The hardest decision in Dungeons and Dragons isn’t whether you choose to save the princess, or delve into the dungeon, fight the dragon, or spend the entire evening hitting on the barkeep; it’s who you decide to be.
And that’s really the best part of D&D, if you ask me; having the ability to be whoever you want to be, do whatever you want to do (…within a DM’s allowance, of course), and grow your PC into the person you want to see them become.
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But before all the experience points, all the milestones, all the cool loot, and all the heroic battles, a D&D character’s journey has to start somewhere, and that somewhere is usually during Character Creation in Session Zero.
Spending a few hours fine-tuning a character sheet into a work of art can often be a little intimidating for new D&D players, especially seeing as that marks the very first opportunity they have to flex their creative muscles and pull a fully-formed hero from thin air. It’s no wonder that so many people are hesitant to get into the hobby, as that’s an incredibly high barrier to entry!
Well, thankfully, the internet exists. And that internet contains all sorts of quizzes that can determine exactly what kind of character you are, or what kind of character you want to play as.
But it’s not as simple as answering a few questions (because is anything in D&D ever really all that simple?), seeing as characters have to have a race, a class, and an alignment, we figured the best way to ask the internet what D&D character you should play is by splitting those three attributes up into their very own quizzes, and we found the best ones out there for you to use.
.All of which do not require you to give your email address to get the answers, btw.
D&D Race Quiz
For your D&D race we’d head on over to Quickphix’s D&D 5e race quiz. It is 10 questions long, does not give away what questions correspond with what races, and includes a token for you to use in your online games at the result.
D&D Class Quiz
You’ve always got to find a more recent quiz when it comes to D&D classes, because the Artificer and Mystic were added after D&D 5e officially published in 2015. We made sure to find a D&D class quiz that was up to date, and this one is 10 questions long, doesn’t ask for an email (though it will ask for a name), and seems to take a LOT into consideration.
Moral Alignment Test
Now this one doesn’t actually have anything to do with D&D, other than the fact that it uses the same Lawful to Chaotic, Good to Evil square to show where exactly you land. Remember to answer this one as your character rather than as yourself if you’re hoping to play a D&D character that is at all different (morally, at least) from the way that you are. Or do it as yourself and find out just how chaotically evil you really are!
