Hey everyone. It took me a while, but I have just realised the stupid mistake of putting "(R) Fey Ancestry" in the features and traits column. It is an elven trait, not a dwarven trait. Besides that, the instructions in the video is still relevant for players who want to build their new character.
WOW I am impressed by your forward ness and ability to present a coherent walkthrough of what (to me) seemed like a complicated process Thank you so much
I went through 10-12 videos of hearing the same crap and not getting it... Almost called it quits until I found this series. Now i actually understand stuff!
Thank you for making these! I am literally making my very first character sheet, and I'm learning so much from this!! Your videos are FANTASTIC, super clear, and have taught me things I couldn't find easily anywhere else - like what saving throws mean and such! And because of the fun animations and good sound and music, it sticks in my memory very easily. So helpful! My first game is this Friday (1 week from now), so it really is perfect timing - thanks for making these!!
I am DMing for my family after not having played D&D for something like 25 years. Thank you for your videos! They have been very helpful in helping me understand how the game has changed from when I used to play. Best of luck with your channel!
Hello! question: Where can i submit subtitles in other language? I want my players to watch this video, but they speak spanish and you explain it very very well. So i kinda need to trasnlate it for them to watch it, but idk how to submit them. Thanks
Hi there! I'm a baby DM about to start her first campaign and I just want to thank you for making this video series! You laid out the info in a way that was really simple and clear. I'm sure I'll still stumble now and then but my first session doesn't seem as daunting now. Thank you again!
Quick note, you only get the +2 AC from the shield if you are wielding it. I usually add it on to AC only if I'm using the shield. Seems better to forget to add it on and feel like an idiot than forget to take it off and be accused of cheating.
just loving these. They are clear and straight forward. I also really appreciate that they are family friendly. Thank you so much for the time you obviously put into these.
My brother is a dragonborn sorcerer, and we reflavoured his thunderclap spell and his breath attack to Fus Ro Dah and Zuul Krah Din respectively. talk to your DM, he may allow it!
Lovely videos that explain it in a simple and easy way to understand. Thank you for making these videos. it's helping me get ready to run the Dragon of Icespire Peak for my group soon. i'm a first time DM, and it'll be my first time doing anything D&D
Great video! You just proved that it IS possible to make incredibly detailed, yet simple to follow instructions regarding character creation. The graphics are amazing and it shows that you put a lot of hard work into making this video. Keep up the great work!
Great Video! I'm a DM trying to run a game for some new players but I'm not able to meet with them before our first session to make characters. I spent about 30 minutes on youtube trying to find a video to explain character creation. This video was the best by far!
Dude, you not only did an excellent job going step by step, but you showed great examples with well done visuals. I DMed 3.5 for a while and 4th edition for a few years, but that was a decade ago. I really needed a refresher, especially a quick "ok, how is 5e different". You're the man!
these are the best D&D tutorial videos I've ever seen, i'm a rather experienced player but for new people i play with, i recommend this series 100%, hopefully you can find the time to release more videos! :D
Let's say i want to be an outsider, but I also want to be a Hero can i have to backgrounds also can my chracter be an outsider if he's from another world
This is the best tutorial ever, some other tutorials reach 30 mins and they keep saying to buy the Players's Handbook like your life really depends on that book...
I'm confused on one thing. So if you accept the variant type of roll. (The point system) the highest you can go is 15 and the lowest is 8. My question is, if I decide to roll 4D6 and get 18 for max or 3 for minimum do I lower or raise these to 15 and 8? Or am I stuck with 3 and master everything with the 18?
My friend, you have done an exceptional job on these videos. They helped out my entire party as we got ready for our first campaign. We barely even needed to read the books! Keep up the good work man.
I've made a blackguard/warlock mixture class called a Darktreader, it gets specific class bonuses at certain levels while getting basic warlock feats at each level, he has an old one,a fiend, and I customized the shadow adept into a warlock patron path, which gives me the ability to make shadow/necrotic versions of sorcerer spells instead of gaining those specific spells, but this character wants to become a big bad like sauron, and I plan on making him a boss in one of my campaigns, any advice from people who've done similar?
