Character Creation

Awesome, thanks a lot!
I'll post the array as I arranged it before:

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And now I will Roll:

Edit: Not bad, only improvement was strength, but it's quite the jump

Well, at least I tried to help. :)

Seems like everyone is almost ready with character creation soon, so I'll start penning up the first adventure post tonight. The first post round will probably just be an overview of what characters remember before waking in the tavern, and how you perceive the others you see awaken.

Oh I definitely appreciate it, and that jump in strength is pretty nice :)

Looks good. I briefly looked over it. Your character should present some interesting situations. Does she try to identify as elven, or aspire to be one or like one?

Awesome, thanks for the clarification.

Xadria just joined the fight, but Moofsalot, could you fill out the names of your spells? Or are you still in process? Wasn't sure, most other things looked good. Also for wizard just track what spells you have prepared in the notes, then your spell section can consist of all your known spells.

Yes, you should know Common, Elven, one more language for being high-elf, and two more languages for sage.

Also, you are correct, since you are an high-elf wizard you do get 4 cantrips. One for the high-elf, and 3 for wizard. They're all from the wizard spell list anyway so no big difference or anything.

Edit: One quick note though, you can have up to 5 spells prepared. Your number of prepared spells is your INT modifier (+4) plus your Wizard level (1).

Ok, so, I'm loving all these characters so far. I just finished mine and... well, he is a "character" ;). Just to offset the Wizard I went with a Barbarian. I dropped my INT by a couple points, so I hope you are all right with that (making my character a little weaker....).

I was looking through the sheet and had to take a moment to take in what I was seeing. A highly charismatic barbarian that is an entertainer. I love it. You could also use the Feat/Abilities area to put your Barbarian abilities. Either way I love the diversity in the cast here. I'm going to start up the first adventure post.

Ok so dumb question, how do "spell slots" work? Are they like saved spells?

So, I believe (so anyone correct me if I'm wrong), that when you use a spell, it expends a spell slot. So if you have five spell slots you can only use five spells before resting (not counting Cantrips).

But, there are spell slots at different levels (level 2 spell slot, level 3, and so forth). The higher level spell slots allow you to cast higher level spells OR increase the power of a lower level spell! however, you cannot use higher level spells in lower level spell slots.

Example: You can cast a level 2 spell "Break Wind" in higher spell slots (level 3 slots, level 4... Etc), but can't cast it in a level 1 spell slot. When you cast said level 2 spell you use up a level 2 spell slot.

Cantrips are Level 0 you can use the infinite amount of time, expending no spell slots (Yay!).
I hope that made sense. In the end it could've just been confusing :).

Yes. That's right. Spell slots are how many of your prepared spells you can cast. Prepared spells are like the current spells, out of the entirety of your spellbook, that you have committed to remembering. So all spells that aren't in your prepared list you can't cast even if you have a slot of that level available.

Spell slots are spent when used to cast a spell, even if the spell fails. You need to rest to recover slots. Long rests get all of them back, short rests only a certain amount.

If we long rest you also can change the spells on your prepared list.

Also out of your prepared list you can cast a spell as many times as you have slots for. So thunder wave is a first level spell. So if it's prepared you can cast it one or more times as long as you have one or more first level spell slots left.

So it's very important to track your used and unused spell slots because they are like ammunition, when they're gone, you can't cast until you rest.

Great! I think I got it. Can cantrips also be switched out after a long (or in my case 4 hour) rest?

Cantrips are not quite like other spells. They are always in memory and always castable. All of them. So all of your cantrips are usable anytime.

They also do not use spell slots so you can keep casting them every round of combat if you want. (Assuming you don't cast some other spell for your action instead)

I'm so glad we're all getting our single digit rolls out of the way now- ha!

That's what we get for having the attribute rolls we had. :-)