Chapter 1: Character Creation - Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Chapter 1: Character Creation. The Player's Handbook describes a step-by-step process of character creation. When you create a character for a Ravnica campaign, you'll go through the same steps, with the added step of choosing a guild. Creating a character begins with imagining the person you want to play. The ten guilds of Ravnica provide a way to jump-start your imagination and steer you toward certain character archetypes that can guide the rest of the decisions you make for your character. Choosing a Guild Chapter 2 describes the ten guilds of Ravnica in detail. How do you decide what guild you want your character to belong to? You can choose one of these approaches: Look at the questionnaire, "What's Important to Me?", in this chapter. Let its questions and your choice of answers direct you to a guild that appeals to you or that sounds like a fun character to play. Read the guild descriptions in chapter 2 and choose one that appeals to you. Read the descriptions of races and classes in this chapter. Guild membership recommendations are provided for each race and class, should one catch your eye. If you have access to Magic: The Gathering cards from a Ravnica set, find a card that appeals to you and build that character. If you're a Magic player and you already have a favorite guild, create a character from that guild. To reflect your character's membership in a guild, you can choose the background included in the guild's description instead of a background from the Player's Handbook or some other source. Also make a note of your contacts. Guildless Characters You can play a character who isn't a member of a guild. Choose one of the character backgrounds in the Player's Handbook or another source instead of one of the guild backgrounds in chapter 2. Your guildless character can be of any class, race, and alignment. At the DM's option, you might have contacts within guilds, or the DM can invent contacts for you that aren't associated with the guilds of Ravnica...