Player Guide to Ozyleme
This guide contains the knowledge, customs, beliefs, and rules needed to create a character who belongs beneath the hollow sun of Ozyleme.
You do not need to know every kingdom, god, creature, or piece of history before playing. Begin with what your character would reasonably know and allow the darker mysteries of Ozyleme to reveal themselves during play.
Character Builder
Create, save, load, and export your Ozyleme character.
Things Everyone Knows
The world, kingdoms, gods, customs, and beliefs known by ordinary people.
How to Roleplay
Build a character who feels like they were actually raised in Ozyleme.
The Dragon King
What the people of Ozyleme know, believe, and fear about their King.
Character Builder
Create a character for Ozyleme, record your character details, and export your finished character for play.
Create, save, load, and export your Ozyleme character.
Create a Character
Use the resources below when building a character for Ozyleme. Standard Dungeons & Dragons character creation applies unless an Ozyleme rule specifically changes it.
Ozyleme Character Rule
All characters in Ozyleme gain +1 to one ability score of their choice.
Choose the ability score after assigning your starting ability scores. The calculator below includes this Ozyleme bonus.
Character Sheets
Official Dungeons & Dragons character sheets can be opened or saved as PDFs.
2014 Fillable Character Sheet PDF
Ability Score Point Buy
Spend up to 27 points. Scores may be purchased from 8 to 15 before applying the Ozyleme +1.
Points Used: 0
Points Remaining: 27
Your ability scores are within the 27-point limit.
Things Everyone Knows About Ozyleme
A character raised in Ozyleme should not enter the world knowing nothing about it. Certain ideas are so widespread that even an isolated farmer, wandering laborer, or child would have heard some version of them.
The World Beneath the Hollow Sun
The Eight Kingdoms
Every kingdom has its own Keeper, people, dangers, customs, and reputation. Travelers carry countless warnings about the lands beyond their homes.
The Gods
Magic
What the people of Ozyleme believe about magic, those who wield it, and its place within the world will be recorded here.
Death and What Comes After
Common beliefs surrounding death, the dead, spirits, burial, remembrance, and what may remain after life has ended will be recorded here.
Everyday Life
Customs involving travel, food, shelter, work, celebrations, mourning, superstition, and ordinary survival will be recorded here.
Things People Fear
Dangers, warnings, superstitions, and threats known by ordinary inhabitants of Ozyleme will be recorded here.
How to Roleplay in Ozyleme
Characters in Ozyleme have grown up in a world where strange skies, cruel gods, dangerous wilderness, unusual peoples, and supernatural forces are parts of ordinary life.
How Does Your Character See the World?
Do they accept Ozyleme as it is, fear it, resent it, celebrate it, or dream that something better exists?
What Does Your Character Think of the Gods?
Does your character worship, fear, respect, bargain with, distrust, or ignore the divine powers?
Where Is Home?
Consider which kingdom, settlement, wilderness, or community shaped your character.
What Does Your Character Fear?
Give your character a superstition, warning, ritual, story, or childhood fear that comes from growing up beneath the hollow sun.
Remember What Is Normal Here
Things that appear grotesque or supernatural to an outsider may be completely ordinary to someone born in Ozyleme.
Questions for Your Character
- Where were you raised?
- What were you taught about the gods?
- What story frightened you as a child?
- What superstition do you still follow?
- What do you believe happens after death?
- What have you been told about the Dragon King?
- Why did you leave home?
The Dragon King
The Dragon King occupies a place in Ozyleme unlike that of any mortal ruler. His presence reaches beyond kingdoms, borders, generations, and even the gods themselves.
Not everything said about the Dragon King is necessarily true. Some things are taught as history. Others survive as religion, warning, superstition, rumor, or forbidden story.
What Everyone Knows
The facts virtually every person in Ozyleme has been taught about the Dragon King will be recorded here.
The Dragon and the Gods
What mortals commonly believe about the Dragon King's relationship with the gods will be recorded here.
The Dragon's Breath
Stories and beliefs concerning the Dragon's breath, the mist, and the things said to emerge from it will be recorded here.
The Dragon and Magic
What people believe about the Dragon King's relationship with magic will be recorded here.
Stories Told About Him
Legends, nursery tales, prayers, warnings, sayings, and contradictory stories concerning the Dragon King can be collected here.
What Is Not Known
Some truths concerning the Dragon King are lost, deliberately hidden, misunderstood, or known only by those who have come dangerously close to him.