I currently have a level 4 Half-Orc Fighter who's part of the Zhentarim faction. Per the rules I believe I can rebuild him before reaching level 5. Would I be able to switch to a Bugbear PC and if so would I have to be Evil? Thanks!
Looking over the Bugbear PC notes in Volo's Guide, I don't see where it says that you have to be evil. Only that most bugbears tend to be Chaotic Evil. In fact, there's an entire section the page right before that that explains how you can flavor your monstrous PC so as not to conform to the alignment stereotypes of that race.
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Looking over the Bugbear PC notes in Volo's Guide, I don't see where it says that you have to be evil. Only that most bugbears tend to be Chaotic Evil. In fact, there's an entire section the page right before that that explains how you can flavor your monstrous PC so as not to conform to the alignment stereotypes of that race.
Awesome. Thanks for the reply. Do monstrous have specific restrictions to be playable in AL?
You can change everything about a character except the name. Strictly according to the rules, you would have to change the backstory to conform to what the VGtM AL reference says. In practice I've never seen it come up (or backstory at all for that matter), but I've only played a handful of games in AL.
Hi All,
I currently have a level 4 Half-Orc Fighter who's part of the Zhentarim faction. Per the rules I believe I can rebuild him before reaching level 5. Would I be able to switch to a Bugbear PC and if so would I have to be Evil? Thanks!
Looking over the Bugbear PC notes in Volo's Guide, I don't see where it says that you have to be evil. Only that most bugbears tend to be Chaotic Evil. In fact, there's an entire section the page right before that that explains how you can flavor your monstrous PC so as not to conform to the alignment stereotypes of that race.
Not that I am aware of, no. They are published races that are part of Volo's Guide, and conform to the PHB +1 as long as your "+1" is Volo's Guide.
There are faction and backstory/origin restrictions. Check out Volo's Guide to Monsters: A D&D Adventurers League Reference (5e) on the DM's guild.
I think bugbears have to be Zhentarim.
You can change everything about a character except the name. Strictly according to the rules, you would have to change the backstory to conform to what the VGtM AL reference says. In practice I've never seen it come up (or backstory at all for that matter), but I've only played a handful of games in AL.
Thanks for the help y'all.