Creating higher level characters

[Aidan]

For my gaming session last night, my normal GM was too tired to run the game, so one of the others volunteered to run some encounters on the spot.

We set about creating some new characters and had them all set up at first level, then he decided to experiment a bit and had us boost them up to level 9. This process was fairly quick and easy in 4th edition, and only took a few minutes to pick some powers and four feats, and recalculate hit points.

My question is, how long would it take to do the same thing in 3.x or 2nd edition.

[Stormhound]

2e, from what I recall, not too terribly long, unless you go nuts with all the splatbooks.

3.x, well, I could give the pat snappy answer, but I'll save that for people who got deeper into it than I.

[ff6shadow]

Depends on the skill of the players. Even with all my books I could manage it in 15-39 minutes depending on the concept for the character, but most of my friends could take 1-2 hours to finish even a something as simple as a fighter/rogue.