You can then put points into your skills. You will have to leave and re-enter the tavern after you have hired some companions in order to get the rest of them.)
I do not recommend ticking the "Fog of War" box, but if you are looking for an easier start then you should gather the companions, which will put them all in the tavern of starting town (the Weeping Town in this case). (Here you can check the "Gather Companions" box or the "Fog of War" box. It makes him start with a Palfrey, which gives you a massive advantage early game, and it hits the renown requirement for recruiting levies in villages. This gives 9 strength, which is one of the most important attributes for this character, gives him a point in leadership and it makes him a noble. My recommended character is the son of a landless knight, a squire and a noble in training who is out for personal revenge. It was pointed out by a commenter on my last guide (called Teddybear at the time of writing) that a strength based character may be an option, so I made some changes. There are many possibilites for role-play, but I will only be going over my standard set-up here, as it is the best for newcomers in my opinion. The Song of Ice and Fire books are pure fantasy brain candy, and I can’t wait to slow-read my way through A Storm of Swords.Here you will set the groundwork for your character (obviously). All of the points of view kind of sound the same, but I couldn’t make myself care about that. And all that is wrapped in simple, to the point prose. All of the hidden agendas, the four kings all claiming their superiority, the cool battles, but also the smaller stories of Jon and Arya… Martin’s world is super intricate, and there is so much to do and to see. So instead of focussing on the plot, I got into A Clash of Kings with an open mind, ready to be entertained with the world Martin created. But I heard winter is still coming in book five, so there is that. Except maybe for the fact that winter’s coming.
It’s almost impossible not to get bored with the story if you’re looking for some deeper plot, because so far there is none. In the first book I was still looking for some kind of point. The point of the A Song of Ice and Fire series is not some overarching plot that goes somewhere, but the journey itself. Where I was still rather confused in Game of Thrones what Martin was aiming for, I feel a lot more confident reading A Clash of Kings.
This was seven intense months of reading a few chapters a week, while I read other books in the mean time. And this was not my usual one week of reading, leaving it for six months, then read the rest in three weeks. I read A Clash of Kings for about seven months.
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