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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6459266" data-attributes="member: 6677017">I'll echo what [MENTION=61529]seebs[/MENTION] said. Why does your friend object to playing a pre-made for an intro adventure?My advice is to recommend using the pre-generated characters. They are easier for new players and they provide built in hooks for the story so the players know what their character's drives and motivations are. If one individual really, really wants to make their own character, help them make their character before the game session. Do not force the rest of the group to wait around being bored while others make their character. And if multiple people need to make characters, it will take even longer. They'll start doing something else, which will distract the people making characters, which will slow everything down and end up taking the whole session without actually starting the game. With everyone being new, that is not how I would attempt to get players excited about the game. The pre-gens are specifically intended for completely new groups like yours. Use the pre-gens. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6459266, member: 6677017"] I'll echo what [MENTION=61529]seebs[/MENTION] said. Why does your friend object to playing a pre-made for an intro adventure? My advice is to recommend using the pre-generated characters. They are easier for new players and they provide built in hooks for the story so the players know what their character's drives and motivations are. If one individual really, really wants to make their own character, help them make their character [I]before[/I] the game session. Do [I]not[/I] force the rest of the group to wait around being bored while others make their character. And if multiple people need to make characters, it will take even longer. They'll start doing something else, which will distract the people making characters, which will slow everything down and end up taking the whole session without actually starting the game. With everyone being new, that is [B]not[/B] how I would attempt to get players excited about the game. The pre-gens are specifically intended for completely new groups like yours. Use the pre-gens. :) [/QUOTE]

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