Character Sheets: What do you use?

[johnsemlak]

friggin triple post

 

[johnsemlak]

grrrrr

 

[diaglo]

all of the above.

Permanent ones with adventure sheets, orange NPC ones, gold Class ones, green D&D ones, etc...

plus i have the scrap sheet of paper ones

plus i have ones on my computer

etc...

whatever is available.

i have third party ones. i have some old ones from 1977 on up. the Armoury had some nice ones too.

 

[Tyris Harmon]

I use Ema's character sheets. Very sharp, with easy at-a-glance skills and feats.

I also use Ema's.

 

[Thorntangle]

Heroforge - Excel-based, customizable, easy to use, results look great, and Shannon updates often.

 

[Pseudonym]

I like the Green Ronin character folios, as well as the Kalamar sheets, but after A while I find they get a bit too akward to flip through to find things.

I've used Ema and Mad Irishman's sheets in the past, but lately I've been using the landscape format sheet Claudio Pozas posted a few weeks ago.

 

[Cbas10]

Before my group switched to 3.5, I wrote a Microsoft Access program for character creation, adding in classes and other traits as I accepted them into my campaign. However, I have not had the time or desire to update it to 3.5. Most of the generators back then were not customizable and locked users out of the programming. What's the point of a spreadsheet if you cannot customize it?

Now, I use either Mad Irishman's form-character sheets and a MS Word-based character sheet I found somewhere. The Word document is my favorite because it is so easy to expand the box where feats are listed (in the case of fighters), alter the part of the character sheet detailing equipment (some characters might need to have detailed descriptions of unique items and/or effects), or whatever else I want to modify. Adding a watermark in the image of a coat of arms is really easy, for example.

 

[Gnarlo]

I miss the 1e days when I could put a character on a sheet of notebook paper, with plenty of room for history and equipment...

I mostly use "amateur" sheets downloaded from the net, but am seriously considering making my own in a word processor.

 

[Mystery Man]

http://www.darksideprod.com/shadowkeep
These guys make great sheet!

 

[D+1]

Another Mad Irishman user. I like his Old School sheet and will soon be suggesting that or the Necromancer Games or Judges Guild versions to players when I start my Judges Guild campaign. Of course I have in the past done just about all the other options - bought them (but they are NOT as well designed as those made by amateurs, and never have been), I used to make my own and hand them out to players (but that ended when starting 3E and it seemed too much like work to organize and fit all the necessary information), the default output of software character generators (such as the ol' Core Rules 2 CD, the Character Generator CD from the back of the 3E PH, and PCGen), and of course the humble notebook page will always have a nostalgic charm.