[DL] Character Sheets in General

["Ronald Conner" <ronald@teleport.com>]

Here is my gripe as of today.

The first edition character sheet was good.  It works for all characters
without needing a lot of fancy replacement in  the margins  But it had
limited space for character background, description, and gear while giveing
too much space for worst nightmare which should only be about two lines
anyway.  The color was light which made it print faster on my stupid inkjet
and it was a very western feeling document.

The Second edition added some nice features, slots for pace, wind, size and
grit but adding the chip slots for paper clips was a mistake in my mind.
Paper clips are great for in game markings but in the long term they are a
lousy way to keep track of things because they move, fall off, or just get
lost.  The new skills and updated arcane abilities section were great but
didn't really change the sheet that much.  My only real problems with it
were it didn't feel western, and it was dark, heavily colored and took way
too much ink, time and effort on my part to get it to come out right.

What I really want is something a bit less cluttered.  Allan's sheet covers
all the bases and looks really great but it is still just another redo of
the origonal.  (no offense allan it really is good)  Now given all this and
the totallity of the different backgrounds, arcane and otherwise.  What
really did it for me was the Agent sheet.

It finally clicked for me.  We need sheets that pander to my selfish whims.
We need sheets for each character class.  I would cut out a lot of different
things that you really don't need for a simple character.  I mean do you
really need arcane abilities when you are just a simple cowpoke?  Pull it
out and give me more space to list my weapons!  I've got a player with 8
guns and ammo for each and he doesn't have enough space to list it all.  Now
I know this is a bit excessive, (that's why we call him the Gun Bunny) but
can we have some nice themed sheets for indains?  They have special needs
when it comes down to character generation, tibe, language, history family
this all warrents more space for character discription and such.

I don't have the skills or the programs to do what some of you guys do but I
know that you can.

All I want is something light on the printer, easy on the eye that shoots
specificly for each character type without throwing in a lot of unnecessary
stuff.

Ron "That's my whine for the year and I'm sticking to it" conner