If I had to make "D&D for Dummies" I'd make character generation even easier.
They try to do that with a standard array and equipment choices of a or b but it still takes too long and these choices are buried in too much other text. I'd have premade PCs of various types with the bare minimum of description for items/abilities/stats and then page number references for further clarification.
I believe there are four classes and four races in the Basic Rules. Since there is only one subclass choice, that's 16 different PCs (minimum) you'd need to make stats for. You could probably cram four on a page or two on a page if you wanted a bit more breathing room.
If you really wanted, you could make variations for each, like a strength-based human fighter and a dexterity based human fighter. Or you could leave those differences to the races so Human and Dwarf are strength-based and the elf and halfling are dexterity-based.
In any event, all the player would have to do is say "I wanna be an elf fighter with a bow" and you hand him the book and he copies the stats down. It's pregens, basically, just a lot of them.
They try to do that with a standard array and equipment choices of a or b but it still takes too long and these choices are buried in too much other text. I'd have premade PCs of various types with the bare minimum of description for items/abilities/stats and then page number references for further clarification.
I believe there are four classes and four races in the Basic Rules. Since there is only one subclass choice, that's 16 different PCs (minimum) you'd need to make stats for. You could probably cram four on a page or two on a page if you wanted a bit more breathing room.
If you really wanted, you could make variations for each, like a strength-based human fighter and a dexterity based human fighter. Or you could leave those differences to the races so Human and Dwarf are strength-based and the elf and halfling are dexterity-based.
In any event, all the player would have to do is say "I wanna be an elf fighter with a bow" and you hand him the book and he copies the stats down. It's pregens, basically, just a lot of them.