Here are the guidelines for creating your own custom character for Bearded Dragons Inn’s Ballad of a Broken World games. If you don’t want to create one from scratch, pre-generated character sheets are available.

It is recommended that you eliminate the guess work and the math and create a free account on D&D Beyond to create your character. It’s just easier and you can’t make a mistake. Be sure you equip your armor and weapons on the character sheet to get accurate Armor Class, Attacks & Damage information. You can print your sheet from the website or save as a PDF. You can also find printable 5th Edition Character sheets if you Google it.

Rules

1. New characters start out at Level 3. See the chart below to see how level progression works. If you had a pre-generated character for the first game with us. You are allowed to transfer your rewards, gold, items and checkpoints over to a custom character up to level 4.
2. Your character’s race and class must come from the 5th Edition Players Handbook (PHB). There are a few exceptions that have been unlocked during the campaign. They are: Hexblade Warlock Genie Warlock, Twilight Cleric, Bladesinger Wizard, Divine Soul Sorcerer, Tabaxi, Goliath, Warforged and Goblin races.
3. Abilities must be chosen from Standard Array: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8
4. Hit Points are maximum for your class for your first level. Every level after that is the average HP for your class.
5. Equipment – You can take starting equipment or gold and buy what you want from the tables in the PHB.
6. Multiclassing is allowed. The only restrictions are the ability restrictions for the class in the multiclassing rules in the PHB. That is usually a 13 ability score in the prime ability for that class e.g. 13 INT for wizards.
7. Maximum Level for all characters is 12. At that point the character is considered retired and you must start a new character following all previous rules. Equipment, magic shards and gold do not carry over to the new character. Plan accordingly.

Gaining Levels

Gaining levels works on a checkpoint system. Each session you play earns you one (1) checkpoint.

It takes checkpoints to level up based on the table below. It is 4 checkpoints needed per level until level 12 which requires 10 checkpoints.

Level	Total Checkpoints
3	0
4	4
5	8
6	12
7	16
8	20
9	24
10	28
11	32
12	42

How Do I Earn Gold and Buy Magic Items?

There are several ways to earn money.

1. Through drops and rewards during quests.
2. Your weekly pay as an Emerald Guard. See chart on World Anvil.
3. Through downtime activities.

Magical Items can be dropped during a game or crafted.