So. 3E/3.5E, is it still D&D to you?

[rogueattorney]

just the other night, i was working on some NPCs for an upcoming campaign. i finished 36 of them (of various levels from 1 to 6) in less than 2 hours, and that includes writing them up in MS-Word and then transferring them over to hand-coded HTML pages. on average, that comes out to a little over 3 minutes per character.

You got attributes, race, class, skills, alignment, languages, feats, equipment, spells, etc into a usable format at less than 4 minutes a character? I'm impressed. My brain just plain doesn't work that way.

You know the old Erol Otus covered Basic set, where Morgan Ironwolf's stats take up less than half a page of 8.5" x 11" notebook paper? That's all I want to know about my characters before I begin to play. Cross referencing charts to determine what is and isn't a class skill and then trying to determine what feat has what relation to which skills, etc. just has no interest to me at all.

R.A.

 

[d4]

You got attributes, race, class, skills, alignment, languages, feats, equipment, spells, etc into a usable format at less than 4 minutes a character? I'm impressed. My brain just plain doesn't work that way.

like i said before, i had already made the choices on what kinds of characters to make... that time i quoted was just for cooking up the stats. and none of them were spellcasters, which drastically reduces the amount of time needed.

You know the old Erol Otus covered Basic set, where Morgan Ironwolf's stats take up less than half a page of 8.5" x 11" notebook paper? That's all I want to know about my characters before I begin to play.

for the current 3e campaign i'm playing in, my character sheet is a stat block on a 4x6 index card.

it has everything i need to know about my character on it. 3e doesn't really require a 4-page character sheet. (although this character is not a spellcaster, so that cuts down a lot on the space required.)

Cross referencing charts to determine what is and isn't a class skill and then trying to determine what feat has what relation to which skills, etc. just has no interest to me at all.

i don't have a photographic memory, but i do soak up rules systems like a sponge and retain the information surprisingly well. especially for low-level characters (up to 5th-6th level or so) i hardly need to look at the books at all.

 

[teitan]

I have players that started in 2E that are just amazed by my claims that I could fit a character on one side of a 3x5er myself. Is it really that hard? I imagine I could do the same thing with 3E with some of the simplified aspects and by not being anal about showing EVERY LITTLE NOOK AND CRANNY AND NAGGING DETAIL like where all my ranks in a skill come from blah blah blah.

I like it that way myself.

Jason