5th Edition Character Sheet - OSR Sensibility

[tdenmark]

Here at the Denmark household we've been playing 5th edition and for the most part having a blast. But there are some really unnecessary complications. Well for my kids anyways. In particular the character sheet is a bit convoluted. I made a streamlined version that has the general information you actually need during play in a more organized and legible manner.



If you're curious I have a full resolution version on my blog you can download and print out for your game.
You can find it here.

[Finarvyn]

Well done. I keep thinking about making up my own 5E sheet. My thought is to put each skill under the appropriate stat and color code them somehow. I like what you have done, however, and it is pretty simple!

[jeffb]

This is awesome, thanks. I keep wanting to run a game for my wife and daughter with 5E (so I can use some products I shelled out for on DMs Guild) and most of the character sheets out there are way too busy. I've only found one other that is decent, but I like this better.

Question- Has 5E gone the way of PF2 and renamed "race' as Ancestry?

[hamurai]

Apr 28, 2020 6:51:34 GMT -6 jeffb said:

Question- Has 5E gone the way of PF2 and renamed "race' as Ancestry?

Nope.

Apr 28, 2020 6:40:01 GMT -6 Finarvyn said:

My thought is to put each skill under the appropriate stat and color code them somehow.

There are already lots of sheets around with that tweak.

[sixdemonbag]

Snagged a copy. Very nice!

[tdenmark]

Apr 28, 2020 6:51:34 GMT -6 jeffb said:

Question- Has 5E gone the way of PF2 and renamed "race' as Ancestry?

Oh, heh, that's a bit of my own preference. I've been working on a lot of cross-genre stuff (as is evident from my OSR RPG's) and wanted to genericize "race" into something that would work regardless of genre.

[tdenmark]

Apr 28, 2020 6:40:01 GMT -6 Finarvyn said:

Well done. I keep thinking about making up my own 5E sheet. My thought is to put each skill under the appropriate stat and color code them somehow. I like what you have done, however, and it is pretty simple!

There are some family friendly 5th edition character sheets that do that pretty well.

I dropped Skills altogether from this sheet to encourage my kids to do their own puzzle solving rather than just rolling a skill and letting the character sheet solve the problem for them. We do still write down key skills in the abilities section.

[hamurai]

Apr 28, 2020 6:40:01 GMT -6 Finarvyn said:

My thought is to put each skill under the appropriate stat.

Here's a nice collection: www.dmsguild.com/product/232835/Class-Character-Sheets--The-Bundle

And it's PWYW

[tdenmark]

Apr 28, 2020 11:59:51 GMT -6 hamurai said:

Here's a nice collection: www.dmsguild.com/product/232835/Class-Character-Sheets--The-Bundle

And it's PWYW

That's a good one. Here is another good one we've used:

www.dmsguild.com/product/245446/Kid-Friendly-Character-Sheet

[asaki]

Apr 28, 2020 6:40:01 GMT -6 Finarvyn said:

My thought is to put each skill under the appropriate stat and color code them somehow. I like what you have done, however, and it is pretty simple!

They have an official one like that. Download 5E_CHARACTERSHEETSV3.zip from the Wizards site, and the one you want is called "Character Sheet - Alternative - Print Version.pdf".

dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/trpg-resources/trpg-resources <-- it's under "Fifth Edition Character Sheets"

Personally, I find it faster to find the skills alphabetically than to try to memorize what stat they belong to, but it's nice to have options.

[tdenmark]

Listened to some of your feedback and did an alternate version that includes Skills. Also added Passive Perception.



Full rez version here:
dungeoneering.blogspot.com/2020/05/5th-edition-character-sheet-family.html