If you pick your class skill proficiencies first and they overlap with your background skill proficiencies you are allowed to choose another skill as long as it uses the same attribute modifier.
Loved the video! There is a piece of advice that I think can be... overlooked at times CJ: Don't have fun at another player's expense. Party: Jokes about the half-orc wanting to get drunk half the time and always make decisions. It's all good and we all have a laugh out of character too.
I'm just getting started in D&D. My character is a human fighter who grew up poor on a farm. To reflect this, I opted not to take the chain mail or leather armor or even a metal weapon allotted to me. I settled on a human fighter because I want him to be as plain and mundane as possible. He's not super special. No draconic bloodline, member of some noble house or chosen by the gods. I don't want him to know he is a main character. I'm starting out with common cloths, a wooden club and a wooden shield made from the lid of a barrel. I have a backpack with only 20 rations and a rope. And I decided not to put my highest ability score in Str but in Cha. (I want to be able to connect with NPCs and come across as friendly) I purposefully made my fighter imperfect because I think it would make for better story telling.
how did that work out...honestly? curious. myself am just starting as well, but I feel like while it's cool to make him.not know he's special, it seems...dumb or stupid for him to not understand he's going on a journey and need more than a barrel top. and as a farmer he'd definitely be strong. connection can happen with the people he trades with a lot but he'd have more strength than as most days on the farm, before the journey, he'd he'd working a lot and socializing less. a dae.er would know to use the right tools for the job, so he wouldn't go out to face things with just cloth clothing. as I've heard, a good dm can make aby setting or choices work. and I'm not directly insulting your character. but being a farmer myself, it just seems off lol. I grew up on the land and by the time I hit highschool, ready to go out into the world, I'm only 37 and graduated in 2003, I knew you don't go out without certain gear. uf you've played cops and robbers or gladiators or whatever with just clothing on ecen as kids, you learn quickly that you need armor for real lol. farmers aren't dumb lol
@@agonleed3841 Well he did grow and obtain better equipment and he's got a habit of trying to talk to his enemies before he resorts to violence. We actually ended up knocking out a cult leader who was actually being magically brainwashed by a high level demon. It turns out he was just a normal guy who was at the wrong place at the worst time.
Yes. You can use the same spell twice as long as you have enough spell slots to spend. You can have more spells than the blank space in the spell sheet. The sheet is just a guide. Some experienced players don't even need to use a sheet. They've already remembered all the necessary info and just use a regular note book for their character info.
Thanks alot for doing this. I love your medium and approach. As an expirience player of other systems, I was tempted to skip a lot of your videos though I'm glad I didn't as 5e does things differently, expecially from Pathfinder from which I'm more accustomed.
thank you so much for making these videos. the effort you put in is really admirable and it helped me a lot when learning how to play my first round of D&D with my friends! amazing animation that really complements the teaching and I really appreciate the effects and music as well... truly godsent!
You get the Saving Throws from the Fighter class. Fighters are proficient in Strength and Constitution Saves. A folk Hero is proficient in the skills Animal Handling and Survival. They are also proficient in land Vehicles such as carts and carriages. They also know how to use a single set of Artisan's tools. Fighters get to pick two skills from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival. So your Fighter have the skills from your background + the class skills.
Just made a Djinni PC haha, he was originally a bard that got tricked into becoming a genie after he stole the originals genies cursed ring from a Noble's treasury.
Im pretty new to DnD and i have already ended my first sheet, which im gona use with some of my friends, also newbies. The only thing was that we had lv 2 characters at the start, so i made an arcane trickster buglar high elf. Looking at that +7 proficency bonus to Sleight of Hand to pickpocket is almost hypnotic
I just played my first game if d and d and it took me 2 hours to make two characters because I don't know how to do features and I couldn't find the gold and I don't know anything about background can u pls make a separate video talking in depth about it and I don't have the players handbook or dm manual or monster book so it was a lot harder for me to understand fully about what your talking about and no I don't know anybody that is a veteran at d and d I'm the most experienced person in my group and that's only one game
This was the first video i saw by you and even though i'm not posting this until now i want you to know that this was extremely helpful to a D&D noob that was me about a month ago! (by some standards (most standards...) i am still a noob but i now own all the core rule books and have a decent idea of how to play the game so i no longer consider myself a noob.)
