When I designed Simply6 I was heavily influenced by WEG Ghostbuster's credit-card sizes character sheets.
I'm currently writing the Awfully Cheerful Engine (ACE!) which is even more inspired by that 1980s game. In fact it was originally a direct homage, but it developed into something slightly different. But that's by the by. I was thinking about the character 'sheet'.
Again, it's basically credit card sized. There are eight pieces of information:
This is how it looks.
I love the elegance of this tiny card. "Squeamish" and "Scientist" being Trait and Role respectively, are Abilities (like feats - they do something) which also describe you in two words. You basically have two Abilities and four Stats.
Other combos might include Cowardly Robot or Happy Dog, or what-have-you (it's a multi genre comedy action game).
Anyhow. That's all for now! I was just musing on the tiny character sheet and wanted to share!
I'm currently writing the Awfully Cheerful Engine (ACE!) which is even more inspired by that 1980s game. In fact it was originally a direct homage, but it developed into something slightly different. But that's by the by. I was thinking about the character 'sheet'.
Again, it's basically credit card sized. There are eight pieces of information:
- Role
- Trait
- 4 x Statistics (each with one Focus)
- Health, Defence (assuming those stay in)
This is how it looks.
I love the elegance of this tiny card. "Squeamish" and "Scientist" being Trait and Role respectively, are Abilities (like feats - they do something) which also describe you in two words. You basically have two Abilities and four Stats.
Other combos might include Cowardly Robot or Happy Dog, or what-have-you (it's a multi genre comedy action game).
Anyhow. That's all for now! I was just musing on the tiny character sheet and wanted to share!
