD is not included and will not be shipped by Sheetling; add it as your own homebrew.
Not yet. Single class, levels 1 to 20.
Not during early access.
It needs a connection, and in return your character is up to date on every device you open it on: the phone at the table, the laptop at home.
No. Sheetling is an independent product. It uses the System Reference Documents under their Creative Commons licence.
Not yet. Sheetling is a player's sheet today. Planned: a link you can hand anyone to view a character, parties whose members see each other's sheets, and a DM role that sees the whole party.
