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

[kaomera]

3x5 card.

 

[Perun]

Lemme see:
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Character stats, skills, feats, saves, equipment, etc.: 1
Character spells: 2-3 (landscape, includes one-line descriptions of how each spell functions; also includes one-shot items and items with charges or daily uses)
Animal companion: 4
Wildshape forms: 5-10
Shapechange forms: 11-12
Creatures summonable through Summon Nature's Ally V-IX, augmented with Augment Summoning Feat: 13-23 (roughly speaking--I haven't counted these).

Sometimes I love playing a druid and sometimes I hate it.

That about sums my experience with druids. My 13th-level druid died (in a TPK, more or less) just last session, and I'm looking forward to playing a simpler character (psion or warlock, most likely).

Edit: We use a custom single-sheet character sheet, which includes most of the basic character info, equipment, familiar/animal companion base info, but no spells (we have a different sheet for those).

 

[Hussar]

I use PC GEN as well, which gives me a 4 page PDF. But, before that, I think I used a 2 pager. Rarely more than 4 anyway. Although my 1e Paladin (with Cavalier rules) ran a small tome by the time I got done writing down all his special abilities.

((Hey look, we can still snipe about editions. ))

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I use my own character sheet, which has 4 pages:

First page is general info (name, race, class, home region, alignment, height.....), Ability scores (with 2x3 fields each: Base, Item, Temp), AC (with detailed breakdown for AC, Touch, FF), other basic statistics (init, speed, saves) and 5 or so detailed attack options (with breakdown for attack and damage)

Second page is Skills, Armour/Shield, Gold/Gems, Languages, and Class Abilities/ Racial abilities / Feats

Third Page is equipment: Half the page is taken up by the Vetruvian (Hu)Man(oid) and boxes for all the item slots, the rest is more or less free-form inventory.

Fourth Page is for Special Powers (Spells, Maneuvers, Psionics, whatever).

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

How many pages does it take for you to keep track of all the bonuses and penalties and special circumstances necessary to play your PC to its fullest?

With 3E or AD&D, PCs are usually two pages.
With B/X or C&C, PCs are usually one page.
With Call of Cthulhu, PCs are usually one page.
With RoleMaster, PCs are usually about the size of notebook computer with Excel running.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Heroforge, giving me 5 pages for my 6th level cleric. Although that's a bit misleading. 2 are character - 3 are a fairly complete spellbook... find it a nice snap reference and good for spell preparation.

 

[MerricB]

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

My friend's 1st level AD&D paladin took up... about 6 pages.

Cheers!

 

[Li Shenron]

Usually I have one page character sheet with all the stats, including skills and feats and special abilities.
A second page for equipment, although it's usually quite empty before high level.

I like keeping all spells in a separage page: spells known, prepared, and cast, with some compact info (duration, save DC, components...) but not full description. This is obviously needed only by spellcasters.

Then sometimes I print out more reference pages, depending on the needs... things like ready stats for creatures summoned on a regular basis, or complete stats of the chraracter when polymorphed, or stats for cohorts/familiars/companions.

 

[Grymar]

Ultimately I think it's up to what, beyond numbers, the player wants on his sheet versus what he'll keep in his head, to wit: for AD&D you can have a single piece of paper or a single-sided preprinted character sheet or on the other end of the spectrum, TSR #9029 PERMANENT CHARACTER RECORD FOLDER which has a four-page heavy paper "permanent" character record sheet and a number of perforated sheets in the middle to track progression through an adventure.

I LOVED that gigantic character sheet. It really meant something when you kept a character alive for many, many levels and you had his complete adventure by adventure history right there.

 

[thedungeondelver]

I LOVED that gigantic character sheet. It really meant something when you kept a character alive for many, many levels and you had his complete adventure by adventure history right there.

I planned to get one for every one of my AD&D group's players as Christmas gifts, believe it or not.