I'll take a whack at it. I have a few questions myself. What are your thoughts on using other character builders? I usually use DiceCloud, because I find it easier to work with and I have all my content on there. If not, completely fine!
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I’m willing to have a look at it but I’ve never used DiceCloud before. I would generally prefer to have it all on DNDBeyond, for I suspect more convenience of referring to things in the campaign menu etc.
The dice gods are interesting. Gonna have to mull things over.
Name: Fiselius vondus Yaralogus Race: Rock Gnome Class: Wizard, School of Conjuration Background: Failed Merchant Reason for Coming to Phandelver: Wave Echo Cave was discovered? Treasures lay below? Oh boy! That seems like a good profit to make. Free Feat: Resilient (CON) Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/119139104/YtQd48 //note, will still need to edit the equipment and his spells (leaving that pending until after possible selection, but listing things below) 1 Rare Magic Item: Elven Chain 2 Uncommon Magic Items: Pearl of Power, Stone of Good Luck (luckstone) //note-to-self: leaves one attunement slot open at the start Backstory: Fiselius started out his professional life working in the family shop making trinkets and toys. It was a fun profession and he enjoyed it but alas hard times came and it was no longer enough to make a living. With lament he closed the shop and turned to another source of income: adventuring. First he started out with the local jobs. Clear out rats and all that. But over time he honed his skills getting better and the money flowed in. It wasn't the perfect career. He'd prefer if he could spend more time at home with the family, kids, grandkids, great-grandkids. But it was honest living and he'd been getting better at magic along the way. Now with the promise of more riches he's come to Phandelver to explore Wave Echo Cave and its riches. You could always find an adventuring party to join in these parts.
Clockwork toy supplies x3: 30gp Find Familiar Incense x5: 50gp //expend one use prior to campaign for owl Pearl x1 for Identify: 100gp Ink x3 for Illusory Script: 30gp Subtotal: 210
Mastiff: 25gp Bit and Bridle: 2gp Riding Saddle: 10gp Saddlebags: 4gp Hide barding: 10x4 =40gp Feed x10: 0.5gp Subtotal: 81.5gp
Character's name: Gudrune Stonesight Character background: Folk Hero Race: Mountain Dwarf Class: Fighter (Rune Knight) Motivation:Gudrune Stonesight is a childhood friend of the Rockseeker brothers, and an adventurer in her own right. She was away up north in Icewind Dale, assisting the folk of Bryn Shander, when the brothers sent word of a “promising new business venture” in Phandalin and for Gudrune to join them at her earliest convenience. And so she did just that, roving the long roads south, until at last she arrived in the small town that carried its fair share of troubles. She befriended other adventurers and together they rid the town of many afflictions… but the “promising new business venture” depends on reclaiming the lost Wave Echo Cave and its fabled Forge of Spells. Gudrune Stonesight sharpens her rune-carved battleaxe by firelight, murmuring the words of a giant’s lullaby, restless for the dawn to usher in whatever perils may await.
Feat: Mobile (Your speed increases by +10 feet. When you use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement on that turn. When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether you hit or not.)
Character's name: Fran Character background: Urchin Race: Tabaxi Class: Fighter (Eldritch Knight) What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave? Looking for strong monsters to fight (combat junkie). Character sheet link: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/124253700/LzASXi Your chosen free Feat: Athlete Your chosen magical Items (Two Uncommon and One Rare)*: Weapon of Warning (uncommon), Bag of holding (uncommon), Mithral Half Plate, +1 (rare)
Backstory: Fran was wandering in the forest looking for food, when a bear decided she was its next meal. While running from the bear, Fran found a magic sword just stuck in the ground. She pulled it out and using that sword she was able to defeat that bear. So instead of being eaten, she was the one doing the eating. Finding the magic sword turned Frans life around. She was now a monster hunter! She calls the sword Master, and will talk to the sword. She acts like it's talking back, but no one else can hear it. Regardless of if the sword is actually coaching her or not, she is now a successful monster hunter.
This character is based on and heavily inspired by the Web Novel (and manga) "I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated". In that story Master is the main character and is a very powerful artifact that grows more powerful though the story. Since an Artifact is way beyond starting equipment, I picked something an uncommon sword that "talks" occansionally, the sword of warning. So it does "talk" to her to warn her of danger, the rest might just be in her head...
