Character sheets? I know your probably wondering why I'm bringing up character sheets in a creative writing area. The fact is character sheets can be an important tool to your writing.

If u Outline of came up with a character that u don't think quite fits in your current story, a sheet is a good tool to you.
Character sheets are a good way to keep track of your characters. Their growth as u go; It helps u work out little quirks in their personality like for example 'Twitch bites his nails when he doesn't have his twin nearby'. Every little bit helps with keeping things in mind and expanding upon them plus if u want to bring them to life in a role-play u have exactly what u need.
They are a fun way to keep your characters in order and tell them apart. If u outline then u have a nice quick reference sheet that u can look at their appearance, personality, backstory, etc.
It allows u to write down little things such as secrets, likes, dislikes, fears, family members, pets, addictions. Their vrienden and Enemies are also what u can write down. It can help with flaws if u fear the notorious Mary Sue of u know u have a Mary Sue and u want to fix it. Then if u have a lot of characters u have a way to make sure u don't miss one.

Character reference sheet types

Now that we've looked at how helpful they can be lets look at the types.

There's your basic D&D sheet. Complicated and requires a lot of math but, then u know exactly what your character's limits are in dice rolls.

There's sheets u can print off from Deviant art and fill out.

u can make up your own. Which is often used in role-plays on the web, especially ones that are on forums.

The main things that u keep in one of the simpler sheets are ones that state. Name, Age, Description, Other. Then there are some that are much meer complicated.

Here are some examples of sheets u could use as a templet that I use.

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Powers:
appearance:
Personality
Bio:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race, Species:
Powers:
Weaknesses:
Appearance:
Personality:
Backstory:
Other:

This one is about as in-depth as u can get though people don't really enjoy filling these out for role-plays. When rping the key thing to keep in mind is make it as short as possible but, still long enough where it goes into enough depth that people aren't confused of someone isn't bringing in a absolute MarySue. I most commonly use the seconde one. Feel free to mix and match and customize them like if u were doing, lets say a Harry Potter role-play it'd probably be good to do a sheet like this one below labeled Hp Sheet.


Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Species:
Powers/abilities:
Weaknesses:(both powers and general weaknesses - a disability of anything that limits them)
Appearance:
Personality:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Skills:
Weapons:
Family:
Friends:
enemies:
Backstory:
Pets:
Quirks:
fears:
Secrets:
sexuality:
Occupation:
Picture:
birthplace:
current location:
height:
weight:
Other:




Harry Potter sheet:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Blood status:
Wand(wood, core, length, flexibility):
House:
animagus:
Personality:
Appearance:
Backstory:
Other:

The options of what u can do with a sheet are practically limitless. Now I hope that after u read this u went and decided to make your own of start mapping out your characters.