Character Creation

~Basics~

-Level 3
-27 Point Buy of Standard Array for Ability Scores
-Nothing UA or Homebrew (except that I have subclass spells for the sorcerer and ranger subclasses that lack them, let me know if you're interested!)
-Any class & subclass is allowed from any published book from WoTC or Critical Role (including artificer and blood hunter, and any subclasses in the Tal'dorei Reborn book)
-Multiclassing and feats allowed
-Any officially published background, except the ones from Eberron or Strixhaven
-No evil characters, should have a reason for being in the group!
-Tasha's optional class and race options allowed, in fact, the Customize Your Origins ability scores maneuvering is ENCOURAGED!!
-Just Starting Equipment + 10-30 gold, whatever you feel your character would actually have
-You can roll for HP for levels 2 and 3 or just add the fixed amount, up to you (if you roll, you can reroll 1's)

-Race has little bearing on alignment in this setting (at least for me), and the region of Xhorhas is dominated by the "monstrous" races like goblins, orcs, drow, bugbears, kobolds, etc, and playing as a human might even get you some strange looks around these parts (since the neighboring Dwendalian Empire is majority human)!

-Everyone gets a FREE FEAT at Level 1 to help customize your character if you'd like one (but must make sense for your character and cannot be Lucky, Sharpshooter, or Great Weapon Master)

-If you are new to D&D5e and need any guidance/suggestions/advice, please feel free to ask away!

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~Character Creation~

-This game would be an excellent time to try out the Heroic Chronicle character builder within the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount book. This is a series of tables and grids that can help determine everything from race to allies, from family size to mysterious secrets, and even including your favorite food! If you are unfamiliar with the setting, this would be a great way to have a character ingrained in the setting without having to do too much on your part. Either way, I will try my best to incorporate your backstory info into the story.

-We will, ideally, be playing with these characters for a long time, so please make sure to create a character that is interesting to you, and that is dynamic. Please answer the following questions for your character:
---What’s one small heroic deed you’ve already accomplished?
---Do you give your trust easily, or do people have to earn your trust?
---What’s one thing you want more than anything else? How will being an adventurer help you achieve it?
---Name at LEAST one personal goal (the more specific, the better) that your character wishes to achieve.
------Themes within this adventure that might help you connect your backstory to the main story: magic items, any of the following deities: Sehanine the Moon Weaver, Avandra the Change Bringer, and Corellon the Arch Heart, study of ancient history including the Betrayer Gods and the Calamity, study of Ruidus (the mysterious moon), the struggle for power, or just the desire for a great adventure.

(You can put a note in your character sheet so that this info is only visible to me and yourself)

--You guys will begin as an already-formed adventuring party and will already know each other, so please feel free to establish the dynamics between the group members and maybe even a party name!

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~Setting Info and What the Characters Already Know~So the starting location is the town of Jigow in the region of Xhorhas on the continent of Wildemount. If you have ANY questions about the setting, including factions, the pantheon, or even just the cuisine of your hometown, let me know! :)

That sounds amazing. :)

I am thinking of a half-drow noble (or spy for a noble house). An Echo Knight Fighter out of Xhorhas. A believer of the Luxon.

Less a meatshield (that would be the Echo), than a nimble/stealthy rapier fighter with a shield and a longbow. If we don`t have a rogue, maybe I could take the thieves' tools proficiency.

Still thinking on ideas. Entered this wanting to be a caster.. then read the Luxon and thought that could make a neat play on an ancestral guardian barbarian. Happy to also adapt around what others want to play if there are any holes that need filling (Except preferably cleric as I have quite a few of those right now)

I'd like to try out my first warlock, a hexblade possibly fathomless or maybe even a wizard/blade singer.

Love the beginning ideas!

