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    The reason the D&D 5e character sheet market is so bad (fragmented, immature projects as you mentioned) is because once a good website hits critical mass of being good, WotC sends them a takedown...

    The reason the D&D 5e character sheet market is so bad (fragmented, immature projects as you mentioned) is because once a good website hits critical mass of being good, WotC sends them a takedown request. Orcpub is an example of this, they used to host their own builder that was fantastic.

    In general any frameworks that you can find have to be very careful not to tread over the line of only using SRD content, because using anything that's even part of the PHB or other very basic documentation is copyright of WotC.

    I'm not really here to start a fight over what is copyright infringement and what isn't, just hopefully shedding a bit of light on why the market for it is so bad as you've found.

    For my own 5e sheets, I either export them from a Foundry character I make (full VTT and not what you're looking for) or usually the person running the campaign owns content on D&D Beyond which also does not meet the self host requirement.

    Best of luck in your search. Would love to see if you are able to come up with something that hasn't already been hit by the copyright bat.

    Edit: if you are playing Pathfinder 2e, that doesn't have the same issues since all of their content is freely available on Archives of Nethys. There is an excellent character builder that can be found at https://pathbuilder2e.com/

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