Anima: Beyond Fantasy Character Sheets

These character sheets are insane!  Did these several years ago and I can't believe I even had the nerve.  In order to do them I had to read the Anima: Beyond Fantasy Core Rule Book cover-to-cover and learn the system inside out.  Anyone who's done that knows what I'm talking about.  Holy......

It's a cool game though.  But the effort it would take to play it is enormous.  Anima is one of those games that people want to play but nobody wants to run.  You literally need to use a calculator.

The official character sheets for the game cover everything well, but there is waaay too much black. Designing these sheets tested my organizational skills to the max and they're the first sheets that I ever imported images on to.  I was thrilled that I was able to pull off the magic diagrams on the magic sheets.  I learned a ton working on these, but they look old compared to what I produce now.

Anyhow, for those of you out there that are fans of this gorgeous looking, yet complex game, I hope you find these useful, or at least interesting.

Anima: Beyond Fantasy

Main Page

Optional Back 1

Optional Back 2

Optional Back 3

Magic Sheet A

Magic Sheet B

Wow.

First Post: D&D 5th Edition Character Sheets

I've spent years designing character sheets for various RPG's that only a handful of people have ever seen or used.  It is time to share them.  I also love drawing character sketches and have drawn HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS.  It's time to share some of them too.  This is an experiment, as I have never blogged before, so please bare with...

Nothing is more fundamental to a Role-Playing Game than the character sheet.  Very rarely, if ever, do I see a character sheet for a published game and not want to tweak or completely redesign it.  I know hard work was put into many of them, and some are beautiful, but how many are practical and user friendly?  Subjective I suppose.  For me a character sheet must be eye-catching, practical, and atmospheric.

Over the course of time I will be posting Character Sheets for the following games:  D&D 5E, Pathfinder 1E, Dark Heresy, Mongoose Traveller 1E and 2E, Cyberpunk 2020, Symbaroum, Numemera, Savage Worlds, Palladium Games, Mutants & Masterminds, Anima, Iron Kingdoms, Lamentations of the Flame Princess,  and others.  Many of these have multiple versions (especially Traveller -- at least a dozen.)

Let's start with the most popular game out there...

This is my standard version for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

D&D5thStandard

Below is the Spell Sheet.

D&D5thSpellsheet

Here is a link to both files combined.

D&D5thStandardplusSpellsheet

And here's one of my character sketches.

That does it for now.