The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Let's Build a Character with Tales of the Valiant
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
Mike builds a 1st level character with Tales of the Valiant! Join the City of Arches Kickstarter! Tales of the Valiant Tales of the Valiant Character Sheet
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Hello friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from SciFlourish. This is the third in a four-part series where I build characters with various versions of 5e. I started off by building a character with the new D&D 2024 Player's Handbook. Last week, I did Level Up Advanced 5e. Today, I'm going to do Tales of the Valiant. And later, I am going to do Shadow Dark.
And we're going to look at all of the processes that take place in order to build a character by actually doing it here on the show. So it's a fun series where we get to see what it's like to build a first-level character in all of these different versions of 5e. Please check out the City of Arches Kickstarter. You can find a link in the show notes below.
The City of Arches is my current Kickstarter for a high fantasy city sourcebook for lazy GMs. It is a city filled with adventure and intrigue and discovery. that you can experience with your friends.
It is built specifically for you to be able to drop into any campaign setting, whether it is your own homebrew setting or an existing published setting, and yet has nearly infinite expandability into all different areas that you can build out for your own campaigns. Please check it out. The Kickstarter is about halfway through at this point. It's doing really, really well.
It's going to be an awesome book. You can check out the 42-page free sample, which includes a playable scenario, introduction scenario, a playable adventure, and a whole lot of material to show you what this Kickstarter is about. There's no reason to not go check out the 42-page sample, and I hope you will back it. Please check it out.
The link is down in the show notes, and thank you very much for your support. So as we have in the previous two shows, I'm going to build a first level character. We're going into the Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide, one of the two core books for Tales of the Valiant, along with the Monster Vault. And we're going to walk through the process of building a first level character.
I downloaded a form fillable character sheet from Kobold Press on their store. It's absolutely free to download the form fillable character sheet. And we have it right here. And we are going to get started. So I'm excited to build a character. I already know. Oh, I just dropped my dice box on my keyboard. Hopefully that's not a problem.
I already know a fair bit about how to build a character with Tales of the Valiant, and I'm excited about it because it's got some things I really, really like. And we're going to talk about those while we do it. So we're going to skim through the book.
If anybody has questions, Kobold Press has given permission, blanket permission, to show whatever people want to show in their video, which I am doing right now. The book starts with an introduction, what it means to run a game, what it plays like, and then goes straight into character creation and leveling. Slightly different than we saw with the 2024 book, which had the rules for play up front.
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