Character sheets? I know your probably wondering why I'm bringing up character sheets in a creative composição literária area. The fact is character sheets can be an important tool to your writing.
If you Outline or came up with a character that you don't think quite fits in your current story, a sheet is a good tool to you.
Character sheets are a good way to keep track of your characters. Their growth as you go; It helps you work out little quirks in their personality like for example 'Twitch bites his nails when he doesn't have his twin nearby'. Every little bit helps with keeping things in mind and expanding upon them plus if you want to bring them to life in a role-play you have exactly what you need.
They are a fun way to keep your characters in order and tell them apart. If you outline then you have a nice quick reference sheet that you can look at their appearance, personality, backstory, etc.
It allows you to write down little things such as secrets, likes, dislikes, fears, family members, pets, addictions. Their friends and Enemies are also what you can write down. It can help with flaws if you fear the notorious Mary Sue or you know you have a Mary Sue and you want to fix it. Then if you have a lot of characters you have a way to make sure you don't miss one.
Character reference sheet types
Now that we've looked at how helpful they can be lets look at the types.
There's your basic D&D sheet. Complicated and requires a lot of math but, then you know exactly what your character's limits are in dice rolls.
There's sheets you can print off from Deviant art and fill out.
You can make up your own. Which is often used in role-plays on the web, especially ones that are on forums.
The main things that you keep in one of the simpler sheets are ones that state. Name, Age, Description, Other. Then there are some that are much mais complicated.
Here are some examples of sheets you could use as a templet that I use.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Powers:
appearance:
Personality
Bio:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race, Species:
Powers:
Weaknesses:
Appearance:
Personality:
Backstory:
Other:
This one is about as in-depth as you can get though people don't really enjoy filling these out for role-plays. When rping the key thing to keep in mind is make it as short as possible but, still long enough where it goes into enough depth that people aren't confused or someone isn't bringing in a absolute MarySue. I most commonly use the segundo one. Feel free to mix and match and customize them like if you were doing, lets say a Harry Potter role-play it'd probably be good to do a sheet like this one below labeled Hp Sheet.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Species:
Powers/abilities:
Weaknesses:(both powers and general weaknesses - a disability or anything that limits them)
Appearance:
Personality:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Skills:
Weapons:
Family:
Friends:
enemies:
Backstory:
Pets:
Quirks:
fears:
Secrets:
sexuality:
Occupation:
Picture:
birthplace:
current location:
height:
weight:
Other:
Harry Potter sheet:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Blood status:
Wand(wood, core, length, flexibility):
House:
animagus:
Personality:
Appearance:
Backstory:
Other:
The options of what you can do with a sheet are practically limitless. Now I hope that after you read this you went and decided to make your own or start mapping out your characters.
If you Outline or came up with a character that you don't think quite fits in your current story, a sheet is a good tool to you.
Character sheets are a good way to keep track of your characters. Their growth as you go; It helps you work out little quirks in their personality like for example 'Twitch bites his nails when he doesn't have his twin nearby'. Every little bit helps with keeping things in mind and expanding upon them plus if you want to bring them to life in a role-play you have exactly what you need.
They are a fun way to keep your characters in order and tell them apart. If you outline then you have a nice quick reference sheet that you can look at their appearance, personality, backstory, etc.
It allows you to write down little things such as secrets, likes, dislikes, fears, family members, pets, addictions. Their friends and Enemies are also what you can write down. It can help with flaws if you fear the notorious Mary Sue or you know you have a Mary Sue and you want to fix it. Then if you have a lot of characters you have a way to make sure you don't miss one.
Character reference sheet types
Now that we've looked at how helpful they can be lets look at the types.
There's your basic D&D sheet. Complicated and requires a lot of math but, then you know exactly what your character's limits are in dice rolls.
There's sheets you can print off from Deviant art and fill out.
You can make up your own. Which is often used in role-plays on the web, especially ones that are on forums.
The main things that you keep in one of the simpler sheets are ones that state. Name, Age, Description, Other. Then there are some that are much mais complicated.
Here are some examples of sheets you could use as a templet that I use.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Powers:
appearance:
Personality
Bio:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race, Species:
Powers:
Weaknesses:
Appearance:
Personality:
Backstory:
Other:
This one is about as in-depth as you can get though people don't really enjoy filling these out for role-plays. When rping the key thing to keep in mind is make it as short as possible but, still long enough where it goes into enough depth that people aren't confused or someone isn't bringing in a absolute MarySue. I most commonly use the segundo one. Feel free to mix and match and customize them like if you were doing, lets say a Harry Potter role-play it'd probably be good to do a sheet like this one below labeled Hp Sheet.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Species:
Powers/abilities:
Weaknesses:(both powers and general weaknesses - a disability or anything that limits them)
Appearance:
Personality:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Skills:
Weapons:
Family:
Friends:
enemies:
Backstory:
Pets:
Quirks:
fears:
Secrets:
sexuality:
Occupation:
Picture:
birthplace:
current location:
height:
weight:
Other:
Harry Potter sheet:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Blood status:
Wand(wood, core, length, flexibility):
House:
animagus:
Personality:
Appearance:
Backstory:
Other:
The options of what you can do with a sheet are practically limitless. Now I hope that after you read this you went and decided to make your own or start mapping out your characters.