A player proves that something else in Dungeons & Dragons can be more important than a clear character sheet and creates a keepsake that looks like it belongs in a museum.
What does the player show? The player caironio shows the D&D community on Reddit a sheet of paper that would probably give goosebumps to a very organized player who values clarity.
With an attached proof photo, he shows the character sheet of his assassin rogue, for which he has used the same paper for 3 years from level 3 to level 20.
3 years and 17 level-ups mean a lot of changes that come with many new notes and just as much erasing, which all long-time players will be aware of. Yet the paper actually held up until the end.
This keepsake received almost 6,000 upvotes from enthusiastic players in the community, all showing a similar reaction: “The memories that this sheet of paper must hold are priceless” (MammothDesperate on Reddit).
Here you can see the trailer for the series adaptation of the D&D campaign “The Mighty Nein” by Critical Role, which also lasted 3 years:
Nothing else can be expected from a chaotic neutral rogue
What can be taken from the character sheet? Deciphering the character sheet is (besides the Italian language) easier said than done. After all, some aspects such as the attribute values and the equipment, but even more frequently the fluctuating gold balance and the hit points (oh, the poor, erased spot of the hit points) have been readjusted repeatedly.
Despite the mentioned eraser holes and a few torn spots, the paper held up and provides a few clues about the player’s rogue:
It is an assassin named “Mieze Franke,” who at level 20 had a dexterity of 20 and an even more impressive strength of 29, whose HP should break any rules. Yet, as mrmirscommunication points out on Reddit, that fits perfectly with a character with such a character sheet: “You wouldn’t expect anything else from a chaotic neutral elf rogue with a strength of 29, over 500 HP, and 4000 temporary HP. My God.”
How does the community react to the player’s paper? The community is really excited about the character sheet and all that it means for the player.
“Frame it and hang it up in the room where you play, it deserves its peace” is Maverick2664’s comment, and also lebiro believes that caironio has really created a wonderful keepsake with this decision: “The same paper throughout the entire campaign! That’s crazy. But what a cool souvenir from this whole time.”
Some players realize that such a memento is what they miss in digital gaming: “I definitely miss this since I switched to digital: the battle-scarred character sheet that you have at the end of a campaign” (BigriskLowrolls on Reddit).
But the duration of the campaign also shows some players what that could mean for their own campaigns: “I love how this person leveled from 3 to 20 in three years, while we’ve only reached level 5 since level 1 and haven’t even managed to finish the campaign” (Misses_Ding on Reddit).
If the player continues to care for this character sheet with the same “care” and provides it with a safe place, this souvenir could serve as a reminder of the past campaign for many more years. An older woman also carefully preserved her old D&D treasures, which her granddaughter and the community were happy to see: A grandma finds her old figures and books for Dungeons & Dragons, gives them to her granddaughter, who makes the community envious
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