D&D 5E Eyes? who cares

[Szatany]

Why bother writing down your character's gender? It has no mechanical effects.

But it has effect on your character. It determines how your character looks, how he or she moves, how she acts, how he speaks and dresses, and how is adressed by NPCs.

Tell me, how the color of one's eyes affects anything in the game?

 

[Szatany]

Hair Colour, Eye Colour, Height, Weight, Age, Gender
I think that's what I want to see. Even on the back page. But better specific than generic.

So you want to know what your eye color is, but you don't need to know if you're white or black?

 

[Starfox]

I'd like to have both eye colour and skin colour on the sheet. The problem with the latter is avoiding the assumption that your fantasy world has the same race categories as ours, so you have to make it clear that it's not asking for race. I think "e.g. pale/tan/dark" would work.

I recall an old sheet (Yellow, 1ED IIR) that had lines for "Eyes", "Skin", "Build", "Height" etc. No mention of color or any guide to what features of your skin to enter on that line. So someone could write "Acne" under skin if that is what they thought distinctive. Well, fat chance anyone would do that back in those days of RL.ache problems, but still.

 

[mlund]

Always put down at least "two" when a form asks you about "eyes."

It's a matter of life and death, after all!

- Marty Lund

 

[PinkRose]

Didn't occur to me to put skin colour down, but you can add that if it makes the sheet better. More is greater than less.

 

[YRUSirius]

Time to put down "7 inch" somewhere on the sheet.

-YRUSirius

 

[Szatany]

Time to put down "7 inch" somewhere on the sheet.

-YRUSirius

Probably under disadvantages

 

[YRUSirius]

*Burn*

-YRUSirius