mrcj
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Post by mrcj on May 18, 2014 9:01:58 GMT -8
So this is a real nuts and bolts kind of comment. Usually when I GM I had the players hold their character sheets and take them home, bring them to the next session. I have also been in a game where at the end of the session we all handed in our characters and go them passed back to us when the next session began.
I can see the pluses and minuses of each.
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Post by greatwyrm on May 18, 2014 9:20:43 GMT -8
At first, I didn't really care. After enough times of people losing or forgetting them, I started keeping character sheets. Plus, if I need to check on something to plan an adventure, I already have them.
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Post by HourEleven on May 18, 2014 10:54:07 GMT -8
I use a scan to PDF app on my phone to make a digital copy of everyone's sheets. They keep them. If they lose them, I just hit print on my phone and we are good to go. Also, I have a copy then for planning challenges and encounters.
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Post by Forresst on May 19, 2014 17:43:35 GMT -8
For my online games I keep a dropbox for each campaign that everyone puts at least 1 copy of their character sheet in. It's less for some kind of planning thing (I don't generally plan encounters to my party's skills. They have plenty of skills and there's never less than 5 ways to solve a problem.) and more just a "now they can't get lost yay" thing.
For my IRL game, we all keep our sheets with us and bring them to each session. We've had only 1 or 2 sessions where one of us would have forgotten our sheet in the whole time I've played with this group.
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Post by Kainguru on May 19, 2014 23:17:02 GMT -8
Players sheet - players responsibility. I keep my own separate, GM, notes of important stuff I need. Besides I can read the worst handwriting of consultants but some players = ill-fucking-legible cryptographs. Aaron
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Post by Luckstrider on May 21, 2014 14:28:11 GMT -8
Who needs sheets man...
I offer to keep them but most of my players take their own or keep digital copies on an app on their device which they share with me.
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Post by sbloyd on May 26, 2014 12:19:07 GMT -8
The character sheets are holding you back, man!
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Post by guitarspider on May 26, 2014 14:13:08 GMT -8
The person whose house/apartment we play at keeps them.
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C. A. Lazerdwarf
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Post by C. A. Lazerdwarf on May 26, 2014 18:00:26 GMT -8
I keep electronic versions of all my character sheets (I can't read my own handwriting any more), multiple versions backed up. If my GM wants them, he's free to have a copy, but we've never had a problem with people forgetting their sheets. Happened maybe once in all the years we've played.
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Post by tomes on May 27, 2014 9:10:43 GMT -8
I've been holding onto my PC sheets recently cause they're all newbs and don't really care, and we're all older and they don't seem to be super attached to the sheet, just the PC. I send out questionairres sometimes in between games and that's how they stay attached to the character... very different from prior games I had been in, but it's working so far. Also, I always get to refer to them when planning the next sessions.
If they wanted to hold on to them I'd do a "scan", but really just a photo with my phone... the quality is usually good enough to read.
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Post by jonas on Jun 14, 2014 14:01:13 GMT -8
My group is always playing at the same player's home, so she works as record keeper and keeps the character sheets in a box for safekeeping.
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