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Wow. I did not expect so many folks to use some form of hand-written/ad hoc sheet.

I've rarely liked them for D&D. I still remember this horrific plum-colored sheet that one of my players used in the 1990s. I think it was the official character sheet you could buy in packs. Still makes me cringe. 1E AD&D was so straight-forward, I just never saw much point in paying money for...

They're fine. No worse than any other form of multi-class. Just because I want a purely martial fighter to be purely martial doesn't mean I'm against characters who want to dabble in magic. If you want to say that the EK just taps into that same energy as the Champion, just in a different way...

I explicitly want fighters and rogues to be non-magic. I can buy into "Hollywood physics", but that's as far as it goes. If I need magic to explain why a Fighter is tough, he's no longer a Fighter. Better to say, "Don't look behind the curtain." Obviously, YMMV.

That looks a lot like what I did for 2E. Before that, I used to use a pretty formal hand-written layout on notebook paper. I didn't really care for 1E and 2E "standard" character sheets, either.

Do you have a formal layout or just kinda wing it? Basically, is the Word doc something you could publish, if you cared to?

Yes. I'd meant to clarify that. For purposes of the poll, it doesn't matter who "wrote" it. If you're using Orcpub, it's still "WotC because automation" (presumably that's what would drive the decision to use Orcpub.

To answer my own question, I use MPMB's fully automated sheet and actually paid for it. My main reason for selecting that specific sheet is that it's gorgeous. I like the automation, too, but it's the aesthetics that grabbed me. I loathe the way the PHB sheet looks and I'm not sure I could go...

Two parts to this one. 1) Do you use the default PHB sheet or some vanilla form-fillable version of it? This is the poll and is a broad brushstroke. Note that I'm making some assumptions about why folks might choose certain sheets. I'm also sure that there are multiple factors for a lot of...

Yup. Yunru gave the right answer.

Mostly satisfied. I'm mixed on my thoughts around the way the subclasses are done, though. Given the history of the game, it would be odd to not have those specialist wizards with their own builds. That's an important cow, and one I don't mind. The shear number of sub-classes would seem to...

Hit points should be a controlled substance. They're highly addictive and symptoms of withdrawal frequently include death. Tolerance to hit points may occur, requiring an ever increasing quantity to achieve the same effect.

Hey, my group dropped 4E almost as fast as we learned it. The "bloodied" idea is one of the very few things that we kept from it. It's a useful cognitive tool. Note: that wasn't the only nice thing 4E brought to the party. I'm not bashing the game. We were pretty burned out on fantasy, at that...

Thanks. To clarify, I was meaning that I'd never seen any of the original staff, which includes Mark Rein-Hagen, so there's no way I could pick him out of a line-up. Really, including "original" was an attempt at heading off "he's the guy to the right of X" and trying to not say, "Who the heck...

I just realized, I've never seen a picture of any of the original WW folks. Can anyone label the above photo?

Depends on the character history. If it's an interesting character with a good personality, I'm fine with it. If you have a cardboard character with an eye to nothing but math, I'm not going to like it, even if your math sucks bad enough that you're the least effective character at the table...

Well, if you drop the Paladin from my Curse of Strahd game, you get: Fighter --> Moon Druid Cleric/Wizard --> Favored Soul Rogue --> Ranger with thieves' tools Fighter/Rogue --> Monk The Paladin helps to pad out the Cleric and Fighter roles, but really, the fifth character just does what a...

The only character I've played in 5E was a Bard (I generally DM). He was definitely not silly. He was charismatic to the point where he could manipulate people with or without magic. When your magic is based around putting certain tones into songs and speeches, it's extremely difficult to figure...

I agree almost 100% with your critiques, but I'm torn on whether to say "mostly satisfied/minor tweaks or mostly dissatisfied/major tweaks). Here's why: When the PHB was first released, I looked at the Sorcerer and pitched the Wild Mage. That left only the dragon bloodline, which I don't like...

FWIW, I don't mind this in other games like Fate or (IIRC) Talislanta. It just makes it not D&D, to me. The 3-18 ability scores is probably the most sacred of all D&D cattle, to me. OK. Getting rid of classes and levels would literally make it a different game. Ability scores could be removed...