What do you do with the character sheets after a session?

[EricNoah]

Each person is responsible for their own character sheet.

Yep, same here. DM holds any NPC sheets.

 

[Mark Oliva]

We make our CBs with a computer. We both have copies of the CBs - GM and players.

 

[Captain NeMo]

I think that the players should all have copies of their own sheets, although the DM should have a backup in a campaign folder somewhere.

 

[Agamon]

I used to hold all the sheets, but I'd rather the cleric print his own spell pages (and kill his own trees), so I made it up to the players.

 

[Elf Witch]

Usually the players hang onto their own sheets except for the player who always forgets his so since our DM also has a bad habit of losing things another player hangs onto his character sheet.

 

[demiurge1138]

Players keep their sheets, unless it's likely that they won't make it to the next session, in which case I, as the DM, take them for use as temporary NPCs (or even just sequestered "off camera").

Demiurge out.

 

[Starglim]

Both A and B: players keep their character sheets but it's expected that they will send an up-to-date electronic copy to the DM, at minimum, after each level gain.

 

[jinx crossbow]

Other

Normaly the player have their charsheets .
One player allways hand out me his char after the game.
The other players hand out their chars when they know
that they will miss the next session.

But I play in other groups where it is handles different.
Every poll answers Animus has proposed have been their once
in a gaminggroup I ve played.

Jinx

 

[Steel_Wind]

I want a copy of them so that if the player does not make it - I have it so I can make sure their character can participate in the adventure.

That usually applies to those people who might not be able to make it next session. (I generally have an e-copy of the sheet anyways).

Lately, the trend has been for the whole group to just give me their character sheets at the end of the session.

I don't think I have ever looked at a char sheet in terms of adventure prep. I'm running AoW right now - and the adventure is what it is.

I just want to make sure the group does not suffer if a player has to miss the next session.

 

[Nellisir]

I don't think I have ever looked at a char sheet in terms of adventure prep. I'm running AoW right now - and the adventure is what it is.

Looking at the sheets often helps me come up with challenges that test some lesser-used abilities. If one character has maxed out Balance, then I'll make sure she gets use out of it. On the flipside, if no one has any ranks in Ride, I'm not going to design or run an adventure that requires extensive mounted combat (maybe one or two encounters, but no more).