I'm not totally sure if this was just my table or not, there are plenty of extra race options if picked from Volo's Monster Guide. Just be careful in case other DMs don't allow other races like Kobolds.
DMs usually have the right to veto some options and introduce house rules because they are running the game. The rules are more clearly outlined if you are playing in official games like Adventurers League.
Don't Stop Thinking That is true and very worth mentioning. I'm just only adding it in since I know the game I play are letting some people use those races. Although it's very good to check with the DM first.
I've been playing DnD for a long time, so I didn't really need this video, but it was very well made and you went through all the steps perfectly and clearly. I might show your videos to some newer players to aid in the explanation. Thanks for making these, and good job.
In many videos, you talk about time. (i.e. "after 8 hours...") How is time measured in D&D? Is it real time, or is there a way to measure it in-game? If so, how? If this was already said in one of the episodes, I apologize.
Hey everyone. It took me a while, but I have just realised the stupid mistake of putting "(R) Fey Ancestry" in the features and traits column. It is an elven trait, not a dwarven trait. Besides that, the instructions in the video is still relevant for players who want to build their new character.
WOW
I am impressed by your forward ness and ability to present a coherent walkthrough of what (to me) seemed like a complicated process
Thank you so much
go to dandwiki.com, then ONLY use SRD pages, for background, go to dnd5e.wikia.com
Question can a -1 by exist class penalty race penalty?
"Talk to your dungeon master if you're unsure" sweats nervously pretending I'm not a newish dm cramming for a game after quarantine ends
@@abbynady where?
@@twisted_cpp Try out roll20, it's a pretty good website to play on.
Discord and roll 20, if you use discord avrae
Install avrae*
you can be a dm over discord or skype or zoom
absolutely the best video series on youtube to learn D&D..im running my first dnd game soon and this helped more than reading the books..
@ZoixivTheCat Specific*
I went through 10-12 videos of hearing the same crap and not getting it... Almost called it quits until I found this series. Now i actually understand stuff!
Yo me tooo
I agree! I've been watching videos for weeks but this is the first series that really helped me to memorize the mechanics in an easily digestible way.
Awesome video. I really like the visual style in all your videos. Keep up the great work!
+WASD20 Thanks. Love your channel too.
I love that style of art, it is so simple yet effective.
man this series has been one of the best dnd tutorials ever
You are a natural teacher, so organized and well-planned, thanks so much for this!
Thank you for making these! I am literally making my very first character sheet, and I'm learning so much from this!! Your videos are FANTASTIC, super clear, and have taught me things I couldn't find easily anywhere else - like what saving throws mean and such! And because of the fun animations and good sound and music, it sticks in my memory very easily. So helpful!
My first game is this Friday (1 week from now), so it really is perfect timing - thanks for making these!!
It's a pleasure to make these videos and reading comments like yours, Yuta.
2+2=4 11:38
Quick maf
-1 is 3 quick mafs
I am DMing for my family after not having played D&D for something like 25 years. Thank you for your videos! They have been very helpful in helping me understand how the game has changed from when I used to play. Best of luck with your channel!
Thanks, Scott! Appreciate it.
Holy hell 25 years?
Awesome! Never seen people make animations to talk about Tabletop RPGs! Great idea!
Hello! question: Where can i submit subtitles in other language? I want my players to watch this video, but they speak spanish and you explain it very very well. So i kinda need to trasnlate it for them to watch it, but idk how to submit them. Thanks
Hi there! I'm a baby DM about to start her first campaign and I just want to thank you for making this video series! You laid out the info in a way that was really simple and clear. I'm sure I'll still stumble now and then but my first session doesn't seem as daunting now. Thank you again!
Quick note, you only get the +2 AC from the shield if you are wielding it. I usually add it on to AC only if I'm using the shield. Seems better to forget to add it on and feel like an idiot than forget to take it off and be accused of cheating.
you need more subs
Definitely subscribed to you, great content and helped make a character and know how to play the game better
just loving these. They are clear and straight forward. I also really appreciate that they are family friendly. Thank you so much for the time you obviously put into these.
