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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6382977" data-attributes="member: 2011">We had one shared PHB as well.But, there are how many races and classes in the book? How many subclasses?We started out 8:20 AM and by 6:00 PM (with about an hour and a half break including driving time), we got 4 PCs finished. But, one player was from 8:20 until about 9:30 when the second player showed up. The third player showed up at 11:00. I then drove over to the fourth player's house around 2:00 (half hour drive).But since this was mostly sequential, I often had to repeat the same information to additional players when they arrived. There were lots of discussions on multiclassing (2 PCs will eventually multiclass), how weapons worked, armor, spells, etc. These players evidently wanted to make informed decisions. Some players wanted to read stuff out of the book directly, others asked my opinion, etc. It just depended. Even something as simple as generating ability scores took a while.But since I did not have everyone at the table at the exact same time, it took longer.And if your players know exactly what they want, then sure. Much faster. Four of our players had played a handful of sessions in 4E and before that, had either never played D&D or played 2E. One player played 3E and 4E, and the last player (myself) played all of the versions.My wife told me to create her a Halfling Bard after about 10 minutes of discussion on races and classes, and I just went off and did it. We then added another maybe 15 minutes with her deciding what background she wanted, what skills she wanted and what spells she wanted. I had already taken care of all of her ability scores, equipment, and had a suggested list of skills and spell for her. She was a lot faster because she did not sweat the details.One thing that I do not like about the PHB is the alphabetical listing of spells. It takes a while, even for a first level PC, to go off and read each of the cantrips and spells for that class due to all of the page flipping.</blockquote>

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