This is the place for Character Sheets, and character progression notes!
Here is an example Character Submission from my 2015 Outplay competition. It can help you as a guide for what type of information we'll want to have for our game. You'll be editing the same post as your characters grow during the game.
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For example, if you select my name (Savoylen) in the top, left corner of this post, you can then click on "Bravo" and go directly to his current CS. Cool feature isn't it!!
To do this, go to your profile, and then select "About Me" and click on the icon to edit the two options (name and link) of one of your character fields.
At the bottom of your CS, please include a DASHBOARD with your current stats and a summery of the mechanics of your actions which you'll keep at the bottom of your IC posts. see more about this here.
You can hold your breath for up to 15 minutes at a time.Hold Breath
1
Race: Lizardfolk
Skill proficiencies: Animal Handling, Nature
1
Race: Lizardfolk
You have tough, bark-like skin. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.Natural Armor
1
Race: Lizardfolk
Languages: Common, Draconic
1
Class: Druid
+10 HP (MAX + CON mod.)
1
Class: Druid
Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)
Your mannerisms and knowledge of fey customs are recognized by natives of the Feywild, who see you as one of their own. Because of this, friendly Fey creatures are inclined to come to your aid if you are lost or need help in the Feywild.Feywild Connection
2
Class: Druid
+5 HP
2
Class: Druid
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Your druid level determines the beasts you can transform into, as shown in the Beast Shapes table. At 2nd level, for example, you can transform into any beast that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower that doesn't have a flying or swimming speed.
Beast Shapes
Level
Max. CR
Limitations
Example
2nd
1/4
No flying or swimming speed
Wolf
4nd
1/2
No flying speed
Crocodile
8nd
1
Giant eagle
You can stay in a beast shape for a number of hours equal to half your druid level (rounded down). You then revert to your normal form unless you expend another use of this feature. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die. While you are transformed, the following rules apply:
Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the creature's bonus instead of yours. If the creature has any legendary or lair actions, you can't use them.
When you transform, you assume the beast's hit points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form, For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious.
You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your beast form. Transforming doesn't break your concentration on a spell you've already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as Call Lightning, that you've already cast.
You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can't use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.
You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change size or shape to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the ground or merge with it. Equipment that merges with the form has no effect until you leave the form.
At 2nd level, you gain the ability to summon a spirit that assumes an animal form: as an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to cast the Find Familiar spell, without material components. When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is a fey instead of a beast, and the familiar disappears after a number of hours equal to half your druid level.Wild Companion
2
Subclass: Circle of Spores
Your symbiotic link to fungi and your ability to tap into the cycle of life and death grants you access to certain spells. At 2nd level, you learn the Chill Touch cantrip. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to the spells listed for that level in the Circle of Spores Spells table. Once you gain access to one of these spells, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.
Starting at 2nd level, you are surrounded by invisible, necrotic spores that are harmless until you unleash them on a creature nearby. When a creature you can see moves into a space within 10 feet of you or starts its turn there, you can use your reaction to deal 1d4 necrotic damage to that creature unless it succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. The necrotic damage increases to 1d6 at 6th level, 1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 14th level.Halo of Spores
2
Subclass: Circle of Spores
Also at 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel magic into your spores. As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to awaken those spores, rather than transforming into a beast form, and you gain 4 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class. While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits:
When you deal your Halo of Spores damage, roll the damage die a second time and add it to the total.
Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage to any target they hit.
These benefits last for 10 minutes, until you lose all these temporary hit points. or until you use your Wild Shape again.Symbiotic Entity
Name: Myelin Alignment: Neutral Good Class: Ranger (Horizon Walker Conclave at level 3) Race: Elf - Shadar Kai Background: Investigator Personality Trait: I've lost too many friends, and I'm slow to make new ones. Personality Trait: I can stare down a hell hound without flinching. Ideal: Ideals aren't worth killing over or going to war for. Bond: I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. Flaw: I'd rather eat my armor than admit when I'm wrong. Party Role: Ranged Damage, Scout, Mobility, Overland Travel, Criticizing Everything
Terror and rage poured through Myelin, white and hot. She would never be accepted. She would die alone in the cold, uncared for and unwanted. For the millionth millionth time she felt these feelings, and for the millionth millionth time, her mind recognized and accepted these difficult emotions. She felt the fear, felt every bit of it, searching and reaching and relaxing into it. Then came the calm; the fear would not destroy her. She had this fear many times before, and would have it many times again. It was just a natural reaction - one of many she was prone to - she once again felt powerful and relaxed.