Dragonborn race? Does it mean i can Fus Ro Dah People?
Nah. They're just dragon people.
forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonborn
Dammit i was so looking forward to making a Dragonborn character and shouting at everyone.
+TheFancy Potato Each dragonborn variant has a different breath weapon though, there's a table in the players handbook.
If I was your dm you could
My brother is a dragonborn sorcerer, and we reflavoured his thunderclap spell and his breath attack to Fus Ro Dah and Zuul Krah Din respectively. talk to your DM, he may allow it!
Lovely videos that explain it in a simple and easy way to understand. Thank you for making these videos. it's helping me get ready to run the Dragon of Icespire Peak for my group soon. i'm a first time DM, and it'll be my first time doing anything D&D
Great video! You just proved that it IS possible to make incredibly detailed, yet simple to follow instructions regarding character creation. The graphics are amazing and it shows that you put a lot of hard work into making this video. Keep up the great work!
Great Video! I'm a DM trying to run a game for some new players but I'm not able to meet with them before our first session to make characters. I spent about 30 minutes on youtube trying to find a video to explain character creation. This video was the best by far!
Dude, you not only did an excellent job going step by step, but you showed great examples with well done visuals. I DMed 3.5 for a while and 4th edition for a few years, but that was a decade ago. I really needed a refresher, especially a quick "ok, how is 5e different". You're the man!
This part was literally 10x more complicated than the previous one
This was the most effective of the videos to help me understand game play but this entire group was incredibly helpful.
Best reference for new players, i will be using this playlist for a new campaign of mine
these are the best D&D tutorial videos I've ever seen, i'm a rather experienced player but for new people i play with, i recommend this series 100%, hopefully you can find the time to release more videos! :D
Just love when you say "CJ Over and Out"
Excellent content. Thank you very much.
If you choose life domain, I think you also have proficiency with heavy armor
ToD Ham Chơi You wouldn’t be able to cast spells in chain mail if you didn’t.
Let's say i want to be an outsider, but I also want to be a Hero can i have to backgrounds
also can my chracter be an outsider if he's from another world
This is the best tutorial ever, some other tutorials reach 30 mins and they keep saying to buy the Players's Handbook like your life really depends on that book...
Can't wait for the last part of this series :)
i subbed...i am about to DM my first game with my nephews and nieces...ages 8-16....this will help alot!!
I'm confused on one thing. So if you accept the variant type of roll. (The point system) the highest you can go is 15 and the lowest is 8. My question is, if I decide to roll 4D6 and get 18 for max or 3 for minimum do I lower or raise these to 15 and 8? Or am I stuck with 3 and master everything with the 18?
I've heard this accent in videos before where dose it come from?
does*
My friends want me to join their D&D game, but I don't know anything about the game. This series is exactly what I was looking for. Subbed!
Another awesome vid, this playlist rocks! Thanks, CJ
This guy doesn't get enough credit
You need more subs @_@ keep these dnd vids rolling
Thank you so much for helping me create my druid half elf Anakin pathwalker!!!
My friend, you have done an exceptional job on these videos. They helped out my entire party as we got ready for our first campaign. We barely even needed to read the books! Keep up the good work man.
I know u r explaining things easier than most other people but my 2 year old brain don’t understando
The organization of information and graphics has made this my favorite character creation tutorial. This whole series has been pretty damn amazing.
pls do a how to make a monster
Excellent guide. I'm sending this to my new players, makes things much easier.
Ffs why am I the only one that dosent understand ALL OF IT. HELP.
Thanks for this DM CJ!, very helpful
I've made a blackguard/warlock mixture class called a Darktreader, it gets specific class bonuses at certain levels while getting basic warlock feats at each level, he has an old one,a fiend, and I customized the shadow adept into a warlock patron path, which gives me the ability to make shadow/necrotic versions of sorcerer spells instead of gaining those specific spells, but this character wants to become a big bad like sauron, and I plan on making him a boss in one of my campaigns, any advice from people who've done similar?
Everything but the characters class I've gotten mostly solid and good.
Thanks man! It has helped me create my first character sheet! I really appreciate it!
If you pick your class skill proficiencies first and they overlap with your background skill proficiencies you are allowed to choose another skill as long as it uses the same attribute modifier.
