What makes a good character sheet for you?

quick suggestion: use dotted circles: ◌ ◌ ◌ ◌ to represent slots that the char haven't gained yet. when the char earns the slot, player can "ink complete" the circle; and "pencil fill in" earned slots as spells are used.

I am actually so in love with this design, the folding/brochure thing is incredible, I love the size, it's everything I never knew I wanted.

As someone who has tested a few variant character sheets I’ve found the default sheet is optimized for new players and not veterans. Putting skills in alphabetical order makes it easier to find the relevant skill with no knowledge of game mechanics. Using columns gives everything a visual hierarchy that helps dyslexic players get a footing and how everything is organized puts all relevant info for a first game on the front page. Or gives more complex information it’s own page such as spell casting.

I have to imagine it takes so much mental power to really rethink a long-standing design like that and hone it down. I haven't appreciated enough those who take subjective points such as "what do players really want on the first page" and "how much room do they need for each one" and turn them into real design decisions. Well done, and a lovely demonstration video! You've converted me : )

Dude for real just turned his character sheet into a book.

This is great! I absolutely love the idea of putting the skills next to the ability associated with them! Having the descriptions of all your abilities is awesome too - I often print out "action" cards with descriptions of what my character can do. Makes it a lot easier to think about combat rounds that way!

this sheet is amazing I have trouble reading character sheets, especially when things are unorganized but this is so clean and nice, I can get see what I need without spending an uncomfortable amount of time looking for specific detail thank you for sharing this

Honestly my ideal DND sheet just has a massive section for everything. Literally massive text boxes. I write big and LOVE DETAIL. plus it means I have space to give my characters interesting inventories instead of using the whole box for weaponry

I do absoutely love the sheet design, it is very intuitive and well thought out. Props for that. But I will state a minor critique I have that I feel can be easily resolved with some artistic talent. The reason I loved the 5E sheet over one say such as Pathfinder, is because it didn't feel like looking at a series of boxes with text inside. It felt... well... more artistic to put it simply. Something abou tit allowed me to keep myself more immersed. I know this is weird but hopefully it makes sense. Long story short I love the design, I just wish the boxes and text were stylized a bit more.

The minute I saw you using Google Sheets I was LITERALLY like "YEAH BABY". Gotta love my sheets!!!

Design: 10/10 Ease of use: 9/10 Font: 10/10 Letters in the word Intimidation: 11/12

I’ve experimented with similar concepts, but I never thought to make mine an accordion fold for more pages. That’s genius!

This actually reminds me a lot of the way DnD Beyond handles their sheet! Well done!

Never thought about customizing a character sheet. I love they way this looks!

I’ve never understood putting the skills next to the relevant ability. When the dm calls for a perception check for example, I don’t think to go “ok so that’s wisdom skill” I just look at perception. I’m way more familiar with the alphabet than what skills are keyed to which abilities. Some of them are common sense of course but I still think it would actually make it harder for me

I'll be using this among a few other videos as references for my own sheet for my own ttrpg. Thank you

Character pamphlet. I was about to critique how you wrote a whole damn booklet but then I kept watching and I'm kinda in love with this. The tapped, half fold pages are neat and tidy, space efficient and infinitely scalable. Best character sheet I've seen in over 20 years of ttrpg gaming.

Thank you for sharing! I'm working out how I want to arrange my character journal and you've definitely inspired some layout choices 👌

The accordion folding design is so interesting, even though it wouldn't work for me, but the sheet itself is such an amazingly usable design!! Totally gonna take inspiration from this when working on my own custom sheet

I absolutely love this! The design makes so much more sense and is so much more user-friendly. I am excited to get to use it in future games. Thank you for putting this together!

I've been wanting a different character sheet than the normal one for a while! I love to play with the sheets since I use digital ones most of the time and make em look all fancy so this simple sheet will be much easier to spruce up with decals and extra decor!

Back in the 70s I also had a chance to re-create my own character sheet. There is no reason to not re-create it. Other than consistency that everyone understands where the information is. You did a very good video on the way you organized

This reminds me of the half-page 3 ring binder I use to dm. I'm definitely gonna use this and hole punch it for my binder since it's already the right size. Then I'll have a complete D&D binder instead of a DM binder and a bunch of loose character sheets

This is a FANTASTIC idea and I love the execution!! I want to present this to my group to see if we have any ideas on making our own, maybe brainstorm some for other TTRPG systems! Great idea!!

This is really awesome. As someone who has also found the need for more space but never quite sure how to configure it, i thank you for your contribution to the community.

Absolutely LOVE this! This is exactly what I needed for so long. I did combined some pages and edited some text and worked perfectly for me. thank you so much for this!