I will say, the Fathomless Warlock seems pretty situational in most adventures, but would be great in this one, due to a great amount of time spent in/near water

And I forgot to mention it in the original post above, but feel free to reflavor (change the names/appearance of a feature or spell) anything you wish to in order to create your character. I quite frequently reflavor things when I am playing as a player. As long as nothing is changed mechanically and it isn't too out of left field, you can do it

I'd love to try out the Tal'Dorei subclasses. I haven't played any clerics, and the blood cleric seems very cool.
Especially if the others are going to be more squishy. It sounds like there's a lot to draw on from the lore.

I'm undecided about what race to pick, maybe a drow could be a good connection with soises, I did have an idea that a water genasi, but blood flavoured could be fun. Do blood elementals exist?

Or a dhampir, or a warforged, or...

I'll sit on it :)

@SeaJay I think you mentioned that you were still new to D&D5e, so if you need guidance on creating a character, I would definitely suggest using DnDBeyond for the majority of it. It's a great tool that helps do a lot of the background stuff when creating a character. Without buying the books, you only have the Player's Handbook stuff, but you could always just switch out the subclass/race features with something else when you transfer it here to Gamersplane.

And I will go over everyone's character sheets before we begin just to make sure everything looks like it's set up right :)

@aquafina I am definitely new so that’s a great help, I will definitely start there! I want to play a John Chrichton-esque character I think, someone who is very far from home, out of the loop and overwhelmed - so I won’t have to RP very hard! :) Let me know if you have any ideas that could fit well into the story/world!

I’m thinking someone who has been around for at least long enough to be past the most frustrating parts of being new but still rather clueless. Plenty of opportunities for others to explain things as they see fit - practical jokes and misinformation could be fun I think!

That’s a great dynamic to introduce if someone wants to act as a sort of mentor/taking you under their wing and showing you the lay of the land!

After a good night's sleep, I think I've settled on a dhampir blood cleric who follows Sehanine the Moon Weaver. Possibly a noble backgound too?

I'm going to have a look at the Heroic Chronicle next. Here are some of the questions you asked.

What’s one small heroic deed you’ve already accomplished?
Tereze has maybe helped out with some low level undead like skeletons in the Jigow temples/crypts/cemetery? Maybe she fought with one of the other party members here

Do you give your trust easily, or do people have to earn your trust?
Tereze is slow to trust people and naturally cautious, but once her trust is earned, she is unwavering in her loyalty to them.

What’s one thing you want more than anything else? How will being an adventurer help you achieve it?
Name at LEAST one personal goal (the more specific, the better) that your character wishes to achieve.
Whilst travelling, Tereze wishes to visit various places connected to Sehanine, making her adventuring career a quasi-pilgramige also.
Tereza
At the end of her journey, Tereze hopes to be able to retire to a comfortable life with a loving partner she might find along the way.

I've found some cool art! Unfortunately i've no idea who to credit.

If you don’t have access to the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount for the Heroic Chronicle, let me know. I don’t have content sharing on DnDBeyond but I have the physical book, so I can send pics of the pages.

Still stuck (Read as: have too many) character ideas, so may actually star with rolling some bits from the chronicle and working backwards. Would best place to roll such things be here I'm guessing?

@Aquafina> Could we use a Discord channel? I am a huge fan of fast communication and would love to have one. :)

There is a gamersplane discord (I found it when looking for help with the text editor)
https://discord.gg/vHcAR2wr4R

Thanks, for showing me. I am already logged on to that. Nonetheless, I would prefere something more privat.

I am finished with most of the character building, as fare as I am concerned. Some traditional last minute changes have to be expacted. It is the law. ;)


Faelan - my characters name - is from the noble Den (House) Hythenos, but has no noble background. Maybe you want to take it ianfhunter?

A man on a mission/quest who would love to have some good company and or even better: true friends along on this ride. He is from Roshana (the main capital of Xhorhas), so if anybody has had some business there, this could be our connection. But I am open in this regard for other possibilities and ideas, if someone wants to connect backstories.