You should pick your class skills after you pick a background. They can not overlap. If they do overlap you lose a skill.
When I saw the Dragonborn race it made me think of the skyrim theme
I have a question for abilities
if i want to use a human, can I use the racial bonuses for all of them
The normal human gets +1 in all attributes. The variant human gets some other rules instead.
this is a really nice video series, im gonna force my friends to watch these
Great vid, a big help to me as a returning old school DM. But I have to ask, and forgive me, Hong Kong accent?
Not really, but people have told me that my Mandarin has a Hong Kong accent.
Loved the video! There is a piece of advice that I think can be... overlooked at times
CJ: Don't have fun at another player's expense.
Party: Jokes about the half-orc wanting to get drunk half the time and always make decisions.
It's all good and we all have a laugh out of character too.
I can't find Human modifiers. Do they have any?
+1 in 2 skills of your choice
The ASI modifier for a Human is +1 to every stat, or optionally +1 to two stats and a feat.
This is by far the best series for newbies getting into D&D.
thanks GEORGE
I'm just getting started in D&D. My character is a human fighter who grew up poor on a farm. To reflect this, I opted not to take the chain mail or leather armor or even a metal weapon allotted to me. I settled on a human fighter because I want him to be as plain and mundane as possible. He's not super special. No draconic bloodline, member of some noble house or chosen by the gods. I don't want him to know he is a main character. I'm starting out with common cloths, a wooden club and a wooden shield made from the lid of a barrel. I have a backpack with only 20 rations and a rope. And I decided not to put my highest ability score in Str but in Cha. (I want to be able to connect with NPCs and come across as friendly) I purposefully made my fighter imperfect because I think it would make for better story telling.
how did that work out...honestly?
curious.
myself am just starting as well, but I feel like while it's cool to make him.not know he's special, it seems...dumb or stupid for him to not understand he's going on a journey and need more than a barrel top. and as a farmer he'd definitely be strong. connection can happen with the people he trades with a lot but he'd have more strength than as most days on the farm, before the journey, he'd he'd working a lot and socializing less.
a dae.er would know to use the right tools for the job, so he wouldn't go out to face things with just cloth clothing.
as I've heard, a good dm can make aby setting or choices work. and I'm not directly insulting your character. but being a farmer myself, it just seems off lol.
I grew up on the land and by the time I hit highschool, ready to go out into the world, I'm only 37 and graduated in 2003, I knew you don't go out without certain gear.
uf you've played cops and robbers or gladiators or whatever with just clothing on ecen as kids, you learn quickly that you need armor for real lol.
farmers aren't dumb lol
@@agonleed3841 Well he did grow and obtain better equipment and he's got a habit of trying to talk to his enemies before he resorts to violence. We actually ended up knocking out a cult leader who was actually being magically brainwashed by a high level demon. It turns out he was just a normal guy who was at the wrong place at the worst time.
CONGRATS TO CJ ON 110K VIEWS! GOOD JOB MAN!!!!
Thanks Tapelegs!
this is so cool! i love it so much!
if your a fighter and you choose the option 2 martial weapons what martial weapons can you choose between
Check the players handbook under the weapon section.
i love this. watched it in 1 day (the whole series)
Can he send the same lv1 spell twice? Or two different lv1 spells?
Can you add more spells than the list on the sheet
Yes. You can use the same spell twice as long as you have enough spell slots to spend.
You can have more spells than the blank space in the spell sheet. The sheet is just a guide. Some experienced players don't even need to use a sheet. They've already remembered all the necessary info and just use a regular note book for their character info.
Thanks alot for doing this. I love your medium and approach. As an expirience player of other systems, I was tempted to skip a lot of your videos though I'm glad I didn't as 5e does things differently, expecially from Pathfinder from which I'm more accustomed.
These videos are the absolute best
Just getting into DM'ing and this whole video series is amazzzzzzzing! Super clear and helpful. Thank you!
All I heard was a crap ton of numbers
FINALLY.
How do I find those info charts for an elf
I've learned so much from you
THANK YOUUUUU FOR THIS!!!!
I just binged watched all your episodes. They are so good.
