DC20 Character Creation Guide Complete Tutorial

DC20 Character Creation Guide Tutorial ⏬More Below⏬
📃 Get the DC20 PDF: thedungeoncoach.com/products/...
🐲 DC20 Kickstarter Preview: www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
🔑 Unlock Rewards on Patreon: / thedungeoncoach
Quick Character Creation Video: • DC20 Character Creatio...
=== 🔗 DC Links ===
💜 DC20 Website: dc20.com
🔮 The Dungeon Coach Website: thedungeoncoach.com/collectio...
👕 Merch: teespring.com/stores/the-dung...
📚🤺🎲 Books, Minis, and Supplies: www.amazon.com/shop/thedungeo...
📓 Notion Link: affiliate.notion.so/q93vztreakiy
=== 🎁 D&D Stuff ===
📃 FREE 5e Playbook Sample PDF: / 95251719
🐲 Alkander’s Almanac D&D 5e Expansion: thedungeoncoach.com/products/...
=== 📱 More Content ===
🥇 Dungeon Coach Playlists: / thedungeoncoach
🎮 DC Gaming Channel: / @dungeoncoachgaming
⌨️ Discord: / discord
💬 TikTok: Search "The Dungeon Coach"
=== 🏆 Channel Goal ===
I want to inspire others to unlock their own creativity and “Think Outside the Box”! I want to help people customize their games and have more FUN! Thank you so much for your support in growing this channel with likes, comments, subscribes, and shares! I really do feel the love of this community and appreciate it SO much!
=== 📍 Credits ===
🖱️ Video Editor: Zack Newman
🖌️ Channel Artists: Bug
🔗 Affiliate Links - I get a small % from these links
0:00 Intro
1:01 Step 0
1:41 Step 1
3:57 Step 2
5:15 Step 3
10:23 Step 4
10:57 Step 5
11:19 Step 6
13:49 Step 7
14:59 Step 8
16:38 Step 9
19:39 Step 10
#DC20

[@Epiko1]

I just introduced my group to DC20 and in that process I made some test characters, with one being a gnome/fiendborn being basically a little poison imp with wings. The character creation is a huge thing for what made me want to try DC20 with all of its awesome choices and the relative simplicity of it all. Look forward to seeing the flavor added with backgrounds and such. Thank you for all the great work so far! ❤

[@TheDungeonCoach]

OMG that is an amazing example! I’m literally going to tell people stories about this character! It really does exemplify how flexible the ancestry system is!

[@DallinLowe]

"All spellcasters have 6 mana, all martials have 1 stamina....then there's a Spell Blade." What?!?! You can't just drop that with no other context! Details, my guy. Details!! Haha. Seriously, keep up the amazing work you're doing! The system you're constructing right now is something that solves almost all of my concerns about the current D&D system in place, and the fact that you're earning enough to work on it full-time means I know the finished product is going to be spectacular.

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Thank you for the support and kind words my dude!! Yea all classes get their Mana and Stamina from a table, so it’s as simple as that 👍🏼👍🏼

[@DallinLowe]

@@TheDungeonCoach Will there be a "spellblade" or gish type of class in the final product? Something close to the Bladesinger Wizard, but it's own class? I've seen the tables for martials, casters, and half casters, but wondering specifically about that sort of class. Benjamin Huffman made a fantastic homebrew called the Magus, so I'm just curious.

[@DallinLowe]

@@TheDungeonCoach And another question: Standard array is +3, +1, 0, and -2. Point buy method says you start with -2 in all attributes and get 12 points to add anywhere, up to the attribute max for level 1, which is +3. Point buy actually puts your stats higher than standard array, because with 12 points, it takes 5 to get one attribute to +3, 3 points to get another to +1, and 2 points to get another to 0, and leave the last attribute at -2. That still leaves 2 points to spend wherever you want. Would it make it more even if you only had 10 points to spend? That way, standard array is equal to point buy, the same way in D&D, standard array is the same distribution of points as if you did point buy. Any thoughts on reducing point buy spending from 12 to 10?

[@vibinglurker5872]

@@DallinLowe in the standard array, you get 2 points to tweak your non-maxed stats how you want, making it the 12 total like point buy

[@agilemonk6305]

Love to Alan and DC20 Team. I have been all over KZbin pushing and promoting DC20. ❤. Coach actually caught me on one site talking it up. ❤

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Truly a champion as always!! 💜💜💜

[@mctkrlvn]

For a game that is still in Alpha, it is very satisfying to run and easy to pickup and go if you have played other RPGs. Can't wait for the Kickstarter and the game in it's final state.

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Thanks for that brother!

[@przemysawjozwiak144]

Hi Coach! Love all your guides to make DC20 more approachable for us. Would you consider a little change in character sheet and add to "phisical defence" place to write down shield and defence with shield. It would be faster for players to know their defence when for example they loose/throw shield in battle.

