As I grow in age, I get more and more close to the straight 3d6 roll as the standard for desirable stat ranges.  But, dice are fickle buggers indeed, and of course there needs to be some variance (at least in my opinion) that straight 3d6 just won't offer except in extreme cases.  I suppose the range of scores I look for these days are pretty indicative of the scores to be found in the back of B1.  Not extraordinarily high, and probably extraordinarily low in comparison to today's standards!  But still offering some variance between character stats, although not a huge amount, and also offering some variance within a character itself.   

  Now that Chain has shared EOTB's method, I think I'll experiment with that but using only 3d6 to find my particular 'sweet spot'.  I've just been dying to find a 3d6 only method that doesn't result in a string of 7's, haha, and yet doesn't make me feel like I've created yet another 'enhanced' character with stats that are just silly.  I tend to get this from the 4d6 drop low rolls, as I tend to get more than a few 15+ stats on a single character.  As I've never been one of those player's or DM's who believes a character isn't capable of play unless he's got a positive bonus in every stat, I end up finding this distasteful.  EOTB's method may be the winner for me, in the hunt for a middle-ground 3d6 method, that offers a couple of area's of strength, and still keeps a couple of areas of mediocrity or actually sub-normal range.  Nice!  Thanks for sharing that, Chainsaw!

  Okay, the OP contains both sheets:  The original, and the sheet with Morgan's changes (listed as 'alternate').  Both sheets will now incorporate the change in the 'roll to hit ac' bar that Ghul noted.

mabon5127 wrote:

The current character sheet is very thorough but a bit overwhelming to new players.  I would like to see a simplier more graphically exciting character sheet but am too lazy / busy / limited in talent to make it myself.
On the one you created I would add a place to note FA, TA, CA, and perhaps some room for class abilities.  I like the direction you are going however.

Morgan

Morgan,

  Thanks for the input!  While I initially decided that TA, CA, and class abilities could be listed under 'Notes', (well, I'd place CA under 'Spells'), I definitely see these as good additions.  Let me play around with it and see what I can do.  For FA, I suppose it could be listed above the 'roll to hit AC' bar thing.  Give me a few, bro... I'll see if I can whip something up.  This kinda stuff is fun, haha.

JasonZavoda wrote:

Thanks guys!

Don't worry about doing editing for personal use (as long as it isn't reposted). These are pretty much first drafts I did for blog posts. I need to get back to this. I'm doing a bit of fiction writing at the moment so some of my other types of postings have slowed down a bit.

Bold emphasis mine.  Jason, I wouldn't dream of re-posting your work, bro... I'm not interested in insulting you

What I meant was, if you personally would like the .odt file or the pdf to see how it looked and to check out the pic I used for your "Living Dead" creature. 

Either way, thanks again for this dude... I'll be watching this as you continue to develop it for sure!

Hey, Jason, loving this man!  I've actually PDF-erized this, and did some minor editing (some spelling etc) here and there in apache open office.  I was wondering if you'd like the PDF and the .odt file of the stuff I've done with this?  By the way, man... No offense on the editing I did.  It was just a natural reaction as I was playing around with your work here to PDF it.  And I haven't added anything to it, well... Except for one picture I found on Deviantart for your new "Living Dead" monster.  I just copied and pasted it without the guy's permission as I don't intend to sell your work or his, of course.  I'm sure he wouldn't mind granting permission for a fan project like your doing.  And, It's easily deleted.  Just asking!  Thank you for this effort... Great humor and awesome AS&SH gaming material here! 

I have to go with the cover, also.  Not because it's color... The interior art is astoundingly good.  But, that cover!  To me, it just immediately screams at you what this game is about.  Bold, brash, dangerous... Beautiful.  

Although the Necromancer is very evocative as well.  Oh, good grief...  There's so much great art in this thing it's really hard to choose, man!  The Fish-Man is really cool, too.  ...Ok, I have to stop or I'll type too much!  

For me, the winner is the cover art.

Hi folks, Merctime here.  But... There are some who call me... "Tim"?

Some of you may recognize my username from ODD proboards and Knights and Knaves, wherein I lurk most efficiently on a semi-regular basis.  That be me.  I've chatted here and there with a few of you, and look forward to doing so with all of you in the future.  

I'm an older gamer, who's been out of real table-top gaming for over 20 years but still love the hobby.  AS&SH is easily my favorite of the new re-skins of the world's most famous game.  

I'll still be lurking alot here, as I'm going through training for a new job that is incredibly time consuming.  But, I thought I should come over here and register, and also say hello to everyone while I have the time to do so.

If Ron Redmond posts here, I'd like to offer him a personal apology:  I had to drop my online B/X game like a hot rock a few months ago over at the online board he moderates at due to my job training, and have not been able to visit the site since.  Ron, I am truly sorry Sir.  When I have a moment I'll go and PM yourself and the other fellow who was quite helpful to me there.  Ah, Real Life!  What a treacherous companion are you!

Looking forward to reading the forums, hearing everyone's wonderful ideas, and learning about the new goings-on with AS&SH.  With a 6 day work schedule for the indeterminate future in my horizon I won't be posting much, but I'll try to stop in and offer some fun gaming stuff or at the very least some pedantic sillyness as my time and mood allows!  If nothing else, I hereby wish all of you a wonderful day, and many great gaming sessions to come, and good health to all of those whom you care for.  Happy gaming!

Tim