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You can tell a lot about someone by the character they build when the dice are watching. We’re back with a brand-new Dungeons & Dragons campaign series, and we start at the true beginning: character creation, from blank sheets to spell lists, with our friend and returning guest Joe Bennett behind the screen. We’re playing D&D 5e using the 2014 rules, plus Joe’s own character-creation approach shaped by his work running therapeutic D&D groups.

We talk through the six ability scores in plain language, roll stats the classic way, and make the kind of choices that immediately create tension and personality. One of us goes draconic bloodline sorcerer and starts stacking cantrips and first-level spells with an eye toward damage and control. The other leans into a Hexblade warlock, tied to a sentient weapon that whispers through dreams, and then takes the flying tiefling route because sometimes the real plan is escape.

Along the way, Joe shares how he frames species and lore in a counseling context, from dwarven honor and shame to the distrust that follows tieflings, and why these story elements can spark real insight without turning the table into group therapy. We also get practical about spell selection, apps, and the small mistakes every beginner makes when the rules meet the imagination.

If you’re curious about Dungeons & Dragons character creation, therapeutic tabletop roleplaying, or how a campaign can become a mirror for growth, this is the setup you’ve been waiting for. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves RPGs, and leave a review, then tell us: what character would you bring into a heaven-and-hell campaign?

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