Character Creation

Character Creation

Statting up your Character

Level 4, but with standard lvl 1 gear and inherent bonuses. 22 Point buy for your ability scores.

Character Themes

Character Themes are permitted. I encourage you to come up with an interesting reason of WHY your character has these traits and/or abilities associated with these two creation features. Breathe some fluff and life into your character!

Backgrounds

Choose one campaign background instead of a regular 4e background.

Books / Sources

All D&D material is available to you (book supplements, DDI Insider material, etc.) at this time. Anything 'Character Options' on this site is also allowed. In addition, the books detailed under Third Party are allowed. If there is something on this site AND in the books, this site overrides it. Please don't try and break the game with some crazy overpowered build! I'd like you all to have competent characters, but please don't try and make the game imbalanced.

Character Names

Your character must have a name! If you're unsure of what to name your character, here is a name generator.

Characters Deity

Clerics and avengers must choose a deity or pantheon of deities. Paladins, Invokers, and Runepriests can choose a general belief system. Please note that deities must be chosen from the Golarion Campaign Setting. A list of deities and how they work in 4th edition can be found under Religion of Golarion. It is suggested you be within 'one step' of your deity alignment-wise but is not required, not even if you are a cleric. If you opt to have a radically different alignment, think about how your character's personal ethos clashes with your deity's teachings? Does that conflict play a role in your past?

Alignments

Alignments will be in use, but as law vs chaos is a large part of Golarion, and 4th edition doesn't have nuance within 'unaligned', the alignments will be the old LG, NG, CG, LN, N, CN, LE, NE, CE. If you would like an overview of that, see here. Alignment has little to no mechanical benefit (some essentials-era classes are limited to certain alignments) and unlike in pathfinder, paladins can be of any alignment. For the purposes of 4e mechanics that DO care about alignment, NG and CG count as Good, LN, N, CN count as Unaligned, and LE and NE count as Evil. Lawful Evil alignment is allowed, the other evil alignments are not for this campaign.

Races

Races are broken up into four categories. Common and Uncommon races are freely available for player characters and are strongly tied to the setting. Rare races are limited, no more than one player can choose the same rare race unless they have closely-linked backstories. Other races are either so monstrous as to be attacked on sight or do not have a place on Golarion. In order to play one of these races you will have to work closely with me to fit the setting. Only one player may play an 'other' race.

Languages

Gain one regional human language. Druids and Wardens gain Druidic. Gain one additional language for every 2 int score above 14 (IE: +1 at 16, 18, 20, etc.). Scholar gains 5 bonus languages at level 5 rather than all of them.

Classes

All classes are available. Would prefer a limit to one hybrid in the party, and preferably have at least a leader, a striker, and a defender in the party.

Feats

As per regular feat progression. Gain a bonus expertise feat at first level. A bonus defensive feat at 5th level. Defenders get melee training for free at first level. See rituals below. No dragonmarked feats.

Rituals

Every class gains ritual caster, practiced study, or alchemist as a bonus feat, as per your classes' flavor. Classes that already gain one of these feats may instead opt to gain the ability to cast 1 ritual up to their level per day for free. Exceptionally powerful rituals will require the expenditure of a healing surge and only one permanent ritual effect may be in play from this ability at any one time.

Multi-Class Characters

Multiclass characters can exchange one encounter power from their base class to their multiclass for free.

New Character Level

New characters will start out the same level as everyone else, with identical experience points.

Character Progression

As per core progression.

Finer Details

Each character must include a description of their personality, appearance, and at lease one quick their character has. In addition, a background for the character must be provided

As a final step, you should flesh the details of at least one friend, family member, or contact within the town and submit them as part of your character. This contact could be a friend or family member, an ex-lover, a merchant whose shop you frequent, a business owner who owes you a favor, a religious figure, or many other options. These NPCs help connect the you to Roslar's Coffer, and will ground you to this place and the people living in it.

In addition, detail someone the player might have a connection to that died. Preferably someone that would be buried in Roslar's Coffer's graveyard, but at least someone who's death affected your character. Where they a lover, a family member, a mentor, a childhood friend? When did they die and how? Does your character know?

Each npc should be given the details:

* Name

* Race

* Profession (not necessarily a PC class).

* Appearance

* Personality & Quirks

* Their relation to your PC