D&D Beyond's slick new online character creator lets you make a hero in seconds

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Despite being the gateway TTRPG of choice, one of the biggest hurdles in Dungeons & Dragons has always come right at the start: making your character. For someone unfamiliar with the system, that blank character sheet can seem like a maths exam they haven’t revised for—and though recent editions have significantly streamlined the process, it can still be intimidating.Online play aid D&D Beyond has long been a great solution to that problem, automating several elements of character creation—but now the site is taking it a step further, with a new and improved Quickbuilder that makes creating a character so easy you can do it in seconds. (Image credit: Wizards of the Coast, D&D Beyond)The interface feels very inspired by videogames, with a slick and graphically pleasing menu of pretty simple options. You just need to pick your class, species, background, and portrait and you’re done.Article continues below You may like D&D Beyond’s official partner program to add one of the most popular homebrew classes, which lets you engage in fisticuffs like a true rowdy An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur’s Gate games just got a massive overhaul Larian says Divinity’s character customisation will be ‘even better’ than Baldur’s Gate 3’s: ‘More colors, more options, more control’ I like that it allows you to quite intuitively decide how much depth you want to get into. Click through to the class options, for example, and you get a brief overview of the strengths, weaknesses, and key features of each one, all on one page. If you want to learn more, you can select one to get a more detailed overview—and within that, it links out to full descriptions of how its class features work.It’s up to you whether you want to do your homework, or just pick something that looks cool, and you can even just randomise it all for a true no-thinking-required