Character Creation

The first step is to determine your ability scores. Your character's six abilities are:
Strength: measures the physical strength of your character. High strength characters deal more damage in close combat. A must for fighters and barbarians
Dexterity: Measures your character's agility, relfexes and balance. Makes you arder to hit. Very important for characters like rogues and bards who don't wear much armor.
Constitution: Measure's your character's health and stamina. Increases the amount of damage your character can withstand, so a good score if your planning to be up front duking it with the baddies.
Intelligence: Measures how well your character learns and reasons. Most important stat for wizards, and usefull for skill driven characters like Rogues.
Wisdom: Measures your character's willpower, common sense, perception and intuition. Important for divine spellcasters like clerics and druids.
Charisma: Measures a character's force of personality, persuasiveness, and physical attractiveness. Very important for innate casters like bards and sorcerers.

The average human ability score is 10, and the maximum score a human can start with is 18. You receive an ability modifier of +1 for every 2 points over 10 that gets applied to rolls throughout the game. For example, a fighter with a 12 strength gains a +1 on all rolls to hit opponents in melee combat, while a fighter with an 18 strength would gain a +4 on the same rolls.

You have 28 points to buy your ability scores as based on the costs on the following chart:

Ability Score Cost
8 ................. 0
9 ...................1
10 ..................2
11....................3
12 ...................4
13 .................. 5
14 ...................6
15 ................... 8
16 .................10
17 ...................13
18 .................. 16

If you've selected a non-human character you must apply some racial modifiers to your scores after you've bought them. For example, Poot the halfling must subtract 2 from his final strength score and add 2 to his dexterity score.

So go ahead and play around with your ability scores. When you've generated a set of six scores that you are happy with, post them here, or email them to me, and we'll move on to the next step - selecting feats.