The people in my group had been a bit upset about the character sheets, saying 4 pages was just too much to look at. So I decided to make my own coustom character sheets.

I figured that most of the problem was that no matter what class you chose, there would be some ambiguity to the sheet as you would not use every space. I started by moving each group of diciplines to seperate sheets and then reducing the main sheets to two pages. This creates the situation where each character will only have to print off the pages he needs to use. I did not make combinations for all the classes (such as a magic/psychic combination), however I plan to finish that out after I iron out these 4 pages.

This is an initial draft and not final. However these pages are kinda the way I am going. I would like some comments and suggestions as you come up with them. I also plan to release a Character Sheet v2 where I add some of the fixes that I made for these, but I would like to know what is good in your eyes.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4BBL4N2G

or

http://docs.google.com/#folders/folder.0.0BxYiOqE1Mt0VZWI0NmQ0YjAtMjczYy00NTBjLWIxMzMtNWNhYTk4ZGNkYjFh

Notes:

==Character Sheet Redux==

I set to remove as much as information as possible on the first page such that the most relevant information was at the front. Followed by the player's equipment in the back. However, I was not able to properly find a place to put the Martial Arts. I may switch this with the modules unit on the first page. I also added a circle that was needed for DP spending on the "life points" bar.

==Ki==

Two things changed. First I gave Ki and accu. circles for Development Point Spending and second I added some larger ability boxes. I dont know about you, but when I made a few I was constantly running out of space. I added the large boxes and small boxes (probably about half each)

==Magic and Summoning==

I originaly decided to make Summoning its own sheet, but then I realized that most of the page will be blank (as you will see in psychic in a moment). This page suffers from much white space, but I think it makes it look simple. Such that a person can grab it and easily find his information that he needs. Any ideas about what to fill here are appreciated.

==Psychic==

Main problem: Lots of white space. No one ever plays a psychic in my group, so I have no clue what to put here as much as the others. However, What I did is I added a box for the current FreePP. Then I extended some of the boxes. (psychic diciplines now has 8 boxes). I left much room for "notes". I think this looks a bit sloppy, but I would like many ideas about what to use this space for.

Yay! custom character sheets. Maybe there should be a modding community for all the tools of this system lol.

i agree with most of your character sheet design choices, and i've been making and adjusting them for a while, though my photoshopping skills are not quite as good as yours i see (very crisp and clean layout). For some additional suggestions i would quote what some of my players told me about how the sheet didn't give them the tools they needed play.

Mainly:

not enough room for psychic powers / magic spells.

Ki is totally absurd for how it's represented on the sheet, need actual values and current pool.

Ki tech trees need a descriptor box for flavor, more room for abilities.

quick lookup information is distributed all throughout the sheet, want on one page.

many characters fight with 1 weapon, other characters fight with many (weaponmasters), should have more boxes on seperate sheet.

With that i offer the ones i have worked on. My latest version is v1.5 so please click on the subfolder.

http://docs.google.com/#folders/folder.0.0Bw6m-aNBSyZNNTE3ODI5NzktNzUzNC00ZWVjLTkzMTQtOGQ3NjFlM2RhNTM1

Oh wow those look really nice.

I am auctally not using photoshop, but a thing called foxit editor. Its a .pdf editor and it is able to take the individual images and allow me to move them around. This first draft was just me moving around the different parts to where I felt comfortable. It looks like you are several steps ahead of where I have started. Also it looks like we have decided on doing some of the same design choices. (heh)

Yeah I like looking at this and see that other people agree with seperating the different parts that are needed for each different character. I am taking a look at yours and seeing what I can do.

Also you say most of my lines are cleaner, but when I was editing these items, I just eyeballed many of the different parts about where to put them. (heh)

Thanks for the documents and suggestions.

PS: For bought spells I will just print of the spell sheet that is in the support section of this website. It includes plenty of room to fully describe the spells.

Also your link reminded me that I have a google account also.

http://docs.google.com/#folders/folder.0.0BxYiOqE1Mt0VZWI0NmQ0YjAtMjczYy00NTBjLWIxMzMtNWNhYTk4ZGNkYjFh