D&D 5e: Character Progression

Basics

# Creation
- Abilities:   # Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma.
- Alignment:
- Ideals:
- Bonds:
- Flaws:

# Limits
- Armor Class:    10 + ${DEX}  # plus calculated armor
- Carry Capacity: 15 * ${STR}

# Inventory
- XP:
- GP:

Abilities

• Assigned at creation, incremented on level-up
• Min 0, Max 20
• Final score includes a calculated modifier (which affects other skill checks)

Calculating

ABILITY_MOD   = (POINTS // 2) - 5
ABILITY_SCORE = POINTS + ABILITY_MOD

Sample Result

#  POINTS  MOD   FINAL
STR  15    (+2)  # 17
DEX  14    (+2)  # 16
CON  13    (+1)  # 14
INT  12    (+1)  # 13
WIS  10    (+0)  # 10
CHA   8    (-1)  #  7