How to create a character sheet?

    I'm extremely new to this whole genre of gaming but I love the idea of it and I feel this would be the perfect kind of new thing I've been looking for, but my issue is how to create a character sheet? I only did light reading in these forums here on my problem, yet only slightly helpful. When I tried it, my "character" was automatically set as a half-ling from what I understand? I need to learn how to either make a custom character sheet from scratch, with every single minute detail to it, otherwise I don't think I can enjoy the game properly. Or if someone would kindly do it for me while I relay to them the detail of my preferred character, also answering any questions they might have for me on the topic of my character since I'm sure I would overlook some things.     I don't really have the time to do it myself because I'm in school at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on re-class orders for army medical MOS training; so my priority is that, but I get the weekends off so I figured this would be a good time to try and get into D&D.     I appreciate your time and effort should anyone decide to help me out, and there's no hard feelings if anyone doesn't. Thanks a lot, guys!     Very Respectfully,     Jet Roland

Building a character sheet from scratch is not something i recommend trying. Also, it's not needed for most players. When you join a game, that GM will tell you what character sheet they are using, and will create a blank character sheet for you. You'll design your character on that sheet.

Can you clarify? Do you need a character sheet completely built from scratch? Like you control where the boxes go and what they look like and what math they do? Or are you just saying you want a blank character sheet for the game you are playing that you can freely customize? The first requires a lot of time and technical knowledge of html, css, and some javascript. It's not an easy task that someone can do in a day or few hours. The second thing is built in to every game. I don't know which game you are playing that defaults to halfling but you should be able to change it. Tell us what game it is and we can try to duplicate and help.

If you are going to be playing as a player, there is no need to create a custom character sheet.  That is basically a template selected by the game's GM to best fit whatever game system you are using.  The GM will assign you a blank sheet that you can customize to match your character.  If you are going to be playing D&D 5E, using Roll20's Charactermancer feature to create your character is a good way to start if you are new.