Part 3 - How to make a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Character (Proficiency, Skills, Backgrounds)) 

when you have a 17 in dexterity but an 11 in charisma **Jumps off a building, does dozens of flips and lands perfectly** random passerby: No one cares!

rogue with 3 dexterity: *goes invisible and has a heart attack*

As a noob to Dungeons and Dragons, this was really helpful to me and my friends. Thank you for the video, it's the best guide I've found.

I just put down under flaws for my ranger: I have an odd obsession for my fallen enemies severed ears. Sometimes even stopping the fight for a juicey orcish ear.

One of the most useful and well explained guides I've seen. THANK YOU

This is helping me so much I can barely explain. Thanks a bunch, dude 😊

I usually think of lawful and chaotic in terms of absolute truth verses relative truth. A lawful good character says that what's right is always right, and if the country is overthrown by an evil person and the laws are changed, that doesn't mean that the lawful good is just going to continue following the new laws because he's "lawful." To say a lawful good always follows the rules of the land is to assume the rules are good. But if the rules are bad, a lawful good character will break the rules in favor of setting up a new, just, good system of law. That's why i think Cap is lawful good. Because when a corrupt, evil law was made, he rejected it in favor is establishing another lawful system of justice with Black Panther. He never condones anarchy, he encourages transferring from a corrupt law to a good law...

This was honeatly so helpful. As a budding d&d player, the rule book was a bit confusing but this made it so much clearer. Thanks so much dude

Literally sent a few potential new players to watch these. Very helpful for beginners. Was going to do a few myself but these are generally super straight forward and helpful. SJ

GG with architexture definition! XD I laughed hard, one of the reasons I love you. You made a mistake owned up to it and even poked fun at yourself. I will always be a fan of yours. Thanks for the amazing content here and on high rollers!

I cannot tell you how helpful this has been to my son's and I. We spent hours trying to figure out this ourselves after buying the Essentials Kit with Dragon of Oceapire Peak and the book is ridiculous. We got more done in these three videos than almost 4 hours of trying to read it ourselves. It gives no help as to where to put things or how to calculate. You have to already know how to play to start. This is brilliant. Thanks so much.

This is great not just for new players, but also for players who have played in quite a while. I haven't played since AD&D, and have an opportunity to get back into the game now. I know alot has changed, so I also find this relevant.

Why is this video the only one that actually explains the skills!? I’ve watched so many videos on character building and no one explains how to add the skills!

Probably one of the most useful guides out there Mark, thanks for sharing.

there are a number of videos explaining the char creation process. none come close to this kind of quality and detail.

This was very helpful. I find your tutorial videos the best because you are clear and take your time to explain things.

Thank you for making this series, I've played a few games and always used dndbeyond to make a character. Now I've got a few of the books I was getting lost actually making up a character sheet, this has made it all clear as day

You did a good job. I read the chapter first, watched the video, and it all connected sensibly.

Brilliant series, you're fantastic at explaining things in a way easy to understand and follow!

thank you for the guide i dont watch anything about d&d but this chanle

I've been preparing for my upcoming d&d campaign for about 2 weeks now. I've read the books, I've watched all the how to's, I've scoured forums for any information that might help me as a first time player, and I've asked the advice of my experienced friends who play weekly and your videos have been by far the most thorough and helpful. I can't begin to thank you enough for making this content. You've put everything into terms that are easily digestible for a new player like myself to consume without becoming overwhelmed while still being extremely informative. This is a resource I will use again and recommend for any family and friends who are just getting started.

As a D&D noob, this has been immensely helpful, thank you

I'm dm'ing my first game and this has been extremely helpful in smoothing the character creation process. keep up the great work.

I’ve been struggling so hard for days to try and figure everything out and create a character, your videos have got me started and pointed me in a really good direction I’m so glad you made these videos thank you

I really like how these videos explain the character creation, it's helped make it easier to understand

Thanks for doing these videos Mark, they're extremely useful and they've helped me the most compared to other videos.

First time DM, and I'm having to make a friend's character sheet for her. This video in particular really helped with the some of the areas of the character sheet that I couldn't remember how to fill out (been a bit since I've had to create a character!). Thank you for the time and effort you've put into this series!!