I'll take a whack at it. I have a few questions myself. What are your thoughts on using other character builders? I usually use DiceCloud, because I find it easier to work with and I have all my content on there. If not, completely fine!
Scores:11917171514
Name: Vijam Karimsh Race: Plasmoid (Takes a bluish-purple, veiny appearance similar to a Black Pudding, along with a single eye.) Class: Bard 6 (Creation) Background: Entertainer - Poet Motivation: "The word of a cubiculo of charm in the far cave hath greatly inspir'd mine attention. Gaia shuns; "Thy form is hideous, behold at thee!", much to the great misery in mine heart; and mine eyes. With the tools in the chasm, I could create an apparition of humanity through mine flesh. And, with mine goal in lodging, a group of lief cater-cousins shouldst be most useful, methinks. Thou noble men shall encave mine hideousness from the ingraft crowd. Manners maketh man. This hath been mine word. - Karimsh." Free Feat: Observant Magical Items: bloodwell vial, pearl of power,ring of spell storing Sheet Link:
What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave? Urgojion is a sellsword, was a soldier previously. When the war ended in peace, Urgojion couldn't forgive those that had hurt so many he cared for in combat and had a hard time being peaceful with his once enemies and decided to go on into the world as a hired hand/cave diver. Phandelver is nothing more then his current location thstvhes passing through. The war was against those in the underdark and Urgojion prioritizes work underground.
The Cosmic Sock didn't originate from this realm; it slipped through a cosmic rift from a dimension where laundry reigns supreme. In this dimension, socks are the ultimate beings, revered for their unmatched power to disappear without a trace.
As the chosen sock of the Tubesock Overlord, The Cosmic Sock was imbued with the essence of the cosmos itself, granting it unfathomable abilities beyond the comprehension of mere mortals.
However, one day, during a particularly intense sock laundering ritual, The Cosmic Sock was inadvertently flung into the ‘fabric of reality and found itself stranded in the material plane. Confused and disoriented, it now wanders this strange realm, seeking to ‘unravel the mysteries of its newfound existence.
With its threads woven from the very fabric of existence, The Cosmic Sock is a being of unparalleled power, capable of bending reality itself to its whims – or at least, making everyone wonder why they're taking orders from a sock.
Magic Items: Bloodwell Vial +2, Pearl of Power, Pipes of Haunting
JUST TO SAY: I'm on GMT (well BST, so GMT+1). So my Saturday is already well underway and I'll probably be closing this in 6-8 hours during Eurovision when I'll send out pms. Last minute applications, get 'em in, many of your Saturday's later evenings may be too late.
Character's name: Khessa Cabbagefield Character background: Folk Hero Race: Human Class: Fighter 3 / Wizard 3 What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave?
Khessa is primarily motivated by helping Common Folk in danger or difficulty and making progress in her long-term plan - freeing her family who were kidnapped by the Drow in a raid that destroyed her native tiny hamlet. Since 'all is not well in the town of Phandelver', she may have come there simply to help the community in difficulty. Among other things, saving a struggling settlement could also put her in a good light in the eyes of someone in the Lords' Alliance, a connection that may be useful for her long-term goals. Or, if the DM agrees, Khessa might be friends with an adventurer in the previous party (having quested with him before) and be worried about him.
Character sheet link
I create it in a breeze if chosen
Your chosen free Feat
Defensive Displacement
Your chosen magical Items (Two Uncommon and One Rare)*
Normal starting equipment + 725 gold / common equipment up to the value of 725 gold
Fighter starting equipment (since Fighter is her first level), then using money to buy Spellbook, Rod (spell focus), some Healing Potion if allowed and maybe a few common items (Caltrops and a few other that I find useful but that do not come with starting gear).
Character's name: Zania Stonebreaker Character background: City Watch/Investigator Race: Goliath Class: Barbarian 2/Rogue (scout) 4
What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave?
