? As if it's any faster with the new D&D 3.5 rules, with all the feats and skills and multiclassing and whatnot. Once you know the Rolemaster-system, you can easily create a character in 15 min.
And if you died in 10 seconds, well.. I'm tempted to ask what kind of DM you had. :D Is it any harder to kill a first level mage in D&D with 10 hps? One should seriously give Rolemaster 2'nd ed (the first system that came) a try. Nothing comes close, honest. It's the most realistic system I've tried, and I think I've played 15-20 different PnP rpgs since the eighties.
J.
Anyway, sorry for going OT.
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The type of GM that wanted to start his campaign with a bang, right into combat, and let the dice land where they may. E Slashing Critical 98. Look it up.
I can whip up a DnD character within a minute. No problems.