D&D 5E Character Creation Guide 

Video Index: 0:30 Hero Forge is awesome! 1:23 - Considerations and advice 3:05 Character concept 4:14 Race 8:25 Class 12:20 Ability Scores 16:25 Background & Description 20:00 Equipment 22:00 - Modifiers, skills, AC, attacks, etc. 27:30 - Naming the character 28:56 - Patrons are awesome! I hope this helps you out! It really helps me if you like, share, subscribe. Thanks. :D

Strength: How hard you can throw a tomato at some one Dexterity: How many tomatoes you can dodge Constitution: How many rotten tomatoes you can eat Intelligence: Knowing a tomato is a fruit Wisdom: Knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad Charisma: Being able to sell that tomato fruit salad to someone

I'm gonna use lego minifigures for my d&d characters

My kids are incredibly creative so the only difficult part is getting them to accept the stat rolls.

The golden rule: when you get a Miniature for your Character and finished it painted, the Char will die.

DMing my first ever game of D&D in a week, ive never played it and neither have my players. I COULD NOT figure out the charcter sheets unitll i watched this video and now i realise its very simple. Thank you mate for doing this because D&D is a very daunting game to beginners with all the numbers and sheer amount of possibilites. Also if anyone reads this and wants to give me a few tips that would be awesome.

Not gonna lie, when creating my first dnd character, the only thing I had in mind was that I wanted him to be a pure himbo. That was it. I didn't care what class or race he was, I just wanted to play a himbo

This is a video for absolute beginners and yet here I am, someone who as read the phb cover to cover, watching because why not?

Gonna DM for my friends and we're all first timers.. Wish me luck XD

I've spent weeks watching dnd videos, need to find a group to play with now

My friend told me I could play if I learned, I’m trying my best

Me: *has never played D&D* My brother: "Hey you wanna go play D&D with some of my friends? For two full days? In a city half this country away?" Me: "Eh sure why not" My brother: "Okay you'll have a level 7 character FYI" Me: "..." Me: "I'll just look up how to make a character real quick"

Players who asks the DM for an entirely home brewed Character: *Reality can be whatever I want.*

Oh man! Can’t wait to play George Constanza in dnd!

I’m so late to the dnd train and was never able to get into because of how complicated everything seemed. These videos are a saving grace. You explain things so well and I’m finally going to start playing sometime this week :)

most dnd players: rouges are one of the more complicated classes, not recommended for beginners. every book on dnd ever: here are some common races that everyone plays and there's a lot of information on how to play them in the game. Me. Who has never played dnd before, has only listened to a couple podcasts and watched a couple videos: but... what if... I picked an obscure race with no information and made them a rouge? everyone with a brain: what if you didn't? me: :)

I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading before diving into dnd. Seeing this video made it a lot easier to understand and more accessible for me.

Wow, no one makes basic videos for beginners anymore, so it's very cool to see something like this for new players. I also think with the fairly recent release of the essentials kit, there will be a whole new generation of new players coming to this for the first time. Also, I think George Castanza would probably be a Dwarven wizard. I don't know why, but that's what I would do.

This is an excellent video to introduce the basic concepts in character creation. Although I’ve created a number of D&D5E characters it was still fun to watch. I can see how useful this would be to beginners.

So glad I found this. Trying to get my stepsister into D&D after she watched Stranger Things. Working on Characters for her My Dad and my Stepmum as a Christmas gift. Used to play ages ago, but haven't seen my party in 3 years. First time DMing.

I hope i had see this four days before where I helped my players make their characters (soon to be DM here)

Just starting d&d over quarantine so confusing hope it works out well

Isn’t short bow a simple weapon?

Oh my God hero forge is so awesome! I have always wanted something like this, and now I finally have it. I literally paused this video as soon as he told us about it to try it out! Rest of the video was good too, I guess.

Hey there kids, when he gets to the calculating ability modifiers part, he made it more complicated then it has to be. There is literally a guide in the player's handbook, on page 13 top right-hand corner that tells you what your ability modifiers will be from your ability scores. He was still right, but there's enough math in D&D as it is, no need to add more.