[@TheDungeonCoach]

I took notes on this! That would be useful

[@GrandOldDwarf]

I really like the entries for "Simple Formula"... Really nice!

[@subterranean327]

I would strongly recommend NOT using the roll method for stats in DC20. I tested it, and it and the results are wildly swingy. My advice: Normally, use standard array in DC20. If you are using the "Prime Cap" variant rule, use points buy in DC20.

[@steelmongoose4956]

Yeah, there’s no bell curve to a single D6. The numbers are going to go all over the place. 😄

[@michaelsmith7561]

As a long time D&D player, this sounds awesome. I hope you also have an easy mode character making process to onboard newer players. Premades are very good for that, and fewer decisions are good as well. Perhaps having a simple character creation and a more advanced character creation process to choose from. Analysis paralysis will be a thing with too many choices for players new to the genre.

[@GutisFive]

Excellent guide. I realized i was filling trades modifiers wrong xD

[@unfortunate_error]

For the ALGORITHM!! 💜🐲💜

[@minimoose7890]

Looking forward to the game and continuing to get to playtest it

[@Boom-Town]

Been waiting for this one!

[@9HPRuneScape]

Wonderful character creation couch! I’m so happy to see DC20 getting fleshed out and having physical visual’s with the character sheet! - Great work man (:

[@CaylorBratcher]

I love the guide and love the video, but I noticed there's one missing step before step 0. Step -1: Find a group to play with.

[@bradbee9874]

This game has some of the best modularity I have seen Some of the beast men traits are some real body horror type stuff You could run a biopunk game. With that rule of levelling up and gaining ancestry traits... becoming more monster than man @DC coach are there any plans later down the road for survival mechanics?

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Thank you for that! Really worked hard to try and land on the perfect amount of. Modularity and choice

[@claudiaborges8406]

Really excited about this game just because there’s some pretty unique stuff here that I have never seen elsewhere and I love reading different systems. Really appreciate the design here, in my head canon it’s the next step in AD&D design just like how pathfinder branched out from 3.5/4e, it’s building entirely around the game not just borrowing some stuff from it or going in a whole different direction. I’ve nothing against systems that go in different directions, I just think this development process is also hella neat.

[@LevTheLurker]

No paladins? This is the best day ever!

[@Azazel226]

Paladin was reworked into a more broadly applicable option- The Spellblade.

[@steelmongoose4956]

Edgelord detected. 😄

[@haste91]

This is super cool! Well done. I can’t wait to play

[@fanboykc9140]

Morning Coach!

[@Jackevolution88]

Maaaaan i can't wait for this game to literally explode

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Buckle up for June 4th!

[@TraverseTravis]

Game is looking good!

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Wow thank you for that! 💜👍🏼

[@babumiek7232]

Hey! Have been thinking about my own TTRPG, and in a lot of places we think similarly, like stamina and mana points. Saw your video and the question is: what tools did you use to format it this way? Because right now I'm stuck with OneNote and Excel to write all the stuff.

[@prodigaldragon223]

Good luck I'll wait for this to evolve and get ironed out. I'm not done with 5E yet.

[@StefVanDerVelden]

Hey dungeon coach, I love your new system. Luckily I was able to convince my d&d group to try the alpha for a one shot, so i am very excited. Controversial thought, what if you lose all the instances of the word point in regards to mana points, stamina points, action points. In my humble opinion it would feel more streamlined and less gamey. Just a thought. How much mana do you have left? This maneuver costs 2 stamina.

[@LykanDS]

So what if you have negative agility? Your long jump is a back jump? If you do a vertical jump you dig yourself in the ground? And... no more paladins? Well, that's a sad new, I love paladins, one of my characters is a paladin. What is the spellblade? Can I find info about that class?

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Jump distance is minimum of 1 😂 And the Spellblade will be able to do everything that paladin could do but in a better way that’s more of a CLASS than a paladin is. Paladins have too much “baggage of origin and sources” than I think is healthy for a class

[@CaylorBratcher]

As coach just explained, the paladin is still here but got absorbed and reflavored into the spellblade. You can still absolutely play the flavor of a paladin and channel your magical force into enemies.

[@MrBadcody]

Hey Coach! What program did you use to make those step list. Also I was curious what programs you used to create the pages for your book?! I'm trying to create my own TTrpg based off a game universe I enjoy and want to make things more readable and enjoy how you lay things out.

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Notion! It’s also what I’m writing DC20 in as well!

[@MrBadcody]

@@TheDungeonCoach Really! Alright I'll have to give it a look, I'm using Obsidian currently and have heard great things about Notion

[@Knight_Marshal]

I am guessing that if you roll for your stats, it is d6-3 to give a 3 tops and -2 min, so you might want to mention if I am right that not everyone may have a 3 in their prime stat unless there is a safeguard for this.

