Character Creation: The Backward Bicycle

[Freder1ck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
I recently watched this video by Smarter Everyday about learning to ride a bicycle where the handlebars turn the bike opposite to what's usual.

I literally spent about 12 hours creating my first level druid for Doomsday Dawn. This was 12 hours starting with a printout of pages 12-20 of the playtest rules, and then building the character using the book. For me, character creation goes from ability scores all the way through equipment and picking spells (even for prepared casters). This was not me taking 12 hours to read the book. I've only managed to read through various parts of the book after playing DD. I hadn't expected so much relearning, and I expect that there's a correlation between more experience and more relearning...

For part two, I created a cleric and fighter. The fighter took 90 minutes and the cleric took 2.5 hours. I'm glad to hear from Jason's Youtube video that I'm in the ballpark now.

[Ediwir]

Yeah, when I started it took me 6-8hrs to get a grasp of enough stuff to actually run a session (didn't even touch the classes by then). There's a lot to take in and the format doesn't help. Hopefully it gets better with proper referencing and formatting.

[Freder1ck]

I also think it would help if they included a one page sheet to help orientate existing Pathfinder players and GMs to changes. Like, size doesn't matter, and other expectations from building characters in PF1.

[Draco18s]

Freder1ck wrote:

I also think it would help if they included a one page sheet to help orientate existing Pathfinder players and GMs to changes. Like, size doesn't matter, and other expectations from building characters in PF1.

Hm. I might be able to whip something up.

It'll probably have to be Community Editable though.

[Freder1ck]

One hero point to you, O Draco (upon delivery of course)!

[Draco18s]

Still thinking about how to do it. Like I said, I want it to be easily modified by the community who think that "oh X will need explaining..." when I didn't have an issue with it and without my having to constantly check that it hasn't been vandalized.

[Freder1ck]

Two copies? One read only and one that can be edited.
Or, one read-only copy and a discussion thread for changes...

[Draco18s]

Freder1ck wrote:

Two copies? One read only and one that can be edited.

Or, one read-only copy and a discussion thread for changes...

That requires active participation, just in a different form.