How to Make a Character in Dungeons & Dragons 

I always start making a character thinking "It's going to be different" but it always ends up as a dwarven bard.

Probably one of the quickest videos explaining how to make a character sheet! I'm so happy I dont need to share an intimidating 30+ minute video

Since I lost my girlfriend to cancer last year... It pretty much brok me and life nearly a year after her death is still covered in pain, grief and darkness... Luckly I have found D&D, painting minis, makeing a world for my players, when we need a new dm, it stress me less doing this and let me get a break from everything. Since my girlfriend death have I always played Dungeons and Dragons with a female hero, that shows my lovely sweet girlfriend ideals. - Keep fighting, even when death knocks on the door. - Animal rights and love for nature. - Treat others with respect and help, when you can. I made her into my homebrew character as a half human and half dryad, Beastmaster, who always have her animal companions with her and used the power of both beasts and nature.

I’m now just getting into D&D after being hounded by my brother for about 4 years now. You’re video was very great in explaining the character sheet. Thanks so much for all the information!

Dear God, thank you so much I've gone through almost forty videos just to get the simple introduction you just gave me here. THANK YOU!!!

a quick and ez-ier way to explain saving throws and other little details, Thanks :)

I've been playing for years and this was STILL incredibly helpful!

Wait... are the modifiers in the big boxes? Oh noes...

They don’t tell how many dice, but it’s 4D6. Than just take away the lowest number, & add them all up; You’d do that 6 times for attributes. For skills it’s adding your modifiers from your attributes, with proficiencies if you have any. For Proficiency Bonus, your class has a table that tells you what it is.

Man I have been waiting to play this so thank you

I really like the premade characters and the quick build suggestions in the Player Handbook! This video really helps out. I'm going to save it for next character creation.

Excelent way to show my friends !!! Thanks

my friends just finished their last campaign, and now im joining them. this is really helpful!! :3

I like the brevity of this. Great job!

I've watched three 30+ minute videos and this is by far the most in depth and best at explaining what is going on!

Cool sword earrings

This is gonna be really helpful for me in making my D&D character. I’ve always loved fantasy and role playing games. All of it sounds really cool!

Ya I still don’t understand…

Uploaded 1 year ago? Where was this video when I needed it! x) Excellent!

So helpful, thank you!

magnificent content Dungeons & Dragons. I smashed that thumbs up on your video. Continue to keep up the superior work.

This is really helpful. Even for a 5 minute video :)

Alignment is a big one too!

I have an idea: the character, or characters, are a pair of twins, Ethan "gold" and Tessa "copper" they share stats and status effects, gold is the strength and copper us the brains, they have a deck of cosmic cards that can use mana for a chance to change anything in and out of battle

A good video. It took 6 years for Wizards of the Coast to start making these types of videos, Finally.

Someone is going to need to teach me😂🤷🏽‍♂️There’s so much that goes into this… man.

Gosh this is in depth

Would go a long way for accessibility if you would produce your own accurate captions for Deaf/HoH players instead of just relying on RU-vid to autogenerate them

This is a great video!!

I was never into D&D because it seemed like there was too much going on for me to process. Until I started watching Stranger Things, and it seemed very interesting. This helps me a lot! Hopefully I can find people who might want to play someday

@nottheVampire wow love the way you present the game play. what's you do you prefer to play as your character?

Sooo helpful...thankyou

Hey ive heard about items but not finding anything about what said items are what do i do?

that's weird how the abilities are filled out with the modifiers in the big square and the ability score in the little circle, I always do it the other way around.

Thank you

I have two stories to share here: When I was in 3rd grade at school, our teacher made up a game he called "Storskog" which means litterally just "Big Forest" in Norwegian and it was basically D&D but we did not even know what that was at all. We had no clue none of us what that game was but it was like another version of D&D. It had Pokemons as pets for example. We were in groups and I remember my character name was something weird. Idk what but it was a cringey name lol. I also remember someone on my group was granted a Snorlax pet which everyone was so jealous of and I got a green emrald amulet necklace that let me speak to animals and I got a lot of coins which was the Currency there. Nobody else in the entire school had played "Storskog" when they had that teacher and were in 3rd grade. Years later in 7th grade, we had another teacher and she randomly decided to show us the D&D part of S1 E1 Of stranger things and only that part. We were all so excited because we knew this meant something good. She then started a game which was also like D&D but I dont remember what we called it. I think we actually just called it Dungeons and Dragons. We were more realistic and I was DM one time. I remember we changed groups like every 3rd week or so and changed characters too. I still have my character sheet at home rn right beside me. Yesterday was the last day of 8th grade for me. So in about 2 months, im a 9th grader. I really like how simple this video is by the way. Im glad I got to share my little D&D story if that makes sense. I have never played like an "American" version of D&D before but its my favorite memories from all my school years. The character sheet I have beside me right now has name and everything but its not the same character sheet as in other D&D games tho. It was printed out from a website that was made for our school. My last character was named Eleven because when I got home the day our teacher started the dungeons and dragons game in 7th grade, I watched the rest of episode 1 stranger things and ep 2 and then I just stopped watching for so long. Only a few days ago I decided to watch a little bit of it again and ended up finishing the whole thing so far in like 2 and half day non stop watching. Im the biggest stranger things fan now just because of that.

