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How to Help Your Players During Character Creation

How to Be a Better DM: Dungeon Master Tips for the DM Newbie, the Hobbyist and the Forever DM

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Emphasizing Personality Traits in Character Creation

In this chapter, they discuss how Dungeons and Dragons' fifth edition emphasizes personality traits, flaws, ideals, and bonds during character creation. They explain how these elements provide a more realistic view of people, allowing for moral compromises and changes depending on who is important to the character. The advice given to DMs is to provide players with a list of bonds, flaws, and ideals, and to consistently remind them of these aspects during gameplay to encourage character development.

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