Character Creation & Leveling Up!

Fantastic, you've got a backstory note coming your way in that thread!

Starting gold!

Is the starting gold roll the same for everyone?

Starting gold is only rolled if you don't take the equipment options from your class and background.

Starting wealth is given either through your class and background, along with your starting equipment. Or you can buy all your starting gear with money through rolling on a chart from the PHB.

By class. The way I run it when I'm GM is that if you choose starter equipment, you don't roll starting gold and just have gold amount from your background. If you choose to roll starting gold, you have to custom purchase your equipment.

Not sure how smrvl runs that though.

Barbarian 2d4 x 10 gp
Bard 5d4 x 10 gp
Cleric 5d4 x 10 gp
Druid 2d4 x 10 gp
Fighter 5d4 x 10 gp
Monk 5d4 gp
Paladin 5d4 x 10 gp
Ranger 5d4 x 10 gp
Rogue 4d4 x 10 gp
Sorcerer 3d4 x 10 gp
Warlock 4d4 x 10 gp
Wizard 4d4 x 10 gp

Agree with all of the above! Eldrick is a Fortesqueue guard, who starts out with extra gold, so his roll will be added to his starting equipment. But otherwise, it's as stated by the group above!

So I have a concern about going battle master... I will have the ability to do things like knock people prone and whatnot, which will affect my actions for the remainder of my round. How should we deal with stuff like this? Because most of it requires saving throws on the part of my opponents.

I'm fine to roll saving throws in "real time" ... I know we're talking a lot about turn order right now, but I don't see any reason to hold up strategic thinking by immediately rolling reactions.

If you're doing PvP combat, it may slow things down, depending on who you're fighting against... but if that becomes a focus of our game, we can deal with it then.

Ok, that's fine with me :)
I will post a note such as [WAITING ON DM SAVES] to indicate to others that my turn is not over in those situations, if that's ok

Yup, sounds perfect to me!