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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5748827" data-attributes="member: 2093">I sort of do similar things with character creation. As an old campaign winds down, I start throwing out suggestions for a new one (I'm always the DM). This last time, I suggested either Kingmaker or Dragon's Delve (the dungeon-a-day massive 20 lvl dungeon). They seemed more interested Dragon's Delve, though I've left a bunch of sandbox material from Kingmaker dotted around...Anyway, they all had time to start discussing characters and choices. One player called dibs on a fighter, while another chose wizard. A third decided that since he'd never run a cleric, he'd try that. And the fourth agreed he'd run the rogue, and be a grippli, since it was the biggest change from his previous lion-man barbarian he could envision.Before the character creation session, I worked with two of the players on their character backgrounds, and got some ideas going. I gave everyone a handout from the D-a-D website, modified for my campaign setting, that outlined the town, the dungeon history as they knew it, etc... and a couple of generic adventure lead-ins.By the end of character creation, we knew who had arrived in town recently, who lived there, how they met, what the cleric was "up to", and a number of other things. We play exclusively 3.5, and always roll stats, 4d6 drop the lowest... We did jump directly into play, because at that point I feel going back to an old game just knocks people out of the mindset. Character creation took a full session, yes, but it did include a good bit of "introductory roleplay", so there was no feeling of "we didn't get to play". The next week, they were ready to go shopping and then head off for the dungeon...</blockquote>

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