For some time now, I've been thinking of providing a way for completely nubie player to get through one of the most daunting tasks they'd make while getting into D&D: Creating their first player character. Most of the times, people just plop down a Player's Handbook on their laps without much instruction or a walkthrough.
I wish to create a book for the Dungeon Masters Guild to rectify that. I'm writing a book that will walk a person through creating a character, without the need for dice rolling or even referencing the Player's Handbook if they don't need to. The book will first give the reader a guided tour of the character sheet, with details on what parts of the sheet are for what? Once that is done and some initial values are put in there, the reader goes through a little adventure in Endless Quest fashion, where the human form earth is spirited away to a castle in between this world and the D&D Multiverse, where they meet a celestial being who plays the role of Dungeon Master as in the Saturday Morning Cartoon. He provides the character with a choice of classes represented by relics. The character chooses one and the reader is instructed to fill in the rest of the character sheet, adding stat blocks and filling in all the features and traits. By the time the character leaves the castle to head to the D&D Multiverse on a grand quest, that character would have a properly filled character sheet that the player can just go into any table and start playing.
The big question I have at this time is this: Would the Dungeon Masters Guild be all right if I post the book there. It won't be a traditional campaign setting book nor would it be like a character option for people to playtest. It'll be a walkthrough set in Endless Quest form, as much fiction as instruction. I don't know if that would be kosher with that site, even though it would be in D&D 5E and would have some parts in known worlds.
That's why I want to talk about it first to see if this would be permissible to post there. Any and all input you can offer me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
hey i think this is a great idea! as a DM, i feel like teaching people how to make a character is and endless quest in itself. it'd be neat to run this on a session 0!
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For some time now, I've been thinking of providing a way for completely nubie player to get through one of the most daunting tasks they'd make while getting into D&D: Creating their first player character. Most of the times, people just plop down a Player's Handbook on their laps without much instruction or a walkthrough.
I wish to create a book for the Dungeon Masters Guild to rectify that. I'm writing a book that will walk a person through creating a character, without the need for dice rolling or even referencing the Player's Handbook if they don't need to. The book will first give the reader a guided tour of the character sheet, with details on what parts of the sheet are for what? Once that is done and some initial values are put in there, the reader goes through a little adventure in Endless Quest fashion, where the human form earth is spirited away to a castle in between this world and the D&D Multiverse, where they meet a celestial being who plays the role of Dungeon Master as in the Saturday Morning Cartoon. He provides the character with a choice of classes represented by relics. The character chooses one and the reader is instructed to fill in the rest of the character sheet, adding stat blocks and filling in all the features and traits. By the time the character leaves the castle to head to the D&D Multiverse on a grand quest, that character would have a properly filled character sheet that the player can just go into any table and start playing.
The big question I have at this time is this: Would the Dungeon Masters Guild be all right if I post the book there. It won't be a traditional campaign setting book nor would it be like a character option for people to playtest. It'll be a walkthrough set in Endless Quest form, as much fiction as instruction. I don't know if that would be kosher with that site, even though it would be in D&D 5E and would have some parts in known worlds.
That's why I want to talk about it first to see if this would be permissible to post there. Any and all input you can offer me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
David "David Foxfire" Gonterman; 5th Edition D&D Dungeon Master
Web Page: http://foxfirestudios.net
Post what your want. But you take away the dice roll for character creating then just keep in rail roading those players.
Well, this is going to be an Endless Quest style story. Hard not to do some amount of railroading. Maybe I should add a dice roll?
David "David Foxfire" Gonterman; 5th Edition D&D Dungeon Master
Web Page: http://foxfirestudios.net
hey i think this is a great idea! as a DM, i feel like teaching people how to make a character is and endless quest in itself. it'd be neat to run this on a session 0!