Letting the player build the char in the story
I'm teaching my little sister (13 y) D&D 3.5
I do this by letting her create a character, but not fill in any skills/feats/abilities. Just the bare basics extracted from the small background she wrote, like physical description, alignment, and deity.
Now she will be able to train certain skills, gain feats, train her abilities, and in the end join an Order to become a level 1 in a class she chooses. I'm just struggling a bit how to take on this bit, how do you exactly train for all these things? How do I give her the freedom to make her character how she likes it without ending it all in chaos?
I don't want her to end up with a very weird character, as it will color her experience with D&D.
I do this by letting her create a character, but not fill in any skills/feats/abilities. Just the bare basics extracted from the small background she wrote, like physical description, alignment, and deity.
Now she will be able to train certain skills, gain feats, train her abilities, and in the end join an Order to become a level 1 in a class she chooses. I'm just struggling a bit how to take on this bit, how do you exactly train for all these things? How do I give her the freedom to make her character how she likes it without ending it all in chaos?
I don't want her to end up with a very weird character, as it will color her experience with D&D.