Essentials Character Sheet Online!

[Scribble]

Isn't it just simpler to print out one page, fold it, instead of printing out a half page on both sides?

Oh this is entirely my own hang up I will admit.

 

[Odhanan]

This sheet looks clean, and clear. I like the way skills were put under their associated ability scores. Nice.

 

[KidSnide]

I also like the new sheet. The tax form aspect of the old sheet with dozens (hundreds?) of black outlined boxes was just terrible, particular when it's printed out by a computer. The new sheet still has a lot of lines, but they are more varied and help draw your eye to the most important information rather than hide it in a sea of lines.

Putting the skills under the relevant ability scores is also a nice idea and helps communicate the similarity between an ability check and skill check. (I've seen several new-ish players get confused about this.) I presume the "attack" lines in the middle of the sheet are for basic attacks. That seems like a good idea, although there are plenty of characters that have more than two.

Also, the feats section is quite small. It's enough for low-level characters, or characters for whom most of the feats are built-in modifiers. But you really need to write out the text of the feats when they are conditional benefits, and this sheet doesn't really have enough space for it.

Now only if they gave us a power card layout that was as improved as the character sheet!

-KS

 

[Pseudopsyche]

I like that it's clean and shiny, but I also like having that workspace. 4e characters have some math behind them, and I don't think hiding it is helpful. I'd rather my players have the math visible.

I know I will tell my players to use the original character sheet (or better yet, the Character Builder) to compute the numbers, before copying them to the new sheet for use at the table.

 

[Scribble]

I know I will tell my players to use the original character sheet (or better yet, the Character Builder) to compute the numbers, before copying them to the new sheet for use at the table.

I think that's the thing... For me at least I know I prefer the math visible when I make the character... But when I'm at the table all those boxes and numbers create a sea of insanity for me.

I used to hate it when a game had a sheet with anything more then 2 sides... and it even annoyed me when the second side was more then just flavor type stuff.

 

[TikkchikFenTikktikk]

To toot my own horn, I just posted http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-dis...ktikks-ultimate-editable-character-sheet.html

It's very similar in layout to this new sheet, but you can actually edit it in Word, so you can actually read it instead of trying to decipher your own chickenscratch.

There are a lot more benefits with my sheet that I describe ad nauseum in the post at that above link.

Enjoy!

 

[Camelot]

To toot my own horn, I just posted http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-dis...ktikks-ultimate-editable-character-sheet.html

It's very similar in layout to this new sheet, but you can actually edit it in Word, so you can actually read it instead of trying to decipher your own chickenscratch.

There are a lot more benefits with my sheet that I describe ad nauseum in the post at that above link.

Enjoy!

At first, I thought that it said "Tikkchik Fen Tikktikk's Ultimate (Edible!) Character Sheet. Mmmm, character sheets. =)

 

[Camelot]

I think what I'd do is use this sheet for "pregens" when I'm teaching someone new the game (by pregens, I mean a character I created based on what they describe to me). Then they can upgrade to the real character sheet after they grasp the basic rules.