How is player character creation usually perfomed in your gaming group?

With an extensive pregame (taking a session or two by itself)
21% (7 votes)
With some pregaming (as part of the creation session)
56% (19 votes)
With no pregame at all (simply setting the character background information)
21% (7 votes)
I don't game -- I'm a reader/world builder.
3% (1 vote)
Total votes: 34
Peter the skald
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Pre-game

Our pre-game seems to happen over the ether nowadays as not to cut into game time...perhaps as a result of staggered character generation due to untimely deaths.

Neil
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I haven't killed a character

I haven't killed a character off in years, so it's difficult for me to answer this, but when I create characters i try to set aside an hour or so for a pre-game

- "Pardon me for living, I'm sure."
- NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Mort)

Peter the skald
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I never kill characters..the

I never kill characters..the players do that for me!

Marduk23
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Amen

Sad, but true.

I set up this ~beautiful~ plot line, and open up hordes of potential paths (action and political) for them to explore... and what do they do? They party wipe.

Again.

::sigh::

I try to enforce my self-rule that I won't penalize players for outsmarting me... but I won't save them from their own stupidity either. ;-)


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