It's a time-honored tradition that I've done since the late '80s, and even more experienced players have been doing since the late '70s. Typically, a character sheet is filled out in pencil on old-fashioned physical paper.
Free online course: RHEL technical overview.To clear some space, I've recently adopted a digital system for my character sheets, for both my player characters and non-player characters when I DM. But I find my computer desk gets pretty cluttered between RPG sourcebooks, splat books, random tables, dice tower, dice, and character sheets. To this day, I rarely leave home without my 2E5 quad book so I can sketch out dungeon maps on the go. Don't get me wrong: I love my pen and paper for analog games. I use open source video conferencing and some shared mapping software. Over the past two years, like most people, I've been playing my tabletop games online. And if the event's virtual offerings aren't enough, you might check out my list of open source tabletop RPGs. Although Free RPG Day was canceled in 2020, it's back this year as a live event with some virtual support by way of free RPG sampler downloads from Dungeon Crawl Classics and Paizo. Tomorrow is Free RPG Day, a day when publishers across the tabletop role-playing game industry release games for players both new and experienced, and they're all completely free. It's that time of year again for gamers everywhere.