Character Sheets: What do you use?

[Nellisir]

I checked other: I mostly use the Mad Irishman's sheet, which is technically amateur, but looks better than most of the professional sheets.

IMO
Nell.

 

[Buttercup]

I voted other. I use eTools for PC sheets as well as NPCs and monster stats.

I occasionally (about once a year) run a game for people who don't play much and so I have a much simplified format in Word with rules explanations for the newbs.

Would you be willing to share this simplified sheet? If you don't want to post it here, I'll PM you my email address.

Hmm. Actually, as an administrator, you already have access to my email address, don't you? Nevermind.

 

[Protean]

I voted for pen and paper as i have always been able to organize my thoughts better. I would probably use a premade sheet but i have never found one to fit my needs, one thing that i hate about premades is the skill list. They list every single phb skill, when i would much prefer to just have ten empty slots with spaces for the modifiers, i mean when is my half orc barbarian going to need knowledge arcana (ok maybe once or twice, but thats not the point)

so yeah..pen and paper

You might want to look at Mad Irishman's alternate skills character sheet. It lists only skills that can be used untrained by default with plenty of blank spaces for any trained skills a character may possess.

 

[VorpalBunny]

For the most part I prefer stat blocks, as a DM, and this has carried over into the times I get the chance to play, as well.

Ditto here. On the rare occasions I need a sheet, I use the Mad Irishman. That guy knows his way around a character sheet.

 

[Davelozzi]

Another vote here for the Mad Irishman's sheets.

Unfortunately, I'm still using his 3.0 sheets even though we've mostly switched over to 3.5, as the new version, while improved, is too big of a file size for me to attack to my hotmail without buying extra storage.

 

[d4]

pen and paper here. i've never understood the allure of character sheets.

i just write down what i need to know about my character on a sheet of paper. i've gone through 2-year long campaigns with a single sheet. my latest character is a stat block. if i tried, i could probably get the whole thing on a 4x6 index card. now that would be cool.

i've met gamers who couldn't fathom making up and playing a character without a character sheet.

 

[Mercule]

I use HeroForge, currently. The sheets look very sharp and it does the math for you. Plus, I'm a computer nerd with a tendancy to loose anything paper. With HF, I can just reprint a copy.

I'm currently working on a character generator of my own creation using .NET with XML for data. Currently, about all it'll do is act as a record-keeper and reference tool for feats, spells, skills, divine salient abilities, etc., but it's getting some kudos from my gaming group.

 

[Orius]

I selected professional sheets, because I use a sheet I downloaded from the WotC site. If my printer is out of ink, I use pencil and paper. I've never bought the "official" sheets. I don't even see their necessity given that the 3.0 PHB has a photocopiable sheet in the back. Don't know if that's in the 3.5 PHB.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I made my own, 4-page (not including spell lists) character sheet.

AR

 

[johnsemlak]

I selected professional sheets, because I use a sheet I downloaded from the WotC site. If my printer is out of ink, I use pencil and paper. I've never bought the "official" sheets. I don't even see their necessity given that the 3.0 PHB has a photocopiable sheet in the back. Don't know if that's in the 3.5 PHB.

the 3.5 PHB has a character sheet at the end. However, this year, they're coming out with Deluxe Player Character Sheets.