A character sheet says what a character can do. The certificate on the wall says who let them: a board that can take the licence back, a guild that remembers the masterwork, an endorsement nobody at the table knew was there.
One A4 page, landscape, the way a licence to practise or a diploma hangs on a wall: the issuing body, the title of the licence, the register and certificate numbers, the holder’s name set large under “This is to certify that”, the statement of what they passed and what they may now do, the qualification with its class, the dates of birth, award and expiry, a box of endorsements, a photograph, the place and date of issue and two signatures either side of a seal. Click any line to rename its printed title or take it off the paper, and drag the seal wherever it was pressed.
Five styles: a 1920s county board’s licence to practise medicine in an engraved border under a gold foil seal, an Eastern Bloc works certificate of vocational qualification with a violet stamp, a modern state licence on guilloche security paper, a fantasy guild’s letters patent of mastery under red wax, and a space colony’s commercial pilot licence with a hologram. The card the holder carries in a wallet is an Identity Card, and the complaint that got the licence suspended is an Official Form.