When she was very young, Zania was abducted by a hag who planned to turn her into another one of those dreadful creatures... or maybe it was just going to eat her. It really wasn't clear which. But whatever the monster's exact intentions, it was quite clear that something awful would have happened if the village Witchfinders hadn't arrived in time to save the young girl from the clutches of the hag. Since then, Zania has trained with the Witchfinders, determined to repay her rescuers and to help rid her world of the scourge of the hags and similar dark mages.
Zania's main goal is to eliminate black magic wherever it rears its ugly head. If she has any reason to believe that there is dark magic in the Wave Echo Cave, she won't pass up the chance to stamp out whatever evil is within.
I’m willing to have a look at it but I’ve never used DiceCloud before. I would generally prefer to have it all on DNDBeyond, for I suspect more convenience of referring to things in the campaign menu etc.
Name: Fiselius vondus Yaralogus
Race: Rock Gnome
Class: Wizard, School of Conjuration
Background: Failed Merchant
Reason for Coming to Phandelver: Wave Echo Cave was discovered? Treasures lay below? Oh boy! That seems like a good profit to make.
Free Feat: Resilient (CON)
Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/119139104/YtQd48
//note, will still need to edit the equipment and his spells (leaving that pending until after possible selection, but listing things below)
1 Rare Magic Item: Elven Chain
2 Uncommon Magic Items: Pearl of Power, Stone of Good Luck (luckstone)
//note-to-self: leaves one attunement slot open at the start
Backstory: Fiselius started out his professional life working in the family shop making trinkets and toys. It was a fun profession and he enjoyed it but alas hard times came and it was no longer enough to make a living. With lament he closed the shop and turned to another source of income: adventuring. First he started out with the local jobs. Clear out rats and all that. But over time he honed his skills getting better and the money flowed in. It wasn't the perfect career. He'd prefer if he could spend more time at home with the family, kids, grandkids, great-grandkids. But it was honest living and he'd been getting better at magic along the way. Now with the promise of more riches he's come to Phandelver to explore Wave Echo Cave and its riches. You could always find an adventuring party to join in these parts.
Spells from class
lv1 6 and +2 at lv2: Shield, Alarm, Magic Missile, Identify, Detect Magic, Comprehend Languages, Illusory Script, Silvery Barbs
lv3&4: Web, Spray of Cards, Misty Step, Invisibility
lv5&6: Counterspell, Thunder Step, Tidal Wave. Slow
Spells Scribed in
Find Familiar: 50gp //half-off for School of Conjuration
Unseen Servant: 50gp
Tenser's Floating Disk: 50gp
Ice Knife: 50gp
Grease: 50gp //may as well finish the collection of 1st lv Conjuration spells
Subtotal: 250gp
Shopping List
Clockwork toy supplies x3: 30gp
Find Familiar Incense x5: 50gp //expend one use prior to campaign for owl
Pearl x1 for Identify: 100gp
Ink x3 for Illusory Script: 30gp
Subtotal: 210
Mastiff: 25gp
Bit and Bridle: 2gp
Riding Saddle: 10gp
Saddlebags: 4gp
Hide barding: 10x4 =40gp
Feed x10: 0.5gp
Subtotal: 81.5gp
Bedroll: 1gp
Tent: 2gp
Traveler's Clothes: 2gp
Fishing Tackle: 1gp
Flask or Tankard: 0.02gp
Hammer, Sledge: 2gp
Healer's Kit: 5gp
Hunting Trap x2: 10gp
Hooded Lantern: 5gp
Oil Flask x10: 1gp
Mess Kit: 0.2gp
Perfume: 5gp
Iron Pot: 2gp
Pouch: 0.5gp
Caltrops x5: 5gp
Shovel: 2gp
Soap x5: 0.1gp
Waterskin: 0.02gp
Woodcarver's Tolls: 1gp
Flute: 2gp
Subtotal: 52.84
[[ might add some potions of healing if those don't count against magic items ]]
Gold Calculation
725 + 10 (Failed Merchant) = 735
running tally: 594.34
Gold Leftover: 138.66gp
//convert 1 moonstone (50gp), 4 lapis lazuli (40gp)
//48.66 left for coins
2 platinum (20gp)
23 gold (23gp)
6 electrum (3gp)
24 silver (2.4gp)
26 copper (0.26gp)
EDITs: fixing formatting issues
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CHARACTER SHEET: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/124205756/KU0KL4
Character's name: Gudrune Stonesight
Character background: Folk Hero
Race: Mountain Dwarf
Class: Fighter (Rune Knight)
Motivation: Gudrune Stonesight is a childhood friend of the Rockseeker brothers, and an adventurer in her own right. She was away up north in Icewind Dale, assisting the folk of Bryn Shander, when the brothers sent word of a “promising new business venture” in Phandalin and for Gudrune to join them at her earliest convenience. And so she did just that, roving the long roads south, until at last she arrived in the small town that carried its fair share of troubles. She befriended other adventurers and together they rid the town of many afflictions… but the “promising new business venture” depends on reclaiming the lost Wave Echo Cave and its fabled Forge of Spells.
