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The Improved Pathfinder Character Sheet Redesign

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This Improved Pathfinder Character Sheet Redesign was made by a dissatisfied Pathfinder player for other Pathfinder players who are equally appalled by the vast lack of space and detail on all the other standard, run-of-the-mill character sheets they've tried. It's a redesigned PDF of the previous version, with much of the same content—just aesthetically streamlined a bit! 

TL;DR:

  • 8 pages of everything needed for recording a Pathfinder character of any level!
  • Form-fillable PDF with several auto-completing fields and lots of check boxes!
  • Greyscale layout so your printer doesn’t hate you!
  • Made from scratch using Adobe InDesign CC and Acrobat Pro DC!
  • What, exactly, is on each page? Continue reading to find out!
What's New?
  • It's less of an eyesore, with a nice light grey as the accent color instead of the solid black of the previous version!
  • Even more autocalculated fields! (pardon all the -5s that are the default ability modifiers on the sheet—I'm working on making sure those are blank from the get-go. They'll change to reflect your real stats once you put them in!)
  • More room for your prepared spell list. Your spellbook has more slots, too!
  • It's just much better in general, if you ask me. But I'm biased.

Because this thing is 8 pages, here’s a rundown on what’s on each page:

  • Page 1 has all your basic stats—ability scores, hit points, saving throws, and skills, as well as a box for you to record your character’s name (amongst other important things).
  • Page 2 has places to put all your defense and offense stuff. This includes your character’s armor class, defensive items and abilities, attack bonuses, and even some offensive abilities at the bottom.
  • Page 3 continues the theme of offense and thus has room for up to 5 attacks and all their details. It also has room for 19 feats (probably overkill) and three boxes for some other important things like languages. You gotta know these things.
  • Page 4 is your inventory page. Lots of fields for weapons, armor, magic items, and other gear. Even has a spot for you to keep track of how much money you have—fun!
  • Page 5 was made for those of us who play spellcasters! Spots for all the mechanical details such as spell slots and save DCs, a blank list for you to put in your prepared spells, and a box for both metamagic feats and spell-like abilities. The entire bottom half of the page is for special abilities, which is just a fancy term for things that don’t really go anywhere else on the sheet but probably should be recorded anyway.
  • Page 6 is just a bunch of blank form fields, but all of them are for spells. All of them.
  • Page 7 has space for all your non-statistical character details, because numbers get boring after six pages. Appearance, personality, and relations to other characters can be found here. Do you like having art of your characters? There’s a spot for that! Write ridiculously long backstories? I can’t guarantee you’ll be able to read the font size if you put it in the designated (and relatively large) box, but it’s worth a shot!
  • Page 8 gives you room to keep track of how much your character has grown as an adventurer. Seriously. With a row for each level you’ve gained, all the way up to 20, you can write down the important bits. And if you like having all your racial and class features in one place, put them here!
In future updates:
  • Getting rid of all those default numbers. I just gotta learn JavaScript first.
  • Keep an eye out for more titles coming from me soon! As of right now, I’m planning on releasing extras and add-ons such as spellcards, an adventure log, wild shape cards for the druids among us, animal and/or eidolon companion sheets, and an item body-slot page.

Do you have suggestions on what else I could make? Is there something horribly wrong with this character sheet that I desperately need to fix? Are you super confused with how this thing works? Just feeling lonely today and want to say hello? Leave a review or a comment and I’ll do my best to help!

Hopefully you guys like this revised layout! And, if you do, feel free to spread the word or support me and my other creative efforts by being an above-average customer. Or just buying it, period. That would be really cool.

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Steve N March 23, 2023 4:56 pm UTC
I would like to buy this sheet but I want to print them, preferably with no water mark.
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Dale S January 17, 2023 11:02 am UTC
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Your CMB is derived from STR too, not DEX as your sheet has it.
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Dale S January 16, 2023 9:23 pm UTC
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Hi Rachel. Is there any chance you could correct the Sense Motive attribute? As posted below, it should be wisdom, not charisma.

Many thanks.
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John C September 18, 2022 12:37 am UTC
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Is this character sheet for Pathfinder 1e or 2e?
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Matthew H January 02, 2022 6:24 pm UTC
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I had lost my old one and have been struggling to find this again. It’s still amazing. There’s a few typos (like the sheet says that Sense Motive is a Cha check. It isn’t, it’s wisdom based) but this is hands down the best sheet I’ve ever had for any edition of dnd/pathfinder. Great job!!!
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Stephen H February 18, 2021 11:30 pm UTC
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Wow... guess I'm really late to the party... I hope you're still reading these.
Rachel, I absolutely love the character sheet! Thank you from an old school pencil-and-paper player. This is SOOOOO much better than the official stuff: more room to write and much easier to read. The forms are just icing on the cake.
I have both a question and challenge for you. Are you going to create character sheets for the Spheres of Power/Spheres of Might/Champions of the Spheres lines? It would be great to see a few substitute sheets for Spheres and Talents, extra pools, all that kind of stuff; but quite frankly I'd pay for an entirely separate product because there are so many differences from the base game.
I hope you've played it (because it's really cool) and I hope you pick up the gauntlet (because I'd really like the new sheets).

