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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4284917" data-attributes="member: 40961">Agreed.&nbsp; After a weekend of laying about reading my new D&amp;D books and chatting amiably with my fiance whenever I found something cool or funny, she gave a HUGE SIGH, declared that I was turning her into the BIGGEST NERD EVER, then took my PHB and ran off and made her first character.&nbsp; She's created a handful at this point, mostly just to try out ideas and see how they work.&nbsp; The array and the sections of the book that discuss what races and classes go well together were invaluable for her, because they let her craft characters without knowing all the rules details.&nbsp; The other thing that I think really helped was the skill system.&nbsp; I think she'd have had analysis paralysis if faced with the 3e skill system, but the 4e system, where all you do is pick a handful of skills you want to be good at, was an absolute breeze for her.For the record, her first, and favorite character is an elf ranger who fights with two bastard swords.&nbsp; She saw that she could have two swords, that there were no limits on how big the swords could be, she saw the picture of the bastard swords, and it was love.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4284917, member: 40961"] Agreed. After a weekend of laying about reading my new D&D books and chatting amiably with my fiance whenever I found something cool or funny, she gave a HUGE SIGH, declared that I was turning her into the BIGGEST NERD EVER, then took my PHB and ran off and made her first character. She's created a handful at this point, mostly just to try out ideas and see how they work. The array and the sections of the book that discuss what races and classes go well together were invaluable for her, because they let her craft characters without knowing all the rules details. The other thing that I think really helped was the skill system. I think she'd have had analysis paralysis if faced with the 3e skill system, but the 4e system, where all you do is pick a handful of skills you want to be good at, was an absolute breeze for her. For the record, her first, and favorite character is an elf ranger who fights with two bastard swords. She saw that she could have two swords, that there were no limits on how big the swords could be, she saw the picture of the bastard swords, and it was love. [/QUOTE]

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