It's fun, but what makes it interesting is leveling up the economy of the regions you visit.
If you want to level up your character to the highest rank at the beginning and skip all the hard work plug in your second controller and bring in the henchman after you level up for the first time. Zero out all your XP from strength to will from the henchman and you'll transfer the points over to your main character. Do this a couple times and you'll have a hulking fully level 5 will user at the start of the game.
I'm finding myself glued to Fallout3 lately, so my Fable characters have to have racked up enough coin to buy everything in Albion by now.