Thanks again for a great product!
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Florian O March 21, 2020 2:22 pm UTC
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Hello Rachel,
I realy love the sheet but I'm missing the option to have 2 spellcasting classes. Could you add another "Spellcasting" box on page 5 (may where metamagic and SLA are right now), or just add another page?
It's not a problem if you print out the sheet obvious, but i like to use it on screen.:)

Oh also... did I miss something, or does the sheet not add the class-skill bonus?
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Rachel S April 14, 2020 7:44 pm UTC
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Hi! I will look into adding a second Spellcasting box! What I usually do is decrease the font size and write "Wizard 4 / Oracle 2" (for example). I'm uploading a slightly updated file in just a sec in which the auto-calculation errors will (hopefully) all be fixed, but I am also working on a redesign of this redesign in which I streamlined/improved the spellcasting section—so I greatly appreciate your feedback on that!

Also, it has been a while since I actually played PF, so could you elaborate on the class-skill bonus thing? That might have been something I was putting in the "Misc. Bonus" section of the sheet myself, but if it's a big enough detail where it warrants its own space, I can certainly try to do that :)

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks again!
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Jim C May 16, 2020 2:18 am UTC
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Each class skill that has ranks should have a +3 bonus. I can add it in different ways, but would have to do that quite a few times. But good to know I'm not missing a check box or such - so thanks for responding to comments.
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Brendan M February 12, 2020 12:49 pm UTC
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I like this sheet but it does have a flaw in the skill checkboxes, when printed out the check boxes are all filled in black meaning my players can't clearly check their class skills
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Rachel S April 14, 2020 7:46 pm UTC
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This shouldn't be a problem and never has been for me... what program are you using to view the sheet and print from? I know that opening and printing from Google Drive does weird things sometimes.

I'm uploading a fix to some of the auto-calc fields very soon, though, so I will attach a print-friendly (non-form-fillable) file to this product if I haven't already done so. That should be a good workaround anyway :) Thanks for your feedback!
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Tony T February 03, 2020 4:08 pm UTC
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Hey Rachel! Love this sheet, best ive found so far. Neat easy, beautiful layout and functional.

Just have one request, on page 8 when you type in your base ability scores. It would be nice if it calculated those scores into the final scores on page 1.

In example:
Base DEX is 14 (page 8) then on page 1 it calculates 14 + all the bonuses/penanlties on page 1 and finaly summarize it in the Ability score, so the total value gets put in there automaticly.

If you want to take it one step further you can add the +1 ability score you get from lvl 4,8,12,16 and 20 to that number as well and also a place on page 8 to add the racial ability score changes.

Edit: Are you still workin on this or have you moved on to Pathfinder 2?

Edit 2: Forgot to report that it does not add the +3 modifier for a skill being a class skill when you put a rank into it automaticly.
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Rachel S April 14, 2020 7:53 pm UTC
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Hi! Sorry this is such a late reply! I really appreciate all the feedback and bug reports. To answer your edit question—yes, I'm still working on this sheet *and* a PF2 sheet as well. I'm in my senior-level classes at school though so I haven't had any time at all! With COVID I'm finally able to sit down and implement a bunch of fixes, finish the PF2 sheet I've been sitting on since last fall, etc...

As for your second edit comment, I hadn't actually learned the code necessary to have auto-calc functions like that when I first created this sheet. You should see an updated file in your library soon with basic changes, but I'm working on a v2.0 of this sheet where there will be more advanced auto-calculations, and I'll definitely include the +3 mod when I get that finished! It's so annoying to have to type it all out yourself, I know :)

The rest of your feedback is also valuable! I included the "base ability scores" section on the last page as a spot to record your level 1 ability...See more
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Tony T April 16, 2020 6:51 am UTC
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Hey Rachel. Not to worry IRL should come first, glad to hear your still working on it!

I am exactly the same with the record lvl 1 ability scores, its fun to see growth so i totaly get what you mean :)
My suggestion would not change that fact though just have the lvl 1 stats on pg 8 be that base then add to it like this:

(pg 8 base stats) + (pg 8 lvl 4/8/12/16/20 stats) + (Race mod somewhere, not really needed tbh) = (pg 1 Ability score, first column called "ability score")

Then you can use that number and add the other modifications as you have.
I hope that explains the idea a bit more in detail?

