Dungeons & Dragons 5E - Character Creation for Beginners (Fighter) 

all i could think of while watching these videos : finally! a use for all these notebooks i bought years ago and never used!

It's interesting that this old video helped me more that the ''new'' ones. I'm glad I found it as a new player/DM. Thumbs up for that, Nate.

I see he is filling out his character sheet in pen. , I too like to live dangerously" #meme #austinpowers.

wow, this old video is way better at explaining than newer ones. they gloss over stats equipment, and stuff like that. this video is easy to follow and truly helps build your most likely first character just like me

I don't know why I'm watching this but I'm watching this.

I downloaded this book not to long ago and I wasn’t sure that the characters were right thanks for reassuring me and explaining tweaks I will need to fix.

I'm making a dwarf for my brother and I was crossing my fingers that you would make a dwarf

I haven't played any RPG's for over 20 years and really needed some training. I am going to run a game with my daughter and a few friends. Ages 17 to 50+. This was a great help! Can't wait to watch the rest of your videos. Thank you!

"You're gonna need a pencil" ...But uses a pen. Do as I say not as I do, you are a dm. Jk thanks for the videos they help a lot

Thanks for the video, me and a group of friends wanted to play and I ended up reading the entire beginners guide and your video will really help me explain to them how to make a character

Thanks for this! It really helped me understand how to make a character.

"Those should be capitalized but whatever" Thug life

7yrs ago wow 👏🏽👏🏽 and here you are still releasing great info

Glad you made this video, I'd much rather use my own character instead of a premade one

With this and brief skimming of the player’s handbook, I have Been creating a Character sheet of a character in writing a story with.

This helped me out a lot. When I printed out the character sheet It was a bit confusing, so thank you for clearing up the process for me.

Thanks to you I was able to create my first D&D character

I plan on figuring the game out with my friends, so your videos are really helping me learn the basics so i can have a quick, fun game with my friends.

THANK YOU. You have answered my questions of how skills and saving throws are chosen. So helpful.

i played 2nd edition all my life, just bought 5th edition yesterday and waiting for it to come in the mail. thank you for this video!

Thank you so munch man. I always want to try dnd and see what exciting adventure I can get into.

Thanks for the info I have been wanting to playD&D for EVER this was really helpful!

OMG, when you rolled the die for race, I was SO happy!!! I tried to make a character with that race and class all by myself yesterday (I'm a total beginner) and now I can see if I did it right! Thanks! *continues watching*

Appreciate this series of creation videos.

I have just recently become interested in checking D&D out.. so I have watched a good few videos around the same subject, and as helpful as those were at times, I gotta give you thumbs up for going more indepth around creating a character.

thank you Nate for posting these videos.

Thanks for the video man!

Thank you for the video. I played D&D back during 2nd edition rules so this was a great help. My son wants to play so I am going to attempt to DM a few stand-alone scenarios for him.

this is really usefull for a beginner like me tnx!

Hey tnx is just got the starter kit and i really liked this tnx

I uploaded the 114 pages of the Basic Rules PDF onto my Kindle.

I learned a lot from this, thanks

Please! Beginners! Choosing your Race, class and gender (equipment too of course) is one of the earliest pleasures in beginning D&D. I know this video is about explaining the system as presented, but given that your character is the only gaming element that players have complete control of.... try and ask the Referee to let you choose. If you loved 'Mouse' in Ladyhawke or Bilbo in the Hobbit, you might relish playing a theif. LOTR might inspire you to be a hobbit or a dwarf. Or you might be a fan of Victorian romanticism - so elves or fey humans might be your thing. The Last Kingdom could lead you to love the idea of being a warrior etc. etc. Either way... by randomising this process, the DM might remove the first hook in the communal process of collective storytelling. It's a brilliant video. I get why the basic D&D process is presented in this way (some might even find the choices daunting). I'm just saying though. Much love.

Another great video TY for making these!!

I found a few character sheets online for free. I had to do a bit of editing in word but it turned out well. I made a book and cut out the sheets that I printed. I made a "name" in photo shop and printed it out. I submerged some pages in left over coffee and it made the book look old. I added the name at the top and yea I have a super useful d&d book that I can write notes and record gameplay

Thanks a lot!! I haven't played before and when I tried alone to make a character I got lost on what numbers I shouls use and always questioning myself if I shouls consider certain modifiers, thanks to you I now know how to make a character and, through that, how to implement them on the game mecanics. Later today, since is 4 AM, I'll try this joke-character in a silly and simple story to try to learn more through experience. Once more, thank you very much, now I can go to sleep with a smile.

