"Magic card" sized Character Sheet

Hi there! I began playing 4th Edition, and recetly my DM forgot our record sheets at his home. So, since in our campaign we are heavily relying on power cards, I made this:

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It fits in Magic plastic covers, and the faces are of the right size, so printing the .rtf file and putting the faces into a transparent cover gives a perfect portable sheet.

Give me some feedback if you like my work!

The text is pretty cramped. It's too close to the edges; it needs room to breath.

I lolled at "Dun'eering".

I tried to stuff all the sensible information in the small space of a Magic card: I tried to use all available room to its full potential. By the way, it seems more cramped on screen than when it's printed: I printed it, and it looks really nice!

Anyway... "Dun'eering"... It's fun!

Makes sense.

Is COS supposed to be CON?

I would remove the Notes section. It seems too small to write anything of value.

Black Plauge and I did a card using Magic Set Editor. It might help your spatial management some.

Mercutio01 said:

Black Plauge and I did a card using Magic Set Editor. It might help your spatial management some.

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Now where can I download that?

I like it.

Cicciograna - I apologize for threadjacking. I really was just trying to give you some ideas on layout management.

chronoplasm said:

Now where can I download that?

I like it.

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To answer your question, you need Magic Set Editor - Download | Magic Set Editor

And then when you've installed that, you need download the data files from data.zip.

Unzip the file. The folders all go into C:\Program Files\Magic Set Editor 2\data and the two mse-set files just go into C:\Program Files\Magic Set Editor 2\

(Incidentally, that zip file also contains the templates for power cards and item cards.)

Any questions, please PM and I'll be happy to help.

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I ended up splitting my character cards up a lot more. I think that they're spread between like 8 or 9 different cards, though we've got a lot more information on them than you've got on yours.

Mercutio01 said:

Cicciograna - I apologize for threadjacking. I really was just trying to give you some ideas on layout management.
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Don't worry, I prefer seeing another version of character sheet rather than being the star of this thread
Anyway, I thought to use MSE, but I don't know how to create new sets By the way, there are some fundamental differnces between your sheet and mine, apart from the look: I see that in mine there is way more information than in yours. I put a complete list of skills, magic objects, a small weapon area and more room for feats. I created my sheet having in mind that I'll write the Magic cover with a CD pen, instead of printing a new sheet every couple of levels, even if my sheet is really ink-cheap. I like your sheet, and I was sure that someone had already created one of these, but I prefer to have the maximum information on one single sheet. Why don't you add a "back" side of your sheet adding some more information?

@ chronoplasm: yes, COS is CON. That's because I'm Italian, and "CONstitution" is "COStituzione": I was very tired when I made this...

@ Nytmare: can you post your character cards? I'm curious to see them.

Nytmare said:

I ended up splitting my character cards up a lot more. I think that they're spread between like 8 or 9 different cards, though we've got a lot more information on them than you've got on yours.

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I avoided that because then you're getting into "Why not just use a character sheet?" 9 cards is one whole sheet.

Cicciograna said:

By the way, there are some fundamental differnces between your sheet and mine, apart from the look: I see that in mine there is way more information than in yours. I put a complete list of skills, magic objects, a small weapon area and more room for feats.

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Yeah, my design philosophy was only putting in the skills that the character has trained and separate cards for magic items and weapons.

Cicciograna said:

]Why don't you add a "back" side of your sheet adding some more information?

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That's something I'll consider. I haven't done anything with this since last summer when Black Plauge and I stopped working on cards in general. We'd need to add in the new base classes and other stuff too.