How many character sheets is too many?

[RenleyRenfield]

For your character... your one character... in that one game....

• A sheet for your main stats and skills
• a sheet for your magic powers
• a sheet for your combat equipment and armors and such
• a sheet for your plot notes
• a sheet for your faction and NPCs that are part of your cadre/group/faction/assets
• another sheet for spells or powers (how many spell/powers sheets do you have typically?)

= 5 to 6 sheets for one character. Is that helpful? too many?

How many sheets are too many? Are extra helpful for simple tracking or notes? Other comments on character sheets?

 

[KYRON45]

Character sheet pages are never too many or too few; they are exactly as many as the player needs them to be.

 

[GreatestHonor]

I think that’s generally fine, and that’s pretty much exactly how we do it at my table. It might seem like a lot to handle, but most of the time you’ll only interact with about half of those each session.

 

[KYRON45]

It has been my experience that regardless of how many pages and even if they had a table of contents, those sticky note arrow things, an eidetic memory and an index....they still won't know where what they are looking for is.

 

[Deset Gled]

For your character... your one character... in that one game....

• A sheet for your main stats and skills
• a sheet for your magic powers
• a sheet for your combat equipment and armors and such
• a sheet for your plot notes
• a sheet for your faction and NPCs that are part of your cadre/group/faction/assets
• another sheet for spells or powers (how many spell/powers sheets do you have typically?)

= 5 to 6 sheets for one character. Is that helpful? too many?

How many sheets are too many? Are extra helpful for simple tracking or notes? Other comments on character sheets?

Not everything is on a Character Sheet.

Character sheets include:

• A page for your main stats, skills, feats, etc.
• A page for your magic powers, spells, etc
• A page for your combat equipment and armors and such

Plot notes, faction details, NPCs infor, maps, stories, yadda, yadda, yadda, aren't part of your character sheet. They're Campaign Notes.

 

[uzirath]

Starting with AD&D back in the '80s we started using binders to keep our characters, notes, unique spells, weird maps, etc. After a few years of play, these binders could get pretty thick.

EDIT: I should say that for experienced players, I don't think it matters. For new players, however, I prefer to get everything onto a single double-sided page.

 

[Baron Opal II]

Personally, no more than two pages, a sheet front and back.

For my 16th level wizard, I had a few more sheets than one. That included prepared spell lists, custom spells, estate layout, favor lists (owed and due), NPC hit list (and why), frenemies list (and why), and preferred restaurants and their phone numbers. This accumulated over 5+ years of play. Still have it somewhere. That's the exception, however.

 

[TwoSix]

Front and back on looseleaf sheet is plenty for me.

 

[RenleyRenfield]

yadda, aren't part of your character sheet. They're Campaign Notes.

How much value does having 'campaign notes' baked into a nicely formatted character sheet add to a game? (i.e. the last page or 1 of a given sheet set?)

 

[RenleyRenfield]

Character sheet pages are never too many or too few; they are exactly as many as the player needs them to be.

Any times you can recall "this is too many!" or "This doesn't hold half of what I need!" ?