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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 3539735" data-attributes="member: 36150">Queen_Dopplepopolis, you are 100% correct.  In fact, I would move that the admins put your response as a sticky for future reference.My last SO was completely NOT into any kind of fantasy stuff when I first started dating her, but she did have an active imagination.  I walked her through character creation and as she crunched numbers, I would ask her questions.  "What's her name?  What colour is her hair?  What does she like to do?  Where does she live?  Does she have any relatives?  What are they like?"  As she answered these questions, I suggested classes and skills and where stats would go to best represent this, plus I'd take notes and use her ideas in the game.This was classic.  She was a simple farmhand who worked with her lame (ie. with a bad leg) dad and grandmother on a farm.  She got really strong doing more than her share for her father (and thus took the Fighter persona) and her father taught her a bit about swordplay so she could defend herself in case she was ever in a bad situation.  I kept this so simple, it was priceless.  One day, she's out tilling the field when she spies a trio of goblins breaking into the feed shed to steal some corn.  (Props to <a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rdeese/RPG/D02/D02.htm" target="_blank">d02 Know No Limit</a> for the adventure idea.)  She snaps up a scythe from the barn and chases them down, hacking two of them to tiny pieces.  One gets away.  Enter my DM/NPC Ranger who offers to help her track it down (Story was he was a "family friend" who brought the farmer's goods to/from town and brought fresh game when he had the chance).  They follow it back to its lair and learn that the Goblins were hoarding all sorts of things from other nearby farms for their Hobgoblin master, which was vanquished.  Her plans after that involved taking some of the unclaimed loot to the "big city" to sell.  The gaming ended there, but it was a great launch point.I don't have much else to comment on the rest, but it's all excellent advice. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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