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Old school role-playing

Started by jan paparazzi, December 14, 2014, 12:20:03 PM

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Shawn Driscoll

Quote from: cranebump;806469Oh, man, no kidding. Might be a personality flaw, but I love it when characters fit on index cards.:-)
I'm a 1-page charsheet guy. I like the front side to have the usual stuff on it, for filling in. And the back side to be left blank, for me to keep a small journal or notes on things happening with my character.

My character flaw would be that I prefer my charsheets to be landscape instead of portrait.

Emperor Norton

I hate hate HATE all the wasted space on character sheets nowadays.

I generally just pop open inDesign and make my own sheets for every character I play. Its the only way.

And seriously, there are very few characters that won't fit on one sheet in actuality, there is just all that WASTED SPACE.

Other than casters with long spellbooks if you write out all your spell effects. But that could be an issue in Old School D&D as well if you write out all your spells. For low level characters I can usually fit in all the spell descriptions with the initial page, higher level casters I generally half to move to using a separate "book". (I generally make it fold in half so I can flip through it like a book. I'm a huge dork).

Also I agree on Landscape, its better at the table, because it leaves more of the middle of the table free (even though I really don't use maps and stuff)