D&D 5e · Free DM tool

Character Builder

Everything on this page is optional except the name. Pick a class, set the numbers your table actually asks you for, leave the rest empty, and the sheet keeps up with whatever you have decided so far.

No account needed. This browser holds every hero you make, and one press moves them into an account when you want one.

The tracker on this device already has them.

Heroes made here are in its library the next time you open it. Drop them into the initiative order and spend their hit points, and the sheet is one press away when somebody asks what their passive Perception is.

Run it in the app
The method

How a character comes together here

In the order the tabs sit, which is roughly the order a character gets decided at a table. Plenty never leave the first one, and the ones that do usually earn it by surviving a session.

Who they are

A name, and whatever else you have settled

Class, subclass, species and level are pickers, so a hero takes about four presses. The subclass list follows whichever class you picked, so there is no wrong pairing to make.

What they can do

The six numbers, and what they are good at

Type a score, get its modifier. Tick a save or a skill, get the proficiency added on. Tick expertise and it doubles, the way the book does it, so nothing on the sheet is a number you had to work out yourself.

The sheet

The right-hand panel is the sheet itself

The one your DM screen opens when this hero takes a turn. Nothing about it changes on the way from here into a session.

What it holds

What a hero sheet keeps

The same tabs the app opens; only the portrait waits for an account with somewhere to keep it.

The lists

Every class, its subclasses, and a dozen species

Spelled the way your book spells them, so a name on this sheet is the name at your table. Picking a class fills in what follows from it: the hit die, the two saving throws it is good at, and the slot table if it casts.

Standing up to a hit

Armor class, hit points, initiative, speed

The four numbers a turn actually spends. Set them here and a hero dropped into a fight arrives ready, instead of as a name with question marks beside it.

Casters

Spells they lean on, and the slots to cast them

Search the SRD 5.2 spell list and pin the ones that matter. The class and level fill in the slot table by themselves, and every row stays yours to type over.

Table reference

What they shrug off, what they see, what you wrote down

Resistances, senses, languages: the lines somebody asks about mid-fight. Plus your own notes, which is where last week’s promise to the innkeeper lives. Nobody remembers any of it twice, so it belongs on the sheet.

Questions

About building characters

How do I make a D&D character?
Name them, pick a class and a species, then give them an armor class and hit points: what they are wearing, and how much they can take before they drop. Press Forge and the sheet is in your library. The six ability scores, the skills and the spells are all waiting on their own tabs for the night your table asks for them.
Is the character builder free?
Yes, all of it. Nothing on this page sits behind a paid tier. An account adds the things that need one: the same library waiting for you on a second machine, and somewhere to keep a portrait.
Do I have to fill in every tab?
No. A name is the whole requirement. Everything past it is reference the DM can lean on mid-session, so a character you sketched in ten seconds is as real to the tracker as one you spent an evening on.
Which classes and species can I pick?
The 2024 book’s twelve classes with the Artificer beside them, each with its subclasses, and that book’s ten species with Firbolg and Tabaxi beside them. The three extras are not another edition; they are the ones tables kept playing, and the forge treats them like any other row. A class sets the numbers the sheet can work out, saves and hit die and slots; a species is the name on the sheet. What either grants you in rules text is in the book you own, and this tool does not reprint it.
Where does my character go when I close the tab?
Nowhere. It sits in this browser’s own storage, which is where the tracker looks too, so the app on this device already has your party in its library. The download is for when you want the file itself, whether that is a backup or a handover to whoever runs the game next week.
Can I bring a downloaded character back in?
Yes. The file holds the sheet exactly as the app keeps it, so the character importer takes it back and nothing is lost on the way. The same door also reads a D&D Beyond export, if that is where your party lives.