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<blockquote data-quote="KenNYC" data-source="post: 7747946" data-attributes="member: 6791261"><p>Pre gens are awful but acceptable for one's first session. As far as character builds...just ask them if they want to play a wizard, fighter, thief or a priest type that fights vampires...those are easy to grasp concepts and they're in english. They will pick one, roll dice, and the character will be built quickly. Don't inundate people with gibberish like "arcane trickster" because that doesn't mean anything. But "Conan" "or "Lancelot" does. And discussing characters in easy to understand cliches can go a long way toward a new player mentally picturing their character. There is no reason why anybody needs to play a bard or technomancer tiefling monk with the way of the fist their first time out. I'd go so far as to say those pre-gens are awful and overly complicated. A simple fighter with no special anything is fine, as is a wizard with magic missiles. </p><p></p><p> Basic D&D was the perfect learning system. You could literally have your character in 5 minutes and there were almost no rules. WoTC should bring it back as a starter set variant. And God Bless In Search Of The Unknown and Keep On The Borderlands for walking new DMs through the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KenNYC, post: 7747946, member: 6791261"] Pre gens are awful but acceptable for one's first session. As far as character builds...just ask them if they want to play a wizard, fighter, thief or a priest type that fights vampires...those are easy to grasp concepts and they're in english. They will pick one, roll dice, and the character will be built quickly. Don't inundate people with gibberish like "arcane trickster" because that doesn't mean anything. But "Conan" "or "Lancelot" does. And discussing characters in easy to understand cliches can go a long way toward a new player mentally picturing their character. There is no reason why anybody needs to play a bard or technomancer tiefling monk with the way of the fist their first time out. I'd go so far as to say those pre-gens are awful and overly complicated. A simple fighter with no special anything is fine, as is a wizard with magic missiles. Basic D&D was the perfect learning system. You could literally have your character in 5 minutes and there were almost no rules. WoTC should bring it back as a starter set variant. And God Bless In Search Of The Unknown and Keep On The Borderlands for walking new DMs through the game. [/QUOTE]
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