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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9442648" data-attributes="member: 6779310">In Re Generating PCs...there are certain games where character gen is a worthy demo in and of itself... <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Traveller: Classic, Mega, TTNE, T4, T5, T20, MGT1, and MGT2, plus CE: char gen is a minigame. It often fills half a session block for 6 players. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Note that most of the Classic Traveller double adventures were intended to take a 4 hour block...  Not that I've ever gotten any of them done in under 3 sessions...</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Any current Warhammer game. Just make certain to phrase it as an introduction, not an adventure.  figure 3/4 of a session for characters, and thus an hour for demoing the basics of play.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's enough complexity that a handholding walkthrough is of value to some people.</li> </ul></li> </ul>And there are ones simple enough to allow char gen and still get most (3/4 or more, often a group can be generated in 30 minutes or less) of the session in play:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Toon - Char Gen is fast and random. Takes about 10 min per player in a group.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My Little Pony: Tails of Equestria - not only simple, but ties closely to the player's buy in, especially if younger. Have some pregens ready, but it's worth taking the 15 min to let them each generate one.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">WEG d6 system games, most notably, Star Wars. If you have the templates all printed out, it's hand a template, assign 7 dice of skills, and start play. Group of 6: 5-10 minutes for selection, then 2 min each to check. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Any of Deep 7's 1pg systems. Char gen rules on the character sheets.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Feng Shui 2. Char gen is just slapping a name and possibly altering the description of the template. (customizations only come with character experience.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better Games' Battle Born, Arabian Sea Tales, Barony, or Crimson Cutlass. All of them are roll one die, note the traits, pick starting point on the advancement tree, add a name, and highlight your eligible damage levels. They're intended for convention play with custom gen characters. The advancement tree otherwise is for campaign use.</li> </ul>I've used WEG Star Wars, Atlas' Feng Shui and River Horse's MLP:TOE in the generate and go mode. I demo'd Classic Traveller Character gen, and the basics of how the game works (we got 2 hours into Shadows) at a local con just after the end of lockdown, during the masks still mandatory period.The level of buy in for Star Wars was wonderful. For MLP, almost essential - and my players were all adults.If doing this, tho', KNOW THE RULES COLD!  And decide whether you're there to demo/teach the game, or to run for the adventure, or for the hidden auditioning of players...</blockquote>

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