Session Zero Character Creation/ideas

It also depends on what race you guys are too.

sounds bought right

true that! Im gonna go with vanilla variant human - take a feat at 1st level

Ok cool.

Let me ask some questions to help get your characters created?
1. Whats your characters name, How old is your character and do they live with their parents, close relatives, orphanage, alone in a cottage, has a maternal Grandmother or Grandfather or elderly Uncle they live with, etc?
2. If a tragedy happened to your character like say your Guardians were taken away from you or were killed due to fighting or helping out in a war, or trying to protect you from a dark entity or you were captured by slavers of a different race or you fell into a portal to a different realm, what would you do?
3. What made you decide to go the way of the fighter, the way of the arcane arts? What major event in your life from childhood to becoming of age shaped you into the person you are today?
4. Upon meeting each other, who is your best friend in the group and would you protect and die for each other and would you sacrifice yourself to help /save others?

I shall work on my character more tomorrow. Getting late for tonight now.

But I am basically thinking a girl who lives with her witchy grandmother and is an Archfey Warlock.
Probably human suits this better than my first idea of Warlock.

Will get into the details ASAP.

Also @Amberthegirlgeekgamer87 , would you mind if we'd be able to use the custom character sheets?

Awesome and yeah I can add the custom character sheets too. Only added the dnd 5e sheets tho.

But sounds awesome

Added custom character sheets with the dnd 5e sheets to the game

So we have a Warlock, a booksmart bookworm fighter type character and whatever Eyes is going to be.

But I love the Grandmother witch in the cottage idea Svande . Definitely gives Hayao miyazaki vibes and she will probably be the protector of her village as witches like in Kikkis delivery service go to find a town or village to help out and protect when they turn 16. Maybe the village you stay at with your Grandmother is the gateway between the Fey Wilds, the Human realm and the realm of Otherworldly beings and spirits.

Btw, do you guys want our game forum public or private? Just curious.

Btw got one more person joining us and that's it. So welcome Seck ! Hope you have fun with us and looking forward to seeing your character concept.

Hello everyone! This is pretty exciting. I'm happy I could get in. Thanks!

Hey Seck! I'm excited too and no problem. What character are you thinking about playing? Just curious.

I'm not sure exactly yet about my character, but I would love for it to lead to an artificer class. Perhaps he is an orphan who comes to know some eccentric tinkerer/inventor. Be fun to be a halfling, gnome or something, but perhaps just a human boy would be better. What do you think?
I'm gonna think up some answers to all these questions.

I'm not picky about the leveling system we use or any of the game mechanics. Whatever you would like Amber is fine with me.

I would say I would be 10 years old to start.

I think if we can come up with how we all know each other, that will help me flesh out my character concept.

So...all have so far is a human orphan who meets an eccentric tinkerer who inspires the boy on a path that leads to the artificer class.

Hi, thanks for the invite.
I'm thinking 8 to 12 yr old wood elf. He's a street urchin pickpocket, petty theif, living alone, sleeping at a guild hangout. Usually acting as lookout and runner for the blue scale guild.

1. How old is your character and do they live with their parents, close relatives, orphanage, alone in a cottage, has a maternal Grandmother or Grandfather or elderly Uncle they live with, etc?
Living in the guild house or sleeping wherever he can. The guild leader, Tolraq; she knows he's homeless and tosses him a silver now and again.


2. If a tragedy happened to your character like say your Guardians were taken away from you or were killed due to fighting or helping out in a war, or trying to protect you from a dark entity or you were captured by slavers of a different race or you fell into a portal to a different realm, what would you do? I'd be on my own to escape or make myself valuable enough to be kept alive.

3. What made you decide to go the way of the fighter, the way of the arcane arts? What major event in your life from childhood to becoming of age shaped you into the person you are today?

Homeless and abandoned not sure what happened, I went to sleep one night and woke up alone.

4. Upon meeting each other, who is your best friend in the group and would you protect and die for each other and would you sacrifice yourself to help /save others?

My best friend would be the one that's nicest. And I wouldn't intentionally die for another but I'd try to help. I know what it's like to be alone.

That's funny, it was my first thought too but decided homeless future theif was a better fit for me to be able to fit into anyone's story.

That is pretty funny. But perfect! Surely a 10-year-old human orphan and a 12-year-old homeless wood elf, running for the guild, will have opportunities to come in contact and befriend each other.

I would love for all of you to meet and become childhood friends.

I know Sayndes character is a Little human or half-elf girl living with a Grandmother witch in a cottage in the woods so that definitely gives me like Hayao miyazaki vibes while Basils character is a booksmart human boy who is going to be a fighter or melee character of some kind .

And yeah if you all met up and became childhood friends that would be awesome.

Just can't wait to find out the names of your characters and more.

Maybe you all know of the Witch in the woods that is at the borders of the Fae wilds, and the human realm and the realm of Otherworldly beings and Spirits where Sayndes character lives at who is her Grandmother named Grandmother Sophie. She helps out those in need and protects those who needs protection too.

So we'll have the Fighter, the Warlock, the Thief and the Tinkerer. That sounds like a pretty cool Zero to hero dnd 5e story to me.

me too

Hit points and leveling
Level - since everyone is looking at around 10 yrs old avg, lets say it's like level 00 to 0 to 1
HP - use normal hp progression lvl 1 to 3 but 00=1die and 0=1.5 die, them at 1 you go to 1 die again but you're a full adult

Damage -


so if i get 1d8 per level
00 means i get hit by an adult fist for 1dmg it costs me 7hp but if i fight another kid, they do 1 dmg
at level 0 that same punch does 4 damage but I've got 12 kid Hit Points

That sounds cool for hp Eyes.

The attack damage dice thing you mentioned, do y'all still want to do that? Just curious.

can see doing this with D&D fairly easily.
so start out as a character age 7, with all the stats as normal but those are 1/2 vs an adult so strength 18 vs another kid but in the real world it's a 9 when compared to an adult.
maybe 1/4,1/2,3/4 like the dice thing below.

Then all atk rolls are 1d20+modifier-(15- age) so say you're 9 with a +3 = 1d20+3-6


damage is say (1d8+3)*(age/15) the roller can't handle that should be about 7 max
there's probably a way to make a dice rule to make all rolls 50% to 33% smaller but I don't know
9/15 should be 0.6 but it looks like / or * just add numbers
So maybe just cut the damage die in 1/4 to 4, 1/2 to 9 3/4 to 14 then full damage from 15 on

1d4 becomes
1d1 from 0-4
1d2 from 5 to 9
1d3 from 10 to 14
1d4 from 15 to death



I'm not good with math but if the players ages are in between the 5-12 range it'll work out. If you guys want to use this.

Also what is the name of the city you live in those of you who live in the city (Seck, Eyes, and Basil) since you all live in the city and Sayndes character lives in the woods outside of the city which is a days travel to get there.