[@subterranean327]

The rules lay out how to protect against that problem when rolling. However, I still strongly advise against rolling for stats in DC20. Use standard array or points buy.

[@CaylorBratcher]

As stated, be very careful with rolling for stats because your character can very easily be handicapped against the rest of the party and every monster and encounter they come across that relies on prime.

[@claudiaborges8406]

Can I have traits from 3 ancestries or is that stretching the “doesn’t require RP explanation” rule too far?

[@BombShellBond]

Is there a way to share your notion link?

[@PhoutianPhill]

Can't find the two weapon fighting portion in the DC20 PDF 0.6. Am I missing something?

[@CaylorBratcher]

Page 123 has a section about two weapon fighting when it comes to the fighters fighting style.

[@PhoutianPhill]

@@CaylorBratcher Thank you, seems a little lack luster from what I expected, but I'm also comparing it to 5e and not the full scale of DC20's rules yet. Still can't wait to try this system.

[@TheCriswayz]

Where do I find the bg's on the alpha?

[@kamchatmonk]

I'm still torn on the skills, tgey kinda feel messy and a bit overcomplicated, with some being uber useful and others situational at best. Knowledge skills feel like they're subpar discount skills. What if *nature* was a proper skill that combines natural knowledge, survival, and animal handling? What if history was turned into *society* skill, combining historical knowledge with knowing laws, culture, and languages?

[@tulaimes]

❤

[@jordellfreshbreeze7133]

Does Paladin still exist?

[@TheDungeonCoach]

The Spellblade class has replaced the paladin, it will be showcased and revealed after the Kickstarter 👍🏼💜

[@KentaQiric]

🎉

[@kailenmitchell8571]

I feel like charisma should just be renamed EGO.

[@charafire]

No Psion?

[@OutlawJJ80]

Is this its own d20 system or is based off of 5e or 2024 rules??

[@fyreman666]

It's its own thing with inspiration from various other systems in some aspects.

[@Seltaeb_]

It's a brand new system! The Kickstarter (and beta) is launching next month!

[@OutlawJJ80]

TYVM

[@TheDungeonCoach]

Completely its own system but with some familiarity and innovative updates

[@amulrei8149]

I have to wonder why Tactics isnt an official skill. It seems like it would be quite useful in many situations.

[@damenevans]

I really hope you have a real multi classing system, or even better, A classless option. the lack of real multi classing is why I cant play pathfinder. I love SO much of what you are doing, and I hope you consider my request.

[@CaylorBratcher]

The way multi-classing works is at second level and higher levels each class gets access to talents. Talents are basically feats and allow you to pull from a general list of talents, or you can grab a single class feature from another class. An example, you are a barbarian and love the idea of casting spells while raging on the battlefield. With your talent, you can grab spellcasting from any class. You would gain one mana, one or two spells and some cantrips.

[@damenevans]

I get that, but that's not real multi-classing. That's PF2 style "multi classing" which I detest. I want to be able to refine my character into essentially a unique class, and limited access to feat, spells, abilities etc. via feats at predefined levels is not that. PF 2 got really close to a classless system, but messed it up by having each class have it's own list of feats. I want a generic list of melee feats, stealth feats, magic feats that have raw spell casting or melee skills as prerequisites. Then I could build exactly the sort of character I want, one feat at a time. The old gama world rules in polyhedron magazine had just a single class that got a feat every level, and you could use that to build whatever archetype you wanted to. My dream scenario for dc20 is a full classes system, with "archetype leveling guides" that present a path to a particular concept like druid or barbarian, which you can either follow, or diverge from at every level up

[@PadanGedowitch]

You have forgotten step 11: Jump to level 3, because the subclass is an important part the backstory and I want to play my fully realised character idea from the start.

[@FabulousJejmaze]

That's a stupid argument because you can always add more to your character's backstory. Why not start at level 5? Why not 10? Starting at level 1 just means you start earlier in your character's story.

[@PadanGedowitch]

It's not about level, but about story. If my PC comes from a ninja school in a ninja village shouldn't he start with some ninja techniques? If he grew up among ooze tamers shouldn't he have a ooze companion from the start? But this stupid 3rd level subclass nonsenss forces the start from level 3 to stay true to my idea. Why do you think all other systems give the subclass at level 1?

[@GlenFinney]

@@PadanGedowitchI don’t think all start subclass at 1st, and in DC20 there’s so many options and ability at 1st level you can build most any fantasy archetype already at 1st level. The subclass is most often just the icing on your character!

[@dwgautier]

Or... just RP your JOURNEY to that subclass and EARN those powers through game play. You disserve nothing as a player, your player growth will be so much stronger if you enjoy and ADD to the story.

[@PadanGedowitch]

If subclasses are so insignificant why even have them? Just put all their features in one table to choose from at every other level. Would allow even more individuality.