Buck Rogers In The 25th Century – Character Sheet

After playing a couple of one-shots and my players yearned for a longer campaign, so I retreated into my GM cave and thought long and hard what I really wanted to run. In the end I had three games on my list: James Spahn’s The Hero’s Journey, Kevin Crawford’s Star Without Number and the venerable TSR Sci-Fi RPG Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (or XXVc for short). To my surprise the players voted for the latter.

Even though I totally love the game, I am no fan of descending ACs and the dreaded THAC0. I also hate the rather bland and much too small character sheet provided in the book. So I sat down at my PC and created a new one. Since I wanted to include all skills on the sheet and make it as user-friendly as possible … let’s just say, it got a bit more extensive than expected. While doing so I also decided to quickly convert the game to ascending ACs, which is luckily very easily done.

Eventually I ended up with a five-paged sheet which – at least in my humble opinion, looks sweet but also includes some helpful information for the players, like an armor table with both ascending and descending armor classes. The skill prerequisites are all listed, and last but not least there’s a handy attack bonus table on the sheet which I derived from the THAC0 table. Overall I am quite happy with the sheet, so I share it here.

If you find any errors, or if there’s anything missing, please let me know.