So a bit of advice about character generation. Despite my friends seemingly wanting to play, I'm rather certain there's no way I'm getting any of them to buy the Essentials player guides (I have a sneaking suspicion that's not what happens anyway even though WoTC tries to say players should buy them). So how should I go about this?
I'm thinking for our first session I'll read through all the necessary rules and the two players guides and put together a little packet of information on the classes, races, and builds for them to read through prior to us getting together so they can start to think about what kind of character they want to play. Maybe I'll also put in the packet a short tutorial on the basics of a DC and the basics of the combat mechanics in there - I'm assuming this won't be getting into plagarism of any kind.
From there, the first session will start off simple. I'd have to go through character generation for everyone, and then maybe do one combat encounter and that would be it for the first session.
I'm thinking for our first session I'll read through all the necessary rules and the two players guides and put together a little packet of information on the classes, races, and builds for them to read through prior to us getting together so they can start to think about what kind of character they want to play. Maybe I'll also put in the packet a short tutorial on the basics of a DC and the basics of the combat mechanics in there - I'm assuming this won't be getting into plagarism of any kind.
From there, the first session will start off simple. I'd have to go through character generation for everyone, and then maybe do one combat encounter and that would be it for the first session.