Characters creation thread

Obvious character creation thread.

Available resources
You might use anything from the Player Handbook (PHB) or the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (SCAG). You may also include spells from the Elemental Evil (EE), but need my approval for those.
I'd prefer you to stick to those books, but if a character option from another official published book would allow you to come up with an awesome concept, ask me: I'll take a look and let you know if I open this option.

I will use some optional rules from the Dungeon Master Guide (DMG) as I see fit. I’m open to reskinning things after approval, and might allow some spells customization as per the spell design guidelines (and damage type tiers).

And if you get your hands on magical items, they will be handcrafted with love by your GM :)

Creating your character
Create a character at level 5 using any available resource (see above). Make sure to check out the Houserules threat as it contains variant rules that will affect everyone's game, and may alter a class or subclass you want to play. It even adds classes!

The human variant is available.
For your characteristics, use the buy point or the standard array only.

For starting equipment, we'll follow the DMG p.38 guideline: you'll start with 500 gp plus 1d10 x 25 gp, plus normal starting equipment. You may spend them as you see fit, but the only magical items available are the consumables ones (scrolls, potions etc). Reference prices and availability are right here : as members of the Oak Shield you have access to everything's on the Catalog, at Cheap price if you get them as part of your service equipement. Permanent magical items are out of your league for now.

As members of the Oak Shield, you all have a Military Rank and a Specialty as described in the Soldier background. Just make sure that one (and only one) of you is an Officer.

Hey, no one has posted yet but this thread is yours : feel free to post your character ideas, share what you'd like to see in the game, talk to each other...
And if you have any question for me, I'd be glad to answer!

All this stuff looks great, @ornux!

Decisions, decisions....

Thanks for the invite and I just finished reading/skimming through the info, and I'll probably have to "steal" some of it for my games as well (particularly evolving cantrips).
As for making chars.. I like odd races, usually like to have some magic, and often try to play against type, i.e. - not an elven ranger.
I'm thinking....

I'm thinking about a ranger-1 / sorcerer-4. If the DM will allow it, I could do divine soul sorcerer if we don't have a cleric/healer.

I usually enjoy the unusual mashups, too; but I'm think for this I might go half-elf. :-)

I'm actually leaning toward druid since I don't normally play them. Perhaps a Half-Orc, maybe not. :)

Ornux are there any other races besides PHB?

One of my favorite characters I've played was a dwarven druid who was a discredited academic.

Perhaps a Rock Gnome or Deep Gnome Circle of Land (Mountain) Druid?
Not really sure what to do about background.. Far Traveler maybe.

Is this in place of or in addition to regular background?

I am narrowing in on Deep Gnome Circle of Land (Mountain) Druid. If there is some issue with me being Deep Gnome then I'll probably be Rock Gnome. I just didn't want to be a tinkerer, and Deep Gnome seems really to fit into this campaign.
That will make me Scout/Healer.
I suspect this is not a "Background" just a rank in an organization. But maybe I'll take it as background also. Actually, scratch that. The soldier background doesn't really work at all for my char. :(

Applied a Male Duergar Cleric of Light. He is a non-officer smithy. Starting Gold: 650gp.

i may switch if you are going to play a cleric. Although looking at how I choose my spells, etc. there may not be much overlap. I can simply prepare less healing.
The basic idea for my character is that he is in tune with stone rather than a "standard" druid that is in tune with the plants and trees
And good idea rolling the d10 here.
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gold

Malchuck Stonespeaker on DND Beyond

He's not 100% done, but he's about 90-95% there.

I wondered why I received no notification of activity on this forum : no wonder, I forgot to subscribe to it!
I'd prefer to keep Divine Soul out, as it's not in the books and is relatively close to existing material (cleric).
It is in addition of your regular background, as you only get the rank and specialty.
Options the extend those of the PHB (straight out of SCAG): Duergar, Deep gnome, Ghostwise halfling, Half-Wood/Half-Moon/Sun/Half-Drow/Half-Aquatic elves, Variant/Feral tielfing, Eladrin (DMG or MToE if I re-read/approve it)

Duergar Cleric of Light... you like seeking problems, right? :D
As I still didn't went through the whole process of creating my very own setting and pantheon, we'll stick to the ones attached the one I've located Oakfall into : The Forgotten Realms. 1464 Cormyr Reckoning (CR), to be precise. Yes, it is the year of the Second Sundering (it must be of interest to you, as a Cleric).