For ability score modifiers, its a simple equation. (score - 10)/2 round down.

Great video! I think the Ability modifiers go in the larger box and the actual ability score goes in the small oval. That is how Wizards' pre-made sheets are shown. It's also nice to see the modifier value bigger since it is what we really need to see.

Thanks a lot. I'm just starting D&D. I am a dungeon master, and am going to have family play my campaign. This helps a lot.

Thanks this was a huge help.

This was ridiculously helpful! Thank you!

Love this video really helped me thanks!

Thank you. This finally showed me how to do this right. All the others are too confusing

I’ve watched several of your videos and I find them very helpful. Are there any videos besides the one that you made of the sample combat that show a sample game?

so clear thank you

well this helps alot. new to the game and I actually wanted to make a dwarf fighter.

Thank you! A little confused shouldn't the performance and persuasion be - 1 based on your charisma modifier?

I still have the basic rules I bought in the early 80's.

Dang Nate, when I watched this video it was at about 5,000. Congrats!

well i think i understand at least how the stats work

i have played past editions and have always liked playing ambidextrous unarmed fighters. even had a 3.0 character my dm retired on me after it got too powerful from using the oriental adventure book. any how i had a chance to skim for a few minutes a while back and felt there was a lot of data for the new edition and am finally thinking about a second look. i was wondering does this edition allow for an ambidextrous unarmed fighter or is thay limited to monks?

Very helpful, love the dnd vids!

Could you possibly do an updated version using the Handbook?

Oh man this is so complicated but its extrememly helpful, thank you!!

great video learned a lot

Thanks for the video. Ordered the game but dont have it yet. I think I will program a tool to create chars, using C# once I get the rulebooks.

Nice Headphones intro! Great album.

This one's pretty old and moldy. Check out more recent character creation stuff here: ru-vid.com/group/PLq8DIL0O-i-mbojnENKP0lg9vPKvZwHMZ And if you found this helpful, ordering your D&D stuff through my affiliate link helps support the channel: amzn.to/2kDO2h7 You can also support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/wasd20 Thanks!

you have scary good char creation rolls

Hey Nate, I have a question. Though I do find this EXTREMELY helpful as I've never played before, in making my character I've run into a bit of a predicament. With the "Fighting Style" feature, would I be able to use "Dueling" if I had a sword and a shield? Or would the shield count as a weapon and negate the +2 bonus? I'm sorry if it seems like a bit of a stupid question to consider a shield as a weapon, but only because the feature specifies that I would have no other weapons out.

I made 2 practice characters. A halfling fighter who was pretty good. And then I tried to use the wiki to make a more "unusual" character and made a kenku plague doctor. Idk if I just rolled really well or if I calculated something wrong, but he was way too OP lol.

I got dungeons and dragons for my birthday and was completely confused. This helped.

For person like me starting to play D&D, is all these details in the player’s handbook

Thanks for video, really helped. Noticed something in the video I wanted to ask you. I saw your dexterity is +3, but in the box (under +2 proficiency bonus) you had +2. I didn't see this when I was looking at one of D&D's premade sheets (fighter 1 media.wizards.com/downloads/dnd/StarterSet_Charactersv2.pdf) Was this a mistake or something cause by stats or equipment, race, ect?

Wasd20, can you do any tutorials on both gameplay/character creation on Wizards of the coasts star wars RPG, AND the new Fantasy flight Star Wars rpg?

Great video, but you did skip something so i am a bit lost. But were can i buy/get the Basic rules that you are reading from? You said it was free and i am wondreing how to get it. ;)

Where did you get that book? I have second edition D&D and can't find a book like that. If you could tell me where I could find one via internet or if I have one that would be amazing.

Even with such a great detailed video this is still so confusing! Gonna just have it sit down and make a few characters before I get it... Thanks!

