Anyone glanced at the new Character Sheets on the WotC site?

[Dracorat]

For the record, I am the author of the "Rat's eTools Character Sheet" so at least in my case, I have some basis of comparison =P

 

[Nyaricus]

My own Delux character sheet is 4 pages long, but is, IMO, better-organised than that mess. Skills, feats, ability scores, basic character background/traits all make it on the first page. The second is combat, the 3rd is magic, and the fourth is Misc - languages, weapon prof groups, equpiment (taking up more than 1/2 the page), money, carrying capacity and a Credits section.

If there's any call for it, I could post up a copy.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I have always used and probably will always use my own character sheets - I do them up in Word with copious use of lovely, lovely tables. It's easy to just shift things around as the need arises.

 

[MerricB]

My own Delux character sheet is 4 pages long, but is, IMO, better-organised than that mess. Skills, feats, ability scores, basic character background/traits all make it on the first page. The second is combat, the 3rd is magic, and the fourth is Misc - languages, weapon prof groups, equpiment (taking up more than 1/2 the page), money, carrying capacity and a Credits section.

Sounds pretty similar to the Wizards character sheets.

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I'm looking at the Wizards sheets now. As far as aesthetics go, they're not great. Actually, they're pretty ugly. However, there are things I really like about them. The breakdown of the ability scores (Total = Base + Enhancement + Misc bonus + Misc penalty) is very nice. Having a lot of space for hit points/XP will delight my players.

The skill synergy list is something that is just useful - especially as the skill list also includes all the psionic skills.

The special abilities/spells/rage page can easily be substituted out by a custom-designed one. Lots and lots of room for equipment? Great - especially having the item slots listed!

If I was playing a game, I'd probably have two or three of the sheets spread out in front of me (esp. page 1 "Combat" and page 4 "Skills/Feats").

What I really like about them is that there is enough space to write the modifiers and see them without resorting to microfonts!

Cheers!

 

[Nyaricus]

Sounds pretty similar to the Wizards character sheets.

Ironically they are, but looking at the wizards sheets they don't seem to be fitting on a lot of info for the space it takes up. I looked at a full-page veiw of mine and their, and I seem to have a better set-up, IMO.

You know, this kinda reminds me that I have planned to make a thread with my character sheet and a poll in it, and get some feedback on it. Maybe I'll do that now, and see what comes of it.

 

[Ds Da Man]

They don't look that bad. I don't need beatiful artwork on my CS thats going to get trashed. They page layout means nothing, because I can stack and print any way I want. I love having the synergy bonuses on the skill sheet. All in all, not bad...IMO.

 

[Agamon]

I have always used and probably will always use my own character sheets - I do them up in Word with copious use of lovely, lovely tables. It's easy to just shift things around as the need arises.

Word.

These sheets are butt-ugly and not very user-friendly. I'll stick to my own sheets or HeroForge.

 

[Unkabear]

It looks like somthing that I might hack apart for some sheets. The front page is horrible IMO but not all of it is bad. It just needs some TLC.

 

[sjmiller]

As someone who does a bit of design and layout in my day job, I find them just plain ugly. As far as information presented, I frankly do not like their choice of what goes where. Skills should not be relegated to the back of the sheet. Since they insisted that skills and feats are a crutial part of the most current editions, why not make them more accessable?

I could go on, but I will leave it on a personal note. I frankly do not like psionics, and do not use them in my game. So, all the psionics stuff is simply a waste of space. There's enough wasted and poorly used space on these sheets as it is.

 

[Glyfair]

As someone who does a bit of design and layout in my day job, I find them just plain ugly. As far as information presented, I frankly do not like their choice of what goes where. Skills should not be relegated to the back of the sheet. Since they insisted that skills and feats are a crutial part of the most current editions, why not make them more accessable?

I don't mind skills on the back so much. It reminds me of the old deluxe 4 page character folders where the two main pages were the front and the back (and you opened it to see the "inside" two pages). This allows a combat oriented front sheet and a skill oriented back sheet.