Let’s say you have your numbers and we will assume you went with Standard Stat Array because the average result is a 12 for an Ability Score, which that average isn’t that much lower than 4d6 drop lowest - weird, it’s almost like the designers designed the standard stat array for that… hmm…Īnyway, you have your scores and you want to make a Wizard and you know it’s important to get that as high as possible because you like the idea of being competent. There is a 13% chance you’ll get a score above 15 (+2), and you have a 1.62% chance of getting an 18 (+4).

This has the chance of creating a slightly stronger (or weaker) character, but the majority of the time, you’ll end up with an average of 12.24 (+1) in an ability. This means that you could have a minimum of 3 (-4) and a maximum of 18 (+4).

You then repeat five more times to come up with your six numbers needed. You can also use pre-selected numbers to throw into your ability scores known as the Standard Stat Array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8).Īnother popular method is rolling 4d6, dropping the lowest dice and adding them up. Some people like to do point buy where you buy ‘values’ in different Ability Scores, increasing them to a maximum of a 15 (+2) and a minimum of an 8 (-1). The real difficulty comes with how do you get those 6 numbers to be assigned. This simply means if you have a 16 Strength, to determine your modifier, subtract 10, and then divide that number by 2, rounding down. These scores are then subtracted from 10 and then divided by 2 to grant the Ability Modifier. Every starting character has to build out their stats by gathering up 6 numbers and assigning them into Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma. To begin this bit of homebrew, let’s first discuss starting characters. Below you can find my version, and if you go down just a bit more, I’ll explain my thought process and defend the new rules.įor best results in GM Binder, use a Chrome Browser I highly doubt that the rules will look like what I present, but maybe when TCoE comes out, some people might prefer my version of the rules. Instead of assuming what the rules are going to look like, and telling everyone who disagrees with me that they have no business playing RPGs, I’m going to present to you my idea as to what the rules could look like that is fairly balanced. Now, I’m writing about this, so I’m technically shoveling more non-sense onto this discussion, but I’m doing something that no one else has done yet. WotC has created a fairly solid system that can take a lot of abuse before the designers personally come to your table and take away your rulebooks and character sheets. I’ll be candid here, we’ve no idea what rules Tasha is going to have, so there is no point in us guessing how broken the system is going to be. We hadn’t even seen the rules and yet everyone had decided exactly what those rules were and that it was going to destroy (or save) Dungeons & Dragons. To be quite frank, all of those online discussions just annoyed me to no end. Now they could play that Orc Wizard they always wanted too but couldn’t because the rules just made it a bad choice. Some clutched their pearls screaming about how it’s always been this way and that some lineages should just suck more! Others got excited to min-max and powergame with different lineages, and still another group thought it might be pretty neat. Delve into a collection of new class features and new feats, and customize your character’s origin using straightforward rules for modifying a character’s racial traits. One of the major talking points about this book comes from this line (emphasis mine): In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything has been announced for release in November for Dungeons & Dragons and it’s created quite a buzz.

Non serious 5e homebrew classes