D&D (2024) 2024 D&D character sheet, what do you think?

[Guest 7037866]

Lots of wasted space to make it "look nice". Boxes are too big and clunky with extra lines and such.

Otherwise, there are a lot of organizational issues which WotC continues to embrace in their character shits apparently.

 

[MockingBird]

Curious how they change it on Dndbeyond or if they'll change it up. I wouldn't expect they'd need to.

 

[JEB]

It makes calling for a different stat+skill really confusing for some of my players.

Up until now I didn't even think to ask - do we know if the 2024 rules will mention this as an option? Maybe they're taking that flexibility away by default (and moving it perhaps to the DMG like custom backgrounds).

 

[tetrasodium]

The other day I saw somewhat more complete sheets posted somewhere and have to say there are some glaring omissions

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They added a lot of long missing things (noticing to the sheet like concentration, ritual & material checkboxes for spells, death save tracking, attunement slot tracking, & maybe others

Not having anything whatsoever for weight/wt/pounds/lb/etc in inventory or even having a box for encumbrance is pretty glaring given everything else added. It could be on one of the pages we haven't seen, but it's not like wotc has given any indications to give warm fuzzies on that.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Up until now I didn't even think to ask - do we know if the 2024 rules will mention this as an option? Maybe they're taking that flexibility away by default (and moving it perhaps to the DMG like custom backgrounds).

We dont know. True.

At least if they added empty lines to create the skills I feel are missing. Frex, for Streewise, I usualy go for Charisma (Investigation), but at least if I had an empty line, I could add a Streetwise skill to Charisma.

 

[darjr]

The other day I saw somewhat more complete sheets posted somewhere and have to say there are some glaring omissions

Spoiler: said image

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They added a lot of long missing things (noticing to the sheet like concentration, ritual & material checkboxes for spells, death save tracking, attunement slot tracking, & maybe others

Not having anything whatsoever for weight/wt/pounds/lb/etc in inventory or even having a box for encumbrance is pretty glaring given everything else added. It could be on one of the pages we haven't seen, but it's not like wotc has given any indications to give warm fuzzies on that.

I expect they expect people to use the free form space as needed for their games. There isn't a space for "Number of" either.

However I do agree that it implies something, maybe just that they think people don't universally use encombrance.

 

[SteveC]

I don't think I've ever really liked an "official" D&D character sheet. Even back in 2E days I used to use character sheets from the Armory.

That brought back quite the memories! Thanks for making me recall those sheets.

 

[Morrus]

I really dislike grouping them by ability. It undermines the concept that a skill is a proficiency that can give a bonus to any relevant ability check.

Yeah. It sends the opposite message to the one I’d like to see. You can bury that rule in the book, but if the character sheet says otherwise, that’s effectively the real rule.

 

[John Lloyd1]

I expect they expect people to use the free form space as needed for their games. There isn't a space for "Number of" either.

However I do agree that it implies something, maybe just that they think people don't universally use encombrance.

There isn't anywhere for character weight either for those traps and hazards which are weight sensitive. Not that there was much guidance on character weight recently.

 

[John Lloyd1]

The next time I am a player, I am thinking just recording the value of the proficiency bonus and the attribute bonuses. Then listing the proficiencies without adding the bonus together together and see how that plays.

For example:

Prof Bonus: +2
Str: +2, Dex: +1, ...
Saving Throws: Str, Con
Prof: Acrobatics (Dex), Athletics (Str), ...