Session Zero Character Creation/ideas

So far we have:
27 point buy for stats
Milestone leveling
Eyes hp suggestion
Damage dice for attacks suggestion
Everyone takes what I mentioned earlier with the 1 skill prof, 1 language, 1 simple weapon proficiency and 1 tools proficiency.
Backgrounds: Don't know yet
Race: All human I think
Classes: Warlock, a melee character, Artificer and thief rogue
Backstories-being worked on
Names of place of origin-being worked on

Am I forgetting anything so far? Just curious

Also what would you guys like to see and incorporate into the game too? Let me know

I was going to go for the rogue type as well, but more of the brainy schemer... Since there is another rogue we could be part of the same guild. Has anyone ever read the Gentleman Bastard series of books? In a nutshell its a story about a group of thieves that trained together from childhood. Not to be common theives but the best. Trained by a Cleric of the god of thieves. Book covers their adventures as adults with flashbacks of their childhood. Probably the best Audible book series ive listened too.

Those mechanics sound fine to me.

I’m gonna work out more details about my character today. I think it will have something to do with living in an orphanage run by a Baroness (who is exhaled from her home land). There is an eerie cat that lives there that seems to always be watching the children. It turns out that the cat is the familiar of a goblin warlock who is the adviser of a goblin king.

The orphan grounds are maintained by an eccentric old fellow who also has a tinkering workshop. He dabbles in magic himself and is interested in the artificer discipline. My character befriends him and spends much time with him in his workshop.

The old tinkerer comes to discover that the baroness has been turning children over to the goblin king and that the cat has been advising which children are the next candidate. The tinkerer warns my character and helps him escape the orphanage. The old man faces the baroness in a heated escape scene. The boy sees the old man get killed by the baroness just as he narrowly escapes.

He wanders the city for a short while alone and homeless, sleeping in gutters and alleys. He eventually is found by a young half-elf (Eyes…if it makes sense) who is also homeless but knows the ropes of the city. The half-elf helps the human boy.

Perhaps the fighter through reading something has heard of this Warlock in the woods that can help us with answers. When the three city dwellers get to know each other they risk venturing into the woods together and get ensnared in some sort of trap that Svande’s character saves them from???????

Ha! The baroness was exiled from her homeland not exhaled (unless she lived in a whale or something 😂) she obviously isn’t a very nice person.

So you and Eyes character are from the same guild? Nice. If ya’ll are into that idea about how we all meet then the half-elf could introduce me to you. And you have read something about warlocks and have heard about there being a helpful one in the woods and believe she could help us find out what the goblin warlock is doing with the kids from the orphanage. So we decide to venture into the woods when Svande finds us caught in some kind of (maybe…hunter’s net or hanging upside from a rope) trap while out finding spell components for her grandmother. She saves us from the trap.

Perhaps, or we could do what kids do...throw rocks and run from creepy old people in the woods until we got to know them....maybe one of us was injured running away and the creepy old lady helped.

Ha. We could go that route too.

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That's pretty cool. I do have a D&D beyond account. Although I haven't done anything with it.

The main reason I dont use it is because to sign up you have to link it to/sign in using another account not related to Dnd... Like an email addres. At least the last time I checked. I already have the core books and flipping through paper is sooo satisfying, so for now im stuck on paper :)

Yeah, I use email like i have for GP and everywhere else.
It's why we create those dummy email accounts like my gmail I never check

I don't use dnd beyond anymore cuz it doesn't remember my accounts anymore and I don't like it how you have to link to something to have an account. When it comes to websites,
I like just logging in via email and password like I do on goodreads and roll20 and stuff . but you can use the dnd 5e character sheet and custom character sheets too on here. I added them on here to use.

And that sounds awesome. Secks character backstory sounds awesome.

Svande are you going half-elf or human?

Also what is everyone's characters names? I see Eyes went with Woody which is a cool toy story reference.


Yeah a Goblin Warlock who helps a Goblin King who turns children into either Goblins or makes them his servants or slaves or eats children sounds like an awesome idea and the evil baroness helping him like Ms Harrigan from Annie sounds cool too. And him befriending a Tinkerer/inventor sounds cool too.

Btw is everyone human? Just curious. Let me know.

So far we have Basils character-Name not revealed yet, Eyes-Woody the half-elf wood elf, Sayndes character-Name not revealed yet and Secks character-Name not revealed yet.

But Sayndes character has a Grandmother named Grandmother Sophie who is a witch.

But yeah I would suggest using the character sheets on here if you don't have dnd beyond.

I know the cottage will be at the borders of the realms of Spirits and Otherworldly beings ( which is basically the Fey realm) and the human realm (with the humans and other humanoid races).

And if you three are from the same city, let me know the name of the city you are from.

Seems like I have missed A LOT since I was at work.
I probably miss a few things here and there.


Okay. As for my character, this is what I have been thinking and it goes quite well with your idea, Amber. Although I have no idea what/who Hayao miyazaki is.
I like the "Sophie" and quite normal naming conventions. So I think I will stick to it too.
Athough I haven't really put anything of Grandmother's Name into a BG yet or living in the forest, it does feel like the trope I was going for. Although I am going to replace Grandmother with (Fairy) Godmother.



Roughly, the idea is the following, very fairy tale like.


Yvonne is an orphan child in a city far away, living in a very poor and strict orphanage. One day, when she was 9, she wished upon a falling star to no longer live in the orphanage. One should always be careful what you wish for, for wishes might come true.

That night the ancient hag Baba Yaga granted the wish and abducted Yvonne from the orphanage into the Feywild where the hag had her hut.
To Baba Yaga, Yvonne was nothing but tomorrow night's dinner.

That is when a gentle old lady, and nemesis of the hag, appeared. She was a professional Fairy Godmother and very upset with Baba Yaga for corrupting a child's wish. The Fairy Godmother and Baba Yaga fought it out in a highly magical duel. The fight was undecided, in that no one was killed. But Fairy Godmother and Yvonne did escape Baba Yaga's hut.

The Fairy Godmother introduced herself as Grandmother Sophie and promissed she would look after Yvonne and be her Fairy Godmother, for she genuinely loved children and warned that Baba Yaga would not forget.

Grandmother Sophie took Yvonne to a cottage in the woods near a rift to the Feywild, for she could not live far from the Feywild herself.

This is a year ago. Yvonne is 10 now.

Awesome. Hayao miyazaki is a Japanese animator and Movie director. He created the films Howls moving Castle, spirited away, Kikkis delivery service and more. @Svande

And I love the Fairy tale/mythology vibe with Baba yaga and stuff. And Grandmother Sophie is a Fairy Godmother/witch so she's like Glinda from The Wizard of Oz.

I named her Grandmother Sophie after Sophie from Howls moving Castle.

So Baba yaga being like the hungry witch from the Hansel and Gretel story is awesome. And she has the chicken legs house too.

So Yvonne being saved from being a witches dinner from a Fairy Godmother who is a witch too means she will do everything in her power to protect her so Yvonne owes her life to Sophie.

If you are going human, then that is cool too. Cuz I think we have a few humans and a half elf wood elf in the party.

Woody = wood elf