Load your desired Campaign(s) Adjust the settings in the Options tab Choose the File/New menu item to create a new character, or File/Open button to load a previously created character. Click on your desired Race in the Race tab and click on the Choose button. You need to go to the Classes tab to change your Alignment before you can select certain races which have alignment restrictions. In the Abilities tab adjust stats as desired (this is done before adding classes on purpose) In the Classes tab select your Alignment (lower-right corner) and add levels to classes In the Abilities tab you can select any bonus languages due from your race and/or class selections. In the Skills tab, select which class you want to purchase your skills as and then select a skill and click on the Raise or Max Rank button. In the Feats tab you can select your chosen feats. Feats which are granted to you automatically (from race and/or class) are dark-yellow in color and cannot be exchanged, virtual feats (granted by classes and/or equipment) are magenta and also cannot be exchanged. In the Domains tab you can select your deity and any domains as applicable. Select a deity by double-clicking on it. In the Spells tab you can add spells to your spellbook (spellbook referring to a list of spells, not to an actual physical spellbook). Some classes have all the spells automatically put in their "Known Spells" spellbook (which is the default spellbook every spellcaster has and is used in PCGen to simply keep track of what spells you know) In the Inventory tab you can buy and sell equipment. The Carry column lets you indicate how many of the item you want to actually carry on your character (this affects your encumberance), and the Equip checkbox lets you indicate if you want the item equipped or not (armor doesn't affect your AC unless it's equipped). In the Description tab you can see some general stats on your character, and you can type in the Player's name, adjust the character's height, weight, age, gender and handedness. In the Misc tab you can type in any magical item and assets the character owns. You can use html tags if you want to change how it looks when printed on a charactersheet. In the Preview tab you can select which template you want to use by clicking on the "Select a template" button on the bottom-left of the tab (the character sheets should all be in the templates directory). You can save the character directly to a file by clicking on the "Export To..." button, or click on the "Preview" button to see it in the tab itself (there are problems with any templates which use style sheets so it may not look like it would in a regular browser). You can also click on the "Preview in Browser" button to open the character sheet in a browser.