DangerAbe said:
I wish they'd hurry up and put the character builder up. I haven't started a 4e game yet because I've been waiting for that program so my less experienced players can make characters easier.
Though, if it's not ready by Thursday, I guess we're going to have to make characters without it. <sigh>
Wasn't the online support supposed to be one of the awesome new things about 4th Edition.
Why can't Dungeons & Dragons get on the ball with this?
I was really upset when the 3e edition character creator that came with the Player's Handbook was never actually produced.
Enough with the weak sauce already.
Character creation is really very easy, even for raw neophytes. Heck, my children, ages 10, 12, 13, and 16 all were able to read through the PHB on the various classes and races to make decisions on what they wanted to play.
1. Pick a class you like.
2. Pick a race you like (class first so I could suggest "good" races for said class if they wanted).
3. Assign ability scores from the array (I used 16,15, 12, 11, 11, 10) and then apply race modifiers.
4. Select 2 at-will, 1 encounter, 1 daily ability from chosen class.
5. Select 1 starting feat.
6. Spend 100 gold on equipment.
Then I just typed up their power information in a power-card pdf file (modifiable, but not saveable) and printed it up.
All told, about 15-20 minutes or so plus whatever time they spent reviewing the classes/races. No character creator is going to do the class/race reading for them so that's the same either way you go.
4e is a LOT easier and newbie-friendly compared to 3e.