Although extreme by Shadowfell standards, Myelin knew that the emotions that had just played across her face would be entirely imperceptible to one not born and bred of that dark realm, such as the simple and self-righteous clerk that sat in front of her, not really listening to what she was saying. Myelin spoke again with relaxed composure:
"Yes, I realize you have not received my full placeholder payment. That is because, as I included in my letter, I was awarded the Orphans of Gloomwrought Scholarship, which pays for half of that cost. Although that scholarship was awarded by Admissions - which office I can literally see right now - it lays just 30 paces to your aft - you informed me you would require proof of that scholarship. So I have gone to the trouble of producing the signed, stamped award letter for you, which you now hold in your hand." Seriously, it would take this idiot standing up from her chair and waddling maybe 50 steps to have gotten confirmation herself. Instead, Myelin had literally had to travel across planes of existence. Though, to be fair, it was probably nothing personal. The terrible griefs that motivated heroes to walk the planes would probably be of insufficient concern to motivate this stoic clerk to even lift her buttocks from her cushioned repose.
"Oh, well you should have s-s-said so in the first place."
You mean, you should have listened in the first place. Four times in five, when people hear something they are not expecting, they think it's a mistake. Four times in five it's not. Such a simple lesson, but one so many in the multiverse were not prepared to learn, apparently.
"Let's s-s-see here, so it says in your application you meet the preliminary education with the 'trained as a ranger' requirement. No shame in that."
Wonderful. Charity is the mask of bigotry.
"Now, dear, I wonder if you've had any thoughts about declaring for a College?"
"Sliverquill."
"Ah, no dear, I think as a ranger you mean Witherbloom? Most nature magic studies are likely to be in the Witherbloom College. S-s- silverquill is all about the teaching of language, our great faculty for communication. you see what I mean?"
"Okay. So there are a few things to unpack there. So despite maybe one in ten of your instructors having their careers depending on that fiction, virtually every serious scholar for millennia has concluded that language can't be taught. Language is an intrinsic biological property. People acquire functional language communication based on an extreme paucity of cues, virtually guaranteeing that it is an intrinsic capacity rather than a learned one. Small, pre-lingual children that manage to survive in isolation from adults have all developed their own complete grammars, in very short time frames. Multiple examples exist. It's no longer an academically debatable issue. It's more like children just need to learn the sounds conventionally used in their culture to associate to the concept structuring capacity that already exists in their heads. Which brings us to the second impossibility in your statement, that language is our great faculty for communication. Clearly it is not. Language is extremely inefficient as a means of communication, but extremely efficient as a means of organizing and generating thought. That is why language is primarily a capacity to generate an infinite complexity of spontaneously generated thought, and only secondarily, and for lack of a better means shoehorned into the capacity of a communication tool. Surely you have noticed that your thoughts flash across your head in an instant, all connected to each other and your whole view of the world? Meanwhile, as you try to express them it seems to take forever, one word at a time? Internal language relates to itself conceptually, but, when we speak, we must order words in sequence - which ordering has virtually no relation to meaning. In fact, that's why you stammer."
"So, Silverquill then." The middle aged halfling checked a box and handed Myelin her forms back.
Why was getting anything done always such a pain in the breeches? Myelin couldn't think of one thing that had gone the way it was supposed to in the application process. Not that her resolve had diminished. She was born to hunt monsters. Real ones. The hunts that mattered. A Strixhaven degree could get her there. Following her father's footsteps as an investigator for the Gloomwrought guard was a no-go. She could respect the intelligence it took to be a good detective, but she couldn't go on living that life amongst the Shadar Kai in Faerun. Terrified of the shadow curse, her people looked to extreme stimulation - murder, torture, drugs, self mutilation - to avoid dissipation back into the Shadowfell. But the Raven Queen had spoken to her. She understood why her Lady scoured the multiverse for every tale of sorrow and woe. She knew that to embrace these dark emotions was the only way they would lose power over you. So her path was set. It felt right.
Strixhaven is going to be awesome. Returning to the lobby, she retrieved her weapons belt and strapped it around her waist, arrow quiver above rapier. She placed her longbow string across her chest, first taking time to appreciate the smooth, familiar feel of the wood. She fastened her buckler to her left forearm and grabbed her rucksack. She caught her reflection as she exited the Admin building. Grey eyes, smooth grey skin, white hair - lithe and armed to the teeth. The picture of a Shadar Kai assassin. No wonder the multiverse fears us. Maybe they're right. The faintest smile flickered across her lips.
Dec 16th, 2021, 03:11 PM
