OOC Character Creation

Here is a screenshot to show where my scores come from and shows a website everyone can use to figure out theirs prior to adding their bonuses.

And yes I made the most rounded out Warrior ever.

@emsquared: So this is how I ended up where I am, and let me know what I did wrong

With a 27 point buy for stat generation I went for;
STR 13
DEX 14
CON 13
INT 10
WIS 11
CHA 13

Human gave me a +1 in each Stat, bring it too;
STR 14
DEX 15
CON 14
INT 11
WIS 12
CHA 14

Then I added the Warden bonus to DEX, INT, & WIS
"Ability Score Increase – Your Intelligence score increases by 1 and you may increase any two additional ability scores by 1."
STR 14
DEX 16
CON 14
INT 12
WIS 13
CHA 14

Did I do that incorrectly. I checked my figures on a character generator as well aidedd.org Character Builder

EDIT:
Just checked them on chicken-dinner 5e as well, and they look okay? But not sure now?

@emsquared ah! Yes, I went wrong - I've not used point-buy before and I assumed buffing to 14 cost 6 points rather than 7, and similarly, a 15 would cost 7 rather than 9. Will re-allocate now

You get a culture instead of a classic dnd race. That’s should be where the three +1s came from not warden.

@emsquared: Here goes:

Point-Buy

STR 8 + 2 (cost 2) = 10 (2/27)
DEX 8 + 2 (cost 2) =10 (4/27)
CON 8 + 5 (cost 5) = 13 (9/27)
INT 8 + 6 (cost 7) = 14 (16/27)
WIS 8 +7 (cost 9) = 15 (25/27)
CHA 8 + 2 (cost 2) = 10 (27/27)

Add Men of Minas Tirith Traits

STR 10
DEX 10
CON 13 + 1 = 14
INT 14 + 1 = 15
WIS 15 + 1 = 16
CHA 10

Is that correct?

Character submitted for review. Still need equipment selected, but core stuff is finished

Yea @Mnrtoler has the right of it.

Your distribution is the correct start:

STR 13
DEX 14
CON 13
INT 10
WIS 11
CHA 13

But there is no Race in AIME, only Culture. So you do not get the +1 to all as per a 5E Human.

You get the +1 INT, +1 any other, +1 any other, from Man of Minas Tirith. Culture replaces Race.

Warden, your Class, gives no Ability Score bonus.
Yup!

EDIT:

Ooops! Apologies! I have corrected the Stats and any bonus' from the old/incorrect Stats. Hopefully it is all correct now.

Character submitted, but I'm still working on it. Not sure yet what Éothain is seeking under his "Secret of the Lost" background. I am leaning toward a location, such as a hero's forgotten burial place, as opposed to a particular item. I am thinking his search for this is what brings him to Pelargir.

Haven't taken a deep dive into much beyond ability scores, but everything's looking good for those who've submitted characters and made revisions.

Thanks for your work on this gang!

I have submitted Duinhir, Dunedain ranger of the north, for review.
Still need to fill out equipment and back story but the basic should be there. I not very familiar with D&D, so if I did something wrong let me know.

@emsquared so question about inventory. Do we just take what our class give us per our standard of living or can I switch some things around. Like ring mail which is ac 14 and has stealth disadvantage for a corslet of mail which is is 13+ plus dex and has no stealth disadvantage. Corslet of mail is actually in a lower standard of living than my culture.

By my calcs, Stefron, you still have 1 point to spend on your Point Buy ability score distribution to use.

There really aren't any great distributions that you can arrive at with Point Buy to convert 4, +1s to an all-even set of ability scores. So you may just have to turn 1 of your 12s to a 13. But there are other ways to play around with it too (maybe makes getting 2, 15s slightly less painful), and/or I think there are some Virtues that grant a +1 to some abilities, so just take another look and see what you want to do. Yea, in AIME your starting gear is rather "locked in" by your Culture (Standard of Living) and Class.

I've never read anything official on it, but my take on the approach is, in addition to using Standard of Living/Equipment and Class to try to "enforce" another element of the feel of Tolkien's Middle-earth, there is less gear in AIME, less general wealth, and less magic/magic items and things. And so they kind of scaled starting gear back to still allow room for equipment to be a part of progression.

As a Warrior, I would look at it like: you probably didn't buy your own gear, you either inherited it from a dead relative, or you were handed it by your town when you were conscripted that time during or in preparation of an orc raid that may or may not have happened. Something like that.

You are welcome to sell starting equipment at 50% cost before we begin play, and purchase something else/other things with that money. But I don't know if that will get you your corslet.

Appreciate it, but no it will not. The starting equipment is fine just thought I’d ask. That is a very nice way to think of it in character though.

OK I submitted a filled in DnD character template for Cirion, please check for errors @emsquared

Your ability scores look good @Dr_B.

I'll give everybody's characters a deeper look tomorrow and in the early part of next week.

I think we should be in game by Weds at the latest!

@Mnrtoler - all good

@Drakis2 - looks like you need to add Traditions Skill from your Class

@Stefron - did you possibly intend to mark proficiency in Perception instead of Persuasion? Otherwise I'm not sure where Persuasion came from. Also, because you get Survival, automatically, from Culture and Class, you may choose a different Class proficiency to replace that 2nd Survival.

@therecusant - looks good, maybe just write down your class abilities (Healing Hands. etc) and additional Class equipment which you maybe just hadn't gotten to yet

@Dr_B - you need to record your Animal Handling and Survival proficiencies from your Background. And instead of describing your Expertise skills as "doubled" go ahead and just double your proficiency bonus for them and add the ability score modifier (so 4+ability mod)

@rpgventurer - all good

And various ones of you still need to do some "house keeping" stuff (record AC yada yada), but no big deal there.

All of your characters have been approved, as all changes to be made are just additions/omissions.

Go ahead and roll for your starting money here in this thread and I'll work on getting the first IC thread ready and posted, and we'll be begin play!

Thank you all again.

Just want to check the starting money is as listed in the AIME players guide, and not the D&D 5e players guide? Is that correct, as the starting money is different in each, e.g. Men of Minas Tirith (5d6 silver pennies) vs Ranger (5d4 x 10 gp)

I have added the Skill 'Traditions'

Yup, please use the AIME value for your pocket change roll.