ToD Solo, Part 1: Creating Heroes

A new beginning for the Reign of the Tiamat

This is an account of my playthrough of Wizards of the Coasts campaign "Tyranny of Dragons"

I have attempted to run this campaign solo before. This is attempt two. 

Rolling new Characters, using Xanathar's Guide to Everything's This is Your Life Tables (Chapter1, page 61-73):
🎲 Character 1: Race: (4) Human | Class: (51) Fighter | Occupation: (78) Merchant
🎲 Character 2: Race: (94) Tiefling | Class: (64) Paladin | Occupation: (46) Farmer or Herder
🎲 Character 3: Race: (24) Human | Class: (40) Fighter | Occupation: (35) Entertainer
🎲 Character 4: Race: (8) Human | Class: (45) Fighter | Occupation: (92) Sailor

Making Sense of the rolls: This party consists of three Human Fighters and a Tiefling Paladin. The Fighters have different backgrounds that would rely heavily on travel. Merchants, Entertainers and Sailors tend to get around quite a bit. Perhaps they met in a Port Town where they also encountered the Paladin, who is a Farmer or Herder, which in itself is a curious combination. 
The Farmer or Herder does not directly correspondent with a background. I'll use the Folk Hero background for the Tiefling.

Rolling up names for each character using the tables from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Appendix B:

🎲Character 1: Human Fighter, Merchant Background
Gender: Homebrew Table: [d10: 1-4 male, 5-8 female, 9 nonbinary, 10 DM's choice]: (4) male
Origin: [rolling 1d20, rerolling 17 or higher, cross-referencing the roll with the corresponding origin]: (9) Indian
Name: (48) Kashi

🎲Character 2: Tiefling Paladin, Folk Hero Background 
Gender: (2) male
Virtue name, yes or no?: (coin flip) Yes
Name: (48) Ignominy (means: public shame or disgrace)

🎲Character 3: Human Fighter, Entertainer Background
Gender: (10) female
Origin: (4) Egyptian
Name: (77) Pypuy

🎲Character 4: Human Fighter, Sailor Background
Gender: (1) male
Origin: (11) Mesoamerican
Name: (17) Cuauhtémoc

So our party consists of: 

• Kashi, the male human Fighter with the Merchant Background
• Ignominy, the male tiefling Paladin with the Folk Hero Background
• Pypuy, the female human Fighter with the Entertainer Background
• Cuauhtémoc, the male human Fighter with the Sailor Background

Given the fact that we have three fighters, we will need three different subclasses to keep it interesting. Because Tyranny was released early in the 5e-timeline I will limit myself to the Player Handbook when it comes to creating characters. The Player Handbook offers us three possible Archetypes: The Champion, the Battle Master and the Eldritch Knight so we'll be able to make use of all three. Or, if things get too boring, there is always multiclassing. But for action economy, three fighters are going to be interesting to say the least. 

I am printing out character sheets physically, because that will enable me to keep better track of turns and other goings on. I will also use a party inventory sheet to keep track of loot, which I will assume is always with the person who needs it at the moment unless that is not logical. 

Now we'll create the individual backstories, which will result in threads that I will need to keep track of during the campaign and try to fit into the module wherever I can.