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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 8313939" data-attributes="member: 205">We're a few session into a "level 0" game in one of my groups.  Basically, we came up with a concept, assigned stats, and that's it.  No skills, no proficiencies (other than daggers and clubs).  8+Con HP.  And we did about 6 sessions like that.  The DM would give us advantage or a bonus on a check if we agreed it fit the character concept, but other than that we just messed around trying to figure out a mystery in a druid grove and our home town.  Once we had met some NPCs who could guide us and had a sense of what we wanted our characters to be, we fast forwarded 6 months and got to pick our level 1 class.For a portal fantasy, I'd do something pretty similar.  Come up with an overall real-world concept.  I'd probably push them to do characters in their late teens or early 20s, because that fits the literary tropes best.  It also means they're unlikely to have a lot of fantasy world applicable skills, and you won't get someone being like "Well, my character is a Navy Seal".  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Give them a few sessions to explore the world, meet with mentors, develop some kind of storyline, and then they can pick a background and class that fits the story they've been developing.</blockquote>

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