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Dungeons And Dragons (D&D) creating great characters!
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Dungeons And Dragons (D&D) creating great characters!

For players, dungeon masters, and anyone else creating a character.
Created byDan Bronson
Last updated 11/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Have more FUN playing dungeons and dragons.
  • Get ideas for your next new character.
  • Learn character design by example from over 60 characters.
  • See how AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools may help to create your next character.

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Course content

15 sections • 73 lectures • 7h 5m total length

  • Introduction2:07

    A look at this course - which is all about creating D&D characters!  This applies to any version of D&D as the focus is on the flavor/background of a character.

    See over 60 characters I've created and the system I used to create them.  Use my characters for a future game as a player, NPC, or DM.  All ideas are yours to use or modify as you see fit to meet your needs.

  • About This Course3:12

    Understand how this course came to be and what went into making it.

    UPDATE: I corrected all the mistakes in the automatic captions.  Check out some of these wacky auto captions:

    [what I said] => [what Udemy heard...]

    Dungeon master => Dutch journalist => Dutch minister

    Forest monster => frost lawsuit

    Powerful drum => powerful drugs

    Pilfellow => Kill Fellow => PILT fellow => Gillfillan

    elven bard Xana Willowsong => 11 baad Zano Willo song.

    Stench toad => step forward

    O le-ake => only a week => Holyoake

    Racist against dwarves => racist against whites

    Qorech the half-orc cleric => Corrick 1/2 for Klarik.

    Forgram Bearjaw => For growth, their job.

    Afraid of dire wolves => afraid of Tiger Woods

    Dwarven druid Forgram Bearjaw => Dwarven Drewett for Gramacho.

    Shaman => Charmin

    Plazra => plus Rob

    Fan-lun => Fannie Lou

    Lu Xo => loser

    Really grabbed me => really crappy

    Oolasaadi Wavesword => hoola. Sorry, we've sold.

    Orlavax Imracnamin => All the banks in Iraq, Namon.

    Count Velonar Valik =< count of Eleanor valid

    the powerful fiend klacarus => the powerful themed club car

    Inogan Shadedragon => And Shadrack

  • Finding Character Inspiration4:16

    Find sources of inspiration for getting started on your next character!

    What ideas are really original when you think about it?  Everyone is influenced by the creations of those that came before them.  Let's hunt for inspiration!

  • Finding Visual Inspiration3:29

    What does your character look like?  If you're a talented artist you might draw it yourself but for most of us we need to find visual inspiration to answer this question...

  • My Character Template4:44

    Understand the template I used for making all 60+ characters in this course.

    I feel 5th edition D&D has been the best yet at character design suggestions.  Now building on that I created this template.

  • Character Creation - Live Example (Part 1)21:09

    Follow along as my template is used to create a character concept in a live example!

    Why design this character "live" you ask?  So you can see how long it takes, how I use the template, and I can explain my thought processes during the design process.

  • Character Creation - Live Example (Part 2)5:36

    Part 2 - the "live" character creation continues!  Adding the questions to leave open-ended for this character's future development.

    The other 60 characters in this course will only occasionally explain why I made the choices I selected - instead showing the final ideas.  Of course if you have any questions or suggestions, fire away!

  • Character Creation - Live Example (Part 3)6:44

    The character finishing touches are added! 

    Some characters will require a reason for being added to the game and of course you'll need to generate stats for gameplay!  Both are tackled here.

Requirements

  • Interest in playing dungeons and dragons.

Description

Everyone wants to play a fun character.  Something that inspires them, makes them want to jump into the game.  But how did I, a veteran player who has already done all the usual characters, come up with so many character concepts that I would love to play?  Well, it took a lot of thought and required a system.  I'll share with you my system for character development which I used heavily to make the characters included in this course. Over 60 character concepts are packed into this course!  Each with character traits, a background blurb, artwork, and even a musical theme.

Who this course is for:

  • Gamers that love D&D!

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