Good luck with your studies and thanks again for pouring your time into this project, It is an almost perfect sheet and i hope you continue to make them, we really have the same taste in RPG sheets.

Waiting eagerly for the new update, hope you have the time to add this in it.
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Rachel S April 19, 2020 8:04 pm UTC
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Oh, gotcha! I'll try to work something like that out. Thank you so much for the feedback and for explaining further!
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Tony T April 20, 2020 7:48 pm UTC
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Ofcourse no problem, im glad you liked it. '

Waiting eagerly for the new sheet have a new PF campaign starting next week, no rush what so ever though *hint hint* *nudge nudge* lol :D
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Jona V December 25, 2019 1:03 am UTC
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Small thing, the sheet automatically uses the Dexterity modifier in the formula for CMB while by default CMB uses the Strength modifier. Tiny or smaller creatures use their DEX modifier for CMB, and people with the Agile Maneuvers feat, but not everyone. Because it fills in the Dexterity modifier automatically, it's also not possible to simply edit it to the Strength modifier value without the sheet then changing (incorrectly) all Dexterity modifier values to that new (Strength modifier) value.
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Rachel S April 19, 2020 8:04 pm UTC
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I believe I have fixed this since you left this comment, but I will double-check. Thank you!
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Sarah K December 06, 2019 9:56 pm UTC
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Sense Motive is still listed as a CHA skill (a typo on the original sheet as well) and it's a wisdom skill, so that field is always wrong.
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Rachel S December 06, 2019 10:06 pm UTC
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Ah geez, I fixed that a while ago since so many people had pointed it out and totally thought I'd uploaded the revision. Give me 5 minutes and it'll be up.
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Matt H September 14, 2019 6:43 pm UTC
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I had gotten the original version and changed to this one when it got redesigned. I like the sheet a lot, but i've found a few issues. Mainly that Sense Motive is listed as a CHA skill (a typo on the original sheet as well) and it's a wisdom skill. Also, several of the boxes (such as your ac and armor bonuses) don't auto-fill like the rest of the sheet does. Its a great asset to have for our online game though. Thanks for making it!
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Rachel S December 06, 2019 10:14 pm UTC
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Hey, thanks for the comment! This fall has been crazy busy for me so I just now got around to uploading the sheet with a fixed Sense Motive skill. I'm glad you've been able to get good use out of the sheet so far! I'm currently working on a redesign update that will have even more autocalc fields, so hopefully you'll find that useful when it goes up :) Thanks again!
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Mike O July 29, 2018 8:14 pm UTC
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I really like this sheet. It is easier to read and isn't an eyesore like the stock one. I mostly like it because it does some of the calculations for me and as a DM using a computer to handle the details for me, that's great. I did find one glaring issue: CMB is listed with Dex Mod instead of Str Mod. I also found the calculations to be a little glitchy, but I've patched things and added some more functionality to suit my DMing myself (good lord Acrobat is awful and I can't believe anyone builds whole PDFs from scratch).
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Rachel S August 22, 2018 12:52 am UTC
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Ah geez I need to fix the CMB thing! Thank you for catching that! The next update will also have new scripts for the auto-calculations so hopefully that fixes some glitchy things. Thank you! (I also strongly dislike Acrobat, but it beats some other things. Most of the sheet is create in Adobe InDesign, though; I just use Acrobat for the form-fillable functionality!)
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Nicklaus M December 23, 2018 6:20 am UTC
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Has there been an update to this amazing sheet to fix the noted issues yet?
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Rachel S January 24, 2019 10:23 pm UTC
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Sorry for such a late response—just recently started back up at school. I'm whittling away at the pile of fixes that have been pointed out, as well as improving the spellbook page (because god, what was I thinking?!). If you've already purchased or downloaded this title, you should be receiving an email soon about it having been updated! Thanks for the feedback :)
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Marika M May 12, 2018 4:29 am UTC
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Definitely like the bigger text for gamers with visual impairments. I think this sheet will be enjoyable to use. However, I am disappointed that there's nothing for psionics (no autohypnosis skill or a place to add one unless I hijack a craft), and no place to keep track of pools. Current character has /three/ pools I need to track (power points, inspiration, luck), so tidier bookkeeping would be nice. I also have *hangs head* more than 6 special abilities, so a way to print an extra full page about them would be cool. All told though, lovely work!
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Rachel S July 10, 2018 9:42 pm UTC
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Ahh I'm just seeing this! Those are all very good points, and I'll look into modifying the sheet to add those details! I hadn't even thought of pools. I was definitely already planning on putting up an individual download for an expanded special abilities page, though, so if you'd like to be kept in the loop, you can follow my publisher account and you'll get an email when that goes up! Thank you so much for the feedback!
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