Character Creation

Permitted Sources

• Permitted Sources
  • The permitted sources list is exclusive: Third-party and homebrew builds are not permitted.

Roll20’s Character Builder and Character Sheet

• Characters must be fully built and run using Roll20’s 2024 character sheet for 5e.
• All of the permitted sources will be accessible for you to use from within our Roll20 game room.

Setting Information

• Phandelver’s Red Hand is set primarily in the Sword Coast region of Faerûn in the Forgotten Realms, but it also draws on materials from Greyhawk and Midgard.

Magic and Gods

• Phandelver’s Red Hand begins in a fairly low-magic setting. Everyone in the game world knows that magic works and that the gods exist, but direct experiences with them are rare.

Species

• Common species include humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes. These species have long histories together, and their cultures are mainstream.
• Less common are goliaths, dragonborn, aasimar, and tieflings.
• Orcs integrate into other societies only rarely.
• Extremely rare species include aarakocra, changelings, firbolgs, genasi, githyanki, githzerai, kenku, shifters, tabaxi, and yuan-ti.

Character Guidelines

When creating your character, I recommend that you keep the following considerations in mind:

1. How can you build a character that engages with this campaign’s permitted sources, setting information, and adventure summary?
2. What characters are your party members building?
3. How might your character discover common cause with your party’s other characters?

Impermissible Character Concepts

The following character concepts are not permitted in my games:

• Evil characters
• Parody characters
• Licentious characters
• Racist characters

Generating Ability Scores

You have the following options for generating ability scores:

• Point-buy
• Rolling
  • If you choose to roll, then:
    1. You must accept the results of your rolls.
       • As soon as you begin rolling, you are fully committed to this method.
       • You cannot change back to the point-buy method at any time.
    2. You must use Roll20’s dice roller.
    3. Roll 4d6 and add the three highest results (and drop the lowest result).
    4. Repeat Step 3 five more times.
    5. Assign the resulting set of six scores to your character’s ability scores in any order you wish.