How many pages does it take to keep track of your PC's abilities?

[Pielorinho]

My 15th level Cleric/Radiant Servant took up all of... one page.

That surprises me, and shows a difference in play strategy. For me, I want my character sheet to contain enough info aobut the character that I almost never need to refer to a book. That means that I need to have info about each spell the character will cast--range, any save, spell effects, etc. For a 15th-level character, there's no way that's going to fit on the same page as my stats and everything else.

Still, I think that druids are probably the most complicated characters to run, given the wildshaping, the summoned creatures, and the animal companion in addition to the spells.

Daniel

 

[3d6]

I don't think I've ever had a character sheet take up more than 1 page (typed up in Word). I even put the full statblock for my familiar/animal companion on it. I'm not really sure how someone would create a longer character sheet, actually. Once you put your attack bonus with all your weapons, your hit points, your AC, your saves, your skills, your feats, your class/racial special abilities, your spells, and your equipment, what else is there?

 

[Storm Raven]

3x5 card.

Me too most of the time. Sometimes I use a 5x7 card at the table for complicated characters. I usually have a full write up on a couple standard sheets of paoper, but I don't normally need to refer to that at the game table.

 

[Graybeard]

For a non caster PC I use a standard two page charatcer sheet. For a spellcaster, upwards of 4 or 5 pages. Two for basic character info including equipment, one for familiar, and one for scrolls, wands, and other major magic items. For spells, I use 3x5 cards that I write spell name, level, casting time, save dc, etc.

 

[Seeten]

I dont know what this paper is everyone is referring to? Some sort of Archaic device? My PC's use up around 1 megabyte of hard drive space.

What?

What??

 

[kaomera]

Me too most of the time. Sometimes I use a 5x7 card at the table for complicated characters. I usually have a full write up on a couple standard sheets of paoper, but I don't normally need to refer to that at the game table.

I just use extra 3x5 cards if I need to (pretty much just for spell-casters...). I just got into the habit from DMing. Of course when I play I will have pages and pages of notes on NPCs, clues, etc. (And I do write kind of small...)

 

[Galethorn]

I dont know what this paper is everyone is referring to? Some sort of Archaic device? My PC's use up around 1 megabyte of hard drive space.

What?

What??

[nerd]
A meg is huge for any format short of Bitmap; that would be about 200,000 words worth of plain text and/or HTML. Even for a PDF that would be huge.
[/nerd]

 

[Seeten]

[nerd]
A meg is huge for any format short of Bitmap; that would be about 200,000 words worth of plain text and/or HTML. Even for a PDF that would be huge.
[/nerd]

[big nerd]
I wrote an adobe pdf fillable document, and between the calculations, the full color picture of the character, the forms filled in, and the pictures added to the pdf, it takes up 1.2 megs.
[/big nerd]

 

[was]

two.........

 

[babomb]

For a non-caster, I can fit it on the front of one page (and indeed, I have at least one sheet of paper with a character on both sides), but I usually use both sides because I can organize it better that way, and include rules for feats/abilities so I don't have to look them up.

For a caster, I'll add another page for spells, although I'm increasingly fond of putting spells on 3x5 cards, especially since the group I'm running for now is a bunch of noobs who don't a own single PHB between them (and until recently, none of them had dice).

I've never played a high-level druid, but I'd probably put wildshape forms and summons on cards as well.