How to Get the Most Out of Your D&D Character - Plan Them!

It’s easy, right? To get the most from your D&D character is find the best loot, buff them up with the strongest spells and you’re away…. right?

Time and time again power players enter their D&D groups with only one true power; the ability to make everyone at the table wish they stayed at home.

Getting the most out of your Dungeons & Dragons Character is not about giving them the best weapons or the most powerful spells. It is about finding where two skills or more can aid each other, and also which spells complement each other as well. Of course, you’re going to find loop hols in how to get the most out of your D&D Character, but one of the best ways by far is keeping within the realms and limitations of that character’s reality.

Have a Plan

Most players, don’t have a plan, and to be fair this is one of the best ways to have the most fun. But, if you want to get the most out of your D&D Character, you do need to plan them out correctly. Let’s say you have a Ranger. Now Rangers have been getting a lot of stick in recent years as not many players understand or appreciate what they can do for a party. All you really have to do is look at Darl from the Walking Dead Series and you’ll quickly discover a character that can offer so much to a group of players.

You have to be aware of the skills your characters have to use to aid the party. This can often take some imagination (but hey It’s Dungeons & Dragons right?!) to nail it. Let’s say your ranger has two really high skills such as survival History or Arcana, and you’ve just encountered a Troll. Now, your party is currently all level 1, there is no way you’ll be able to beat a troll in a fight, so rather than try and charm them in the good old fashioned boring way of playing 5e, why not try and find them something that they value most. First up the ranger rolls a history check to figure out if they remember what Trolls love the most…. get a high roll and turns out Trolls love Salmon, or fish in general (hence all that bridge hanging around a business that they do). So your ranger needs to either go fishing, or find a stream to do said fishing. As fishing is a type of foraging, this comes under survival, as would hunting etc.

So when you’re buffing up your skills, have a good think about what would ultimately compliment your style of play, but also the class and race that you’ve picked.