Dice Set First | The Many Ways to Build a D&D Character

Today I’m showing you how to use a set of dice as a cool jumping-off point for an RPG character concept!
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:28 - Unboxing (Unbagging?) the Dice Set
04:11 - Building the Character
10:29 - Choosing a Subclass
13:13 - Final Details
16:19 - Outro
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[@SmilingTomatoes101]

Make sure you only style it after one set of dice. If you use your entire collection, you are legally obligated to make them a goblin

[@zippomage]

a bit of a suggestion for your Dragonborn. Instead of him taking slights at the least offense, make it so that nobody may insult his steed without retribution. That way you can pull the mount into RP a little bit.

[@nadirku]

I have to admit when I saw those dice, I was thinking of some kind of "Pact of the Chain" Warlock, particularly with the UA5 changes to chose a pact at level 1.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

I was going to watch this, but then you said playlist and now I have to leave to watch the full playlist in order

[@mentalrebllion1270]

Oath of the ancients Paladin looks like the dice for me. The chains are the vow to me. But that is me. Green Dragonborn seems interesting. 🤷

[@GregMcNeish]

I got a Druid vibe (like, actual real-life Druids, not the class) from the patterns inside the dice, and yeah, definitely chains from the outsides. I think I'd take that actual-Druid style and apply it to a Ranger with the super cliche "there's a blight in my forest home" backstory, but with the twist that as part of the quest to stop the blight, this Ranger has entered a Warlock pact with an entity that has promised to help. Maybe an Archfey, but a Devil's contract feels better for those chains. I'm not a dice collector, so I've never taken this approach, but I like it. I love the idea of using something you will have with you at the table throughout the campaign as inspiration for the character. It's powerfully reinforcing.

[@dolphin64575]

So glad to inspire you! This video turned out so well, and the dice look incredible!

[@JoeMeng]

I just received a set of dice I waited 3 months for... What perfect timing.

[@BubblegumPatty]

Personally I got an Air Genasi Paladin, or maybe fighter or warlock. The green swirls kind of bring to mind puffs of air to me, and the chains and the fact it's metal calls to mind heavy armor. (or being chained to pact, in the warlock's case). Dice set first and the concept in the video is extremely cool, Maybe I'll make my next character based on dice.

[@SupergeekMike]

I like it!

[@autographedcat]

I love this idea-though I probably shouldn’t encourage myself to just randomly order EVEN MORE DICE :)

[@kontraproduktiv474]

I'm Not really in the Game for New dice right now (shocking, i know my little Goblins) but i Like this Idea a Lot. Maybee i can try this with an older Set in my bag for the next Oneshot. This series gives me many New approaches, thanks a Lot!

[@emroden6670]

This is such a fun idea! I've never thought about this method of character creation

[@lichxeam]

Very cool idea! Will have to try this

[@SeporiBowi]

Excited for the Pathfinder video you teased. I've been doing a character sheet for the system, so watching someone doing it along is a great help.

[@marywockenfuss-thecraftypl6461]

Thank you so much for this! Now I want to use some of the dice I just got today, maybe along with the dragon egg dice box, as inspiration for a new character. I'm gonna share this video with my siblings! I want to see what they come up with.

[@christopherauvenshine2092]

I have a set of metal dice at home. Makes me want to go give them the same treatment! Cool concept!

[@intrusiveshadows724]

This is a really cool idea!

[@willsszz8521]

i like the dice and the character idea :D i went a similar route in my head

[@johnallegood4469]

My immediate thought was a Pact of the Chain Warlock of an oceanic race, maybe a Triton or Sea Elf

[@RedCoyote]

This was fun! I normally assign three sets of dice for a character, so this would be a fun method to try!

[@melinnamba]

I have build characters in countless different ways, but I haven't startet with a dice set before. I really should do that some time, since some of my dice sets don't have characters yet.

[@koposart1489]

This character seems very very cool!

[@SupergeekMike]

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[@PeterFendrich]

Just from the initial look, it probably would have been a toss up between a tortle and a Auto Gnome. Tortle would be a Monk, Way of the Kensei. Autognome would be an Artificer.

[@Edhack77]

I followed a bit of your reasoning and I liked the idea of a Green Dragonborn, but to represent the chains theme/aesthetic I imagined more of an Imprisioned Beast of a Character who still carries the chains that bound him and uses them as weapons against his foes, so I figured a Barabarian would suit that concept. For the subclass I started to think about who might have imprisoned this character, and then I saw the Path of the Wild Magic and I think it fits, maybe flavour it as the Chains being magical in Nature, created by the Fey creature who imprisoned him, and them being the source of the Wild Magic Surges. I actually like this concept and I may use it in the future actually, very good video btw!!

[@Stephen-Fox]

...For Kitchen Sink fantasy game, like D&D or Pathfinder? This might be the influence of your video, but an escaped gladiator lizardfolk. ...Being completely neutral about it, though, I kind of want to use that set of dice to run CoC, Delta Green, Brindlewood Bay, or some other Cthulhu-esque game. They give me too much mythos cultist vibes for me to want to use them as a player in those games, since I don't think many campaigns around that would fit 'former cultist' as a character background, but... They'd work for that if that fit the campaign. (I'm not even sure if there are any GM facing rolls in any of those games... I'm almost certain Brindlewood Bay wouldn't have them, since that's either PbtA or PbtA adjacent...)

[@mustardreams3334]

I was thinking either an air genasi or a yuan-ti (flavored to look more snake like) or a lizardfolk that fights with chains and controls lightning. But that may have been because I saw the pattern in the background as clouds and the dagger lettering as lightning bolts. This character is really neat.~

[@cwispygiraffe]

I was personally gonna go a Gith Artificer

[@bernadmanny]

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[@ratamaz5307]

I remember watching a critical role video and I think Travis talked about how he started with an item to make his character, I think that would be interesting to see.

[@SupergeekMike]

That’s something I want to try at some point, as well! It’s an approach we’ll do at some point

[@PeterFendrich]

I thought I was the only one! Any PC or regular recurring NPC I run has their own special dice set (well a handful of them who are similar share dice)... I thought I was the only one who occasionally built a character just to go with a set of dice lol

[@manueltorresart2345]

The background of this character is so cool that now I want to draw it.

[@sam7559]

I legit just have the bulk set of dice of cheap plastic dice and still do not understand the people who seem like they are going to die underneath a pile of metal and plastic on the amount they buy

[@mkang8782]

I have done the reverse and purchased dice to go with a specific character, but not this way (yet).

[@derickpelton3107]

I came up with a Yuan-Ti Phantom Rogue "chained" to his ancestors as punishment.

[@isitnotwrittenthat1680]

Ive been playing to much total warhammer lately because as soon as i saw those dice my instinct was "myincatec lizard killing machine"

[@wesleykushner8028]

This is exactly the kind of character I've been wanting to play lately. A goon. Not a dumb guy but one that has complete loyalty to the Family. Like Robert de Niro in The Irishman.

[@Witch-king]

I love playing Goon's you should totally go for it. I find it to be very fun and freeing.

[@ErokowXiyze]

I prefer these to your CR stuff.

[@cazlovescakes]

Guilty!

[@disension1177]

the dice set kinda looks like it is from the new zelda, or maybe i have just played to much of that

[@centrossect001]

For months now I've had a character, her stats, and all the basic knowledge and stuff I need to play DnD. Except for someone to play with. I don't have any of those at all. So all dressed up, nowhere to go as usual.

[@cwispygiraffe]

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[@k1tkat-kate]

So what I'm taking away from this video is... chains.

[@DocEonChannel]

This is probably the nerdiest thing I've ever heard of.