Barbarian
Raw endurance, fierce momentum, and the ability to stay dangerous when battle becomes chaotic.
STRMartial
Character Creation · Chamber II
Hall of Origins.
The portal has carried you farther into the Sanctum. Here, old paths split beneath living boughs: one toward calling, one toward heritage, one toward the life that came before, and others toward belief, companionship, and the ties that make a hero part of a world.
Classes
Species & Backgrounds
Alignment & Connections
The Origin Loom · six paths awaken before the Forge
The Twelve Shrines
Choose Your Calling.
Class describes the broad path an adventurer follows: how they approach danger, where their extraordinary talents come from, and what kinds of problems they are especially prepared to solve.
Bard
Magic, performance, knowledge, and social skill woven together into an adaptable adventurer.
CHASupport
Cleric
Divine magic, protection, restoration, and conviction shaped by a sacred calling.
WISDivine
Druid
Primal magic tied to nature, transformation, living systems, and the untamed world.
WISPrimal
Fighter
Weapon mastery, disciplined combat, and flexibility across many martial approaches.
STR / DEXMartial
Monk
Speed, discipline, precise movement, and supernatural focus expressed through the body.
DEX / WISMobile
Paladin
Martial strength joined to sacred power, protection, leadership, and an oath.
STR / CHADivine
Ranger
Wilderness expertise, tracking, martial skill, and magic shaped by the natural world.
DEX / WISExplore
Rogue
Precision, mobility, expertise, problem-solving, and choosing exactly where to apply pressure.
DEXSkills
Sorcerer
Innate magical power expressed instinctively, dramatically, and with unusual flexibility.
CHAArcane
Warlock
Occult power gained through a supernatural relationship, strange gifts, and focused magic.
CHAOccult
Wizard
Studied arcane magic, broad spell knowledge, careful preparation, and intellectual mastery.
INTArcane
The Living Grove
The Grove of Heritage.
Species helps describe the kind of fantastical people your character belongs to. In the Forge, this choice can inform physical traits and rules options while leaving personality, culture, values, and individual history for you to define.
Choose a Heritage PathSelect one of the lineages below to update the record beside it. The grove is now arranged as a clearer field of paths rather than a scattered circle so it reads more like a reference panel.
Human
Adaptable people found across countless communities and traditions, leaving enormous room for an individual character's culture, profession, values, and ambitions.
Versatile identityMany possible originsEasy to personalize
The Hall focuses on identity and broad themes. Exact traits, movement, senses, and other rules belong in the Living Grimoire and should be pulled from the rules source selected for that character.
Before the First Adventure
Echoes of the Past.
A hero had a life before the campaign began. Background gives that earlier life weight: profession, training, social experience, formative circumstances, and the reason an adventurer arrives with certain talents or belongings.
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Recovered memory
Acolyte
Your earlier life was shaped by devotion, sacred learning, ritual, or service within a religious community.
The Nine Directions
The Moral Compass.
Alignment is a broad roleplaying shorthand for values and tendencies, not a cage around personality. A character can be inconsistent, conflicted, changed by events, or uncertain about what the right choice actually is.
Neutral Good
A broadly compassionate outlook that values helping others without assuming that either strict order or personal freedom must always come first.
Roleplaying question
When a law protects the powerful but harms someone vulnerable, what does your character believe matters most?
Alignment works best as a prompt for decisions and contradictions. It does not need to dictate every action a character takes.
No Hero Travels Alone
The Adventuring Company.
Classes do not lock characters into one job. These five broad roles are simply a way to think about what a character may contribute when the group is making plans, exploring, negotiating, or facing danger.
Front Line
Stands near danger, controls space, absorbs pressure, or makes it difficult for enemies to reach others.
Often: fighter · barbarian · paladin
Support
Strengthens allies, restores resources, protects the company, or changes a bad situation before it becomes worse.
Often: cleric · bard · druid
Magic
Uses spells or supernatural abilities to solve unusual problems, reshape encounters, or access effects mundane tools cannot.
Often: wizard · sorcerer · warlock
Skills
Excels at specialized checks, investigation, infiltration, social challenges, tools, or tasks where expertise matters.
Often: rogue · bard · ranger
Exploration
Helps the party navigate environments, notice clues, survive difficult travel, scout, track, or understand the world around them.
Often: ranger · druid · rogue
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Overlap is healthy.
A cleric can stand on the front line. A fighter can become the party's social leader. A wizard can specialize in support. The Forge should show possibilities, not force players into prescribed jobs.
Optional Worldbuilding
Threads of Allegiance.
A character becomes easier to imagine when they are connected to people and places. These are optional story fields for the future Character Sheet—not mandatory rules choices.
These fields are deliberately freeform. A campaign can use the world's own guilds, religions, kingdoms, factions, or completely custom relationships.
Convergence Chamber
From Origins to Hero.
None of these decisions lives alone. Change the example below and watch the record on the right reshape itself. This is the bridge between Hall of Origins and the actual Living Grimoire.
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ClassYour adventuring calling
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SpeciesYour fantastical heritage
B
BackgroundThe life that came before
A
AlignmentA broad moral compass
Sample character record
Elf Wizard
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Wizard
Elf
Sage
Neutral Good
An Elf Wizard shaped by a Sage's life of study, guided broadly by a Neutral Good outlook.
Identity formedReady for abilitiesForge preview
The Roads Converge
The Living Grimoire waits beyond.
Hall of Origins teaches the choices. The next chamber is the full working character record: abilities, proficiencies, equipment, spells, features, biography, play tools, relationships, possessions, and campaign history all live together in the Living Grimoire.
Next Chamber · Living Grimoire · Your choices become the actual character record