The Beginner Builder guides new players through character creation by explaining your options and how they affect your character. First, choose who your adventurer is.
What is a species?Show / hide guide
Your species is the fantasy race you play, such as a Human, Elf, or Dwarf. It shapes some of your character's natural abilities and can inspire their appearance, heritage, and place in the world.
GameplayYour choice can affect ability scores, movement, languages, and special traits.
RoleplayingSpecies lore can inspire your character's story, but it doesn't dictate their personality.
Select a species to explore its traits and available choices.
Species Summary
No species selected yet.
Class
Explore how your class plays, learn its core abilities, and choose the features that shape your character.
What does your class determine?
Your class describes the adventuring skills you train in and the special abilities you gain as you level up. It affects your hit points, weapon and armor training, skill options, and how you participate in combat or exploration.
Choose a class to see what playing it feels like. You can revisit your choices as you build your character.
Character Summary
No class selected yet.
Background
Choose what your character did before becoming an adventurer, explore its benefits, and create the personality and story that make them unique.
What is a background?Show / hide guide
A background describes your character’s experience before they became an adventurer. It grants proficiencies and other benefits, and it can inspire their personality and story.
GameplayLearn about the skills, tools, languages, equipment, and special features your background provides.
RoleplayingUse suggested characteristics or write your own traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws.
Background & Character Details
No background selected yet.
Abilities
Choose how your base ability scores are generated, assign them, and review the full breakdown for abilities, derived values, and skills.
Equipment
Resolve class equipment choices, review background gear, browse items with filters, and manage your current inventory and equipped gear.
Customization
Add proficiencies granted by training, campaign rules, downtime, rewards, or other sources outside the standard build. Skills and tools can be marked as half proficiency, proficiency, or expertise.
Summary
Review the character as a full loadout sheet with final stats, proficiencies, traits, spells, and equipment.
Export
Export a character PDF or save a digital character sheet file. To save your current character creator file, please hit the save button.
Confirm Class
Primary Ability
Hit Die
Subclass at
Class Features
Confirm Subclass
Subclass Features
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