Character Creation

We offer many options for character customization and creation. Outside of the below listed material, our Lore and Balance Teams have put together some extra options for you which can be found in the Main Balance Document in either the #welcome-guide or #balance-public-view channel. **All characters start at level 2** **and are created using the standard 27 Point Buy System.** This system is found on page 13 in the PHB or can be found online here - http://chicken-dinner.com/5e/5e-point-buy.html

**Starting Gear and Gold**

You can choose to either roll for your class gold OR take starting equipment. Not both. If you roll gold, you do not get your background equipment. For HP beyond first level, you may either roll Or take the average for your class. You cannot roll and then declare taking average When you roll for these. Rolls must be logged in the #character-level-logs channel.

**Submission and Approval**

Once you have finished creating your character, submit it via the Google Doc located in the #welcome-guide or #hall-of-staff pins for approval and ping the Staff role in #hall-of-staff. Be sure you have clicked the role at the bottom of the #welcome-guide channel for access to #hall-of-staff. When your character is approved, the guild member role will be assigned to you. Ask in #questions if you have any questions about the process.

**The Office of Alice**

After your character is approved and you have received your fresh orange coloring you may begin role playing on the server. Most members start by joining the Adventurers guild by talking to Alice in her #office-of-alice channel as generally most characters are linked together as members of the Adventurers Guild. While being a member of the guild is not required to play in the server, it is recommended for those who are creating their first character. If you would like to have a Staff member role play you joining the guild head to the #office-of-alice channel and ping Staff.

**Logging Characters**

It is up to the individual player to track their character sheet, though our server bots track XP, Gold and Treasure Points (TP). There are a multitude of different methods available for this and it is up to you to decide how you want to do it. However, here are a few options that our current player base use:

* PDF Character Sheets
* Roll20
* Dicecloud
* Google Sheets

In addition to this, we have specific places to log certain transactions and events so that we may go back and verify things in certain situations.

* Level ups: #character-level-logs
* Trades: #hall-of-staff
* Specific things of Importance: #specific-logs
	+ This includes but is not limited to: Crystal Core Mounts, Simulacrums, Clones, Wish loss, items with Wish and the charges left, NPCs/Pets under your control, etc.

### **Changes**

Some changes were made to Rules as Written for certain features in order to create a more balanced environment for the server. Anything listed with (BHB) is Balance Homebrew. These changes and any annotated in the Approved Classes section are listed in the Balance Document. Some important changes to note are listed below:

* We do not adhere to the Sword Coast race/class restrictions such as Battlerager and Bladesinger.
* Changes to Paladin Smite:
	+ Paladin feature “Divine Smite”  now only works off of Paladin spell slots.
	+ If a multi-classed caster, use a number of spell slots out of your multiclass’ spell slots equal to the number a Paladin of your level would have.
* Changes to Druid Wild Shapes (At level 20), Druid Capstone Errata:
	+ Max 4 uses of Moon Druid’s Circle Forms Wild Shape per short or long rest.
	+ Max 3 uses of Moon Druid’s Elemental Wild Shape per short or long rest.
	+ Max 4 uses of Spore Druid’s Symbiotic Entity per short or long rest. (BHB)
	+ Max 4 uses of Seedling Druid’s Plant Wild Shape per short or long rest. (BHB)
	+ Seedling Druid’s Guardian of the Forest now has a similar limit of 3 uses per short or long rest. (BHB)
	+ Base Level 20 Unlimited Wild Shape is unaffected.
* Simulacrum changes are listed in the balance document and FAQ.
* Wish and Divine Intervention are changed slightly for server balance. View the specific changes in the Balance Document or explanation in Server Rules and Information under Divine Intervention and Wish and the Resurrection Fund.

## **List of Allowed Content**

* Players Hand Book
* Dungeon Masters Guide
* Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
* Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
* Tomb of Annihilation
* Elemental Evil Player’s Companion
* Princes of the Apocalypse
* Volo’s Guide to Monsters
* Storm King’s Thunder
* Out of the Abyss
* Hoard of the Dragon Queen
* The Rise of Tiamat
* Curse of Strahd
* Tales from the Yawning Portal
* The Tortle Package
* The UA Beastmaster Ranger
* The Tal’Dorei Campaign Guide
* Matt Mercer’s Gunslinger and Blood Hunter
* Some items and classes from The Guild Master's Guide to Ravnica
* Some items from Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
* Some items from Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
* Some content from Eberron: Rising from the Last War (No Artificer).
* Various other Homebrew material approved by our teams

### **Approved Races**

If there is a (BD) tag next to a race, that means either part of the race was changed in one way or another. The versions of each of the races with the (BD) tag are located in the Main Balance Document located in the #welcome-guide or #balance-public-view channels.

