Characters are the people who you pretend to be in Dungeons and Dragons. Or actually in any Role playing game. The information on a character sheet is everything that the character is. On it are the statistics for the character. Like, how strong he/she is, how smart they are, stuff like that.
How do you come up with stuff like that? You ask? Well, all the information is detailed in the Player's Handbook. But here is an overview of the ways.Making characters
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