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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gabriel Pendragon" data-source="post: 6779294" data-attributes="member: 6807093">Play Living forgotten realms at your local game store, if they don't have it start a LFR group.People suggesting dropping background mechanics? Might as well not play 5e, one of the big things about 5e is to focus more on roleplaying and creative choices.Char gen moves along pretty nicely in 5e, and does a great job of turning a blank piece of paper into a living breathing person in a fantasy world. A good place to start is asking them what do you want your character to do in a fight. This will guide race, class, stat array, weapon/spell choices and background to a degree. Then work on why they do things that way to further solidify the above options. To make it fast you could make them all play humans with the 15 15 15 8 8 8 array, making their stats 3 16's in their primary stats and 3 8's in their dump stats. Given a basic character concept I can knock out fully fleshed out characters in about an hour. Many of the details of backgrounds can be chosen as they play and get to know the character better. I've had days where i spent the entire day knocking out an army of fully fleshed out characters, once you get into the swing of things it goes fast.I suggest LFR as one of the rules is that until 5th level or so you can change anything about the character you want other than the name. Play a game as a human fighter and didn't like it, ok, change it to a gnome wizard, no problem.If you want to start them off with pregens for their prefered class it wouldn't be a bad idea, as they get into it more and better understand the game i'm sure they will come up with their own ideas for characters pretty fast. Be happy to share the sheets I use for char gen, the fillable pdf's help a lot.</blockquote>

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