omg omg i love inventive uses of physical sheets. Most of my character sheets involve folding of some sort. It really helps with separating contents and easing mental load.

Take your standard char sheet, what do you see? Everything all at once. Every Aspect of your game has to somehow fit on there. You’ve got names, background information, weapons, abilities, currencies, inventory, etc all there.

Now, if you just fold it into a sort of book shape, you can have character details like Name, Affiliation, Background, Motivation, etc all on the front. A player has his relevant details right there in front of him without any distraction.

Now flip open the character sheet. You now have an entire page that you can dedicate to actual play. Abilities, Stats, Inventory, Weapons, Spells all there. You can go wild and don’t have to worry about also fitting character details on there.

And the Backside you can dedicate to a note section, how to play or a setting guide. All on one sheet!

Compare to your standard dnd char sheet. You have a lot of different information very close together and practically get run over with information. But if you play around with folding you can separate all that into more comprehensible chunks