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Quick Equipment

Equipping a newly created character is typically the most time-consuming part of the character creation process. This article presents an alternative system for groups who wish to speed things up.

Random Starting Equipment

Instead of rolling 3d6 × 10 for gold and purchasing items, follow these steps:

1. Basic equipment: All characters have: a backpack, a tinder box, 1d6 torches, a waterskin, 1d6 iron rations, 3d6 gp.
2. Class-specific equipment: The Equipment by Class table shows the armour (usually a roll on the Armour table),
   weapons (usually two rolls on the Weapons table), and any extra items that characters of each class have.
3. Adventuring gear: Roll 1d12 twice on the Adventuring Gear table.

Equipment by Class
Class	Armour	Weapons	Extra Items
Acrobat	Leather	1d4 twice (acrobat table)	—
Assassin	Leather	1d12 twice	—
Barbarian	1d4	1d12 twice	—
Bard	1d4, ignore shields	1d4 twice (bard table)	—
Cleric	1d6	1d4 twice (cleric table)	Holy symbol
Drow	1d6	1d12 twice	Holy symbol
Druid	Leather	1d4 twice (druid table)	Sprig of mistletoe
Duergar	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Dwarf	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Elf	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Fighter	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Gnome	Leather	1d12 twice	—
Halfling	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Half-elf	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Half-orc	1d4	1d12 twice	—
Illusionist	None	Dagger	—
Knight	1d4+2	1d4 twice (knight table)	—
Magic-user	None	Dagger	—
Paladin	1d6	1d12 twice	Holy symbol
Ranger	1d4	1d12 twice	—
Svirfneblin	1d6	1d12 twice	—
Thief	Leather	1d12 twice	Thieves’ tools