* **Dwarf** (PHB pg.20)
	+ Mountain (PHB pg.20)
	+ Hill (PHB pg.20)
	+ Gold (SCAG pg.103)
	+ Shield (SCAG pg.103)
	+ Gray/Duergar (SCAG pg.104)
* **Elves** (PHB pg.23)
	+ High (PHB pg.23)
	+ Wood (PHB pg.24)
	+ Drow/Dark (PHB pg.24)
	+ Eladrin  (DMG pg.286)
	+ Moon (SCAG pg.105-106)
	+ Sun (SCAG pg.106)
* **Halflings**  (PHB pg.28)
	+ Stout (PHB pg.28)
	+ Lightfoot (PHB. 28)
	+ Strongheart (SCAG pg. 109)
	+ Ghostwise (SCAG pg.110)
* **Human** (PHB pg.31)
	+ Human Variant (PHB pg.31)
* **Dragonborn** (PHB pg.34)
	+ Black (PHB pg.34)
	+ Blue (PHB pg.34)
	+ Brass (PHB pg.34
	+ Bronze (PHB pg.34)
	+ Copper (PHB pg.34)
	+ Gold (PHB pg.34)
	+ Green (PHB pg.34)
	+ Red (PHB pg.34)
	+ Sliver (PHB pg.34)
	+ White (PHB pg.34)
* **Gnome** (PHB pg.36-37)
	+ Forest (PHB pg.37)
	+ Rock (PHB pg.37)
	+ Deep/Svirfneblin (SCAG pg.115)
* **Half-Elf** (PHB pg.39)
	+ Half-Elf Variant (SCAG pg.116)

* **Half-Orc** (PHB pg.41)
	+ Gharrak (BD)
	+ Ondonti (BD)
	+ Sharakim (BD)

* **Tiefling**  (PHB pg.43)
	+ Tiefling Variant (SCAG pg.118)
	+ Tiefling Variant (MToF pg. 22)
* **Tortle** (ToAS pg.4)
* **Aasimar** (Volos pg.104-105)
	+ Fallen (Volos pg.105)
	+ Protector (Volos pg.105)
	+ Scourge (Volos pg.105)
* **Firbolg** (Volos pg.107)
* **Goliath** (Volos pg.109)
* **Kenku** (Volos pg.111)
* **Lizardfolk** (Volos pg.113)
* **Tabaxi** (Volos pg.115)
* **Triton** (Volos pg.117-118)
* **Bugbear** (Volos pg.119)
* **Hobgoblin** (Volos pg.119)
* **Goblin** (Volos pg.119)
* **Kobold** (Volos pg.119)
* **Yuan-Ti Pureblood** (Volos pg.120)
* **Orc** (Volos pg.120) and (BD variant)
	+ Gharrak (BD)
	+ Ondonti (BD)
	+ Sharakim (BD)
* **Aarakocra** (EE pg.5)
* **Genasi** (EE pg.9)
	+ Air (EE pg.9)
	+ Earth (EE pg.9)
	+ Fire (EE pg.9-10)
	+ Water (EE pg.10)

* **Amal'zun** (BD)
	+ Flameborn
	+ Hardskin

* **Awakened Blight** (BD)
* **Centaur** (BD)
* **Changeling** (BD)
* **Dhampir** (BD)
* **Dragonmarks** (Variant Races/Subraces) (BD)
	+ Variant Half-Elf: Mark of Detection
	+ Variant Half-Elf: Mark of Storm
	+ Variant Half-Orc/Human: Mark of Finding
	+ Variant Human: Mark of Handling
	+ Variant Human: Mark of Making
	+ Variant Human: Mark of Passage
	+ Variant Human: Mark of Sentinel
	+ Dwarf Subrace: Mark of Warding
	+ Elf Subrace: Mark of Shadow
	+ Halfling Subrace: Mark of Healing
	+ Halfling Subrace: Mark of Hospitality
	+ Gnome Subrace: Mark of Scribing

* **Gathran** (BD)

* **Gnoll** (BD)
* **Grung** (BD)
* **Kalashtar** (BD)
* **Kashyl** (BD)
* **Loxodon** (BD)
* **Minotaur** (BD)
* **Mul** (BD)
* **Pixie** (BD)
* **Revenant** (BD)
	+ Abandoned
	+ Conquered
	+ Doomed
	+ Hollowed
* **Rodentfolk** (BD)
	+ Softpaw
	+ Meadowguard
* **Sahuagin** (BD)
* **Satyr** (BD)
* **Shifter** (BD)
	+ Beasthide
	+ Longtooth
	+ Swiftstride
	+ Wildhunt
* **Silva** (BD)
	+ Forest
	+ Jungle
* **Thri-keen** (BD)
	+ Cha'akh: Those Who Act
	+ Sit'ch: Those who Ponder
* **Vegepygmy** (BD)
* **Warforged** (BD)

### **Approved Classes**

If there is a (BD) tag, or any other notes next to a class or subclass, it means that it has been changed in some way when it was added to the server or that it has not gone through balance yet if there was an update to the class by the content creator. Those changes are all viewable in the Main Balance Document located in the #welcome-guide and #balance-public-view channels.

