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not much crunch but a few interesting points
not much crunch but a few interesting points
WotC_Thomasson, 11/8/2007 101 PM
I just wanted to follow up quickly on a comment to my post about our first session last week.
We have plans to start talking more about character creation for 4th Edition on Insider in the very near future. In fact, Shelly is going to be talking about her character creation experience in an upcoming column of Confessions of a Full-Time Wizard. We're not going to be able to go into too many specifics yet, because the design team makes tweaks and changes pretty much every day (and all for the better I might add).
In the meantime, I can say this: In 4th Edition, creating a character involves nearly all the things that you're used to picking in 3rd Edition. You pick a race, a class, equipment, skills, and so on. The methods used are slightly different, and you actually have a few more decisions to make. But the biggest difference to me is that in 4th Edition, I was the happiest with my character when I started with the concept I wanted (as in, I want to play a guy who's wicked good with a bow, or I want to play a guy who smites the forces of evil for Bahamaut, or I want to play the guy with a shady side who has a hard time telling the truth when he's stressed), and then made my other decisions from there. I think 4th Edition encourages this approach to character creation more than previous editions, which means in the end, you get a character that's closer to your concept. And I think that's fantastic. I didn't have the square peg/round hole problem I often faced in 3E. I didn't have to try and shoehorn my race and class together with my character concept, because starting with my concept informed my other choices.