Gudrune Stonesight sharpens her rune-carved battleaxe by firelight, murmuring the words of a giant’s lullaby, restless for the dawn to usher in whatever perils may await.
Feat: Mobile (Your speed increases by +10 feet. When you use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement on that turn. When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether you hit or not.)
Magical Items: +2 Battleaxe (Rare), Mithril Plate (Uncommon), Winged Boots (Uncommon)
Generating dice rolls: Ability scores: 13 15 15 16 16 11
Character's name: Fran
Character background: Urchin
Race: Tabaxi
Class: Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave? Looking for strong monsters to fight (combat junkie).
Character sheet link: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/124253700/LzASXi
Your chosen free Feat: Athlete
Your chosen magical Items (Two Uncommon and One Rare)*: Weapon of Warning (uncommon), Bag of holding (uncommon), Mithral Half Plate, +1 (rare)
Backstory: Fran was wandering in the forest looking for food, when a bear decided she was its next meal. While running from the bear, Fran found a magic sword just stuck in the ground. She pulled it out and using that sword she was able to defeat that bear. So instead of being eaten, she was the one doing the eating. Finding the magic sword turned Frans life around. She was now a monster hunter! She calls the sword Master, and will talk to the sword. She acts like it's talking back, but no one else can hear it. Regardless of if the sword is actually coaching her or not, she is now a successful monster hunter.
This character is based on and heavily inspired by the Web Novel (and manga) "I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated". In that story Master is the main character and is a very powerful artifact that grows more powerful though the story. Since an Artifact is way beyond starting equipment, I picked something an uncommon sword that "talks" occansionally, the sword of warning. So it does "talk" to her to warn her of danger, the rest might just be in her head...
Name: Vijam Karimsh
Race: Plasmoid (Takes a bluish-purple, veiny appearance similar to a Black Pudding, along with a single eye.)
Class: Bard 6 (Creation)
Background: Entertainer - Poet
Motivation:
"The word of a cubiculo of charm in the far cave hath greatly inspir'd mine attention. Gaia shuns; "Thy form is hideous, behold at thee!", much to the great misery in mine heart; and mine eyes. With the tools in the chasm, I could create an apparition of humanity through mine flesh. And, with mine goal in lodging, a group of lief cater-cousins shouldst be most useful, methinks. Thou noble men shall encave mine hideousness from the ingraft crowd. Manners maketh man. This hath been mine word. - Karimsh."
Free Feat: Observant
Magical Items: bloodwell vial, pearl of power, ring of spell storing
Sheet Link:
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Character's name: Urgojion
Character background: Soldier
Race: High Elf
Class: Rouge 4/ Wizard 2
What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave? Urgojion is a sellsword, was a soldier previously. When the war ended in peace, Urgojion couldn't forgive those that had hurt so many he cared for in combat and had a hard time being peaceful with his once enemies and decided to go on into the world as a hired hand/cave diver. Phandelver is nothing more then his current location thstvhes passing through. The war was against those in the underdark and Urgojion prioritizes work underground.
Character sheet link: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/124193148
Your chosen free Feat: Piercer
Your chosen magical Items (Two Uncommon and One Rare): Ring of Spell Storing, Decanter of Endless Water, and Slippers of Spider Climbing
Rest of equipment is still a WIP
Character's name: The Cosmic Sock
Character background: Far Traveller
Race: Custom (a dirty old sock)
Class: Sorcerer of the Aberrant Mind
The Cosmic Sock didn't originate from this realm; it slipped through a cosmic rift from a dimension where laundry reigns supreme. In this dimension, socks are the ultimate beings, revered for their unmatched power to disappear without a trace.
