A character has many statistics which describe their overall power:

Contents 1 Character statistics 1.1 Race 1.2 Alignment 1.3 Abilities 1.4 Experience 1.5 Classes 1.6 Health 1.7 Senses 1.8 Attacking 1.9 Armor class 1.10 Saving throws 1.11 Skills 1.12 Feats 1.13 Spellcasting 1.14 Inventory 1.15 Protection 2 See also

Character statisticsEdit

Effective character levels: Level adjustment and character levels rolled into one.

• Character levels: The total number of the class levels a character has.
• Types:
  • Player character (PC): A character that is always controlled by a real person.
  • Non-player character (NPC): A character that is controlled by the computer.

RaceEdit

• Race: A character belongs to 1 race.
  • Subrace: A character may belong to 1 subrace of their race.
    • Level adjustment (LA): Some characters have LA to balance out the additional powers they get for being a particular subrace.
  • Size: How big the character is.
  • Land speed: How fast a character can move.

AlignmentEdit

• Alignment: This is how a character reacts to things, and how things react to the character.

AbilitiesEdit

• Abilities: A character has 6 abilities.
  • Ability score: How good a character is at each ability.
  • Ability modifier: Abilities affect other things like skills, combat and spellcasting.
  • Types:
    • Strength (str): How strong
    • Dexterity (dex): How agile
    • Constitution (con): How healthy
    • Intelligence (int): How good at learning
    • Wisdom (wis): How understanding
    • Charisma (cha): How sociable

ExperienceEdit

• Experience points (XP): A character gains these by solving problems so they can gain character levels.

ClassesEdit

• Classes: A character has between 1 and 4 classes. A character can take a new class when they gain a new character level.
  • Class levels: The amount of levels of that class. A character gain a new class level when they gain a new character level.
  • Multiclass penalty: If a character's classes have wildly different class levels the character might suffer a penalty to XP gain.
  • Types:
    • Base classes: A character starts with 1 base class and may add upto 2 more later.
    • Prestige classes (PrC): A character starts with no prestige classes, but may gain upto 3 later.

HealthEdit

• Hit points: How much of a beating a character can take.

SensesEdit

• Senses: Some characters get new ways of sensing things in addition to normal ways.
  • Vision:
    • Darkvision
    • Low-light vision

AttackingEdit

• Attack bonus (AB): This is how easy it is for the character to hit other people.
  • Attacks per round: This is dependant on the character's base attack bonus.
  • Base attack bonus (BAB): This is dependant on which class a character has.

Armor classEdit

• Armor class (AC): This is how easy it is for the character to avoid being injured by other people.
  • Touch armor class: Some attacks only need to touch a character to be effective, but they can still be avoided.

Saving throwsEdit

• Saving throws: This is how easy it is to avoid the worst of some special attacks.
  • Types:
    • Fortitude (fort): This is how good a character is at resisting poisons and illness.
    • Reflex: This is how good a character is at jumping out of the way of explosions.
    • Will: This is how good a character is at shaking off mental attacks.

SkillsEdit

• Skills: A character has lots of different skills.
  • Skill points: A character spends these when they gain levels.
  • Skill ranks: This is how good a character is with a certain skill.
  • Types:
    • Class skills: These are skills which a class is good at.
    • Cross-class skills: These are skill which a class is bad at.

FeatsEdit

• Feats: These are special tricks a character knows.
  • Bonus feats: Some classes get to pick a few more feats, with limited selection, than others.

SpellcastingEdit

• Spellcasting: Only some classes can use spells, but spells can do alot of different things.
  • Caster level: How good a character is at casting spells for each class.
  • Spells known: Characters have to learn about a spell before they can cast it.
  • Spells per day: Characters can only cast a limited amount of spells each day before running out.
  • Spell failure: Some things can cause spellcasting to fail.
  • Types:
    • Arcane: Spells from a character's own power.
    • Divine: Spells granted to the character from what they worship.

• Domains: Clerics get 2 domains, which give spells and 1 special feature each.

InventoryEdit

• Inventory: This is were a character puts his items when moving around with it.
  • Items: A character can use lots of different tools and things.
    • Equipment: Some items need to be worn or held to be useful.
      • Weapon: A character can kill stuff when holding a good weapon.
        • Melee weapon: A character has to get close to someone to hit them with a melee weapon.
        • Ranged weapon: Ranged weapons can hurt people at a distance.
      • Armor: Wearing armor helps protect a character from injury.
        • Maximum dexterity bonus: The more heavy the armor the more it hampers a character's agility.
        • Arcane spell failure: More protective armors can cause a character to fail when casting arcane spells.
        • Armor check penalty: Some skills are harder when weighted down by armor.

ProtectionEdit

• Spell resistance: Characters with spell resistance can occasionally ignore some harmful spells.
• Damage reduction: Damage reduction is the ability of a character to "shrug off" or instantly regenerate most types of damage done to it.
• Immunity: Stops even the possibility of some bad things from happening to a character.

See alsoEdit

• Category:Races
• Category:Sizes
• Category:Alignments
• Category:Abilities
• Category:Classes
• Category:Saving throws
• Category:Skills
• Category:Feats
• Category:Spells
• Category:Domains
• Category:Items