DnD Character Creation and Statistical Translation Guide

Size: The size of a character, classified by category. Each category has bonuses and penalties that scale up or down per category increase or decrease. The Attack and AC modifiers change one's chance to hit another person, and avoid being hit. Smaller creatures are favored. Special attack modifiers affect one's ability to grapple, trample, disarm, bullrush, charge, and other things, and favors larger creatures. Hide modifiers affects one's ability to conceal themselves, favoring smaller creatures. How the systems worked will be explained further down.

Category	Height	Attack and AC Modifier	Special Attacks Modifier	Hide Modifier
Fine	< 6 in.	+8	-16	+16
Diminuitive	6 in. - 1 ft.	+4	-12	+12
Tiny	1 ft. - 2 ft.	+2	-8	+8
Small	2 ft. - 4 ft.	+1	-4	+4
Medium	4 ft. - 8 ft.	0	0	0
Large	8 ft. - 16 ft.	-1	+4	-4
Huge	16 ft. - 32 ft.	-2	+8	-8
Gargantuan	32 ft. - 64 ft.	-4	+12	-12
Colossal	64 ft. - 128 ft.	-8	+16	-16
Colossal+	> 128 ft.	-16	+20	-20

Be mindful of your character's height. If you decide to extend beyond the boundaries of the Medium category, you will notice changes that need to be adhered to. Note that bigger characters take up more space, measured in squares.

Ability Scores are the defining attributes of a character. They are: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intellect, Wisdom and Charisma.

To understand how much an ability is in terms of 'skill bars,' take the total value of a stat and divide by 20. So, 10 is average, 0 is none, and 20 is a full bar, however, a stat can climb above 20 (but usually not through natural means or starting statistics).

A 10 means no bonuses. Every 2 points above a 10 is a bonus of 1. That Every 1-2 points under 10 is a penalty of 1. So 12 and 13 give a +1 bonus, 14, a +2, 8 a -1, and 2 a -4. So on and so forth.

Below are some explanations as to what each ability does. There may be some terminology you don't understand; don't worry, it will all be explained in the next section.

Strength: Strength affects a lot of things. For starters, it affects your attack bonus, or "chance to hit," which is a chance to make contact with the target, and ALSO pierce the target's armor. Strength also adds (or detracts, if you are exceptionally weak) damage, variable to the ability score. So, if you're strong, expect to hit harder and accomplish more physical harm.

Additionally, it affects the weight one can carry.

Some brief comparisons, shown as 'score', 'light load', 'medium load,' and 'heavy load':

1 ; 3 lb. or less ; 4–6 lb. ; 7–10 lb.
10 ; 33 lb. or less ; 34–66 lb. ; 67–100 lb.
15 ; 66 lb. or less ; 67–133 lb. ; 134–200 lb.
20 ; 133 lb. or less ; 134–266 lb. ; 267–400 lb.
25 ; 266 lb. or less ; 267–533 lb. ; 534–800 lb.

These are for Medium bipedal creatures. A larger bipedal creature can carry more weight depending on its size category, as follows: Large ×2, Huge ×4, Gargantuan ×8, Colossal ×16. A smaller creature can carry less weight depending on its size category, as follows: Small ×3/4, Tiny ×1/2, Diminutive ×1/4, Fine ×1/8.

Quadrupeds can carry heavier loads than characters can. Instead of the multipliers given above, multiply the value corresponding to the creature’s Strength score from Table: Carrying Capacity by the appropriate modifier, as follows: Fine ×1/4, Diminutive ×1/2, Tiny ×3/4, Small ×1, Medium ×1-1/2, Large ×3, Huge ×6, Gargantuan ×12, Colossal ×24.

Lastly, Strength bonuses grant a natural bonus to the skills: Climb, Jump and Swim.

If a creature does not possess any Strength (aka a value of 0), it does not have the capacity to manipulate any object, including itself, through physical means.


Dexterity: Dexterity is another key ability for almost any situation. It affects a wide variety of skills and determines, in a nutshell, how well you can control the movement of your body. Someone with high Dexterity can accurately aim or throw a weapon, can dodge more effectively, and possess better natural physical reflexes (as opposed to trained reflexes gained from experience).

+1/etc modifiers apply to: Certiain (almost all) Reflex saves, Armor Class (all kinds, except flat-footed), ranged attacks, and if the feat Weapon Finesse is on a character, attack bonus for certain melee weapons.

Constitution: This Life stat, the determiner that a creature is an organic being, and not a construct, ghost, undead, etc. If a living being's constitution ever drops to 0, it is dead, no argument. No amount of regular healing will bring them back, as the actual living essence within them is gone.



Intellect: todo

Wisdom: todo

Charisma: todo