Adjust your party’s stats and abilities for a duet by scaling the number of enemies faced in combat and uniquely empowering them with adjustments to casting and subclasses and personalized magical items.
Character Creation
Creating a Central Party: Character Personality and Alignment
This post discusses balance among your characters’ dispositions to help ensure a fun playing environment where both the DM and the player are getting to RP and interact in social situations with stakes.
Creating a Central Party: Character Class
You’ll want to take personality and character type into account when making the central party. This post discusses choosing character type for balance and fun.
How to Create Your Player Character [PC] in D&D: First Steps
We suggest, if you’re new to role-playing games (RPGs), that you base your character on an aspect of yourself so that you have relatively quick access to their emotions and personality. But more importantly, it makes for a really fun way to play. We use the term primary character to further designate the main character of your game, your central protagonist. Basically, you’ll need one character whose life and story drive the plot of your narrative. This is a bit different than games with larger numbers of players whose PCs work together, as a party, to collectively tell a story. In a duet, it’s all about the primary character!