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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7202965" data-attributes="member: 5100">I've rarely liked them for D&D. I still remember this horrific plum-colored sheet that one of my players used in the 1990s. I think it was the official character sheet you could buy in packs. Still makes me cringe. 1E AD&D was so straight-forward, I just never saw much point in paying money for a sheet, especially since I tended to play Fighters, Rangers, and Thieves. Even for my grey elf Druid/Magic-User (10/10 or so), I wrote everything out by hand. That was a good 15-20 pages of glorious spell components.It was either Shadowrun or Vampire that got me using sheets. I think it was the dots system in WoD, but can't be sure. The sheet just looked nicer than what I could write out. Plus, Mage had the cute little circular Arete track, which I wasn't going to draw by hand.The 3E sheet wasn't bad. With all the fidgety bits, we used an Excel sheet that someone had put together and it printed out something that looked almost exactly like the official sheet. It was clean and crisp. There were some flaws, but it wasn't bad.The 5E PHB sheet reminds me of the AD&D sheets -- and not in a good way. I think it's the lines and the way the boxes are drawn, but even in black-and-white, it's almost as hard to look at as that old purple sheet. I just do not like it.The MPMB sheet, on the other hand, is a work of art. I've heard some folks say it's too busy and I can totally see that point. It didn't bother me during the one 5E adventure in which I played, but I wouldn't be opposed to something a bit more muted. That's not the same thing as saying I'd rather have something more muted. I have very few quibbles with the MPMB sheet -- it's literally the first character sheet in 35 years and a dozen (or more) game systems that I've thought was worth spending money on.Really, I'm hoping that DDB decides to create a more artistic sheet. It's ironic that one of my players was trying to get me to use Orcpub, this summer, and my ultimate response was "Nope. Uses the PHB sheet and has too many artifacts for AL that I can't get rid of. Wait and see what DDB will do."</blockquote>

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