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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painted_klown" data-source="post: 6458596" data-attributes="member: 6785485">Ok gang, I may have a bit of an issue with one of my players before we even get started. He, along with another player, went tonight to look at the starter set and realized that is has pre-made characters to use in with the included adventure. My buddy called and said he was freaking out at the idea of playing pre-made characters, even to get us started. My friend and I discussed the options a bit and I said that we can probably roll up our own characters, but we would need to use the online PDF to do so, and since none of us know what we are doing, then it will probably take forever to get us started. I also explained that the PDF has all of the rules but not all of the options (for PC characters) covered in the print copy of the PHB. He seemed to lose some excitement, to say the least. My first thought is to get the starter kit, sit the players down and explain why I think it would be a good idea to play the starter kit "as is" and failing that, take the time for all of us to figure out how to roll up characters, then play through with those. What say all of you? How would you handle this?Please bear in mind that none of us have a clue of what we are doing, with me having (by far) done the most reading and learning. These guys don't even know what the 3 core books are. I am not saying that out of some sense of superiority (as I am still clueless myself), I am saying this out of fear, to be honest. I worry this may end up being a really bad case of the blind leading the blind, and I'm worried they will not enjoy it and not want to continue.I sincerely feel that if they all nab up one of the pre-made characters, and we roll through the adventure as written, then we will all learn a LOT and be able to move forward from there. I admit, I think it may be a bit of a crutch that I can lean on, and would like to have it at my disposal.Any advise would be welcome. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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