I’m new to D&D and my friend who owns all the source material created my character so I could have a soul knife rouge, but I also want to play with other. But I don’t know if it’s common practice for the DM to own the source material and make characters or each player needs the source material
Your DM can create a campaign, enable content sharing, and send you an invite link to create a character in that campaign. Any character you create within that campaign will have access to all of the material that your DM chooses to share, meaning you have the freedom to create what you please with your friend's source material.
Halfwing's suggestion presumes your DM has a Master Tier subscription, which they may or may not. But to answer your question more generally, usually people make their own characters. There are exceptions to that. On occasion here a DM will do what yours did because they have all the content but they don't have a Master Tier sub to share content. The more common reasons for a DM to create all the characters and then give them to the players are 1) the players are new to the game or 2) the DM has a very specific story in mind with specific pregens. #1 is much more common than #2.
Note that the DM doesn't have to be the one with the Master Tier subscription in the campaign. If you wanted to do some playing around with creating characters without paying for all the content, you could pick up a Master Tier sub yourself and turn on content sharing in the campaign. Note, however, that you would need to build all your potential characters in that campaign (or a different campaign set up by that DM) in order to access the content, so you would need to talk to your DM about whether or not that was a possibility.
I’m new to D&D and my friend who owns all the source material created my character so I could have a soul knife rouge, but I also want to play with other. But I don’t know if it’s common practice for the DM to own the source material and make characters or each player needs the source material
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AlumniYour DM can create a campaign, enable content sharing, and send you an invite link to create a character in that campaign. Any character you create within that campaign will have access to all of the material that your DM chooses to share, meaning you have the freedom to create what you please with your friend's source material.
Halfwing's suggestion presumes your DM has a Master Tier subscription, which they may or may not. But to answer your question more generally, usually people make their own characters. There are exceptions to that. On occasion here a DM will do what yours did because they have all the content but they don't have a Master Tier sub to share content. The more common reasons for a DM to create all the characters and then give them to the players are 1) the players are new to the game or 2) the DM has a very specific story in mind with specific pregens. #1 is much more common than #2.
Note that the DM doesn't have to be the one with the Master Tier subscription in the campaign. If you wanted to do some playing around with creating characters without paying for all the content, you could pick up a Master Tier sub yourself and turn on content sharing in the campaign. Note, however, that you would need to build all your potential characters in that campaign (or a different campaign set up by that DM) in order to access the content, so you would need to talk to your DM about whether or not that was a possibility.
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Thank you, this helped me a lot
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AlumniAh, true! Apologies, I’d completely forgotten that was the case.