Those Who Wander – Character Sheet (2021)

I was hired to be part of a Kickstarter campaign for a new RPG based on the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Those Who Wander was fully funded and had over 700 backers. Now it can be found to buy digitally or printed here. My role was to create the character sheet for players to use and track their journey within the game.

Having previously worked creating character sheets, I wanted to have a better understanding of the needs and wishes of players, so I conducted a survey among the Dungeons & Dragons community. I had 66 responses, between answers in English and Portuguese. I had some interesting insights, mostly about the kinds of character sheets they’re used to use and what they believe to be missing or to be spot-on on the sheets. Among player’s concerns, most of them asked for more space for writing and better highlight of different sections.

Another priority for this project was to make it as accessible as possible, so for that I worked along with an accessibility expert, who helped me with the needs of players who use screen readers and dyslexic players. I learned quite a bit about making PDFs more accessible and worked on different version of the final characters sheets: fillable, print and with non-white background, all that while maintaining the theme: a fun fantasy game.

Below, you can see a few of the drafts for the vertical version:

I studied character sheets for different systems (Pathfinder, GURPs, 3d&T, DnD 3.5, Vampiro a Máscara) and platforms (D&D Beyond, Roll20, the official print version of the D&D 5E character sheet) and was able to then create a few drafts that ended up in two versions for the client to choose: an horizontal and a vertical one. The client asked me to finish both versions, plus a spellcasting sheet.

You can see a preview of the final versions below. I used a dyslexic-friendly font, icons to make identification of sections easier and made the sheets fully readable by screen readers.

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