For anyone who's played D&D games on the PC and wants to make their character themselves from top to bottom, go here:
PC-Gen at Sourceforge
and download the "pcgen580_win_install.exe", second from the bottom up.
This will let you create anything that exists in the "official" D&D universe. Just pick something that you'd be able to select in normal D&D games (humans, elves, dwarves, etc).
NO FIRE GIANTS :P
But yes, feel free to pick monstruous characters
as long as you know what the differences are.
Also, if you choose to use PCGen (short for Personal Character Generator, nothing to do with computers :P ), you'll only be allowed to choose things for your character that a normal newly made PC could get (no +5 Bastard Swords).
EDIT:
Here's an example of character sheet made with PCGen:
Also I just realised that it's not that easy a program to use for first-timers. If anyone wants to use it but isn't sure on how it works, post here and I'll write a little walkthrough.