Here is a character sheet I made to help me cope with the complexity of DnD character creation!
My DnD group aren’t about min-maxing, or immersion; we just love to make each other laugh. A wizard debutant trapped in the body of a bear should do the trick! Although I went in a different direction, the original inspiration was of course Sir Bearington.
I love open source (see Software Development), so I wanted to try making a character just using only the System Reference Document, which is released under the Creative Commons licence.
Once you combine Class, Background, Race, and levelling up, a DnD character is a complex mix of feats, dice rolls and other traits. It’s always bugged me that I can’t keep track of why my character is proficient in something, or how they ended up with this many spells in their spellbook. I’m guessing this isn’t a problem for most people, but since it is for me I used Microsoft Word’s cross-references to make something like a ‘foot-note’ to trace back to the original reason.
I also found that you can insert simple formulae into a Word document, so I used that to convert ability scores into modifiers, and record my levelling up hit-point rolls.
A character can do a lot in one round, especially when there are bonus
actions and reactions. So I’ve always found it helpful to list it all out,
even the default actions like disengage or ready.
Having rolled up a Wizard there were also a lot of things to remember every Long Rest and every levelling up, so I’m glad to have a space to list those out too.