Thanks for this video man, you did an awesome job. I'm about to re-start playing rpg's with my friends and we want to give DnD a chance again(the alternative was Pathfinder). I heard all the veterans are loving this 5th edition because it takes the nostalgia from the famous red box plus the "core" mechanics of 3.5(removing the mechanical features) plus some goods of Pathfinder and combine them all making the rules more slim and role-playing friendly giving the DM more liberty too...can you confirm that? I also love the fact WOTC is giving the core rules and DM book for free along with the form-fillable PDF character sheets AND the online dice roller too(which all required the online subscription to their services back in the day) meaning you can literally start testing and playing too, even with few classes, at total cost of 0€. What do you think about this edition compared to others? We actually liked the 4th one too(after years of 3.5 which became a bit too heavy on rules and had some stupid stuff in it) so we're not over-critical(it actually made combat more fun!) but this time it really seems they made a "definitive" edition of DnD as 3.5 has been for years. Oh, and atop of that thanks for this video. This will help my newbie friends undesrtand character creation better and is helping myself too making it faster and with the proper order of things(except one, why didn't you roll stats like immediately to add bonuses on later? Just curious, I usually go for the 4d6 per stat discarding the lowest result) reading my mind for 5thed character creation!

where can you get the books like that?

do you have to use the dice for everything? as in races and backgrounds?

Same story as a lot of people here, my friends and I are trying to start a group for D&D. However a few of us are using homebrew races we found on the 5e wiki. Is this a good idea for beginners? Are there special rules for using homebrew races?

do you have to pick those flaws bonds ect. that are in the background or can you make them up?

my first character was a warlock, which is a more customizable class and I was so confused. the only thing I got right was the race (tiefling, which has +2 Charisma).

how about the skills like the one where you get -5 on your attack roll but +10 on damage?

Great video! Really useful. Two things though. First: what happens to your skills if one of your ability modifiers is negative? Do some of your skills have a negative value? Second: I calculated the cost of your equipment, and it comes out at more than 160 gp: 50 + 50 + 25 + 12 + 25 = 162 gp, plus 1 sp for the club. 163 gp 1 sp with the bedroll. Is some of your equipment free, or at a reduced price, or what?

Hello Nate!

I used to play D&D about 20 years ago. Would be interested in playing again. How do I find a group to play with?

Good god, those rolls tho... you just made one of the most overpowered lvl 1s I have ever seen xD

Lol! I was making a high elf Druid and chose survival and perception too!

Just for future reference, it's Stonecunning, not Stonecutting.

The moths are love, the moths are lifes

At 19:45 when calculating your Hit Points, I was confused as to why you also added your Dex. Modifier. I thought you only added your constitution modifier? Please explain what I missed.

Hi I'm using an app on my phone called fifth edition character sheet and the creator of the app is Walter Kammerer to make my character sheet and it asks for a number for "misc bonus" are you able to tell me what a misc bonus is? is it just another name for proficiency bonus or something else?

Where can you get the character sheets

For your hp why did you use dex as well as con? Should you always do that or was it because of a trait you had?

dose proficiency bonus add to armor if you are proficient in that class of armor

Why did you take Dex into account when working out your starting HP? Shouldn't it have been 14? (10+4)

thx

The only thing I'm having trouble with is all the number stuff I wanna play though I ordered the player hand book today. Should that help me get the game better?

you get the equipment listed in the fighter class for free right?

Why did dexterity modify your hitpoints?

How did u print the basic rules, I can find it online, but don't know how to print it

do the stats of your character change at all, like when you gain a level?

do you have any information on making a sorcerer?

So, I'm COMPLETLY new to this, do I NEED to print it out? I mean I know I should if I'm going to play, but to fill it in do I need to?

The player handbook on page 71 says "Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier." So why did you also add you dex modifier?

How are you adding your dex mod to hp?

David Bazan

Today I a made a character sheet for 1 person from my D&D group.I watched your 'How to create a fighter' video . He explained very nicely , but there were just some things that I didn't understand, like : What do I write in the saving throws ? And if its numbers then how do I get them? Do i roll a dice? If so which one ? A d10? A d4? A d20? And also , where do I find out what my : 'attack and spellcasting' is in the rulebook? And I can't seem to find and print the character sheet Nate's using in the video. I only found the adventurers league character sheet , and I don't think thats the right one . I also dont understand the 'xp' on the top right of the character sheet? How do you gain them ? Where do you gain it? How does the DM know the amount of xp he should give? And what is this 'inspiration' thing in the top left? What do I write? FACTION? WHAT IS THAT? DCI NUMBER?WHAT!? PROFICIENCY BONUS ?????!?!?!?!?! WHAT ? HA? CURRENT HIT POINTS? TEMPORARY HIT POINTS????!>>! >!!> IDEALS? BONDS?FLAWS? WHAT IS THIS : 'CP, SP, EP, GP, PP IN THE EQUIPMENT BOX ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THE CHARACTER SHEET????????????????????????????????/