We love this series - Thank You! My son is on the autism spectrum and really wanted to play DND and got the essentials kit. However, I had now idea where to start and how to do it. We have had a lot of fun thus far creating his character. What was interesting for us is we could not find the right background in the choices in the Essentials Kit and weren't sure what to do. I found the players guide online (sribed) and found the background that fit what he had created/chosen so far.

thank you for having this on your channel. Because I'm a first time DM and im not so much nervous to start my first session this Saturday.

Made two character designs while watching this series. I don’t have anyone to rlly play with but it’s fun to create characters, I will soon get to making all the sheets. So, Thx for the help!

I'm making my first ever dnd character, and she is meant to be a 8yr old, halfling, who is good by nature, but very chaotic. her mom needed someone to take her (forever), but everyone declined. Finally, she went to a tavern, and while the group's backs were turned, put me on the table and left.

Thank you for this series. Very well thought out and expressed. I just watched a series on filling out a pathfinder character sheet and my head was swimming even with the core Pathfinder book in front of me. You have just made the difference between a Pathfinder newbie and a D&D 5th newbie. :-)

"im going to make a fighter that uses a bow and has an animal friend" *cough* *disrespect to rangers* *cough*

Thanks so much for this! I've never played D&D in my life (never knew anybody who played while I was growing up!), and now I want to get into it with my kids (DM'ing for them, of course). I never understood the character sheets and all the numbers until now. This really, really helps a beginner like me! Now to see actual gameplay to know how it all plays out. I haven't checked to see if you have any videos on game play, but maybe you could design one for us beginners? And if you can, simple tips to modify for kids! Thanks again!

This series is so useful since I am so new to the world of D&D

My daughter and I are just getting started in D&D and these vids are really helping us. Thanks!

this has been incredibly helpful so far, thanks so much, keep up the good work :)

This is INCREDIBLY helpful, especially since the character i am also trying to make is also a Forest Gnome Fighter...

hurry up whit the next part please. It was a very nice and easy way to explain to people who are not so into it. I my self, wanted to play dnd since the first time I hear of it. After watching you guys, I have forced my friends to join. Witch gives me the job to get rules and such! so thank you for making it easy for me :D

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW HOLY *SHIT*

These videos are Amazing! So well done, thank you good sir!

This video series has been a huge help. About to play my first game with my wife and friends from her work and I have no idea how any of this worked lol

Im watching all parts. it's an awesome guide mate

This has been really helpful! I watched Stranger Things and wanted to play but was very confused. This helped a lot. The only thing I still don’t get is the class features.

making a character for first time with my family cause son wants to get into this.. watched videos 1 and 2, half way through 3.. This is great and fun!!

This is so dang comprehensive. Thank you!

I love this whole thing, it's so useful!

Just what I needed! Thanks

Thanks so much for doing these, SO helpful

Ty so much for sharing this... This will help me a lot to start playing with my family!

I was so confused before your videos, thank you!

Loving this series Mark, one question, how flexible do you think the dm should be with what the players want to do? One of my players, for example, wants to not start with any defined personality traits and let them evolve naturally over the game. Do you think that's an acceptable method?

I am experienced at this game but I have never actually played on paper, this was really helpful (the book is confusing) thanks man!

These videos are amazing! You have such a great way of explaining things that is so easy to understand even for a noob like me! Aunrae Ashryver becomes more real with every video! :)

So much information hope I get to play one day

mark this is bloody amazing

I'm new to d&d and I found really,really helpful. The I you!!

Great video, learned a lot!

Thank you, I needed a simple video because I have trouble processing only written information. The guide is helpful for some things, but very confusing for a complete beginner

Great guide! Explained well for newbies such as myself.

I just came here to learn how to play D&D but ended up learning philosophy through the difference between good and evil.

Also I have a little thing that I like to do in regards to the languages section. If by some reason a character can only speak a language and not write it (or vice versa) I use little letters next to the language to represent what my character can do. The key works like this; r is you can read it, s is you can speak it and w is you can write it. So if you can read and write Draconic but not speak it, you’d write it like this: Draconic (r,w). But if you can read and speak but not write Elvish you’d write it like this: Elvish (r,s). This is very useful if you want to add something into a character’s backstory where they might have learnt a language verbally or through written text and can’t do one or the other.

