Aedir Character Creation Rules

Character Creation Rules:

Game Considerations

The games within Aedir, at the current moment (2021) are run using Foundry and Discord for voice. Most things will be handled by me before the game starts, but over time, as you slowly learn the program, the task of making your tiles and updating them will fall on you. It is not required to know the insides and out of Foundry to play, and I will still do a lot of the grunt work when we first start out.

Stat Allocation

Instead of doing the conventional character creation method of rolling stats during Character Creation, in Aedir, we use Stat Arrays. Stat Arrays are used to allow for people to have an equal playing field when starting out, so that no one starts out with higher stats than the others based off of pure luck. The following are stat arrays that we use in Aedir:
The Risk and Reward - 16 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 8 / 7 (70)
The All-Rounder - 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 11 (76)
The Gold Standard - 13 / 13 / 13 / 13 / 13 / 13 (78)
The Ironhide - 17 / 17 / 10 / 8 / 9 / 7 (68)

Rolling Health

For rolling health in all of the games within Aedir works differently than it does in traditional D&D. All characters, no matter what they roll always roll their minimum health. So for example, if a Fighter rolls a 2 on their health roll, they will gain a 6 instead. I will always balance encounters with the assumption that your characters are rolled with minimum health. This is to help with balancing, as characters rolling more than maximum health is seen as extra meat to their bones.
To roll health in Foundry, this is the following command you input in chat:
/r 1d6r<4
/r 1d8r<5
/r 1d10r<6
/r 1d12r<7

Origin Features and Extra Features

Instead of backgrounds that one would choose in vanilla Dungeons and Dragons, in Aedir you choose what is called Origin Features in their stead. Origin Features are split into two categories, Major Origins and Minor Origins. Major Origins consist of which country or landmass you come from, where as Minor Origins come from the specific settlements or gatherings within the Major Origins.

Skills

To make up for the lack of background features and skill proficiencies you would get in D&D, all characters in Aedir can gain an additional two skills of their choice OR one skill with Expertise OR one tool proficiency.

Extra Languages

Each character gains extra languages equal to their Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

Church Boons and Lip Services

Church Boons and Lip Services represents boons that the Gods and Goddesses of Aedir give to their followers and their clergy. Lip Services are given to anyone who pronounce they are a follower of a god. They are a skill proficiency, for example Torinn's (God of The Underworld, Bonds / Oaths and Pain) Lip Service is Persuasion or Insight.
Church Boons' are more major, and are locked to the classes that require and draw religious power to aid their combat. Paladins, Clerics and any class that states that they gain divine power from a God are candidates for gaining their Church Boons. These are more major effects, like a stat increase for instance. Torinn's Church Boon is +1 Wisdom or +1 Charisma. Church Boon's can go above the maximum of 20, to a total of 21.

Class Changes

Cleric

Knowledge of the Ages. For 1 minute, whenever you succeed on a Martial Check to discern more information on an enemy, as a Triggered Action, immediately afterwards, you may cast a cantrip of your choice.

Fighter

Tactical Assessment Changes. You can apply the bonus from Tactical Assessment to Martial Checks.

Ranger

Favored Foe. Favored Foe doesn't require Concentration to use. When you are hit however, you must must succeed on a Concentration Check and if you fail, you lose the use of the ability.
Favored Enemy. You gain Advantage on Martial Checks if you are using it to gleam information against your Favored Enemies.

Rogue

Insightful Fighting. At 3rd level, you gain the ability to decipher an opponent's tactics and develop a counter to them. When you make a Martial Check to gleam more information on the enemy, if you succeed on the check, you may attack them as a Free Action after making the check. Additionally, if you succeed on the Martial Check, until the end of your next turn, you do not need to have advantage to gain the Sneak Attack damage on any enemy.

Sorcerer

Empowered Spell Casting. Sorcerer can cast two leveled spells in a turn so long as one of them has a casting time of a Reaction or a Bonus Action.
Wild Magic Buffs. Wild Magic Sorcerers get their own custom made wild magic table based on their character. Wild Magic adapts to the user, which explains why they get their own custom table.
Sorcerer Added Spells.

Divine Soul

Spell Level	Spell Name
1st Level	Shield of Faith and Heroism
2nd Level	Spiritual Weapon and Find Steed
3rd Level	Revivify and Remove Curse
4th Level	Death Ward and Guardian of Faith
5th Level	Summon Celestial and Dispel Evil and Good

Draconic

Spell Level	Spell Name
1st Level	Chromatic Orb and Identify
2nd Level	Dragon’s Breath and Magic Weapon
3rd Level	Fear and Protection from Energy
4th Level	Hallucinatory Terrain and Phantasmal Killer
5th Level	Summon Draconic Spirit and Geas

Shadow

Spell Level	Spell Name
1st Level	Hex and Cause Fear
2nd Level	Darkness and Nathair's Mischief
3rd Level	Summon Shadowspawn and Vampiric Touch
4th Level	Shadow of Moil and Evard’s Black Tentacles
5th Level	Negative Energy Flood and Danse Macabre

Storm

Spell Level	Spell Name
1st Level	Thunderwave and Fog Cloud
2nd Level	Rime’s Binding Ice and Moonbeam
3rd Level	Call Lightning and Wind Wall
4th Level	Storm Sphere and Ice Storm
5th Level	Maelstrom and Conjure Elemental

Wild Magic

Spell Level	Spell Name
1st Level	Chaos Bolt and Tasha’s Hideous Laughter
2nd Level	Rope Trick and Pyrotechnics
3rd Level	Tongues and Blink
4th Level	Gravity Sinkhole and Dimension Door
5th Level	Bigby’s Hand and Wall of Light

Phoenix Sorcerer

Spell Level	Spell Name
1st Level	Burning Hands and False Life
2nd Level	Flame Blade and Dust Devil
3rd Level	Ashardalon's Stride and Protection from Energy
4th Level	Fire Shield and Wall of Fire
5th Level	Immolation and Seeming

Warlock

Improved Invocations. Eldritch Invocations that alter eldritch blast (like Agonizing Blast and Eldritch Spear), now work on any spell attacking cantrip that the warlock starts out with.

Character Rules:

Backstory

Backstories are important cornerstones when thinking about your character. Who they are, what happened to them, why they are the way they are. All of these things are based off of your character's backstory. However, some things should be put to the established before you make your backstory:

1. Send the DM your backstory before the first session of the world.
2. Your backstory is not necessarily canon within the world, it is soft canon. The events within it may be canon, but the characters, events, places are not canon until they are shown into the world. The more stuff that is put into your backstory, the more likelihood that it will be used in the story in some way. If you give me a one sentence backstory, I can still work with it, but it will be put on the backstory.

Prestige

Prestige is a features used in Aedir past 4th Level (to a maximum of 3 tiers of Prestige), it is to represent your character's fame and/or infamy within the world of Aedir. Once you gain Prestige, you unlock many different effects, like Prestige Missions and Prestige Classes and other Downtime bonuses, like creating your own Faction using the fame you have with you.
Prestige Missions - Prestige Missions reflect on the Missions that are of higher tier. These Missions take place over a handful of Sessions or can be handled during downtime. These missions are higher tier, which makes them more dangerous off of a base, but also allows for higher loot and treasure gains as well. While they have great rewards, they come with many risks.
Prestige Classes - Prestige Classes are extra classes that you can choose if specific prerequisites are made. These Prestige Classes replace your 4th Level, 8th Level and 12th Level Abilities. These Prestige Classes replace the Ability Score Improvement and would remove any Feat you would take before you take the Prestige Class.