Mediakorento’s Pathfinder Character Sheet

     Based on suggestions from Black Fang and Corrosive Rabbit in Paizo’s unofficial chat, I made a 5th level alchemist. And what a lucky alchemist. Has there ever been such a pretty character sheet? The background really makes this sheet pop and a lot of thought must have gone into the layout. It is atypical but logical, nicely spaced, easy on the eyes. This is not a beauty pageant, but the extra effort Mediakorento put into their character’s sheet’s look is much appreciated.
      I say extra effort because any energy spent on the visuals was not at the expense of the character sheet’s usability. Each page is landscape format, divided by a margin into two smaller pages. Page 1-1 is for ability scores, AC, saves, attacks, and HP. It’s hard to even understand how so much information fits into so little space without feeling cramped. Page 1-2 is all skills, and does almost everything I would want the skill section of a character sheet to do. Skills that suffer from armour check penalties are noted, as are skills that can be performed untrained. The +3 class skill bonus is a check box rather than an empty box to fill in, saving space and time. My only complaint, as it pertains to the alchemist I am building, is that there is only one listing of the craft skill even though there are many versions of this one skill.
      Page 2-1 manages personal information, class, possessions, and languages. Most of this information is usually crammed onto the first page of a character sheet. Although that may be the instinctive place for this information, Mediakorento makes a decent argument that it isn’t the best place. The area for possessions and wealth lacks any kind of subdivision, meaning a filled out sheet is kind of a mess of information, especially the wealth. Maybe the idea was to keep it generic so it works for all classes. Regardless, this is easily the weak point of the character sheet.
2-2 is all about lists. List your feats, your racial abilities, your class features. Much appreciated is the section for limited use class features like rage and bardic performance. It makes managing them real easy. There is no room to describe any of the abilities, unfortunately, which means forgetful players may as well use this page to bookmark their class and race since they will have to keep referencing them.
     Page 4 is the spellcaster page. I much prefer character sheets that confine caster-related information to its own page so non-casters can just ignore that page. Class-specific options, like bloodline, domains, and specialty school, do not take up much space and are grouped together effectively. Since all three class features need similar space, a single section named school/domain/bloodline ability minimizes space used without neglecting the space required. The section for familiars is the only space on the entire character sheet that feels cramped. Not calling the space familiar/companion was more honest but leaves druids and rangers high and dry.
     With regards to input, the pdf allows manual entry of data but does not do any calculations. Basically the input feature means that this character sheet works equally for players that prefer using computers or pencils to fill out a character sheet.
     This character sheet handled my alchemist very well, but I can see other classes it would have trouble with. As mentioned above, any class with animal companions. Classes with class features that branch, like rage powers and rogue talents. However, this is true of all generic character sheets. There are optimized character sheets that are better for specific classes. What Mediakorento seems to have created is the greatest generic Pathfinder character sheet.

Highly recommended