From the back cover:
Your own personal, magical scribe
Let's face it – record-keeping is at the bottom of the RPG Fun List, just above fumbling a roll to resist poison. But it doesn't have to be that way. Enter the Book of Records, Vol. I.
This digital download bundle includes a set of two-page record sheets for knight characters in the King Arthur Pendragon roleplaying game. The easy-to-use PDF files are like the character sheets of yore – only imbued with the binary magic of the 21st century, where auto-filling and auto-calculating form fields abound.
The sheets are compatible with the standard warrior-cultures from the Book of Knights & Ladies and are suitable for use in all phases of The Great Pendragon Campaign. Presented in gorgeous full-color, printer-friendly black-and-white versions of the sheets are included as well.
These remarkable sheets allow both players and Gamemasters to spend less time crunching numbers and more time cracking ribs – as it should be.
From publisher's description:
This first Book of Records features a two-page autofilling character record for a knight character in King Arthur Pendragon. This PDF record works for all Phases of the Pendragon Campaign, though a separate sheet suitable for Late Phase knights is included. Both record sheets are also offered in printer-friendly black-and-white versions. The PDF product automatically completes a variety of calculations based on your character choices, including all the options introduced in the Book of Knights & Ladies. The sheet tracks Fealty and Homage, the new Loyalty Passions introduced in the Book of the Estate, though that supplement is not required for play.
Additional features:
Choose from 13 different cultural backgrounds, from Aquitanian (Arian Christian) to Saxon (Germanic Pagan), though Cymric (British Christian) is the default selection.
Your cultural selection automatically indicates the Personality Traits associated with your knight’s Religious Bonus and autofills the starting values for all Personality Traits.
Armor Type, Horses, and a number of fields associated with your knight’s family, including Family Characteristic, feature pull-down menus of the all the available options. The campaign year that a specific horse becomes available is noted as well!
All of the Derived Statistics (e.g. Damage and Healing Rate) are automatically calculated and filled based on your Primary Statistics (e.g. Strength).
The Glory Total noted on the front page automatically updates based on Glory gains and losses you note on back page.
Most fields can be overwritten by the player to allow for house rules and character maintenance over time.
King Arthur Pendragon is a streamlined game system, but knights undergo constant change and growth. The record sheets included here allow your characters to remain current and dramatically simplifies the creation of new knights — PC’s and NPC’s alike! Future volumes of the Book of Records are planned, including auto-calculating records for Estates and Honours, Continental characters and Ladies.
User comment about the PDF:
PDF contains 14-page booklet plus four 2-page character sheets (early-phase and late-phase, each in greyscale and colour) for a total of 22 pp.
Title is generally given as Book of Records, Vol. 1: Knights, but title page spells out "Volume" in full and uses Roman numeral.