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Character Sheets (Dungeons & Dragons Accessory)

Character Sheets (Dungeons & Dragons Accessory)

List Price: $9.95
Your Price: $8.96
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Every player will need one.
Review: Get one (And only one) of these for yourself or any semi-serious D&D player you know. The character sheets are excellently designed for your D&D d20 system (3rd edition) needs. The sheets have plenty of spaces, boxes, and checklists to help keep you organized and give you easy access to all your player stats. Included in the package are one sheet each for all 11 player classes; Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, and Wizard, plus one for Multi-classed characters or characters with a custom class. Also included is a sheet for tracking magic item stats, one for companion animals, one for mounts, and a variety of spell lists for each type of spellcaster. To top it off, WotC designed the sheets to be easily photocopied and grants you permission to photocopy for personal use. God Bless them, every one!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Rather [weak]
Review: Honestly, you can find better character sheets for free out on the web, made by fans. This product just basically gives you customized character sheets for each class, with the class already filled in, and all the class skills already checkmarked, and I believe the hit dies were already filled in too. Oh, there is a blank sheet included as well for the multi-class characters. The 32 sheets or so in this product aren't even going to get you started, especially when so many of them are unusable because they're a class that you never play. The sheets are all in black and white, and the paper stock isn't really anything fancier than regular copier paper.

All in all, give this thing a pass. Print out something from the web and go somewhere to take a bunch of copies. You'll be much happier and get a better value for money.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: JUST GOT THESE
Review: I could have printed these off of the net someplace for free. Only spend the money on these if you have access to a photocopier so that you can reuse them. At that point they are a pretty decent buy I would day.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Ultimate in Record Keeping
Review: I have recently used these third edition character sheets. They offer spaces to record all of your information, and are very copier friendly. Also, there is enough room on them to record all your gold, silver, jewelry, gems, weapons, etc. etc. etc. I reccommend this to anyone planning on playing Third Edition Dungeons and Dragons.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very good, a few problems though.
Review: I really like these, because making characters is very fun. The prewritten info is really helpful, such as the Turning Undead chart on the cleric sheet, and the Hit Die. The main problems are:There is a mistake on the Barbarian sheet, and after I bought them, I found them for free on the Internet. I would have rated this lower, but the Character Generator CD-ROM that was in the back of the PH only works on Windows, and I have a Macintosh, so I couldn't use the CD-ROM instead.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Almost perfect-Definitely a welcome addition to the game!
Review: I would give the product five stars but I have a few items to mention. Other than the mentions that will follow, I found the sheets to be an excellent tool for keeping track of the character and complicated NPCs. There is even a sheet for animal companions/familiars with space on the back for detailing complicated magical items. There is a seperate sheet, front and back, for each of the character classes. Then there are spell sheets with spell listings for each of the spell casting classes. Here's the first place that the sheets run afoul of the real world. A lot of time and money has been spent on creating new spells for all the classes and 3E now looks like a small list compared to the supplements that are available in so many places. A player can pencil her favorite extra spells in, but then she might wind up with a cluttered sheet anyway. If you are playing strictly by the books however, it is excellent. There is a little bit of this involved in the PC sheets as well. Players will want to bring in special classes. There is a generic PC sheet included but it won't be as nice as the customized sheets for say, a cleric, which includes the Turning Undead table. Again, those who follow the rule book closely will find this accessory indespensible. Do you want nitpicking? The barbarian sheet indicates that the character gets a d8 for hitpoints when the player handbook clearly indicates the barbarian gets d12. Small thing to pick on, but it makes one wonder if there aren't one or two more missed typos. Even if you are into making your own character sheets by pencil or laser printer, you would do well to consider these sheets as reference for your own layout. The inside cover is a detailed process for building your character. One more plus, the back cover has one of my favorite new artwork pieces from 3E. It is a female Halfling Rogue. I'll admit that I am biased, I like halflings and this one is a great representation of the new and improved halfling race.I am quite glad to have purchased this item.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Quite useful
Review: If you are a D&D player who plans on adventuring in 3rd edition this is a definite pick-up. Inside are several character sheets 1 for each class and 1 for Multi classed, along with the authority to photocopy them as needed for personal use. These sheets will save you alot of time and trouble, each lists every skill on the sheets whether you character has that skill or not he is going to need a majority of them because a new rule in the game allows you to use certain skills even if you didn't put points into them. D&Ders pick these up they will save you a lot of heartache.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great if its in a PDF format
Review: On the one hand, they're such nice character sheets. They're quite high-quality, and are fairly well-designed.

On the other, gosh, they're expensive, and the only one I've ever used was the multiclass sheet. Often they're too focused on the class. ... if you do get it, it's fairly nice.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not bad, but scarcely necessary.
Review: On the one hand, they're such nice character sheets. They're quite high-quality, and are fairly well-designed.

On the other, gosh, they're expensive, and the only one I've ever used was the multiclass sheet. Often they're too focused on the class. ... if you do get it, it's fairly nice.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: It coulda been somebody!
Review: The character sheet accessory is only worth the purchase if you (like me) could not get a good photocopy of the character sheet provided in the PH. The different class character sheets are really not specific to classes, expect for the fact the class name is printed in the class space, and cross-class skills are marked out for you. This is fine if you want to keep your Half-Orc Barbarian single-class, but what happens when you want to multi-class him? The only character sheet I photocopied for use in my own campaign was the generic one. 10 bucks for one lousy good photocopy-able sheet.

This supplement could've included a lot more than a familiar sheet and spell-planning sheets, and should've included a player's screen (since the cardboard packaging it came in would fit the bill). If someone else you know has already bought this (but don't ask me), get some copies off of them and skip this product. It's just not necessary to the game, and the cost is really too much for this kind of product. Five bucks would've been more in range.


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