Using names straight from the rules PDF, I have created my first character: Xanaphia "Xin" Galanodel, a rogue pickpocket Wood Elf. This video was a TON of help, as I've never done anything with D&D in my life, and I had no clue what I was doing! :D

I have been watching your whole series explaining the functions of D&D. I was once part of a very short campaign my dad hosted with my sibling and I. only we never got to make our own character and we basically player our in real life selves which killed the fun a lot. there for it also didn't last long since dad was hard on us and made it too difficult for beginning players. I will say we lacked team work and having players with difficulty understanding basics didn't help much either. The campaign was stopped the moment my brother (the bard) and I ( the rogue) were finally having fun. we were meme-ing to much and it frustrated my dad and made him legit rage quit as DM. It was a horrible first D&D experience yet despite my first ever play through being complete ass I still wanted a second roll at the game. Seeing so many cosplayers and Larp action on video's as well as the creative fun people seemed to have with it really just wanted me to play it even more. For 3 years I couldn't find a campaign to join I could only find players willing to play the game. No DM had free time or would simply ghost us. So legit start this week as to when I write this after 3 years since my first and last session.... I decided I would become the DM. I have made worlds before for art and animations. I have 183 character in my excel listed and each year 5 more join or so. I have 13+ original universes and I hosted a lot of Werewolves back in the days as a kid (the 999 game version werewolven van wakkerdam).... I just have to give this a shot. And I was clue less the moment I picked up the first book man xD hahahahah. SO much info and I'm dyslexic to my core man reading the PHB would take me years. I'm so glad a lot of D&D players make tips and tricks video's on how to start. I gotta say yours help the most. I am still collecting a lot of data for the first session with my 4 players. If all goes well I will post a reply here on how it went and if the group wants to continue. I'm giving my party the freedom to make a character of any race (even own builds or ones found on good written forums) 1, cuz i'm broke and can't afford more books. 2. I don't wanna limit my players to much. The classes will be from the PHB. I wished my dad gave us that freedom so I will hand that freedom to my players. I will probably start easy even in the mechanics and try to build it up as we go. The first play session probably will be a small dungeon. This can help testing the mechanics so we all can get comfortable with it. If we continue I will up the game as we grow as group. I really wanna thank you for these video's / series! I have been taking notes and even made noted for in my D&D book so I can always keep these close. I'm also not native English so these more depth explanations really helped. Honestly can't say it enough thank you! to other people i'm always open to your personal tips or tricks! shower me with help and hopefully I can make use of that. the more info i get the more i can do. for now wish me luck!!!

Thank you for this video. It's been more than 30 years since I've played D&D. I recently bought a starter kit to play with my sons, and these videos are a great help in getting me back up to speed

Like someone said before me. I know character creation like the back of my hand but still love watching videos like these. I especially love supporting Nate and WASD20

I am my groups DM and I thank you so much, because this is me and my friends first campaign and we were worried about doing things wrong but this helped a ton!

Thanks for the video. I am starting out as a DM for my kids and their friend after a 20+ year hiatus from DND and now I have a better grasp on character creation.

I’ve rewatched this video multiple times to make me and my siblings first characters. thank you SO much!

I've never played D&D before but I'm going to begin playing along with a friend of mine and some of her friends. I chose a race that doesn't actually exist but someone has manage to make stats and equipment, spells, etc for this race. Said race being the Vessels from Hollow Knight. This is going to be my ever first time playing D&D and I am really looking doward to it.

This is so weird because I needed help creating my eleven rouge... :P

Finally, the logical step by step fill it out manual follow along video I was looking for, felt like such a loser depending on D&D beyond to do it for me. thanks

Since I don't have time to go get the books (payday is next week and the first session I've been a part of in well over a decade is this weekend) I saw this and thought "since I watch everything at double speed, character creation in 15 minutes?! Hell yes!" Thank you so much. It's been forever since I've played D&D, and when I did play, I just borrowed my cousins books to create my characters. Lol

This video is incredibly helpful and well structured, - has helped me lots! Even with the book in front of me it was all just a bit overwhelming really, but this helped so so much, thank you!