In 3.X I did a lot of my RP online, so I built a whole template in Notepad, that I could use, and had that. All the critical stuff was at the top (personals, class levels, HP (and my hit die rolls), ability scores, etc) and I used the nice fact about the 'infinite page' in textfiles to include all the special abilities, each spelled out straight out of the book as necessary, along with the source of the ability (extraordinary, supernatural, spell-like). Things like Darkvision, that are super-common, I didn't spell out, but more interesting ones I did. I had all the skills in a table, with room for ranks, ability modifiers, and room to add assorted modifiers (like skill synergies and tool bonuses). Spells I didn't write out, but I'd include known spells (if applicable), with page and book references, as well as spells prepared. With portable computer technology so ubiquitous, I now generally have my character sheet on my laptop or tablet (which allows me to have a copy of any books handy as well that I happen to own--it's not piracy if you already own a dead-tree copy).

just made my first character sheet of your design. I love it! Especially how customizable and compact it is. thank you so much for sharing it with all of us!

Dude, this is amazing. I'm working on building encounters/short questlines to run DND for some friends that have never played before. The normal character sheet slows the game down so badly everytime a new player needs to make a check (personal experience, and others in my previous group) so this is fantastic. Having the modifiers, saves and skills associated with a stat makes so much sense. Definitely gonna use these, thanks.

This is really cool. When I last played in person, I used the second sheet you showed and found it to be mostly an improvement over the standard design. One thing I personally use and both the second sheet and your sheet cut out is the section on personality traits etc so I'd probably need to add those back in should I ever make my own. One thing I really like is the sections for different containers, the current digital sheet I use for most games doesn't really offer that easily as a function but I think it would be really nice especially when in games where encumbrance is used.

Everything looks great! Love the booklet and am very interested in the DM version. Hope to see it soon. I'd also enjoy a video on how you made the little black folder for the booklet! Cheers and looking forward to more creative content like this!

are you...god?? the fact that you take the time to translate this to spanish make me smile man.... thanks

Thank you for making this. I am working on a design myself for various levels of people coming to 5th edition from beginner to expert and I will for sure use this as a baseline and aid.

I've been using that second sheet you showed (with the stat organized skills) for years, i added a backpack sheet I found online and I've been pretty happy. This looks really interesting though, nice sheet

Fantastically innovative design!

"..with all the possible known runes, because i know i will know them in the future..." Very optimistic of you.

Lettering is too small for myself, but character sheets are always going to be a matter of personal preference and there are enough D&D character sheets out there that you should be able to find one that suits you, or make one of your own. Your GM won't care as long as he/she can understand what you've got on the sheet, although most good GM's keep track of their players on sheets the GM can use soooo. . . . . A good character sheet for me is going to have all the basic info available on the front page and stuff on the back page and all in large easy to read lettering. It's going to be different for everybody, but thanks for your idea as well.

I love the simplicity and space options

So happy I found this. Immediately downloaded it and I can't wait to start being more organized!

Such a clever design! Must have taken you ages to put together. Also love the editing on this video.

This is incredibly helpful! As a very new player, using the official player sheet was confusing. Tysm!

Oh, that looks extremely satisfying!

This is the design i've been looking for for so long! Thank you so much

I'm already in love with this design! Very well made and so versatile!

this is awesome! i've always been looking for better ways to format a character sheet and this is definitely the best i've seen so far!!

I appreciate the thought and effort you put into this and think it's great that it works better for you! Not how I would design it, but it's not as if there is one perfect way to do this.

Dude this is amazing! More people deserve to know about this! Awesome job 👍

This kinda reminds me of the Sims and how there's a panel that opens up inventory, relationships, info about the sim, their skills, etc

thank you so much for providing this, its awesome

great design! I like it and I'm going to use for a few things.

Great job! Was happy to buy this design.

Slowly we are going back to old school character sheets. Yes.

I swear it blew my mind when you flipped over and wasn't expecting this. I thought ''oh that's it'' BUT NO THERE WAS ANOTHER PAGE! AND WAIT EVEN LONGER YOU CAN FLIP IT TO THE OTHER SIDE!'' If I could I would marry. That thing is hilarous awesome.

Cardboard Cleric : "This town deserves a better class of character sheet, and I'm going to give it to them."

Beautiful sheet, beautiful video

Really cool you let people edit their own sheet to meet there needs! Will probably give this sheet a try next time I'm a player or suggest it to my new players at the table!

Great practical design (perfect for easy use and lookup).

This is literally amazing!!!

You're a good man for this. This will surely help plenty of people!

This is awesome! I love it!

This is an awesome character sheet. Thank you!

This is really good. I love it.

i actually really like the inventory sketch page. gonna incorporate that for my own sheet

i like to have physical sheets more than digital ones, but was severely struggling fitting all the info i needed on a single sheet, so seeing a section dedicated to race and class abilities made me so happy!! cant wait to try this out!

Yes yes yes. Make a video on how to make the booklet please. That looks so awesome. Thanks for doing this. In the process of leveling up my Dwarf Cleric to level 3 and I'd like to transfer him over to this character sheet. Looks really awesome.

