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

Leveling Up

XP Required for Level Up

# function not possible
# LVL REQD_XP
1           0
2         300
3         900
4        2700
5        6500
6       14000
7       23000
8       34000
9       48000
10      64000
11      85000
12     100000
13     120000
14     140000
15     165000
16     195000
17     225000
18     265000
19     305000
20     355000

- HP  += CON_MOD + 1d?     # hit-die roll
- if CON +=1               # HP += 1 * ${CHAR_LVL}
- Class Specific Features