As a new DM. This guide was a GODSEND. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Great re-intro for me, for the latest edition. I haven't played since early 3e years. In my investigations, I'm glad to see some things are simplified.

I have starter/essential d&d kit and watched your school of rules, its amazing how you explained all this, i was confused about character creation, think its maybe not best explained in these small rule books, but you describe it perfectly, now its much clearer where goes what, and sheet doesnt look so scary now..thank you for amazing videos, and for helping many of us get in this magic world...subscribed as I want to see rest of your videos...

Thank you so much for this video. I've always been interested in D&D, but never pursued getting into it. Recently my son expressed interest in the game, but I wasn't quite sure on the character building and the math involved. This cleared it up for me perfectly. You have a new subscriber.

Try to design a character from the handbook in the midst of some very experienced players and it was extremely stressful. This video makes it very simple and easy. Great vid

Thank you for making this video, I come back to it a lot; you're not repetitive or redundant and you don't patronize beginner players! My memory is shot and making a new character is the hardest part of D&D for me. It's all butter afterwards.

“Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead...” - Butch

As someone preparing to jump into DMing their first D&D session, I just wanted to thank you for these videos! I really enjoyed them - and I think you explain everything really concisely. You are charismatic but not over the top - which is perfect. Even your adverts are watchable and seem genuine. Please keep putting out videos and thank you again - very good stuff.

Dude, thank you so much for what you do here, sooo accessible and fun to learn

Thank you so much for this- I’m currently sick and self quarantined, and have had nothing to do. I’ve spent the last four hours in my room under a blanket making a character (a tiefling bard!!) and it’s been fun. I played earlier this year with some friends, but had a lot of help making my character and wasn’t sure where to start now on my own. Great video!! Super helpful!!

Thank you so much. Got the starter set and essentials kit for my birthday on the first of feb and have been learning as much as possible, this video came in extremely handy and so have many of your others, thank you

SUPER HELPFUL!!! thank you I am DMing a new campaign for some friends who have never played and this was really good to get them a bit more familiar with the stuff we did at session 0

I appreciate the quality and video production of this video😤 as someone who is new to d&d this actually helps

I'm creating my first character ever this week for my first campaign with all newbies. This was very helpful and now I'm just even more excited!

This is so helpful! I have never played D&D but have always wanted to! I want to try playing with some friends on Discord since everyone's social distancing right now, this has been such a huge help!

Oh Boy, this brings back memories from 35 years ago. We would spend more time creating characters than playing them. DM was brutal (as teen boys usually are). Lots of early deaths. Thanks for the refresher course. Keep putting out the great content. Cheers

This video was very helpful, I made a Half-Elf Bard! Thank you so much!

Thanks so much for posting this. Just bought the Essentials kit for me and my son and your video is perfect for those practical tips filling the sheet out! Awesome work.

Thanks so much! I've been playing DND for about a year now, with me deciding to DM a few weeks after I first played. But I didn't fully know how to create characters sheets for my NPCs, but this video really helped me with that! Thank you so much!

Best beginner character building video I've seen so far

Now I need to see a George Costanza 5e build

I am a brand new player this was very helpful for me getting my character build. Much faster and easier to use than a couple other guides I found.

As a new DM and very new to 5E, this guide has been an absolute Godsend. Thank you!

this was really helpful, thanks! im currently trying to learn how to play the game!

Thank you for the informative video. My wife and I are planning to buy the dnd starter kit to try out the game. I hope we love it, we are both very excited to try

As a dnd newbie I just wanted to say thank you! This video helped me a lot! Felt really overwhelmed creating my first character.

I've been playing for a couple years and this is a great explanation. I will be able to show this to new players with confidence if after I explained it they still don't understanding! Thank you for this awesome video!

My brother is making his first character, He wants to be a Githyanki Cleric of Loviatar. He is not making it easy for me to help.

