Character Creation

We would like your PC to be a character that you and other players enjoy interacting with. Therefore, we advise you to make your character a believable one. Perfection is above us all and flawed characters are much more fun to play with.

On this server, players use either D&D Beyond or the MPMB character sheet. The MPMB sheet is a java-scripted PDF that fills itself according to your input, making it a lot easier to create characters. If you need any help with setting up your character, please a member of the staff know.

## Character Sheets

#### D&D Beyond Character Sheet

D&D Beyond is an online toolset that allows access to the free monsters, rules, and character options found in the D&D Basic Rules with a standard account. You need a Google account in order to register.

For a full guide on how to use D&D Beyond to create a character, see *New Player's Guide: Everything You Need to Use D&D Beyond*.

#### MorePurpleMoreBetter Character Sheet

The MPMB character sheet requires the use of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. For help with the character sheet ask in **#general**, we also recommend watching this brief tutorial explaining its use for an Adventurers League character.

Download the MPMB Character Sheet.

***Note:** Most of the older Unearthed Arcana material (e.g. mostly content predating 2019) is not available on D&D Beyond, and you will need to use the MPMB sheet in order to make characters should you wish to use them.*

#### Roll20 Character Sheet

We use Roll20 often for games and advise that players familiarize themselves with the system, sign up for an account, and create character sheets for the characters they have. Roll20 has a number of tutorials on YouTube that help players create and use the built in character sheet, this tutorial is a good starting point.

## The Basics

**Start at 4th level.** All PCs start at 4th level. This allows you to more robustly develop your early adventuring backstory while also making low-level adventuring less prone to accidental death and demise.

**Point Buy.** To determine attributes, we use the *Variant: Customizing Ability Scores* also known as Point Buy. Both DnDBeyond and the MPMB record sheet provide an attribute calculator that considers what you’ve already filled in.

**No Evil Alignments.** This ruling is enforced to prevent abusive and disruptive behavior between players. While we do not disallow typically evil subclasses (e.g.: Oathbreaker Paladins, Death Domain Clerics and Necromancy Wizards, etc.), they will be closely monitored for activity bordering on "evil".

**No Underage Characters.** We are aware that adulthood comes to some races sooner than to others. If you feel unsure about what an appropriate age for your character would be feel free to consult a DM, Founders or a fellow Adventurer. **#character-discussion** is the common channel for this.

**Restrictions on Multiple Characters per Player.** We allow a player to have as many characters as they want, however the characters of player may not trade, buy, or sell between themselves. They may however roleplay in text chat with each other.

### Allowed Sources

You may use all the official publications of Wizards of the Coast to create your character in addition to the list of server-approved Unearthed Arcana playtest material.

View the Content Approval page.

### Playtesting Options

Certain character options are allowed under the provision of playtesting. What this means is that characters that are using races, subclasses, feats, etc. that are listed as such may be expected to rework later should a clear decision be made on the approval status of such options. This is to give options that may appear questionable at first glance a chance, and to better understand how they interact with the game and the world before being completely allowed or disallowed.

Character options that are currently being playtested will also be listed under Playtesting Material on the Content Approval page as such, as well as in the **#approval-log**. Please be aware of this as you choose these options for your character.

### Classes

We allow all classes and subclasses from official Wizards of the Coasts publications as well as those marked as "Allowed" on the Content Approval page.

In addition we allow the following:

* Gunslinger martial archetype
* Blood Hunter class
* Pyromancer sorcerous origin from the Planeshift Kaladesh PDF.

### Races

All races from the following official sources are allowed:

* *Player's Handbook*
* *Volo’s Guide to Monsters*
* *Xanathar’s Guide to Everything*
* *Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes*
* *Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide*
* *Elemental Evil Player’s Companion*
* *Tortle Package*
* *Mythic Odysseys of Theros*
* *Approved Unearthed Arcana races*
* *Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica \**
* *Eberron: Rising from the Last War \**

\* With restrictions; see the Content Approval page.

### Multiclass Restrictions

We limit multiclassing into ‘Matt Mercer’ (e.g.: Gunslinger Fighter, Blood Hunter) and Unearthed Arcana classes and subclasses to one of either options per character excluding the UA Revised Ranger. This means that if your character already has levels into a UA subclass, that character cannot multiclass into a different UA class/subclass, nor Blood Hunter, nor Gunslinger Fighter.

If you have any questions, ask a @Founder or @Keeper in **#character-discussion**.

### Backgrounds

We allow all backgrounds from all official Wizards of the Coasts publications excluding *Eberron: Rising from the Last War*, *Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica*, and *Explorer's Guide to Wildemount*. We also allow the custom background option in the PHB.

### Starting Equipment

You begin play with the starting gear for the PCs class and background as detailed in the Player’s Handbook (PHB) or the source on which your character is based upon. In addition to starting gear, you start with an extra 100 gold pieces.

The items gained from the ‘This Is Your Life’ tables from *Xanathar’s Guide to Everything* are permitted. If you choose to use these tables to roll your characters backstory please do so in **#character-creation-rolls**.

## After Character Creation

### Character Log

When you have everything set up please upload your PDF to the Google Drive folder that we will provide you with or copy the URL of your DnDBeyond sheet. Afterwards, post a link to your new character's sheet in **#character-log** formatted as follows:

```
Creator: <Your Discord @>
Character Name: <Your character's name>
Character Level: <Your character class(es) and level(s)>
Race: <Your character's race>
Link: <Link to Google Drive PDF or DnDBeyond sheet>

```

### Character Reworks

If you feel like your character is not what you imagined, or you simply don’t enjoy their gameplay, do not worry. You are allowed to rework your character entirely or just partially until before their sixth game or before you hit level 6, whichever comes second.

Any further reworks have to be requested and will be approved or declined by the Founders. In this case, you should be able to back up your request with a justifying cause (i.e. change in character development, external circumstances).