Character 4 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition
Welcome back to day four of our fun and exciting Character Creation Challenge! Today's character is from an old, obscure RPG from the late 1980s, TSR Inc.'s Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition. I'm sure a few of my readers have heard of this obscure little game but for those who haven't, AD&D was published in 1989 as the second edition of the Advanced line of Dungeons and Dragons games. The base game has no setting but several were published (my favorites are Spelljammer, Dark Sun and Planescape... yeah, I like the odd ducks). So since we're only using corebooks today's character will be a generic fantasy setting character. Let's get to it, shall we? Character Creation Step 1 - Generate Ability Scores Characters in AD&D have 6 ability scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma. They all do what they say on the label. Ability scores determine what classes you can play, to what levels and if you get any bonus ex...