2024 D&D Character Sheets Available to Download

The newly designed character sheets for Dungeons & Dragons are now available on D&D Beyond's website. The new sheets were created for use with the new 2024 revised 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons and were released as part of the early release launch of the 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond. Notably, the new character sheets are condensed from 3 pages to 2, contain attunement slots for magic items, and place various skill proficiency stats under their corresponding core ability score. Also, the new character sheet contains various technical updates, such as "Heroic Inspiration" replacing inspiration and "Species" replacing "Races." Please note that this is not a fillable PDF, so you'll have to print it and fill it out on your own.

This marks the first time since 2014 that D&D has updated its official character sheets, with print copies eventually going on sale in a couple of weeks. Also to come are several campaign tracker sheets that will be available as part of the to-be-released Dungeon Master's Guide.

 

[Dire Bare]

Oh my goodness, this is so much better, there's no comparison. And the multi-million dollar corporation couldn't do this while a random guy on ENWorld could?!

WotC couldn't? Or WotC chose not to?

A company making a design choice you don't agree with is not a demonstration of incompetence.

 

[Dire Bare]

With OG 5e, they offered both options. There was the standard sheet from the back of the PHB that had skills grouped separately, but there was also an alternative sheet that grouped them by ability score.

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure the 2014 Rules alternative character sheets came significantly later than the launch of the core books.

I expect official variants of this sheet also, but probably not to Q2 2025 at the earliest. After the Monster Manual is out.

In the meantime . . . the current sheet works fine. And, probably the older sheets work fairly well with the new rules also. And fan-created sheets . . .

 

[pukunui]

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure the 2014 Rules alternative character sheets came significantly later than the launch of the core books.

I feel like they were available at the same time but I don’t remember either.

 

[evilbob]

I like it! I like the shading and strong lines.

The wonky ability score placement does feel weird at first, but I'm sure it helps people remember which skills go with which ability scores, as this can still trip some folks up (it's very small on the current sheets). And obviously easy to change.

There are a couple things I personally wouldn't have done, like putting "size" very prominently (this virtually never comes up and it's given extremely valuable space) and having coins separated out by type (we just use gold) - but they heavily DE-emphasized alignment, which I think great (I'd have put "size" right next to it, or maybe in "appearance").

I actually like the spell list change, as it's more practical space-wise and easy to add things here or there. It might end up being confusing for remembering "what level 1 spells do I have again?" (it's like they reversed the skill problem, above), but we'll see. I sort of wish they'd have included V/S as well as M ("can I cast this while tied up" does come up from time to time) but you can't have everything.

Overall very nice!

 

[Dire Bare]

I like it! I like the shading and strong lines.

The wonky ability score placement does feel weird at first, but I'm sure it helps people remember which skills go with which ability scores, as this can still trip some folks up (it's very small on the current sheets). And obviously easy to change.

There are a couple things I personally wouldn't have done, like putting "size" very prominently (this virtually never comes up and it's given extremely valuable space) and having coins separated out by type (we just use gold) - but they heavily DE-emphasized alignment, which I think great (I'd have put "size" right next to it, or maybe in "appearance").

I actually like the spell list change, as it's more practical space-wise and easy to add things here or there. It might end up being confusing for remembering "what level 1 spells do I have again?" (it's like they reversed the skill problem, above), but we'll see. I sort of wish they'd have included V/S as well as M ("can I cast this while tied up" does come up from time to time) but you can't have everything.

Overall very nice!

Size is a little more important to note now that several species can choose to be Small or Medium at character creation.

 

[evilbob]

Size is a little more important to note now that several species can choose to be Small or Medium at character creation.

And that's fair, it still doesn't really come up much. Actually I can't remember the last time we've cared about size.

 

[Argyle King]

Enjoy!

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Much better

 

[ezo]

Much better

Glad you like it. Sad that such a simple change makes it so much more appealing...

 

[Quickleaf]

Oh my goodness, this is so much better, there's no comparison. And the multi-million dollar corporation couldn't do this while a random guy on ENWorld could?!

It's not a random guy! It's @ezo !

 

[ezo]

It's not a random guy! It's @ezo !

You know it!