I know that a fair amount of you seems to have insider for all your generation needs, but for those of us that DON'T, I have discovered some nice sheets and a comprehensive character generator, which includes everything except power and feat descriptions, which you'd need the books for.
Here's the link for the online character generator:
http://www.pathguy.com/cg4.htmNow, I've been looking around and I've found some nice character sheets around as well. I like using sheets that arent the official ones. My ideal was to have a sheet that could be modified when in PDF form, so that I could transfer the raw data the generator gave me to a nice readable character sheet. I found one that works very nicely, and even does some maths for you and calculates the numbers. It's a very smart sheet, allowing you to add and subtract bonuses and penalties. I havent had enough time today to fiddle with it completely, but I like the result of the whole process. For those of us who don't have Insider and it's lovely character generator, I think this works very nicely.
Here's a link to a website hosting some very nice alternative character sheets:
http://www.dragonavenue.com/dnd/resources/Here's the link to the website where you can find the lovely editable character sheet:
http://www.gnogaming.com/pages/4ed_character_files/4th_character_files.htmThere are many different versions and many types of character sheets. I've only had a look at the first one on the list, but the quality of it makes me think that the others are just as good.
Hope someone out there finds this useful