My thoughts are a cleric from the Disciples of the Phoenix followers of Kossuth.

Ok look like I can play a fighter type, will do some reading and let you know my ideas

Yah.. we could definitely use a fighter. Good news is.. potentially 3 healers to save you.

EDIT: Actually I guess two.

We are shaping up to be:

Sorcerer
Druid
Cleric
Fighter

Seems pretty good to me.

😂

Character roles:

Standard Bearer

500 + (6 x 25) = 650gp

my sheet will be ready to upload tomorrow. we definitely need a frontliner.

fyi i'm going fighter-1/sorcerer-4, instead of ranger. (archer fighting style & a bit less squishy). i'll stick to draconic bloodline origin.

if i'm following our thread correctly, i'm on the hook as the officer, huh?

Nice of you to volunteer 👍🏻

Are we using fixed or rolling HP?

If rolling below are my rolls

So I am creating a Copper Dragonborn Fighter lv5, or I have attached his character sheet to look at.

Thou I am thinking of changing to Half-Orc Fighter.

Vachel - Officer
Cryst - Healer
Malchuck - Scout / Healer?
Zegar - Infantry / Standard-Bearer?

Vachel Caerbryn, half elf fighter/sorcerer, is uploaded. Still working on fleshing out backstory, but sheet is ready to go!

Cryst can heal, but is apt to throw fire spells. Does have Fireball too.

I elected you first!
But seriously, we can both heal so we should be in good shape.

Just a friendly reminder for you guys : healing is by design underpowered unless you have some way to boost it. The way you are meant to keep your HP efficiently is to prevent damage from being done in the first place.
Healing can help when bad luck put you in a bad spot, especially when you get low in HP (because of the KO rule).

Now that I've reminded you of that design point, play the game however you want. You won't break it :)

Yup. That's why I plan on hiding in the corner and then running away! :)

After reading the above I have gone Half-Orc for better damage taking.

Have adjusted Character Sheet.
Zegar half-orc Fighter/Champion with two weapon style/dual wielder feat.

@Mathfuric: that's a pretty straightforward build. While I have zero problem with that, know that it'll be up to you to use the few options it offers in interesting ways.

A fifth player joined the game, so now we're full.
I'll post the rules I'll use to explore the "action-oriented" gameplay, and we'll start the campaign on Monday. I'll do my best to go through your submitted characters over the week-end.

In the meantime, I'll answer any question you may have about rules, options, etc...
Polish your background so that you have a clear picture of you character's personality.
Also, if you want to draft some ideas about your opinion on the other members of your squad, it might help make the whole thing more vivid. Relationships don't need to be symmetrical.

I will try my best to make him interesting:)

Hey, can you port the stats, saves, skills, spells and link to your D&D Beyond sheet in the GP sheet please ? Some of it is there, but some is still missing.
I'm not asking for full descriptions of everything if you prefer to manage it from DDB, but having it listed in there is easier for me.

Added a bunch o' stuff, but I'm definitely not sure what spells I'll generally be preparing until I know a bit more about what we are doing and maybe what Cryst wants to prepare.

I know my background story, but having a bit of writer's block writing the whole thing down.

Don't forget to add the Light cantrip to your list : it is free for Light Clerics.

Those were slot'ed. My cantrips are: Guidance, Light, Mending, Sacred Flame, Spare The Dying

This is my current setup

0) Magic Stone, Mending, Mold Earth
1) Animal Friendship, Earth Tremor, Goodberry, Healing Word, Speak with Animals
2) (Spider Climb, Spike Growth), Heat Metal, Pass without Trace
3) (Lightning Bolt, Meld into Stone) Erupting Earth

Not like I have any flexibility as a sorcerer, but this is what i've got:

Cantrips:
Fire Bolt
Minor Illusion
Message
Mage Hand
[Lightning-themed Blade]

Known
1. Chromatic Orb
1. Feather Fall
1. Witch Bolt
1. Shield
2. Invisibility

Everyone, we're set to go and the game has started!
Our new fifth player is in the starting blocks, building his character as we speak. I'll hook him in the game as soon as he's ready.

Starting Gold

Things got busy, but Luis is all set and ready to go

Anyone know why I don't seem to have the option for posting as my char instead of as Ganesh? I do on the forums of other games.

The "Post As" drop down is not visible.

That one was on me : I still had to approve your character.
Done!

welp, i guess i'm getting those sh*tty rolls out of the way early. 🤬