* **Barbarian**
	+ Juggernaut
	+ Totem Warrior
	+ Berserker
	+ Battlerager (BD)
	+ Ancestral Guardian
	+ Storm Herald
	+ Ascendant (BD)
	+ Blighted (BD)
	+ Blood (BD)
	+ Colossus (BD)
* **Bard**
	+ Maestro
	+ Lore
	+ Valor
	+ Glamour
	+ Swords
	+ Whispers
	+ Ancients (BD)
	+ Dancers (BD)
	+ Satire (BD)
	+ Shadowfell (BD)
	+ Strings (BD)
* **Blood Hunter** (Balance Doc Version)
	+ Ghostslayer
	+ Profane Soul
	+ Mutant
	+ Lycan
* **Cleric** (See Balance Doc for Divine Intervention Note)
	+ Arcana
	+ Death
	+ Blood (Balance Doc Version)
	+ Knowledge
	+ Life
	+ Light
	+ Nature
	+ Tempest
	+ Trickery
	+ War
	+ Forge
	+ Grave
	+ Cold (BD)
	+ Heart (BD)
	+ Night (BD)
	+ Order (BD)
	+ Protection (BD)
	+ Renewal (BD)
	+ Strength (BD)
* **Druid** (See Balance Doc for Changes to level 20 Wild Shape)
	+ Land
	+ Moon
	+ Dreams
	+ Shepard
	+ Ore (BD)
	+ Seedlings (BD)
	+ Spores (BD)
	+ Twilight (BD)
* **Fighter**
	+ Gunslinger (BD)
	+ Champion
	+ Battle Master
	+ Eldritch Knight
	+ Purple Dragon Knight (Knighthood Only)
	+ Arcane Archer
	+ Samurai
	+ Cavalier
	+ Artisan of Combat (BD)
	+ Blood Knight (BD)
	+ Deadeye (BD)
	+ Dragoon (BD)
	+ Shielder (BD)
* **Monk**
	+ Cobalt Soul (BD)
	+ Open Hand
	+ Four Elements
	+ Shadow
	+ Long Death
	+ Sun Soul
	+ Drunken Master
	+ Kensei (Balance Doc Version added Firearms as possible weapons)
	+ Bloodied Fist (BD)
	+ Four Elements - Revised (BD)
	+ Iron Mountain (BD)
	+ Pugilist (BD)
	+ Tranquility (BD)
	+ Woodlands (BD)
	+ Wind (BD)
* **Paladin** (See Smite changes in Balance Doc)
	+ Oathbreaker
	+ Crown
	+ Devotion
	+ Ancients
	+ Vengeance
	+ Conquest
	+ Grave (BD)
	+ Kinship (BD)
	+ Sand (BD)
	+ Steel (BD)
* **Revised Ranger** (PHB Ranger can also be used, see change in Balance Doc)
	+ Hunter
	+ Beast Master (BD)
	+ Gloom Stalker
	+ Horizon Walker
	+ Monster Slayer
	+ Nightstalker (BD)
	+ Seedmaster (BD)
* **Rogue**
	+ Assassin
	+ Thief
	+ Arcane Trickster
	+ Mastermind
	+ Swashbuckler
	+ Inquisitive
	+ Scout
	+ Chemist (BD)
	+ Jester (BD)
	+ Mistwalker (BD)
	+ Shadow (BD)
	+ Spellwarp Sniper (BD)
	+ Thief of Life (BD)
* **Sorcerer**
	+ Runechild
	+ Draconic Bloodline
	+ Storm Sorcery
	+ Wild Magic
	+ Divine Soul
	+ Shadow Magic
	+ Blighted (BD)
	+ Deathtouched (BD)
	+ Djinn Marked (BD)
	+ Phoenix (BD)
	+ Sea Sorcery (BD)
	+ Stone Sorcery (BD)
	+ Vampiric Bloodline (BD)
* **Warlock** (Homebrew Pacts and Invocations in the BD)
	+ The Archfey
	+ The Fiend
	+ The Great Old One
	+ The Undying
	+ The Celestial
	+ The Hexblade
		- (Pacts) (At 3rd Lvl)
			* Chain
			* Tome
			* Blade
	+ The Archlich (BD)
	+ The Ice Sovereign (BD)
	+ The Death Warden (BD)
	+ The Seeker (BD)
		- Pact of the Star Chain (Seeker only)
* **Wizard**
	+ Bladesinger
	+ Abjuration
	+ Conjuration
	+ Divination
	+ Enchantment
	+ Evocation
	+ Illusion
	+ Necromancy
	+ Transmutation
	+ War Magic
	+ Reawakening (BD)

*Related Pages:* Server Rules and Information, FAQ, Magic Item Acquisition and TP Usage, Downtime Activities