Non Magical 5e Characters

5^th Edition Magical Rehab

Like a coke dealer sneaking into a Bat Mitzvah, 5e thinks everyone deserves a little magic in their lives.

EVERYONE.

So if you are an old school weirdo who wants to keep a clear divide between magic using and normal classes, or if you just never want to look up a spell, ever, or think about ‘expending a slot’, then it actually becomes a little difficult to avoid picking up some magical special sauce from your class.

So here are all the ways to avoid being magic.

Race

Ok

Human

Dwarf (Hill or Mountain)

Halfling (Stout or Light)

Half-Orc

Rock Gnome

Half-Elf

Mmmaybe

Wood Elf (Stealth powers not really magic but…)

Dragonborn (Breath weapon is semi-naturalistic but….)

Never

High Elf (One cantrip is one too many)

Drow

Tiefling

Wood Gnome

Class

Ok

Barbarian – Berserker

Fighter – Old School Improv Fighter

Fighter – 4thy Asperger’s fighter

Rogue –Thief

Rogue – Assassin

Mmmaybe

Monk – Way of the Open Hand nnnn so close, you do get ‘Tranquility at 11^th level, which is a spell effect but maybe not a spell. This one nearly got promoted to 'Ok', but if we are not letting in 'totem warriors' then I don't think we can allow meditating monks.

Barbarian – Totem Warrior. Communing with Nature, whatever.

Ranger – Any. Almost. You get spells but in theory you could just use them to power your ‘Primal Awareness’ thing which is like a sonar ping for weird. But you would have to keep not using spells.

Never

Fighter – Eldritch Knight, (let’s be kind and call this Weird Arthurian Knight)

Bard – Any

Cleric – Any

Druid – Any

Monk – Ninja monk

Monk – Anime Elemental Monk

Paladin – Any

Rogue – Arcane Trickster

Sorcerer –Any

Wizard – Any

Warlock - Any

I also made this generator for a world in which there are no magical classes. Instead of having Human as one choice equal with the rest I decided to include a range of human races, that's unlike D&D races, which are actually species...

Anyway. Instead of using made-up D&D Human races I gave human races the very rough equivalent of the human racial distribution of Earth. Which was a can of worms I can tell you, since no-one agrees with anyone about anything and once you get past the vaguest kinds of ethnic distinction people differ a lot. So, surprise news for me, most people on earth are vaguely asian, there's roughly equal numbers of black and white people and no-one can agree what 'South American' means. Who knew dividing people by race could get so complicated so fast?

Anyway, here you go, click this Hellblazer page to generate your entirely non-magical character.