Character Creation

Welcome to Gamer's Plane!!

This thread is for discussing what type of characters you'd like to play and how to go about creating them. For those new to either D&D 5E and/or Gamer's Plane I have a thread that may help a bit in one of my other games (which is being run for a few people that are completely new to RPGs and PbP): Szemely's Character Creation Guide

For this game anything in the Player's Handbook or Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is fair game. Attributes should be rolled in this forum so that we can all congratulate you on your awesome luck or mock your newly created sickly character.

1. Using the GP die roller, roll 7x4d6, for each roll throw out the single lowest value. From the seven totals left, throw out the lowest total and assign the six values in anyway that you'd like.

2. If after step one your rolls are pretty miserable, feel free to use the standard array of 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8, and assign them anyway you'd like.

You should also determine why your character is in Neverwinter and how they know Gundren Rockseeker and establish any relationships with other PCs.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to post them here, and we'll get you sorted.

Thanks for playing!

Alright, here we go!

So 12, 15, 10, 13, 10 and 12. Pretty close to standard, actually.

Add one more roll if you'd like. We're doing 7x4d6 and dropping the lowest total.

Well, that's new!

I've seen a couple of other DMs do it while running games on here and I thought it was kind of neat, so I, "borrowed" the idea.

For those who have submitted characters I'm going to reject them and have you go through the creation process in this thread.

Well I'm down to make what ever. I'm kinda leaning towards a wizard or multi clashing wizard with something. That's as long as multi-tasking is allowed.

If it's in the PHB or SCAG then you're good to.

I'm kinda leaning towards a cleric.

Looks like we may have a Fighter, Cleric, and a multi-classing Wizard so far. Good mix... :-)

Ok. Submitted my character. Now just brainstorming the backstory. I've got ideas, but I gotta put them together.

You need to roll up the stats on this thread like Sampai has before I'll accept a new character. I guess I wasn't clear enough about that, sorry. I'll update the top post.

So how do I roll the stats?

Link in the top post will take you to a little step by step guide I'm working on: Szemely's Character Creation Guide

That guide shows the 6x4d6 method, but we're using the 7x4d6 as described above. If you have any questions along the way feel free to ask.

Ah. Ok.

Here we go.... I think

So go plug these stats into my toon?

Yep, just adjust the values as described above and use them as your starting stats.

Do I add my racial bonus and can I use the human feat start build?

Yep, what you rolled is just for starters. Add any racial bonuses that you get for your race selection (and you can use the human variant build if you'd like).