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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9361799" data-attributes="member: 6879661">interestingly to [USER=42040]@Retreater[/USER] ’s point from the first page about randomising characters being a trap. I did my first session as a player in an online game. It was a lot of fun and I had a ball. But it was very noticeable that about half the players had completely randomized their characters, had put the same number of advances into their Melee skill as they had in their consume alcohol and evaluate and didn’t really have any idea how the game worked mechanically when they built their characters. Yea there are randomised elements but these are exacerbated when the bits you do have choice over are randomly assigned.I highly, highly, highly recommend playing a short session that involved a bit of combat either before or as part of a session zero. The free module Night of Blood is excellent for this. As it’s very short and really just describes a single scenario. If it’s a big group get them to split up a bit when investigating so the combats doesn’t turn into a pile in.In my case because all three of my players were new to WFRP as a system, I ran it for each of them solo in the month before our session zero. It took about an hour and a half. We learnt how opposed roles worked. What was tested in combat, outnumbering, charging all that stuff. They then could re-so their characters or tweak them however they liked before the campaign started.Switching to WFRP from D&D is a culture shock. My god is it funny though.</blockquote>

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