Creating Our Characters

Ok for me. It was just to free her schedule for the adventure.

Changes made, inventory adjusted. If I'm not mistaken it's done?

Berry:
I think either CON or INT should have started at 11 rather than 13.
While having it that way on your sheet is totally fine, I'm unsure if the site's new character sheet integration feature will be able to parse it. Not a problem if you manually type in your rolls like the days of old, but if you want to use the nifty add-a-roll-with-one-click function it might work better if you rename the skill to: Stealth (Expert +7) 

Len and I have discussed the above. I'll let him tell you what we've decided.

As far as I can tell everything is good on Norran's sheet mechanically.

Tilma:

Be sure to specify Wood Elf rather than just Elf as your race.

All the numbers are good as far as I can tell.

It looks like you decided to create a custom background rather than pick one from the book, and that is totally fine, but I just want to make sure you aren't missing out:

✅ choose any two skills. I see you picked Arcana & Performance.
🔳 choose one background feature from the sample backgrounds. If you can't find one you like, let us know so we can help you create one.
🔳 choose a total of 2 tool proficiencies or languages (any chosen languages would be in a addition to those granted you by race, which in Tilma's case are Common and Elvish).

I see a ton of crossbow bolts in your inventory but no crossbow. Don't forget to add your club, too!

Looking forward to seeing Jasera's sheet, Demagor! :-)

Didn't think to add them in the inventory because they were in the weapons section. Will do.

No idea for the Feature. Non seemed to fit her. Any ideas?
She isn't very intelligent (int score 9) so didn't think of taking a language... Hmmm. Perhaps there is a language used by some more intelligent sewer dwellers? Or perhaps a language used in necromancy? That way I could take that 1 language and perhaps thieves tools prof to pic sewer gates?
How does that sound?

Haha well maybe it's just my OCD. XD
Does Iskandar have a Sewer Exterminators guild? Seems like it ought to! Then the guild artisan/guild merchant background (or a customized version thereof) might fit you.
Good point with the languages and her relatively lower INT.

Well, it's two languages, two kinds of tools, or one of each. In addition to the various artisan's toolkits, tools also include musical instruments, gaming sets, and vehicles.

Ok, so I took the Sewer Exterminators guild background, Poisoner’s kit proficiency and Cook's utensils proficiency. Poison making for rat poison and stuff (though I don't buy the kit yet cause it's too expensive) and Cook's utensils cause her meat problem forces her to cook for herself sometimes

Good stuff!

I'm a learner by instruction. I do very well in a class setting, where an instructor directs me, but I do all the work. When left to my own devices, my adult ADD kicks in and I wander. I have too much going on in my head to be entrusted with self-disciplined creation. I know there are probably billions of character creation guides, but would one of you be able to hobble together a simple checklist of what my next steps should be? I already have:

- Race
- Class
- Ability Scores
- Background

I know this is a generic yet significant question, but- what next?

I'd be glad to help, Demagor!

Ok, so you've rolled your ability scores (15, 15, 15, 14, 13, 12) and applied racial adjustments (did you settle on a Wood Elf?). You're going to play a Ranger and including Len's suggested class feature substitutions. You've written an evocative backstory, and chosen a great portrait.

If you haven't yet, choose a Background.

Then, we'll round out your Ranger-related stuff, such as class features and proficiencies, as well as your starting hit points, among other things

Then, we'll look at equipment, and so on.

If you link to your character sheet or submit it to the game, Len and I can look it over and walk you through filling in anything that's missing.

Edit: And there is also this guide if you prefer.

For this game, it would be very helpful for everyone to be able to see each others' character sheets. Can we ask everyone to do that?

Step 3c: Editing Characters After Creation of the New GP Member Guide makes mention of the Character Library, where you will find character sheets that players have chosen to make viewable.

In summary, you open the My Characters page, scroll down to your character, and click the book icon to make it red.

Actually, it would be easier if I can submit her in her current form, then flesh out the details as we go over them. Allow me just a moment and I will submit her. I actually prefer this step-by-step method and putting the information where it goes myself; a hands-on approach really tends to stick into my brain.

One more time though- thank you. I'm truly grateful for not only what you two are putting together, but the effort and patience that you're committing to it.

Character submitted in her vacant, skeletal form and made public. Done!

Racial ability score changes added, HP calculated and Ability Score proficiencies indicated/marked. I still need to incorporate the class changes Len suggested.

Eeek! My bad. I don't know how that happened. I'll set the Con to 11 (12 with bonus)

Not everyone learns the same way, but just like you I learn by doing. So yeah.

Len has been on a trip and is currently on the road, and I'm off to bed (it's 2am here) but we'll both be here for you again soon!

I was somehow confident that you would understand.

I've updated her Class Abilities with the replacements Deft Explorer and Favored Foe.

Looking at backgrounds, while there is no Seeker of Revenge, which would be ideal, I wanted her to have something more than the generic Soldier image. She's been trained for it, yes, but it wasn't a profession she chose- it was thrust unto her because of the events which transpired.

As she's the daughter of the murdered Lord of an elven city-state which may never return, I was thinking she may be a "Folk Hero" instead, but only to her people- which are very few and very scattered. Thus, it's not something overt, or pompous, or riddled with fanfare. However, it feels as if it would fit her more than any of the others.

Would that work?

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Also, the backgrounds list skill proficiencies. Does that mean I add proficiencies to the ones I already have as a ranger? What if the background gives me a proficiency I've already chosen as a ranger? Does that amplify the bonus?

I bumped into that one Demagor. Here's what PHB says:

"If a character would gain the same proficiency from two different sources, he or she can choose a different proficiency of the same kind (skill or tool) instead"