My First "White Box" Character

 Last night I decided to roll up a character having just completed reading through "White Box". I started with the statistic rolls running top to bottom.

• STR: 10
• DEX: 9
• CON: 9
• INT: 13
• WIS: 9
• CHA: 17

I was quite happy with that start, I don't think I've ever rolled as high as 17 for stats in a straight 3D6 game in my thirty years of playing! Alas, a quick look at the available classes Fighter, Wizard, Cleric showed that none of them used CHA as the prime stat. However, you can move points between stats if its towards you prime stat. The least amount of fiddling I could do here was move some points to INT which would make the stats best suited as a Wizard. 

I took them from CHA which still left me with two stats in the 15+ range. It felt like a shame to reduce my bestest evar(!) stat but needs must. That gained me a +1 on both INT and CHA rolls, and a 5% bonus on XP.

• STR: 10
• DEX: 9
• CON: 9
• INT: 15 (+1, +5%xp)
• WIS: 9
• CHA: 15 (+1)

As a Wizard you can be any alignment, so I went for Lawful. I also got a +2 on magical saving throws because Wizards know their way around the spheres. Alas, wizards do not use armour so I ended on the default armour class. 

The Hit Die for a first level wizard is 1D6, I "of course" rolled a 1. Time for that "fudge factor", I cheated, and rerolled getting a 3. I've never played a 1HP character, I just hate the idea of having to play ultra-level coward.

• XP: 0
• AC: 9
• HP: 3

White Box gives you two ways of doing Saving Throws, either a single target number or the classic 6 options, I went with the 6.

• Death Poison: 13 (+2 vs magic)
• Wands Rays: 14 (+2 vs magic)
• Paralysis Stone: 13 (+2 vs magic)
• Dragon Breath: 16 (+2 vs magic)
• Spells Staffs: 15 (+2 vs magic)

I rolled up 120gp for starting gold, luckily enough this turned out to be enough for a spell book. Would have been a pretty poor wizard without that! To the shopping mall...

• Staff
• Spellbook
• Flint/Steel
• Lantern
• Flask Oil
• 2 days trail rations

That left this penniless wizard without even a few coppers for a drink, let alone ink and quill. Anyway, the last thing to do was note the first level spells in his book, and in this I'm assuming the wizard knows all the first level spells.

Finally a quick internet search for a name generator and I named my wizard:

Ovior the Meddlesome