Where do you find the information that's race/class base, like where do you find the race buffs or the class items. Im extremely new to dnd and this vid rlly helped but im still kinda confused

I'm just wondering: 1:10 Is there only one class you can have? Can the classes be combined? Or create your own class? 🤔🤔🤔

Great video

thank you

So can I max out all my stats if I want? How do you decide how many skill points to add?

My friend wanted her first character to be a Warforged, fuck that shit

After putting Druidic in the known languages after selecting the race, how would I have known you would have followed up with a Druid class?

Yip, definitely Crushing on Madeline rn

Wait... I didn't realy get the hit dice part... 😅 Does she mean you use different dice (depending on class) to create the hit points for your character?

hi, how would you create a playable pixie/fairy? I have a player who wants to play one of these creatures but I don't know how to make it playable. I think they will be too fragile for the type of campaign we play hindering the rest of the group. But then again I don't want to make this player feel like it was left out of the game 😕

wood elf druid is literally my character lol

I'm thinking about getting in to the game but I have no idea how to find a group, none of my friends play the game so I have no idea how to get started.

Conveniently skipped Alignment, and I appreciate this

Way better than the last one

Ranger/magic user is my guy at the start.

I hate it when people say "sometimes" when they should say "always"... It's not that sometimes your chosen race gives you a boost to certain stats; they always do.. Same goes for classes and weapons they have at their disposal. Every single class has a starting weapon. Even wizards have a dagger or quarterstaff. they might not USE it, but they still get one.

Hey for a veteran dnd players I wanna ask? I wanted to make a costume character with very unique features and abilities is that ok in this game?

00:14 WILL THE WISE

I demand more Maddie Cullen!!!

How do I know what races are available or what languages there are or what classes there are? I can keep going. Hmm

and uh.. whats the maximum number for each thing- ive never played this im literally learning today

I wanna play dnd, but I don't have any friends that can play dnd, I'll probably ask my cousin to let me play dnd with them!!

I'm usually the gm,but if I were to play,I would be a bard-druid

Ah, but how do you determine modifiers

Water from my weapon of choice is a katana

Woah

why i have the feeling i have seen her in some CW show??

I still dont get it?? Whats the skill things based off of? 1-10? 20? Why are there two different numbers assigned to it? :( im so confused

I'm playing my first d and d game tomorrow and have no clue how to play lol help

If I want to have an tropical islander character? I could?

I’m making a charater and they are an elf, they used to be a warrior but due to a fight that made them lose both of 6eir arms and need glasses they became a medic, what would their stats be? Due to their expirence in fighting they might have a high damage, but they can’t see well and don’t have arms, so wouldn’t that lower their stats? Wouldnt they still have a high fighting though?

passive perception and inspiration? I must of missed it each time Ive watched this

Beginner friendly but also needs to be paired with more in depth explanations of the roles of the different classes and why beginners should never start out playing a caster. Spells should be reserved for those with the foresight and experience to use them wisely, both so that they do not constantly feel useless and also so that they don't become the one reason every plan or interaction becomes so incredibly complicated that it ends in anything from a tpk to a war with the local feudal lord.

I thought you get ur ac with 10+dex+armor+ bonuses

I like trees more than people

Video made before new approach to race settled on...?

Can I create a character that's just like me? Like, literally me with a few changes here and there??

I wonder if actors have ever played dungeons and dragons to learn to improvise

Is this the same lady from the Logitech channel? The exact same voice.

Funny, no matter how good or bad the video content is, no matter how ugly, pretty, eccentric or obtuse the host(s) of video - if it's a D&D related video I always give it a thumbs up to encourage D&D videos.

Poor girl. You can see her thinking "I spent years doing acting class and professional speaking courses for this"

This literally told us nothing about how to DO it just showed a bunch of numbers filling in the different abilities and no explanations on how they got them.

I watched the movie today

Madeline is better than Ginni D. I want to see more Madeline self help dd videos

I’m here from my college course. I have no idea what’s going on with my life..

What if you don’t have friends to play with

Can I create it with my species?

Can I play as Mario or something?

I've always considered myself a huuuge nerd, but my goodness, this game just takes being a nerd to a whole new level lol. I like RPG's but this game is basically identical to the episode of Spongebob where they use their imagination in a box and drive Squidward crazy. Only the most creatively imaginable people (such as Spongebob and Patrick) would be able to enjoy this game.

I still don’t understand the skill thing

My dad

This is a great summary of the process, but in terms of helping a new player do it themselves, it's basically worthless. It means a lot more detail about how many points they get where they should look for information.

Who's the woman in the video?

who is this girl?

At first, before all, you need a DM. I feel sorry for all the DMs getting so less help by WotC. More and more Char Options, it is really hard for an unexperienced DM to balance all that.

Your voice sounds like Emma Watson

Too short to be of any use. Zoomed through this way too quickly.

Look these are decent videos and all but like why did y'all start publishing them when you did lol

5 minutes for a character creation video? too fast.. and you total skipped Alignment, which is a big part of framing your character, not sure why you blew past that. Its always been quite important in the D&D game, since the '70s. Sure DM's have modified it a bit over the years and its your campaign, your rules, the DM can do as he wants.. but I thought y'all were all about "if the book doesn't say it..." lol

Hot chick, tho.

Who are you and can WOTC please rehire Monte Cook for 6e?

This is all way out of order. You roll for stats first, then pick a class, then a race.

I'm a Furry, and apart of the Furry Community. And I have my own species called the Deveric Wolf

Makes absolutely no sense.