Our DnD character backstory template is the fastest way to create a compelling player character for your next Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
Giving your D&D character personality can be an exciting and enriching experience. To help get you started, here are some D&D character personality ideas on creating a personality for your character.
To kick off our new channel around roleplaying & artificial intelligence, we’ll explore how to use AI in DnD 5e to accelerate your creativity and elevate your games.
Are you a new player looking for DnD roleplaying tips to improve your game? If so, you’ve come to the right place!
Here are some DnD roleplaying tips to get you started on your journey into the world of roleplaying.
Are you looking for D&D downtime activities to fill the boring space between adventures? Check out this post on D&D downtime activities to light the fires of inspiration!
Excited to blast off into space, but don't know what race to play? In this post, we explore and rank all six new playable races in Spelljammer to help you pick the species that's right for your next character.
Filling out character sheets for D&D can be equal parts mystifying and overwhelming for new players. In this post, Billy introduces a new character concept to the party, and we work together to fill out the character sheet, which ended up being a fun and collaborative experience. Check it out in this week’s episode!
Considering multiclassing in 5e? Chris, Erik, and Billy talk at length about various ways to approach multiclassing in-game and offer up organic ways to integrate this often-confusing feature into your game.
Our next campaign is set in the homebrew world of Eoa as part of a long-term collaborative worldbuilding project. In this episode, we carve out some time to develop our characters before diving into our adventure.
In this episode, we dive into a zero session to prepare for our upcoming homebrew adventure, Greystock's Notes, as part of a longer overarching campaign.
After fleshing out our characters and backstories in session zero of our Star Wars 5e adventure, we jumped into a prologue session to get the falumpaset moving.
One of the main things we love about D&D 5e is it provides a solid framework for collaborative storytelling that can apply to settings outside medieval fantasy. But reskinning can be a daunting task. In preparation for our Star Wars 5e campaign, we’re talking about ways to streamline reskinning, reflavoring, and homebrewing D&D 5e to get the most out of your re-skin.
Character creation is a magical time where players create the avatars they’ll be slipping into to tell a collaborative story. But creating a fun and interesting character isn’t always easy, and a lot can go wrong in the character creation process. We put together this guide of practical character creation tools and tips to help you level up your character creation.
Billy takes on the role of DM as we gear up for adventure three in Candlekeep Mysteries - Book of the Raven. We're doing something unique for each campaign and for this one, we were tasked with creating characters for each other in secret before sharing in our zero session. This was something new for all of us and an exciting way to kick off this next journey.
When creating a character, one area that’s often underdeveloped is the background. But what is it and how does it impact your character? In the seventh installment of our Character Creation Toolkit, Erik and Chris talk about how important backgrounds are, how to pick them, and ways they can boost your game.
Armor Class is simple on the surface but has nuances that can be confusing. In this AC primer, Chris defines armor class, how to calculate it, and shares some ways to flavor it in-game.
In D&D, ability scores are the numerical measure of your character’s abilities. But picking the ‘right’ ability scores for your character can be a daunting task. In episode five of our Character Creation Toolkit, Chris explores the different attributes that make up ability scores, methods for assigning them, and different approaches to find what works for you.
In this episode of our Character Creation Toolkit, Erik dives into the world of morality that is alignment. But what exactly is alignment? And how does it affect your character’s choices and outlook in the story you’re telling together? Check out this week’s episode to find out!
Class in D&D is arguably the most important decision you can make for your character. With 13 classes and nearly three dozen subclasses to choose from, it can be overwhelming to find the right class for your character. In Part II, we quickly break down each class to help new players make sense of the many options.
Class in D&D is arguably the most important decision you can make for your character. With 13 classes and nearly three dozen subclasses to choose from, it can be overwhelming to find the right class for your character.
Race is your character’s species or ancestry. It does not pertain to a character’s ethnic background. Your D&D character race can be an essential facet of your character’s identity or simply a footnote for metagaming optimization. Whatever your approach, the race you choose has an impact on your character.
There’s so much to consider when creating a new character. What’s their history, their goals, their flaws? Who is this person, and what is their name?
In this Behind The Screens, we dive into an impromptu discussion around character creation for our upcoming A Deep & Creeping Darkness Star Wars 5e campaign. It’s a great reminder of how fun and collaborative group character creation can be!