As the chosen sock of the Tubesock Overlord, The Cosmic Sock was imbued with the essence of the cosmos itself, granting it unfathomable abilities beyond the comprehension of mere mortals.
However, one day, during a particularly intense sock laundering ritual, The Cosmic Sock was inadvertently flung into the ‘fabric of reality and found itself stranded in the material plane. Confused and disoriented, it now wanders this strange realm, seeking to ‘unravel the mysteries of its newfound existence.
With its threads woven from the very fabric of existence, The Cosmic Sock is a being of unparalleled power, capable of bending reality itself to its whims – or at least, making everyone wonder why they're taking orders from a sock.
Magic Items: Bloodwell Vial +2, Pearl of Power, Pipes of Haunting
Ability scores: 14 13 13 13 12 16
JUST TO SAY: I'm on GMT (well BST, so GMT+1). So my Saturday is already well underway and I'll probably be closing this in 6-8 hours during Eurovision when I'll send out pms. Last minute applications, get 'em in, many of your Saturday's later evenings may be too late.
Character's name: Khessa Cabbagefield
Character background: Folk Hero
Race: Human
Class: Fighter 3 / Wizard 3
What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave?
Khessa is primarily motivated by helping Common Folk in danger or difficulty and making progress in her long-term plan - freeing her family who were kidnapped by the Drow in a raid that destroyed her native tiny hamlet. Since 'all is not well in the town of Phandelver', she may have come there simply to help the community in difficulty. Among other things, saving a struggling settlement could also put her in a good light in the eyes of someone in the Lords' Alliance, a connection that may be useful for her long-term goals. Or, if the DM agrees, Khessa might be friends with an adventurer in the previous party (having quested with him before) and be worried about him.
Character sheet link
I create it in a breeze if chosen
Your chosen free Feat
Defensive Displacement
Your chosen magical Items (Two Uncommon and One Rare)*
Greatsword +1 (uncommon), Adamantine Plate Armor (uncommon), Cloak of Displacement (rare)
Normal starting equipment + 725 gold / common equipment up to the value of 725 gold
Fighter starting equipment (since Fighter is her first level), then using money to buy Spellbook, Rod (spell focus), some Healing Potion if allowed and maybe a few common items (Caltrops and a few other that I find useful but that do not come with starting gear).
Just for gits and shiggles.
Ability scores: 15 11 7 11 15 13
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Character's name: Zania Stonebreaker
Character background: City Watch/Investigator
Race: Goliath
Class: Barbarian 2/Rogue (scout) 4
What brings you to Phandelver, and why would you join with the other adventurers to find the Wave Echo Cave?
When she was very young, Zania was abducted by a hag who planned to turn her into another one of those dreadful creatures... or maybe it was just going to eat her. It really wasn't clear which. But whatever the monster's exact intentions, it was quite clear that something awful would have happened if the village Witchfinders hadn't arrived in time to save the young girl from the clutches of the hag. Since then, Zania has trained with the Witchfinders, determined to repay her rescuers and to help rid her world of the scourge of the hags and similar dark mages.
Zania's main goal is to eliminate black magic wherever it rears its ugly head. If she has any reason to believe that there is dark magic in the Wave Echo Cave, she won't pass up the chance to stamp out whatever evil is within.
Character sheet link: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/124246714/cTzTpn
Your chosen free Feat: Slasher
Your chosen magical Items (Two Uncommon and One Rare)*
Scimitar of Warning, Stone of Good Luck (Luckstone), Mantle of Spell Resistance
Normal starting equipment + 725 gold / common equipment up to the value of 725 gold
Standard starting equipment, plus a second scimitar that has been silvered.
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Thank you all for applications. Sorting through now, and will be picking and sending out PMs soon.
Lots of really hard decisions, lots of really fascinating characters. Thanks!
Okay, but can you let us know when all of the PMs have been sent?
Ok, the selected 6 have had pms sent out with the campaign link included. A group pm will follow soon.
Thanks all.