Character Creation Mini-Game?

[imurphy943]

It would be the most awesome thing ever if 5e included optional Classic Traveller-style chargen.

It really is like a game in itself.

 

[Quickleaf]

It would be the most awesome thing ever if 5e included optional Classic Traveller-style chargen.

It really is like a game in itself.

The 4e Feywild book actually has something like this, only it's more of a choose your adventure style which builds your character's background. I haven't been impressed with most of 4e's "story" stuff, but I thought the character mini game in the back of the Feywild book was very well done.

If there was something like that a group of players could do before jumping off into a 5e adventure, as a group activity, that would be awesome.

 

[am181d]

How did I miss this? I read the name of this thread and thought to myself, "That sounds familiar."

If anybody was confused: I call it a mini-game because it's a separate activity within the game that's not the main game. I guess you could call adventure/campaign design a mini-game too.

When it comes to teaching people about the game, I know this is counter-intuitive, but I really think it's better to go (1) role-playing (main game), (2) character creation, (3) adventure/campaign design.

If they don't like (3) then they shouldn't DM. If they don't like (2) they can get people to help them out. If they don't like (1) though they probably need to find another hobby...