Submit Your Questions for the January Q&A Livestream!
Added 2021-01-25 16:07:51 +0000 UTCOur January 2020 Livestream will be a Character Building Workshop! Join us stream on Friday, January 29th from 6 PM to 8 PM ET.
Please submit any questions you may have about creating characters for D&D 5e by replaying to this thread. Possible sub-topics might include:
- Making the most of the new options (origins, subclasses, feats, ect) in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything!
- Character concepts and roleplaying ideas
- Choosing a class and subclass to fit your character concept
- Building a character backstory and personality traits
- Working with your DM to create interesting goals and bonds for your character
- Choosing the right ability scores, ancestries, spells, feats, and other build options for your character
Please leave your questions in the comments below by Friday at 11:59 PM. We ask that you submit no more than one question for consideration.
We hope we can answer most submissions, but we may need to narrow our selections occasionally depending on the quantity. We’ll curate the questions to avoid duplicates, and we encourage you to LIKE questions submitted by other patrons which are of interest to you so we can prioritize if necessary. We’ll read out your questions out during the stream, and hopefully take a few extra questions from the live chat as well.
If you miss the live stream, don’t worry — the full recording will be available on YouTube a few days later.
Cheers
Kelly & Monty
Comments
I have 4 11th level characters that are either neutral or chaotic evil. One is a Warlock/Fighter who is tracked to become a death knight. Any advice on how this might work or something else with the same flavor that might work better?
2021-01-29 18:31:09 +0000 UTCFrom a DM perspective what extra options do you think are important to allow for players? Example: allowing all Sorcs to get their extra spells as spells known as opposed to just the new Sorcs. Or Int giving extra languages.
Stephen Jedynak
2021-01-29 17:09:08 +0000 UTCConsidering starting a new campaign where we essentially play as ourselves in a fantasy world. Have you worked with an idea like this before and what do you think would be a cool way of still building out interesting backstories?
2021-01-28 18:35:42 +0000 UTCHiya. My question is when you hit the levels for ability score increases or selecting new feats, which do you tend to pick for your characters and what's your thought process behind it? At least up to level 8 or so.
2021-01-28 02:41:06 +0000 UTCWhat is your recommendation on playing/making a "morally questionable" character (i.e. the tragic Necromancer, a cryptic GOO warlock) while still maintaining party cohesion?
Samuel Cavender
2021-01-26 19:47:23 +0000 UTCIn your experience, is it more fun to max out a character's abilities or to build a character with some flaws, to miss out on some opportunities for power? I have run into this issue when choosing between a variant human and just plain old human character. For instance, I just built a Gloomstalker Ranger who would have been more powerful as a variant, but I didn't go that way because I would have been picking variant just to have more powerful rolls, not to be more interesting. Thanks as always for the good work DDudes!
2021-01-26 17:47:05 +0000 UTCWhat things SHOULD you involve with your DM and what things should you just develop ON YOUR OWN? I don't want to bog down my DM with my questions and storylines, but I also want to give him some material to work with when he needs it.
2021-01-26 16:38:55 +0000 UTCDo you use the standard AL character-sheet, or is there another sheet you find you prefer? Any tools/web-tools that help streamline the building process?
Joey Johnson
2021-01-26 13:58:33 +0000 UTC
