As part of my DM screen, I have a Character Cheat Sheet I use to quick reference my players. This helps me not have to jump into DND Beyond each time we look at something like movement speed, AC, or even as a reminder to special equipment they have.
You can access a sample one here and copy it for your campaign. Below are a few notes of what I include:
One big note! Because I’m using a table in Google Docs, you can’t use the “tab” button to create a tab in the cells. It will just jump you to the next cell. So I instead highlight a tab in the document and copy and paste it (helps keep it nice and neat).
Now here are the elements:
- Character Name – I found that making the font size big on this helped me reference it faster
- Class, AC, and HP are pretty straightforward
- I put Walk and Swim/Climb especially because a few of my characters have modified climb speeds.
- Darkvision! – Because this way you avoid everyone telling you at once lol
- Languages is a huge help when planning and playing
- Special is my section for equipment, abilities, etc.
- I included weight/height and I even created a class of A, B, C, D to denote overall who was smaller (A) or larger (D). This is because I use the book The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters. It’s a wonderful book. In the section on Phase Spiders, it specifically talks about when they would attack the larger targets and when the smaller ones.
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