1st - Experience Points (XP) - You have 75,000 with which to build your character's abilities, class(es), level and hit points.

All abilities start at a base of 10. Any race may buy a 20 in any ability.

2nd - Class, Level, Hit Points - Use any remaining XPs to buy your level and maximum hit points, if you'd like.

• Attribute enhancements from level will be added as normal, just note which abilities have been adjusted this way.
• Wizards do not gain the scribe scroll feat. Instead, they may choose any one metamagical feat from the PHB.
• No character can have a familiar, war horse, animal companion, followers or any other form of assistance.
• Hit points are calculated at 75% of maximum hit points (including all bonuses from Constitution) rounding up, unless you wish to buy maximum hit points (cost = 2000 XP).
• Extra classes, beyond the 3rd one, will cost 1,000 XP/class; this cost is to smooth out the possible XP penalty from class level spread, and will be charged for more than 3 classes regardless of actual spread, and regardless of a race's preferred class.
• Only the races in the PHB are allowed and all racial modifications will be used, which means that elves will finally be able to add +2 to their dexterity.

3rd - Equipment - You have 750,000 gold pieces with which to equip your character.

• Spend these coins by buying magical and/or non-magical items out of the DMG and PHB.
• Nothing is free! Yes, you even have to purchase your non-magical gear.

4th - Follow the Design Time Rules - these are regulations, clarifications, and Delver Bash specific issues/items to
be aware of while building your character.

• Potion Belt/Wand Belt/Scroll Belt (cost = 100 GP each) - each will hold 10 such items and allow you to ready an item once per round as a free action that draws no AoO. A Maximum of 1 each of these items may be purchased.
• Any spell on a scroll may be modified as desired by metamagic feats, and scribed at any caster level from the minimum required to cast it up to 12th level.
• Spells on Scrolls (cost = 25 GP x caster level x total spell level) - remember no spell of greater than 6th level, regardless of feats.
• A potion, wand or scroll can store any spell according to that item's description; for gold piece costs see the DMG under Creating Potions, Wands and Scrolls.
• You cannot add a new ability to a listed magic item. Exception: See 6 below.

5th - Follow the Bash Rules - These are clarifications, reminders, prohibitions, and Delver Bash specific issues to follow during play; don't violate them during design time either!

• As a reminder, please reference the list on pg. 214 of the DMG, Limit on Magic Items Worn. We encountered several people with multiple amulets/necklaces/scarabs, or cloaks/mantles.
• Pg. 21, Bonus Types, should also be referenced to ensure you do not have multiples of the same bonuses stacking for your AC or ‘To Hit’ bonus.
• List the DCs for spells, scrolls, wands, etc. to speed the process along.
• Please be familiar with your character classes and abilities. We as bash masters will be using the WotC FAQ from their website to arbitrate any disputes it may cover.
• All spells, which center on you and have an "emanation" area of effect, emanate from your character's waist.
• You may not possess more than 2 of the same magical item (except potions, where the limit is 5).
• No single scroll may have more than 4 spells on it.
• You may not have more than 10 of the same spell from scrolls (this includes metamagically altered versions of those spells also).
• You may buy less than multiples of 50 of projectile ammunition at a proportional cost.
• You may buy a wand with only 25 charges at half the full, listed (or calculated) price.
• No dancing weapon enhancements or intelligent weapons.
• No Daern's Instant Fortress, Eversmoking Bottles, artifacts or cursed items.
• Only 2 Ioun stones can be active at any one time.
• No absorbing shields.
• Portable holes are banned, but Bags of Holding, Heward's Handy Haversacks and Quivers of Ehlonna are allowed, although placing one of these into the other has no effect other than to have one inside the other.
• Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from the DMG are banned from start to finish.
• There is no access to other planes, although teleportation and dimension door (only) still work.
• No wishes are allowed regardless of source.
• No books, librams, tomes, decks, etc.
• There shall be no sundering, disarming or picking of pockets.
• Intelligence enhancing items will not give extra skill points.
• No spells, from any source, of greater than 6th level; No spells modified to greater than 6th level spell slot.
• Tumbling to avoid an AoO is considered to be an opposed test in the Delver Bash. The tumbler must beat the opponent’s tumble check.
• Nothing can fight for you, i.e. no magical or non-magical animals or monsters, and no items such as figurines, ropes, nets, etc.
• Repulsion, Magic Jar and all forms of Invisibility are explicitly banned.
• No items, spells, or other dweomers may be in effect before play starts - this means, you must put your Ioun Stones up, and draw your weapon(s) on your initiative; Rings of Wizardry, however, will allow a wizard to memorize additional spells before play starts.
• No hiding in an opponent's unbroken line of sight, so use our bash environment to your advantage.
• Since the Monster Manual is not an authorized reference, the Druid's Wild Shape ability, Polymorph Self and Polymorph Other are essentially useless.
• The Cube of Force's charge cost will be charged per round, not per minute.
• The duration of the Bead of Karma from a Necklace of Prayer Beads has been reduced to rounds instead of minutes.
• The arena has a 200 foot ceiling.
• After round 10 no flying by any means.

• Stacked items: Total item cost x 1.5
  This allows you to have those great Amulets of Wisdom +6/Natural Armor +5 all in one neat, expensive little package. This modification follows the same restrictions as swapping items in regards to which items are eligible for stacking.

• Un-slotting items: Total item cost x 2.5
  Have you ever wanted a Pocket-Hanky of Displacement? How about a Gravy Boat of Spell Storing? Now is your chance! Any item, which occupies a slot per the table on pg. 214 of the DMG, can be moved to an innocuous little knick-knack seated comfortably in your hip pocket. Like the previous two options, this can only be used with miscellaneous magic items and rings.

• All of these modifications stack
  Although you could take the Bracers of Deflection +5/Armor +5 from the previous example and tuck it into your pocket as a hanky, the cost is astronomical. The Pocket Hanky of Deflection +5/Armor +5 would cost a whopping 412,500gp!! (2.5 times the total for the Bracers)

7th - Do your Math! - Have your buddy help with the tough addition

• Sum up all your expenses, and make sure they don't exceed their respective pool: 75,000 XP and 750,000 GP.
• Calculate and adjust all of your attack bonuses, saving throws, hit points and armor class; keep the math nearby to justify your numbers when we need to look at it.
• Calculate your armor class if denied Dexterity, denied Armor (ie, vs. Brilliant Energy), and against touch attacks.
• When you are finished, locate one of the Bash Masters and have them check your character sheet for accuracy.
• For conformity, and to get the Delver Bash underway in a timely manner, use the Official Delver Bash character sheet located on the website or available from a Bash Master before the Delver Bash begins.