Chapter 1: Character Options - Astral Adventurer's Guide

Chapter 1: Character Options. When you create a character for a campaign or an adventure set in Wildspace or the Astral Sea, you can choose from any of the options that the D&D game provides, including those described in this chapter. As always, you should check with your DM before creating a character to make sure the options you prefer are available. Spacefaring adventurers leave their damselfly ship behind and explore a new world in pursuit of their latest quest Backgrounds The following backgrounds are good choices for 1st-level characters who have strong ties to the Astral Plane. These backgrounds each give a feat. If a character takes a background from elsewhere and doesn't get a feat from that background, the character gains one of the following feats of the player's choice: Magic Initiate, Skilled, or Tough. Astral Drifter Wildspacer Races This chapter describes six race options available to players with the DM's consent: Astral elf, an elf denizen of the Astral Plane who is possibly hundreds of years old Autognome, a mechanical gnome who has free will Giff, a hippo-headed being of impressive size Hadozee, a simian being who adapts well to the hazards of Wildspace Plasmoid, an amoeba-like person Thri-kreen, a telepathic, insectile being Githyanki are natives of the Astral Plane. If you want to play one, the githyanki race option is presented in Monsters of the Multiverse. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a member of the human race or one of the game's fantastical races, which include the races presented in this chapter. If you create a character using a race option presented here, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character's ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores,...