Baby's First Character Sheet


Just for fun, here’s the one-page PostScript character sheet I made for GURPS (3rd edition) back in the Eighties. This is good old-fashioned stone-knives-and-bearskins hand-written PostScript, because that’s just how we rolled in OSU-CIS.

PDF version (5.3KB), if you don’t feel like cutting and pasting.

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(Shamelessly swiped from an original that's \(C\)1988 Steve Jackson Games Inc.)
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