

Becoming a patron will upgrade your account to premium, giving you no ads and more features. Even just disabling your adblocker will help (it's only text and plain image ads I promise). If you find these tools helpful, please consider supporting this site. I found the Character Builder to be quick to learn, informative, and fun.This website exists thanks to the contribution of patrons on Patreon. It’s not a substitute for the rulebooks, but could save your skin if you’re hunting for a particular rule. Incidentally, Insider membership seems to carry some awesome frills like online access to critical portions of the rules like class and feat details. You must be a member of D&D Insider to get the full capability - though currently membership is free, though don’t expect it to stay free forever. Now for the bad news: the program is free for levels 1-3, but if you want to make advanced characters, you need to fork over some dough. Alternatively, DMs could use the program to create NPCs with minimum fuss. What would your character look like at 10th or 15th level? What powers would you choose? You can "level up" your PC to whatever you want, in order to visualize how you want him or her to be at that level. But there is a tantalizing possibility as well. Not only can’t you lose it, but it can be continually updated as the character gains levels.įine, Character Builder helps you make characters. The result: a character sheet! You can print it out duplex every time you play. I like how this is the final decision - how often do you evolve your concept of the character throughout the creation process? Last, important details like name, gender, age, and so forth. The power tool on this one is "auto pick" which chooses your equipment for you if you can’t decide how many iron spikes to buy. Also, and this applies for previous choices as well, the right-hand column gives you information about the whatever power you’ve highlighted. The same with powers, the Character Builder only shows you powers you’re eligible to take. Once you make a choice, it quickly moves on to the next category. As with the previous choices, Wizards makes it easy for you by only showing you legal choices. You can roll as quickly as you click, so it’s easy to end up with very high attributes. The rest of the dice are situational, depending on which character class you choose, what weapons you use, and what spells you learn. You’re going to use the d6 to roll your character’s ability scores, and the d20 for all your basic rolls.

You can either build the character up point by point or roll the old fashioned way. A d4, a d6, a d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100. When you choose a class, you can also pick what "build" (flavor of that class) you’d like. As with race, many semi-official or non-standard races can be chosen. I chose Tiefling, an angst-filled and sardonic race of half-demons.

As you can see, the available races include many non-standard ones. So I launched the program and clicked on the button to create a new character.
