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I'm back as planned with some quick information and images. This time around it's the character sheet options that will be available in next week's Character Builder. Currently we have two different character sheet formats you can view and print out for your characters. Now, I am a bit late with this today so we'll get one up and I'll try to get the other up tomorrow.

The two formats we have are called "Essentials" and "Character Builder." I personally love the "Character Builder" format so I'll start with that one.

Without further preamble, here's the first page:


This first page has all the basics stats you would need from a quick glance including skills, defenses, hit points, attacks and passive numbers. This fits the same basic format I used for a lot of my character sheet builds in previous versions of the builder so I'm pretty happy with it. I often put my feats on that first page too after moving some fields around, but I'm really happy with how they look in this format as well. On that note, here's the second page:


I really like the space devoted to feats here - I don't have to worry about missing some of the feat information or having all that text crowded together. Same thing with Racial and class features. I leveled up the character I was using for previous examples up to 11 to grab some more feats and a paragon path so we could see some more of this space used.

I also want to note that I chose a class feature that might have the most text in the game - Wild Magic. I was relatively certain that the character sheet wouldn't include all the charts and text found in the book, but I wanted to see what it did actually display. This is one of those cases where you'll want to print off a copy of the charts and keep it with your character as the charts don't ever change as you level.

And to the last page with character info and equipment:


I didn't fill out everything as fully as I could have, but you should get a good idea of the features and available space on the sheet. The equipment slots easily show what's equipped where and is a good way to verify if you've equipped something of it's just sitting around in your inventory, and I love all the space dedicated to character info. But enough about what I like, let me know what you think.

I'll be back tomorrow and I'll add the "Essentials" character sheet that you've probably seen a few times already and I'll try to answer any questions about the sheets that are brought up. And also for your viewing pleasure (and possibly finding some bugs/issues) here are some more powers:

Looks pretty good, thanks Trevor. I think it's much less overload with that good amount of white space throughout, and aesthetically pleasing in general.

Good looking stuff i like that the spaces for Feats is more large and clear to read. 3 sheets is a bit much though. Definitly like the new Power Cards layout.

Thanks Trevor for the sneek peek

Oh one thing Trevor,  the Sorcerer Daily Devour Magic is labeled as a Sorcerer Utility 10 at the bottom and clearly this is an Attack Power.

EDITED To Strikethrough

Oh yeah it destroy the conjurations porrbably more a Utility. You're right, i stand corrected. (I saw there was an Attack roll)

Two issues. With the cards not showing any math nor showing any information for the secondary attack you are left guessing on the attack and damage numbers for the secondary attack (and with this character I'd bet a fair number of people would get it wrong - heck I wouldn't be surprised if the character builder would get it wrong)

Second - the character is wielding two implements that he could cast through - but only one of them has calculations done for it in the power cards.

(also kind of sad that it appears that there is no way to show Ensorcelled Blade in place of the Melee Basic attack on the first page)