Nice! 😉
how do you know how much damage a spell does
thank you so much for making these videos. the effort you put in is really admirable and it helped me a lot when learning how to play my first round of D&D with my friends! amazing animation that really complements the teaching and I really appreciate the effects and music as well... truly godsent!
I'm having trouble with the Saving throws and skills
I need the proficency of a human folk hero fighter
You get the Saving Throws from the Fighter class. Fighters are proficient in Strength and Constitution Saves.
A folk Hero is proficient in the skills Animal Handling and Survival. They are also proficient in land Vehicles such as carts and carriages. They also know how to use a single set of Artisan's tools.
Fighters get to pick two skills from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival.
So your Fighter have the skills from your background + the class skills.
Just made a Djinni PC haha, he was originally a bard that got tricked into becoming a genie after he stole the originals genies cursed ring from a Noble's treasury.
Well done on the video. This helped me immensely. Was really surprised you don't have more subs. Subscribed
Im pretty new to DnD and i have already ended my first sheet, which im gona use with some of my friends, also newbies. The only thing was that we had lv 2 characters at the start, so i made an arcane trickster buglar high elf. Looking at that +7 proficency bonus to Sleight of Hand to pickpocket is almost hypnotic
Amazing video! The animation is nicely done and explains things with your voice over perfectly. Thanks for making this!
Thanks man, really helpful :D
So you dont add the 2 prof bonus to ability score mod your prof In. Sorry it's hard to explain.
I just played my first game if d and d and it took me 2 hours to make two characters because I don't know how to do features and I couldn't find the gold and I don't know anything about background can u pls make a separate video talking in depth about it and I don't have the players handbook or dm manual or monster book so it was a lot harder for me to understand fully about what your talking about and no I don't know anybody that is a veteran at d and d I'm the most experienced person in my group and that's only one game
This was the first video i saw by you and even though i'm not posting this until now i want you to know that this was extremely helpful to a D&D noob that was me about a month ago!
(by some standards (most standards...) i am still a noob but i now own all the core rule books and have a decent idea of how to play the game so i no longer consider myself a noob.)
I'm not totally sure if this was just my table or not, there are plenty of extra race options if picked from Volo's Monster Guide. Just be careful in case other DMs don't allow other races like Kobolds.
DMs usually have the right to veto some options and introduce house rules because they are running the game. The rules are more clearly outlined if you are playing in official games like Adventurers League.
Don't Stop Thinking That is true and very worth mentioning. I'm just only adding it in since I know the game I play are letting some people use those races. Although it's very good to check with the DM first.
These videos are really helpful if all goes according to plan I'll be playing D&D for the first time this week
I am your 2,720th subscriber. Nice job on the video!
Best D&D CC video I have found on the net. Thank you for explaining it so clearly
there's more than just fighter and cleric? what if i want to be something else
Hahaha dank note thats amazing
You this would have been helpful begot I have myself a - 1 constitution.
That is a very interesting point buy system the one I prefer starts at 9 gives you 21 points and the max you can put any stat to is 18
My friend rolled a d 20 and gave me the number to assign freely will this also work ok in dnd
Man this series is just a god-send. Was it made by man...or God?
This is such an awesome series and got me set for an entire campaign, can't wait and again thank you so much
these are soooooooooo helpful! Thanks!
Love this video, newbie to D&D and this is so helpful
Where do you get that music?
*Sees lawful good, starts laughing out loud* chaotic neutral FTW
Another great video that explains character creation for 5e. Well done!
I've been playing DnD for a long time, so I didn't really need this video, but it was very well made and you went through all the steps perfectly and clearly. I might show your videos to some newer players to aid in the explanation. Thanks for making these, and good job.
+mutedknght Yup. I had the same thing in mind making these videos.
In many videos, you talk about time. (i.e. "after 8 hours...") How is time measured in D&D? Is it real time, or is there a way to measure it in-game? If so, how? If this was already said in one of the episodes, I apologize.
In-game time. It is really up to the DM how time passes. 10 years could pass with just a sentence.
Do you have a multicolor PDF version of the character sheet available for print? I would LOVE to have one!
Ah, sorry dude. I don't have one.