So I've been beating my head up against this. I'm a character sheet packrat and that means I like to stuff as much into a character sheet as possible. Plain boring squares fit the most into a sheet so I naturally default to that.
I've thought of having each item have a background image of a part of a steam engine. It's just that it makes it really hard to be efficient space wise on the sheet. I'll probably try it out anyway but does anyone else have any suggestions on how to make this a fun and cool sheet?