Nobody has posted a character for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden yet, so there is nothing to start a scene with. Here is what this table uses. Post one character per thread in this section, and a game master will say when you are in.
What this table has decided
What to put in your thread
What makes a character worth playing here
Game masters notice good writing and reward it, in the fiction and at the table. That is a person's judgement, not a score this forum keeps.
Ask anything in the out-of-character section — a half-made character with a question attached is more useful than a finished one nobody can run.
What this table has decided
- Player's Handbook: 2024 edition. Anything from it is fair game unless a game master says otherwise in the out-of-character section.
- Starting level: 4. Take the hit points, proficiency bonus, subclass and features your class has at that level.
- Ability scores: roll 4d6 and drop the lowest die, six times, in the open.
- Feats: your background grants an origin feat, as the 2024 book does for everybody; this table gives you one extra feat, on top of anything above; and the fourth-level ability score improvement may be taken as a feat instead, which is a choice and not a third feat.
What to put in your thread
- Name, species, class and subclass, background, level 4.
- Ability scores, and how you got them — post the individual dice, not just the totals.
- Hit points, armour class, proficiency bonus, saving throws and skills.
- Every feat you have taken, and which of the sources above it came from.
- Equipment, and anything you spent starting money on.
- Who they are, and what they want. A few paragraphs, not a few words. This is the part that matters: the numbers decide what happens when dice are rolled, and this decides everything else.
What makes a character worth playing here
- Leave something unfinished. A debt, a rumour, somebody looking for them, a question they have not answered. Give a game master a handle they can pull on and your character gets scenes of their own; arrive complete and resolved and there is nothing for the game to catch on.
- Write them so somebody can play opposite them. A reason to talk, a reason to argue, a reason to travel with people. A character who needs nobody is a character nobody can write with.
- Be prepared to stay in their voice. Scenes here are written a post at a time over days. The character you will enjoy is the one you still want to speak as in a fortnight.
- Joke characters are not wanted. Not because the table is humourless — the funniest moments in a game like this come from people playing someone they take seriously — but because a character built for one gag has nowhere to go afterwards, and everybody else has to write around it for months.
Game masters notice good writing and reward it, in the fiction and at the table. That is a person's judgement, not a score this forum keeps.
Ask anything in the out-of-character section — a half-made character with a question attached is more useful than a finished one nobody can run.
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