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Ok, this isn’t a full review of
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating Dungeons and Dragons Characters it’s more a moan..
I was lucky. When i first started wargaming and playing RPGs I was guided by a wargaming club, this ensured that I understood the main point was to enjoy the games and to not become a rules-lawyer. Also that no set of rules is definitive so there’s always grey areas that have to be worked out.
Books like the idiots guide.. try to ensure that people outside of gaming groups get reasonable advise to start off with… but really the first few pages should just read “join a gaming group” in a large font on each page
Overall it’s not a bad book and the author Matt Forbeck does a pretty good job and if you can’t find a gaming group then it’s worth a read.
Incidentally the barcode is 978-1-59257-688-3 or 1-59257-688-5 incase you want to find it
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Looks like more people trying to milk from the success from others. If this book was written for D&D 3-3.5 I could understand its existence but I am assuming it is for 4e, which really is not needed. If a new gamer is unable to create a character with the 4e PHB they probably should be playing, simply because they are unwilling or unable to read(p.27 PHP4e). With that being said, i can’t wait to one day walk through my local book store and find, The Complete Idiots Guide to Writing a Complete Idiots Guide Book.
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