Hi everyone!

I have been attempting to re-format my various characters' Player Notes, to increase their legibility and usefulness to potential collaborators. I am super curious to see how others have formatted theirs, and how much information people have added over time, outside of what is required for their character.

Here is a reminder of what the current Character Creator requires people to fill out:

What is the most important thing, to you, for others to know about your character? What do you wish others would include in theirs? As a writer? As an artist?

Do you put absolutely everything about them, or leave it more open-ended? Do you include 'depiction tips', their combat stats, their personality and likes/dislikes? Their fears? Etc. 

I'm super curious!

— Ford

Ive seen people include a full body reference sheet. I find this really helpful.

On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:12:51 GMT, BogusRed said in post id 46736:

Ive seen people include a full body reference sheet. I find this really helpful.

Of definitely! As for writers, I really enjoy a highly detailed descrption, especially as it pertains to their outfit/style.

Among my old role-playing groups, I often saw the use of face claims, which I've found the most useful.

This has been the latest draft of my character sheet Player Notes, including a modified layout to hopefully direct the eye

I like adding a quick stat bar for my character for generic RPG style areas [Strength, Speed, Magic, Defense] to give people a quick look for battle art.

I've just started re formatting my pages for each of my characters, including adding a relationships section that links back to other folks characters, quotes as a tool for writers to get an idea of how a charater might speak, alternate outfits, voice headcanons, and instrument audio examples (if applicable).

((thanks for linking me here Ford!))

Oooh, like sort of a Head Canons section? That's awesome! Thanks for the idea!

Rambling about stuff and things? Don't mind if I do!

I don't personally really deviate much from the required information. I might not have anything more, or I just don't feel like it's necessary. I basically only add height, a fullbody reference link, and a Toyhouse profile link (if the latter two exist, that is). I use player notes to showcase the character's basics - for the rest that goes deeper, if there is any of that, I use Toyhouse. It gives me more freedom to make things look nice, and shove in as much or as little as I want or have. Since I really like coding with HTML and CSS, the editor we have in PD is simply too restrictive for my needs. It doesn't let me do what I want for multiple reasons, but mostly because it culls some specific styling out of the code completely once it's saved. 😔 I also might have a lot of text, and player notes don't feel like the place for a novel's worth of biography (not that my character bios aren't long by default already but that's besides the point...). But that's just how I see it.

I have fully coded player notes only for Caspian and Kyy so far, but my goal is to have something slightly unique for all of my characters at some point. With only the basics down, I go very simple with just a tiny bit of styling and padding.