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[tmedwards]

In response to the Alternate Form question.

In general, this is completely doable in GCA4. Whether or not a particular implementation will be palatable to interested parties remains in question. We'll assume that the Alternate Form is setup as a separate character – since that's the only completely functional way to do it. Anyway, you have three basic issues:

1) How do you get a character sheet to know about the Alternate Form character?

This is actually fairly easy since GCA can pass all open characters to sheets – which is how the GMCS is able to function. So, a sheet would likely do this in one of two ways:
A) Require that only two characters be open, with one being the main form – say the currently selected one – and the other being the alternate form.
B) Require that, at least, the main and alternate form characters are open and have, at least, one of them, probably the main form, reference the other somehow, say by Name.

2) What details of the Alternate Form character are printed and how?

The "what" part could largely be handled automatically by the sheet and/or via sheet options.

The "how" is largely an implementation issue for each sheet that would want to support this. Depending on the sheet, alternate form traits could either be integrated into the main form blocks in various ways or, when that isn't possible, given their own labeled blocks.

3) Convince a sheet author that this is worth their time to do.

Frankly, I expect this to be the hardest part. :)