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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moving Pictures" data-source="post: 9829092" data-attributes="member: 7052268">Or, alternately, if they can't generate a character whose backstory and complexity yearn for play to begin to tell a story....I say that because I recently built a 5e character for an online Roll20/Discord game. Everything was generated from a character concept that was developed first (an orphan/slave who escaped slavery as a child, lived on the streets and did what had to be done until pulled from a bad path by an intervening priest - generating a sense of duty to "pay back" for that intervention.). We were given five levels to start, and I ended up crafting a half-elf fourth-level Arcane Trickster Rogue, with a brand-new, fresh-outta-the-priesthood single level of cleric.It's not the most potent build I could have made. In fact, I wanted to create a complex character who apart from some rogue-ish sneaky-sneaky, would be a second-line everything. Backup healer; can be the "face" if the bard is in trouble again, emergency stopgap fighter, bit of missile attack.  A "glue" character mechanically.  As an experienced DM/player, I like the single level of cleric, because it gives me a chance to roleplay the nervous, "still has that new cleric smell" element.But now I eagerly want to see what her story will be....</blockquote>