Using the rules in Tasha's I added some sidekicks to my players' party. But I created them using standard PC races, and stat arrays and just stuck the Sidekick classes on top of that basis.
Looking closer at the rules, it seems that this is not actually an option. Wondering if this obvious (to me) way of using the classes was left off intentionally, and why.
Not going to change the characters to something else, they work fine as is, just curious.
Why wouldn’t you be allowed to give them a PC race? The rules for sidekicks say to start with a monster stat block but there’s nothing in them that says that stat block can’t have another modification on it or be a custom stat block to start with. A friend of mine is fond of taking a regular monster and giving it a PC race and a background and turning it into an NPC. All the sidekick rules really say is that it has to be CR 1/2 or lower. So you could take something like a commoner or guard or bandit or noble from the basic rules and slap any race you want onto it and it would still be under CR 1/2 and eligible to be a sidekick. There’s even rules in the DMG for adding races onto stat blocks to create NPCs. They’re not quite the same as using a regular PC race but they aren’t that different either so I don’t see why you couldn’t do it if you want to. Besides your the DM and can do what makes sense to you. There are D&D police so nobody is going to reposes your DMG or anything for it.
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Using the rules in Tasha's I added some sidekicks to my players' party.
But I created them using standard PC races, and stat arrays and just stuck the Sidekick classes on top of that basis.
Looking closer at the rules, it seems that this is not actually an option. Wondering if this obvious (to me) way of using the classes was left off intentionally, and why.
Not going to change the characters to something else, they work fine as is, just curious.
Why wouldn’t you be allowed to give them a PC race? The rules for sidekicks say to start with a monster stat block but there’s nothing in them that says that stat block can’t have another modification on it or be a custom stat block to start with. A friend of mine is fond of taking a regular monster and giving it a PC race and a background and turning it into an NPC. All the sidekick rules really say is that it has to be CR 1/2 or lower. So you could take something like a commoner or guard or bandit or noble from the basic rules and slap any race you want onto it and it would still be under CR 1/2 and eligible to be a sidekick. There’s even rules in the DMG for adding races onto stat blocks to create NPCs. They’re not quite the same as using a regular PC race but they aren’t that different either so I don’t see why you couldn’t do it if you want to. Besides your the DM and can do what makes sense to you. There are D&D police so nobody is going to reposes your DMG or anything for it.