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simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:35 pm
by capmarvel
I know C&C is "rules light" (or at least "rules lighter"), but the Character Sheet can still be "intimidating" for a beginner.
Has anyone take a stab at a simplified sheet for "newbies" that has the "minimum" to get a character going?
Obviously this may also be useful for "veteran players" that just want to do a quick game.
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:49 pm
by seskis281
Argoforg created a simple fold character sheet and someone else had done a "notepad" sheet, both are still on the C&C resources page over at Dragonsfoot
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/cc
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 2:17 pm
by capmarvel
Thanks for the link!
However...I'm assuming of the lets say 50 categories on a character sheet, you only really need 20 (or 10) to "get started". Maybe that's not true...I'm still learning (not far into Players Handbook so far). Basically want a simplified sheet for myself and perhaps my kids (assuming I can convince them to play) - I don't want them to feel intimidated that their doing an advanced physics test instead of playing a game. I don't know the rules enough yet to know what to strip out and still keep the game "playable".
Hope that makes sense.
PS - some may say "well, just play Savage Worlds then if you want only 10 things on a character sheet"....or play Basic Fantasy or something ....well, I want to play C&C

Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 3:14 pm
by PeelSeel2
I got done with one for my new C&C campaign. Let me know what you think.
http://www.saathoffauction.com/peelseel ... _v1.093013
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 3:21 pm
by capmarvel
Beautiful! That's exactly the type of sheet I was hoping for.
Thanks!!
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 2:32 am
by Treebore
For beginners? I want to use this!
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:30 pm
by Relaxo
That's slick!
I might just suggest adding check boxes for Prime Attributes, but that's easy to do without them.
I really like this!
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 4:01 pm
by PeelSeel2
The circles next to stats. One for attribute modifier, one for siege target number. I wanted to leave it slightly ambiguous for all the house rule variants. Like 12/15/18, 12/14/16, 0 +2 +4, 0 +3 +6, etc. It easily fits the variants into single character sheet.
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:20 pm
by kreider204
This is awesome - thank you very much for sharing!
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:01 pm
by Relaxo
PeelSeel2 wrote:The circles next to stats. One for attribute modifier, one for siege target number. I wanted to leave it slightly ambiguous for all the house rule variants. Like 12/15/18, 12/14/16, 0 +2 +4, 0 +3 +6, etc. It easily fits the variants into single character sheet.
Oh duh.
I took that as the first one is + or - and the next one is the modifier.
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:41 pm
by Lobo316
That's pretty nice Peel! I've got a 10 year old son who has several friends around his age I was considering introducing to some classic RP Gaming, and this is pretty much a perfect sheet for such project.
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:53 pm
by NJPDX
Very nicely made. I love the Spartan simplicity.
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:57 pm
by Relaxo
Hey Lobo,
If your son like Pirates, check out the link in my Sig!
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:25 pm
by Lobo316
Relaxo wrote:Hey Lobo,
If your son like Pirates, check out the link in my Sig!
Nice! Pretty neat that!
Re: simplified character sheet for beginners?
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:31 am
by Relaxo
Aww shucks.
Thanks for forgiving my shameless and awkward plug.
