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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9507817" data-attributes="member: 4348">I really dislike the trend companies have these past few years of merely putting out a starter set with pregenerated characters.Sure, it gives you a taste of the game, but really doesn't let you sample it.  By that I mean, you really can't sample a game until you have the power to create your own characters and see how the thing works.It used to be where you have your pregenerated characters, but you also included rules on how to create your own character.  It made it so you could truly see if it was a game you wanted or not, rather than just a taste.But, this is an outdated idea I suppose for many companies (thankfully, Paizo still has the right idea in their past sets, and luckily Target insisted on the Eseentials kit for D&D), but I find I don't try as many starter sets as they probably would like me to, because if I want to try out a system, I want to actually try it out, not just get a single taste for an hour or two using characters I have no real connection to and don't understand how they were created or made in the first place.</blockquote>