Thanks for the video! Very Helpful!

This helped a lot, thanks!

this is so helpful, i am making a human fighter and i use this to help me, thanks mark your the best!!

These videos are helping me so much

This is so good and explained well

So useful! ♥ Thank you.

The only video I found which actually explains it

Yes this is really help full

Thanks for helping me

I agree that video was most helpful

thank dude this is very helpful

These are so very helpful, can't wait/need part four to complete my character(wink wink) Thanks for all your efforts

architexture lol how great was that very helpful video series ty

One of the ways I like to describe the difference between 'Lawful' and Chaotic' would be that if you are facing a disagreement with someone, a Lawful person would say, 'Here's my reasoning behind why I disagree with you,' whereas a Chaotic person would say, 'I'M RIGHT. YOU'RE WRONG. FIGHT ME.' For Neutral person, I'd say it depends on what you're fighting about.

This is gonna be good

20:52 I think that is going to become one my Bard's catchphrases for ladies at the tavern

I made a drow rogue that was kicked out of his home at a young age and learned to survive on his own.

These videos have been so helpful for me. Thanks for taking the time to explain everything so well

very help-full

Thanks for the videos ! You’re helping my newb son and my newb self out !!

i am kid and thank you for the advice because my friend and i were confused what to do with a character sheet but thank you

My boyfriend (he's a dm) just got me with d&d because i love creating characters. I don't think he knows what he got himself into. Anyway thank you for the guide! It is really helpful!😊

I would contend that Picard is absolutely not Lawful Neutral as he almost never makes a selfish decision. He is typically closer to Lawful Good or Neutral Good if anything because he has skirted the prime directive in the past.

thank youuu

I have 12 charisma and 19 dex I jumped off a giant building and someone said ‘ you don’t look good ‘ It was my DM’s first character he made talk, now everyone says it

I literally died when he said, " I have an insatiable apetite for carnal pleasures... OOO." XD (Aside from that, this tutorial has halped me so much more than I could have imagined. Thank you!)

when your character is supposed to be an airhead but she’s a druid edit: i now love my dumb little bard fairy

Haha the architexture definition was great

On my first character I had a 24 in strength and a 9 in intelligence .

i keep rewatching these videos because i keep forgetting what to do lmao

Mark you have helped me so much with this thank you :) I like the generated characters on the dnd website however after watching High Rollers and Critical Role it is better to tailor characters around the players play style, thank you mark :)

Going back to equipment do I only start out with my background equipment? I notice that my class gives me equipment as well. Does that stack?

I'm confused about the fighting style thingy around 11.30..? What if i have a Wood Elf / Wizard? There's nothing about that class' fighting style in the D&D Book?

im an elf and one of my traits is keens senses which is proficiency to perception so i circled the two i chose from the class feature (fighter) and also circled perception is that allowed

These are great! I have a question re: backgrounds. Rolling up a treasure hunting rogue a la Indiana Jones. Indy's background is that his father is an academic and, although he never got along with his father and left home early, he is one too. What background would this correspond to in the PH? Noble? Acolyte? Guild Artisan?

I made a half bronze dragon half red green parrot lizard folk (parrot is just a texture effect on the lizard folk crest, do to it being red green he has red green and blue for his crest) and umm... he’s a little overpowered, but I didn’t even plan on it being overpowered, I was just picking it for the RP aspect. But he can spit lightning and he dresses like a mythical Viking (the one with horns on its helmet), he is a nightmare to deal with because of his ability to spit lightning and the fact I designed him after Vikings and caveman shamans. He is also legendarily charismatic. But as a Viking caveman he is kinda dumb to modern time people do to the fact he really just likes to destroy “bad” (anyone who harms him or his friends in his opinion) guys and manipulate but he is chaotic good but he is curious and will help others, like a real Nordic person during the medieval age where they weren’t entirely anarchy mad man

do i only pick one feature for background, or do i get however many there are? (dumb question)

So I don't necessarily have to choose an alignment? (By the way your series is really helping me out thanks)