Let's Build a Character with Tales of the Valiant
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Hello friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from SciFlourish. This is the third in a four-part series where I build characters with various versions of 5e. I started off by building a character with the new D&D 2024 Player's Handbook. Last week, I did Level Up Advanced 5e. Today, I'm going to do Tales of the Valiant. And later, I am going to do Shadow Dark. And we're going to look at all of the processes that take place in order to build a character by actually doing it here on the show. So it's a fun series where we get to see what it's like to build a first-level character in all of these different versions of 5e. Please check out the City of Arches Kickstarter. You can find a link in the show notes below.
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The link is down in the show notes, and thank you very much for your support. So as we have in the previous two shows, I'm going to build a first level character. We're going into the Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide, one of the two core books for Tales of the Valiant, along with the Monster Vault. And we're going to walk through the process of building a first level character. I downloaded a form fillable character sheet from Kobold Press on their store. It's absolutely free to download the form fillable character sheet. And we have it right here. And we are going to get started. So I'm excited to build a character. I already know. Oh, I just dropped my dice box on my keyboard. Hopefully that's not a problem.
I already know a fair bit about how to build a character with Tales of the Valiant, and I'm excited about it because it's got some things I really, really like. And we're going to talk about those while we do it. So we're going to skim through the book. If anybody has questions, Kobold Press has given permission, blanket permission, to show whatever people want to show in their video, which I am doing right now. The book starts with an introduction, what it means to run a game, what it plays like, and then goes straight into character creation and leveling. Slightly different than we saw with the 2024 book, which had the rules for play up front. And this is another one where the steps that we go through to make a character are different than the steps that we go through to make a character with other systems. So both 2024 D&D and this system are different than how the core 2014 D&D and...
level up advanced 5e did it so those are kind of interesting things to consider because basically the first thing you do is choose your class this is basically similar to how it happens in dnd 2024 and is different from 2014 dnd and level up advanced 5e which have you start by picking like your race or your origin and things and then working your way into class this one says no right off front choose a class So the steps are choose a class, determine ability scores, choose a lineage, choose a heritage, choose a background, and choose your equipment. And at that point, and then fill in the blanks. And then at that point, you have everything for a character. So eight steps required to build a character.
One nice thing is that there's a little less jumping around, mainly because you don't have to modify your ability scores. Ability scores are all handled in one single step, which I think is fantastic. When it comes to character creation, I think that is my favorite thing that...
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