Faelan has the Thieves' Tools prof., speaks Common, Elven, Undercommon and maybe Zemnian - or he takes the Tinker Tools prof. if nobody else wants it. (Thinking A-Team)

My character will mainly fight in melee, but has one or two ranged options. He has the Drow Magic Spells and the Mage Hand cantrip, but no rituals or other utility spells.

I’m thinking of playing a Haregon monk who fell through a rabbit hole and ended up here, would that work ok? I’m unsure what some of the terms are so I wasn’t sure if that would be an ok playable race!

I love the idea of visions or something like that. Still working through the details and didn’t want to get to caught in the idea without checking in!

Okay as we have a solid frontline, I thinking I will be going for a bard with a link to the Luxon, who's past lives are a little more invasive than most.

Most of the time the party knows her as a charismatic elf who tries to get on with everyone. In times of battle however she's may be battle hardened goliath, when people need comforting a half-orc who knows the right recipie to comfort...

So yeah a changling who takes on the forms of their past lives depending on the moment.

Cool! I think I will, I'm still working out where I'm from and my house, but perhaps the houses might know each other!

Here's a bit more about Tereze, she's from a big wine farm in Feolinn and is probably going to be in the front line - she wields a large warhammer. I'd imagine you all know she's a dhampir and does some blood stuff, but she's more secretive around civilization.

Clerics are prepared casters, but I'll probably keep some healing ready. However these are always ready:

Thaumaturgy (Wis) +4 +12 Notes
Word of Radiance (Wis) +4 +12 Notes
Spare the Dying (Wis) +4 +12 Notes
Sleep (Wis) +4 +12
Ray of Enfeeblement (Wis) +4 +12
Ray of Sickness (Wis) +4 +12
Crown of Madness (Wis) +4 +12

The only tool proficiency she has is for dragonchess.
Skills: religion, intimidation, history, medicine, perception, persuasion

Calla is a harengon monk far traveler who grew up in an idyllic, secretive forest society but wanted to travel and felt smothered in her home, so she leaped at the chance when she found a rabbit hole leading someplace new. The only problem is now she doesn’t know how to get home, or if she even wants to leave. She’s ignorant about a lot of cultural norms and sometimes she has odd reactions - but her outsider’s perspective sometimes allows for deeper insights.

This is the first D&D character I’ve fleshed out so I’ve set her to public for feedback on what could synergize well with the group, I was shooting for someone highly mobile with a lot of different ways to get around and lots of bonus actions! I imagine her as a fringe fighter who can peel off problematic enemies with compelled duel, or who can get to hard to reach foes to finish them off in a timely manner (hopefully). Fey touched is more a flavor pick since I imagine she is from the feywild - but doesn’t realize it, and doesn’t know the two spells aren’t something everyone can do.

Proficient in acrobatics, insight, perception, performance, sleight of hand and stealth, along with playing dice, an instrument and brewer’s supplies. Spells are Misty Step and Compelled Duel.

The bard you have all found yourself travelling with is an odd sort. One moment you are being tended to by Arkas, a caring orc who wants to make sure you are all okay. When there is a fight to be won Grana the goliath is give you encouragement while demoralising the enemy. If a more fiddley task is needed you get Veliath, a vain drow who seems upset if she fails , as thats impossible. Most often you get Ardeth the playful half-drow who seems to want to be friends with everyone and make everyone happy. Every now and then a new face briefly shows itself to lend its expertise.

After some poking and inquiring your companion has admitted their current rebirth is a changeling, a shapeshifter, but they refuse to give a true name, or show a true appearance, insisting on the name of their current form being used. They are their past lives, who they are now is inconsequential, a way of the past expressing itself.

Through accessing their pass knowledge they are skilled at many languages: Common, Undercommon, Abyssal, Orcish, Goblin and Giant, and many skills: Arcana, Deception, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Performance, Persuasion. Persuasion and Investigation they seem to be exceptionally good at (Expertise). They are skilled at many instruments, a flute being their favourite, and thieves tools.

(I am still working on spells. Heads up I have covid rn so limited energy, but will hopefully be finished soon)