Knights & Knaves Alehouse

capitalbill - did you ever work in a research lab or something? There's something very "laboratory notebook"ish about your Moleskine usage.

My D&D notebooks are in theory maintained just like lab notebooks, but in practice they're an incoherent mess of half-designed nonsense, characters that get crossed out and rewritten elsewhere and shopping lists. (My engineering notebooks look the same.)

I'm guessing the best character sheet will always be a blank sheet of paper (graph, lined or otherwise). 100% constumization.

The only minus is that the player has to have the work of writing his sheet as well as his character's information. But once the former is done (in pen preferably) it is a simple matter to photocopy it to have spares for future use.


Edit: is it just me, or does the OSRIC character sheet lack an entry for calculated AC?

deathanddrek wrote:capitalbill - did you ever work in a research lab or something? There's something very "laboratory notebook"ish about your Moleskine usage.

No, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express.

vargr1105 wrote:Edit: is it just me, or does the OSRIC character sheet lack an entry for calculated AC?

It's in "Personal Attributes" at the top.

capitalbill wrote:No, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express.

I use this. I like a minimalistic sheet because it gives anyone just barely enough prompting to fill out what they absolutely need to make a new character, but plenty of open space to do with what they want. And as DM I know where to find the basics on anyone’s sheet.

Started messing around with old LaTeX character sheet, going for a new look based on that Cthulhu/LaTeX template that was doing the rounds. Just getting a start. Obviously wouldn't print it with the parchment background, but might print it on to paper that has this look.

Too hard to read?

What's the point of doing a new one if there are a bunch already that do the trick? I could use as an output format for a character generator. Same backend, web/print frontends.

I've done it the same since I first played

Name, Class, alignment across top
Any special skills off to top right side. On left this going down written on normal paper:

S.
W.
I.
D.
C.
CH.

AC.
HP.
W.
H.
Age /Max.
Weapons:

2nd Skill:

Just write in spells, thief table etc. directly below.

I think, increasingly, for me blank space is best (so long as I have an old character sheet I like at hand for reference) but for my players something all regimentally laid out so I know where to look (assuming there are inexperienced ppl at the table).