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Welcome to what has recently become the most popular page on my blog. Please note that there are other versions of this character sheet available on other pages of the blog. Head on over to the Downloads & Games page to find links to the other versions (my favourite is a folder-style sheet that prints on a single letter page) as well as the various 1 page dungeons I’ve released (mostly statted for B/X D&D and Labyrinth Lord). Also, the “Maps” category of posts includes more locations that have been statted up for B/X D&D and Labyrinth Lord but have not been converted to PDF for download.
And now on to the post you came here to read
Character Sheet Detail
When our latest player joined our gaming group, one of the items he had in his character binder was a set of d20 characters on hs custom 17+ page character sheets. These sheets covered everything from maps and descriptions of the characters’ homes, to stats for their mounts and retainers, full spell sheets and so on. Completely over the top and yet fun in the sheer completeness it offers.
There was one design element that really caught my eye from his custom sheets: the layout – they were landscape instead of portrait. Something about the landscape format ‘clicked’ with me, so I sat down and designed these B/X or Labyrinth Lord sheets which have been adopted by everyone in the group for both my B/X game and the Tuesday night ones (even by the aforementioned player with his massive custom sheets).
Unlike his uber sheets which are designed in Excel and use nice clean graphics, headers and box design, I generally go for a rougher, hand-drawn look for my sheets. This style began when I first started drawing my own character sheets on graph paper and I wanted to better delineate areas of the sheet for notes and equipment and so on. So I hand drew most of the elements of this sheet and then put the rest of it together using the GIMP.
So here’s the final product – click on the graphic to download the PDF version (or right-click and save-as, or whatever works for you and your browser). If you end up using them, I’d like to hear about it.
Our B/X Landscape Character Sheet - Click on the sheet to download a PDF version
A shout-out also goes out to A Rust Monster Ate My Sword, who’s new B/X D&D Character Sheet posted on Friday last week reminded me that I hadn’t posted the PDF of this one yet.
Good job. The parchment-ish boxes Reminds me of thelayout of the old WFRP / Advanced Fighting Fantasy charsheets, which is only ever a good thing. Yoinked with thanks.
Absolutely!
It feels like an “advanced” version of the old Fighting Fantasy gamebook sheets. Does that ever bring back memories of “sense of wonder” and fear of imminent death.
Love them.
Am printing out a dozen right now.
Those look great! The landscape character sheet is a good idea. 🙂
This is a great sheet. Thanks for sharing it.
Awesome sheet! I’m personally not a big fan of landscape-oriented sheets, but I love the hand-drawn design. (Although I’ve been known to create character “binders” from folded landscape pages, and I could see this one, with a little tweaking, working well in that capacity.)
One of my players is also not a fan of the landscape sheet, so I’m making a portrait version as well as a digest-fold version. Although the digest-fold requires the most work as it’s going to be a double-sider to make sense of the format.
Both in the same style, of course.
Late to the party (from the thread at the Goblinoid Games forum) but I like this, landscape and all. The new proposal is also a winner. These give my players more options.
Excellent work!
For those interested – there is a Labyrinth Lord version of the sheet here: https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/character-sheet-preferences-and-a-labyrinth-lord-sheet/
There is also a 4-page mini-folder version of the sheet available here:
https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/hand-crafted-dungeons-dragons-character-folder/
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I’m kind of picky about char sheets, but this one is particularly good. I would personally only want to make a few small changes to it (such as removing the lines in the equipment boxes so I can write freely). Do you have any source files available in case we wanted to tweak it ourselves?
Wow, nice, do you have any for 3.5ed dnd?
Hey, would you mind if I use this page as a basis for a 4e char page in Hebrew? (And place it on my site, with a link back here of course). I really like the old school design.
That’s fine as long as you make it clear that the graphical elements are the copyright of Dyson Logos, used under license. I’ll be glad to link to them from my blog once they are done.
Done! The char page can be found at this address:
A part of the Hebrew accessory page on my website:
http://www.tactica-games.co.il/wp/?page_id=251
Awesome! I’ll link to it later this week.
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When I played BECMI back in the ’80s,we photocopied the sample sheet from the back of the Basic Set. This printed both sides of the 8.5×11 character sheet side-by-side, but the result was a landscape design. So this is like coming home.
Really nice work.
Nice…though, and please don’t take this wrong, do you happen to have a link for your player’s 17+ page character sheet (tome really)?
Hi, thanks for your work on this great looking char sheet. Would you mind if I made a french translation for myself and to share the french D&D community ?