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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fralex" data-source="post: 6458767" data-attributes="member: 6785902">Making a character can seem a little daunting the first time, but plenty of people do it even for their first time playing. In some ways it may even be better to make your character yourself; by the end you'll already have a better understanding of what you can do and how all the pieces fit together. Even if you don't know all the finer points on how to, like, pick all the right things to make a super-optimized hero or whatever, it's easy to understand the basics and with the limited options in the free PDF you're not gonna be overwhelmed by choices. Plus, it's fun to make a character yourself! <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=":)" />All you really need to be concerned about is accounting for the extra time it will take to create a character. If you have all your players start making characters on the first get-together, that's likely all you'll have time for. You'll have to start the game for real another time. You could have everyone make their characters on their own and bring the finished ones to the game, but there's also something to be said for being able to talk to each other while you make characters. Might help everyone get on the same page, ask each other for help when they need it, sort of thing. Once you get the hang of it, character creation will go faster. Oh, and I don't know how much of the class descriptions you've read, but each one contains a "quick build" section that gives you basic advice for making that class quickly. Look, the bottom line is, you'll all be fine. This is a very beginner-friendly edition to be starting out on.Disclaimer:  It's worth noting that when I played my first game, a couple of the players were already experienced with it and could help the rest of us. It might be different when everyone is a beginner. Then again, I was trying to learn 3.5 edition, which had a lot more tricky rules to learn than 5th edition. I'm still reasonably sure you'll be fine either way.</blockquote>

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