Character Creation

I prefer the starting allotments from class and background myself, but if you really want to fine tune your customization of your character by rolling for starting gold, I'll allow it. Just make sure the any rolls you make are made publicly.

Speaking of everyone should also roll a d100 for a trinket. You can use PHB trinket table or the Elemental Evil trinket table.

I'll have this character posted in a bit, then start working on a backstory for her. Rolling for trinket

"54: Flint and steel that, when used to start a faire, creates a random colored flame."

No problem.

Also, do you want backgrounds posted or PMed?

Like Bleak, I'll have my character done soon and will be ready to post/PM a backstory not long after that.

Edit: Trinket - "A fist sized rock that 'beats' like a heart."

Assuming you mean character back story, I think it'd be better to send me the background privately and RP any reveal of your background to others in game. There may also be reasons you might want to keep your background secret from others initially. (I think you can send a note if you don't want to PM it.)

Alternatively, if everyone is confident and trust that everyone will RP in game accordingly to their character's knowledge and rather share everything openly to other players, I won't stop you. :)

Nope, that works fine. I agree that RPing it is the better way to learn about each other (and yes, I meant backstory).

Happy to have what I have already put in dnd beyond shared generally. I will pm a couple of specifics.

Trinket- A single gauntlet inscribed with a fire motif and an unfamiliar name in Primordial.

With that roll, you either have:

"A dragon's bony talon hanging from a plain leather necklace" or

"A single gauntlet inscribed with a fire motif and an unfamiliar name in Primordial."

You can choose which.

Rolling for my trinket.

A pyramid of sticky black incense that smells bad.

Hi everyone. I've read through but it's a little hard to see what everyone's picked so far... fighter, warlock, rogue and cleric so far, yes? I want to fill in gaps. Are you guys okay with more casting power? A wizard would be fun.

13, 14, 13, 13, 16, 10

I'm starting to wonder why I bothered with point buy when rolling is producing so many objectively better characters. -_-

Not to be that guy but at the current rate I feel like I'm gonna spend most of my time failing saves and not hitting anything because my stats are comparatively mediocre. I mean, sure, I could roll stats, but that guarantees nothing. Either I'll have amazing stats or terrible stats and be stuck with them.

I'm a big proponent of "play what you'll enjoy", so anything you pick is going to be good. But yeah, can't go wrong with more casting power ;)

Deciding to roll some stats to see what comes of it, since it seems to be the popular choice, but I'll revert to my point but build if it goes awry.

14, 12, 11, 15, 12, 11

Pretty much exactly what I bought but with some elevens. Might as well use it.

Not that it'll change your decision, but I think your second stat is 12 not 11. Doubt that's enough to make you switch stat sets, but in case it is...

So it is, thanks for pointing it out. I'd actually punched them into the sheet for the sake of argument and all they did was drop my CHA by one and increase my INT by one. The second twelve actually does change things, since it puts me one ability increase off my CHA mod going back up, so I figured I'll go with it. If anything, just a bit put out that what I rolled was more or less exactly what I bought.

Anyhow, I'll stop being so negative about it. It's not as bad as I initially thought, and I'm sure it'll work out. That's my character ready to go.

Hi all,

Looks like everyone has got most of the the character creation done. Few notes:

- I still need back story from some of you.
- Most of you chose a background already but I noticed some of you haven't chose or at least noted: Personality trait, ideal, bonds, flaws, etc. Make sure you choose a background and choose one for each of trait, ideal, bond, flaw.. etc or if you have some custom ideas you can run that by me also. It may not seem all that important but I think it's good to have some idea about your character's personality tendencies as a role playing guide and a way for character development. Also, it's a good way to gain inspiration :).


Note: there is technically one more player that signed up for this game but I haven't heard any follow up from them so that may be a bust. But, we have 5 players now which is plenty good. I can also try to recruit a player if we want a party of six.

Hey Ket,

Since everyone decided to roll for their abilities, and if you're concerned about imbalance and wanna try your luck at rolling for your abilities instead you can. But, once you roll, you'll have to take those results instead.

I will get my background story complete by tomorrow. As far as my stats, I’m good with what I have now. The only thing that I would even consider trying to raise up is my CHA score, but as it is I think I am happy. I’m looking forward to getting started. 5 PCs is a good size party, so if you want to cap it there I’m good with it.

Sean~ alias Ket Onwall, the Bumbling Former DM 😁

I'm liking the looks of this party so far, excited to see how they all click. Given the amount of casters, I've gone and switched my cleric over to medium armor so we have an extra defensive character to stave off attacks.

Hi folks,

I've closed the recruitment. We have a party of five with a good mix of skills. We're about ready to play. I'm just waiting on one more back story. (I just received the final back story!). I'll be posting a thread sometime today on some notes on how combat will be adjudicated. Since PbP is asynchronous, I think there's some potential issues there we'll need to figure out. I'll also note some homebrewed rules in that thread.

Some final notes:
- If you haven't yet set an avatar for your character, please do so. Once, the game thread is made and gets going, You will be posting as your characters and having a character avatar will be useful here.
- If you haven't noted personality traits, ideals, bonds, flaws please do so or at least provide brief notes on how you intend to RP the character to begin with. You don't have to choose from the list in PHB you can make your own if you wish, and you're not completely beholden to them for all eternity - character development/growth is a thing.

I think that's it.

EDIT: I just received a PM requesting a sixth player. If everyone is okay with that I can invite the player in. If you guys don't mind waiting a little longer for the extra player to create a character, I'll invite the player.