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<blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3270810" data-attributes="member: 34865"><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Generally, in the past when I've played the current version, I've used the character generator software and that always spat out four pages. There's a few different output options (battle-block, which is nigh-unreadable as far as keeping track of things outside of combat, stat-block, and just the vanilla output), but the default export was for the four-pager.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Or maybe it was three; dunno. I've seen six and eight page character archaics though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">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 <strong>AD&D</strong> you can have a single piece of paper or a single-sided preprinted character sheet or on the other end of the spectrum, <strong>TSR #9029 PERMANENT CHARACTER RECORD FOLDER</strong> 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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">I think that holds true from edition to edition (although the lightest character sheets I've seen for any <strong>D&D</strong> are - no surprise - for the 1974 edition of <strong>DUNGEONS & DRAGONS</strong>, prior to the release of supplements and expansions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thedungeondelver, post: 3270810, member: 34865"] [font=century gothic] Generally, in the past when I've played the current version, I've used the character generator software and that always spat out four pages. There's a few different output options (battle-block, which is nigh-unreadable as far as keeping track of things outside of combat, stat-block, and just the vanilla output), but the default export was for the four-pager. Or maybe it was three; dunno. I've seen six and eight page character archaics though. 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 [b]AD&D[/b] you can have a single piece of paper or a single-sided preprinted character sheet or on the other end of the spectrum, [b]TSR #9029 PERMANENT CHARACTER RECORD FOLDER[/b] 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 think that holds true from edition to edition (although the lightest character sheets I've seen for any [b]D&D[/b] are - no surprise - for the 1974 edition of [b]DUNGEONS & DRAGONS[/b], prior to the release of supplements and expansions. [/font] [/QUOTE]
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