Super useful video! Would definitely appreciate a video building a spell caster. Maybe wizard or sorcerer

Hero forge is one of the only 2 youtuber sponsors I’ll swear by, the other being honey. Now this is from the POV of someone with a 3D printer, idk how their shipped minis are, but the ones I’ve printed are great

Getting ready to play my first game with the family. This helps a ton. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

I got lost every 2 minutes

WASD20: think your full characer Concept through, and take your time me: *creates DIO because i'm a weeb*

Nate, excellent video as always! Perfect for beginning DMs and players, I would highly recommend this for those just getting started with 5E. Your patient and amiable style is truly appreciated, I had some new players to my group watch this and they came away with a really solid understanding of the basics and were ready to go! PS. Looking forward to seeing your mini painted and ready for action!

That equation for working out the Ability Score Modifiers is SO HELPFUL! I didn't realise. I had to keep looking them up! I feel like a total goober not seeing that. Thank you!

Thanks to this video I was able to make my first ever D&D character, Wulthrad Lyacaidon, a Raesokeran Canis! Thanks for the helpful info!

There were always some spaces on the character sheet that I never understood. Thank you for this. Now I know what they are for and how to calculate their number and even use them in general.

Great guide, super beginner friendly. I've only played D&D once, and with pre-made character sheets, but this really helped me design a new character to start playing the game again with.

Thanks Nate! I used to play back in the late 70's and early 80's. I'm just getting back into it. This tutorial was awesome!

My son and I have just started learning about DnD and your videos are making things a little easier to understand. Keep up the great work mate

Thank you so much! This helped a ton! Just getting into D&D for the first time and was confused on a lot of things, this video helped me and my group a whole lot.

This was very helpful as I am making an Eladrin Rogue right now and we had similar stats which made this easier than I thought it would be

I'm honestly so glad my friend sent me this for our first dnd campaign together with a few friends, this is gonna help a lot :"D

Thank you so much. As a total newbie to D&D who never played it, this video helps A LOT!

Thank you for this. Spent a good few hours working it all out, but this helped a LOT.

LIFESAVER, DUDE Thank you!! I came over from Pathfinder and was totlly lost on how to fill this sheet out. Playing over Discord, they can't really walk you through it, so this has been invaluable

Kudos! Literally THE BEST tutorials on DND i have found on the internet. Easy to understand! Reading the book was overwhelming and this helped a lot!!!

I love your book collection. I knew you were a good reader by your ability to describe certain situations. You make a good DM.

honestly this is the video that has made the most sense to me, thank u✨

Never played D&D but always wanted to people thought I was weird for it but I met some friends that played it and we’re gonna start a campaign soon and this was so helpful thanks so much!

I’m dming for the first time in years and this helped a ton, I appreciate all of this lol

I have watched your every video of D&D and learned D&D in 3 days..... Thanxxx😊

I use this every time I create a character. Thank you for the help.

i come back to this video every time i design a new character! unbelievably helpful walkthrough!! thanks Nate!

I appreciate this video. It was helpful for me since I am now a first time player to d&d and I can't wait to have fun with my friends thanks to this! Thank you very much.

Used this to explain it to some friends who had never played before. Was awesome. Keep doing cool stuff

This video helped so much as I am trying to get into dnd with also new friends and this helped me help them

LOVE this video! Helped me with every one of my new players!! TYSM!

Thank you!!! This was a wonderful video! I'm kind of new to DnD, but I'm really aiming to become a dungeon master once I get more comfortable with the game; to that effect, our DM is giving those of us who want to learn lessons in DMing, and our first lesson is building a character sheet from the ground up, no apps or auto-fill. That way we can help our players build THEIR characters when introducing new people to the game! I'm excited to go to my next lesson with a solid understanding of all these numbers and concepts. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Thank-you for this video. I am a complete beginner and this video helped A LOT.

honestly a really good video and you made it super simple to make a character. tysm!

Thanks for all the helpful content! Just gave this video a shoutout in my latest vid. My friends and I are loving D&D so far!!

Definitely going to recommend this video to my new players, very thorough without being daunting great guide