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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 2097664" data-attributes="member: 3433">The people I game with usually take the longest time trying to come up with the name of the character.     <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  I agree the name is a very important aspect of a character, but when it starts taking someone over an hour during the game session just to come up with their character's name alone, then we have a problem...especially when after all that time, they still wind up with some rather mundane name like "Fred".  "You just wasted a precious hour of our game time to come up with THAT!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  In order to avoid this, I now insist that players have to come to the 1st game session with the character name already figured out.Otherwise, in 3e/3.5, it usually takes only 30 minutes or less to create a character.  Slightly longer than earlier editions, but not by much.  A lot of the work can be greatly sped up thru the use of various computer-assistance.  There are numerous character sheets available (xls, pdf, etc) that can do many of the calculations automatically which is a great aid when it comes to things like skills.</blockquote>

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