A friend of mine reached out about doing a one-shot “training scenario” style introduction to Dungeons & Dragons for a small group, and I hit on the idea of using Portal Under the Stars, one of the most popular funnel-style adventures for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. Ever the tinkerer – and looking to get my money and time’s worth from a bunch of Knave purchases and hacking – I decided I’d convert Portal to Knave, further simplifying the player-facing side of things. Don’t get me wrong, I love DCC RPG! But it’s got a few (albeit minor) barriers to entry that seemed worth removing for this exercise.
The conversion work has been a breeze – I could probably do it on the fly, but I suspect I’ll re-use this setup again and again – but I wanted to make certain I had a cool character sheet to go with it. There’s a ton of great hand-drawn ones out there, even by the likes of map-maker extraordinaire Dyson, but when I stumbled upon Simple DND, I knew I was just a 5-minute Photoshop job away from perfection.
So here you go: my Knave-based funnel-optimized character sheet, tweaked only slightly from Simple DND‘s Mini Character Sheet (usage license here). You can fit four characters on here, you’ve got 20 inventory slots, and I tailored it to include Ancestry and Occupation sections. This could easily serve as an NPC or monster tracking sheet in just about any version of D&D: just use the inventory slots as a notes section! Similarly, you could use it to track familiars, pets, or hirelings in everything from OD&D up through 5th Edition.
Funnel Character Sheet – Click to Download
Let me know how you use it at your gaming table in the comments!
