No. I don't know what your parent poster is talking about. D&D chargen is not in any edition of the game terribly complex.
It's not wildly simple, either -- D&D is squarely "rules medium" and there are plenty of RPGs with simpler chargen. But it's not notably hard for its space.
20 years ago there was more manual calculation of numbers on a character sheet, that now is likely to be handled by a digital sheet
In my opinion, character creation in shadowrun is relatively simple, if a little time-consuming. In WoD character creation takes 10 to 30 minutes max, even for a complete beginner.
Backstory and internalizing the game system is a lot less straightforward in WoD though because the intent is to provide just enough rail to facilitate creativity within the setting.
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Has there been any edition of d&d where character creation is more involved than any edition of shadowrun?
No. I don't know what your parent poster is talking about. D&D chargen is not in any edition of the game terribly complex.
It's not wildly simple, either -- D&D is squarely "rules medium" and there are plenty of RPGs with simpler chargen. But it's not notably hard for its space.
20 years ago there was more manual calculation of numbers on a character sheet, that now is likely to be handled by a digital sheet
Yeah you right; I meant DSA and edited my comment accordingly.
Ah my mistake, I meant DSA and not D&D.
In my opinion, character creation in shadowrun is relatively simple, if a little time-consuming. In WoD character creation takes 10 to 30 minutes max, even for a complete beginner.
Backstory and internalizing the game system is a lot less straightforward in WoD though because the intent is to provide just enough rail to facilitate creativity within the setting.