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motub · 11-01-2003, 01:37 PM

First piece of advice is: don't get too caught up in learning the 3rd. ed rules.

Yes, it's important to know some of it-- no point in planning a character who's going to suffer a 40% XP penalty, or (like me) having a whole lot of custom armor made without realizing that only one party member had the heavy armor feat.

So, yes, it is important to get familiar with the rules. But a lot of the fun of this game is actually making mistakes, and finding ways to turn your weaknesses into strengths. Otherwise, it's really easy to get obsessed by trying to plan the "perfect" character/party-- much more so than with 2nd ed. rules games, imo.

But yeah, ask away. Character creation is fun for the whole family

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11-01-2003, 01:37 PM	#3
motub The Magister Join Date: March 14, 2003 Location: Netherlands Age: 62 Posts: 107	First piece of advice is: don't get too caught up in learning the 3rd. ed rules. Yes, it's important to know some of it-- no point in planning a character who's going to suffer a 40% XP penalty, or (like me) having a whole lot of custom armor made without realizing that only one party member had the heavy armor feat. So, yes, it is important to get familiar with the rules. But a lot of the fun of this game is actually making mistakes, and finding ways to turn your weaknesses into strengths. Otherwise, it's really easy to get obsessed by trying to plan the "perfect" character/party-- much more so than with 2nd ed. rules games, imo. But yeah, ask away. Character creation is fun for the whole family .