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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7991963" data-attributes="member: 6701872">It has been my experience that a person that can make a new character in a reasonable amount of time relative to the objective level of complication the system puts into creating characters is a rarity. The &quot;typical&quot; player will look at a variety of options, carefully weigh them, and even if &quot;in a hurry' take up enough time that even if it didn't genuinely take most of the session it will end up feeling like most of the session - especially with home common it is that the player&nbsp; doesn't immediately resume play upon completing the character, but instead after another indeterminate period of time when the new character can be brought in to everything else that's going on.And even the bit of role-play that happens as a new character becomes part of the party can feel like part of the &quot;sitting out of play&quot; experience because it is a result of a character death, not what the players would be spending that part of the session time on otherwise.And if you, like me, only have 4 hours here or there to squeeze in some gaming and that gets trimmed down by chatting, breaks, and other normal parts of the session that aren't actual game-play, it becomes very easy for even just an hour and half turn around from death to resumed play to be most of the time that was available for actual game-play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 7991963, member: 6701872"] It has been my experience that a person that can make a new character in a reasonable amount of time relative to the objective level of complication the system puts into creating characters is a rarity. The "typical" player will look at a variety of options, carefully weigh them, and even if "in a hurry' take up enough time that even if it didn't genuinely take most of the session it will end up feeling like most of the session - especially with home common it is that the player doesn't immediately resume play upon completing the character, but instead after another indeterminate period of time when the new character can be brought in to everything else that's going on. And even the bit of role-play that happens as a new character becomes part of the party can feel like part of the "sitting out of play" experience because it is a result of a character death, not what the players would be spending that part of the session time on otherwise. And if you, like me, only have 4 hours here or there to squeeze in some gaming and that gets trimmed down by chatting, breaks, and other normal parts of the session that aren't actual game-play, it becomes very easy for even just an hour and half turn around from death to resumed play to be most of the time that was available for actual game-play. [/QUOTE]

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