I love how you point the paper with your middle finger 🙂

THIS IS SO AWESOME!! GREAT JOB :D

I love it. It’s organized, clean and rather intuitive. The only issue I really have is the separation between casters and martials. Because, in some cases, say an Eldritch Knight fighter or paladins, they have both martial abilities and spells. It would be neat if somehow we were able to both combine bonus actions and the spell list.

Awesome sheet design!!

My ideal Character sheet has to be virtual because I write too much and need to be able to expand/modify it easily, but here are my preferences for said virtual character sheet. 1. Ability Scores should be stacked vertically. Each Ability score box should have the score in the top left corner and the modifier in the large space. The top right of the box should have a diamond to mark proficiency in saves. Each score would have a larger box with the relevant skill checks adjacent, with two checkbox equivalents representing proficiency and expertise. 2. All feature and inventory entries should come with parts. A name, a optional short description, and a detail description. You should be able to cycle between showing only the names, only the name and short description, or the name and the detail description. Ability scores, health, and speed should have a context menu that lets you set their normal value, and any temporarily modified value, such as through Aid, longstrider, potion of giant strength etc. Speed should have a scroll functionality for which type of speed displays if the player has multiple (walk, fly, swim, burrow, climb) 3. Ability to add Inventory or Feature boxes. Basically let you split your inventory or features into smaller boxes or add new ones entirely with the properties of an existing box. This way you could have separate boxes for racial and class features, or separate inventories for what is on your person and what is in your bag of holding. You could use a feature one to track status conditions and temporary spell effects as well with relative ease. 4. Attunement slots. 3 boxes (with the option to add more in the case of artificer or homebrew) which hold the name of the items attuned to and can be expanded to quickly find that items description without having to go back and find it in the inventory. 5. Any of the extra detail views should be accessible by holding a specific keybind and hovering over the box, but should also be accessible through a button attached to the box to be mouse clicked.

Very cool! I always use a digital sheet, but this did get me thinking about analog. If you put some tape on the parts where you have to write and erase a lot (gold, hitpoints, cooldowns that reset daily, etc) you can use dry erase pen and then you don't have to replace it as often.

A variant spell tracking gimmick I use originally comes from Deadlands: you use coloured paper clips to mark how many slots you have left, removing them as you use them up. I normally transfer the used clips to another part of the sheet so that I don't lose them. The colour code I use is red for first, orange for second, etc... all the way up through the spectrum. Doing this means that you don't mess up your sheet with erasures, it gives a little kinesthetic zing when you use your spells and I can really clearly feel how much power I've got left to use.

Fantastic design

Love this design of a character sheet

Found this very interesting, thanks

Oh sheet! This is an awesome sheet!!! I also made some improvisations. But this.... I applaud you. 👏

Thanks for the inspiration, will definitely be making something of my own with this

I'm glad to know I'm the only one with open contempt for the design of the official character sheet

Yeah, immediately subscribed. Fantastic work.

If I had to go with paper sheets this would be my first choice. It's so simple with so much room for customization (changing colors/fonts/borders, adding little graphics, etc.)

You've made it even in Polish, my goodness you're so awsome, god thank you, thank you!!! Polish slavs approves your effort in making dnd easier 💪

I've made a sheet very similar to this one before! Fantastic set up

Coolest character sheet ever

Indeed you can fix any issue of space by just adding more pages..

As a Graphic Designer, I approve.

Yes yes yes. Literally so simple for newer players. Thank you so goddamn much.

Wow, this is awesome.

I like the sheet idea! I believe I just received some bardic inspiration! I really like how the majority of what a player would need is on page 1 including for the combat and skill checks. I would like to see some spellcasting stuff in there though for ease of access (even though most players use spellcards these days). Not a huge fan of having 3 passives though. I usually limit passives to Investigation and Perception, expecially since Insight will almost always be contested by a Deception check unless it is for a DC that is interchangeable with other skills or the target is being truthful. More passives means less interactions from players, and passive skill averages should generally be a guideline for DMs and not necessarily visible to players. I like the idea of players having questline notes and NPC / PC notes. Also, having a kill count isn't a bad idea either; the DM in me wants to use that kill tracker sometime to have a NPC come after a specific PC for killing someone. There is a lot here that helps DMs keep track of what the PC knows and how they think which is super helpful.

This is so much more practical than the classic sheet! Now I want to design a custom character sheet layout to suit my style...

That kind of binding is like an Aztec book.

Awesome content here man!

Super cool dude!

That’s a really good start, with some great ideas. Though there’s still room for improvement. As a graphic designer, I too was planning on designing an improved character sheet shortly after starting the game, though I felt I needed to learn to play properly first. But then my group found dndbeyond and we just went digital with it instead. But it’s nice to see someone improving the printout. I might return to the project though. This was inspiring.

Love this sheet! Tried out at a first session with a new group/campaign. It took me a few minutes to get used to it just because I'm so used to the "normal" sheets. Yes, please give us a video on how to make the cover!

This guy deserves the nobel prize for rpg peace of mind

That is awesome!

Oh wow, I love it!

I love this!!!

Love it! I want it