I'm totally new to this. I never played, and I just started making my character but I'm kind of lost.
Could anyone please tell me what are the "Sources" and the differences between hit point types? and the advantages and disadvantages of XP or milestone?
Any kind soul would help totally dumb girl out?
If there's already a thread about it please kick me to it. Apparently, I'm blind cause I didn't find it
Sources are the options for what content is allowed in the Character Creation, no options selected is the Adventurers League (Official DnD games) setup afaik, in order:
Homebrew Content is created by another player/DM, and not official content, this hasn't gone through official balancing (I'd recommend only turning this on when you know you need it)
Critical Role content is mainly the content from "Explorer's Guide to Wildemount" (I would call it Official Homebrew). It's content created for/by the Critical Role DnD show (Matt Mercer et al)
Playtest Content is Unearthed Arcana, Wizards of the Coast release content for playtesting so people can try out the planned features and give feedback for balancing. (I'd recommend only turning this on when you know you need it)
Magic the Gathering Content is the stuff from Guidmaster's Guide to Ravnica, it has a few new races and backgrounds (I'd leave this on but check with the DM before picking a background that provides spells)
Eberron Content is a higher tech fantasy setting, it adds more technological magic/features and variants based on Dragonmarked Houses (I'd leave this on but check with the DM before using the features)
Rick and Morty Content is just for the "Dungeons & Dragons vs. Rick and Morty" adventure, I haven't ever used that, but if you do that adventure you'd make a character with that enabled.
Non-Core D&D content is the additional sourcebooks/releases that aren't balanced (or allowed) for Adventurer's League play (like Grung) and tend not to be used by most DM's
Hitpoint Types are whether you are going to manually roll for hitpoints or take the average value (Rolling the Class Hit Die (Barbarians d12, Wizards d6 etc). I normally play with Fixed.
XP vs Milestone levelling is a little contentious, XP based is that each 'encounter' or 'enemy' that you deal with gives a set amount of XP towards your next level up with the requirement increasing each time (originally D&D started with XP for Gold, so you gain experience through the wealth that you gathered), whereas Milestone levelling is that the DM tells you when you level up based on what they've determined as either reasonable 'milestones' (or accomplishments) or from predetermined points in the story.
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I'm totally new to this. I never played, and I just started making my character but I'm kind of lost.
Could anyone please tell me what are the "Sources" and the differences between hit point types? and the advantages and disadvantages of XP or milestone?
Any kind soul would help totally dumb girl out?
If there's already a thread about it please kick me to it. Apparently, I'm blind cause I didn't find it
Sources are the options for what content is allowed in the Character Creation, no options selected is the Adventurers League (Official DnD games) setup afaik, in order:
Hitpoint Types are whether you are going to manually roll for hitpoints or take the average value (Rolling the Class Hit Die (Barbarians d12, Wizards d6 etc). I normally play with Fixed.
XP vs Milestone levelling is a little contentious, XP based is that each 'encounter' or 'enemy' that you deal with gives a set amount of XP towards your next level up with the requirement increasing each time (originally D&D started with XP for Gold, so you gain experience through the wealth that you gathered), whereas Milestone levelling is that the DM tells you when you level up based on what they've determined as either reasonable 'milestones' (or accomplishments) or from predetermined points in the story.
Hope this helps?
First thing: click on new players guide. As simple as that. Then you can make a character. The guide tells you about making a character.
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Thank You so much BurnishedBronze!!!
It helped tremendously!