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<blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7114603" data-attributes="member: 40592"><p>I would highly recommend you start your 5e game at 1st level. From personal experience, as player and DM, starting a 5e campaign at first level works really well, even for 'veteran' players. Even if you and/or the players think that's going to be sooo boring, because you've played D&D for sooo long, or whatever. After a campaign or two, you may (or may not) decide you all prefer to start at level 3, or thereabouts. </p><p></p><p>But if you're all new to the 5e rules, it's totally best to ease yourselves into it, and 1st level characters are just interesting enough, and simple enough, and well balanced enough, for you all to have fun as you learn the new rules. There's actually a lot of stuff to select at first level, a lot of 'character defining' stuff. Also, if you use standard XP, you'll actually get 3rd level in a couple of sessions anyway.</p><p></p><p>p.s. this also helps sort out the "will I multi-class, and how" questions players might have. Start somewhere, see how it goes; you may just change your mind. For example, personally I play an Eldritch Knight, dual-wielder, single-classed until level 7; at first level (human variant), I used a Feat to pick up some Warlock stuff, it was only around level 6 I wanted to branch my character sideways a bit so multiclassed. In the game I DM, a player has flip-flopped between Rogue and Warlock from level 2, with a plan that was more of the 'long-term' type i.e. didn't all fit together until level 6, but to be honest as an observer from level 2 or 3 on that PC feels like a warlock that mostly likes to use knives up close, it's just another PC, not OP, not UP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hastur_nz, post: 7114603, member: 40592"] I would highly recommend you start your 5e game at 1st level. From personal experience, as player and DM, starting a 5e campaign at first level works really well, even for 'veteran' players. Even if you and/or the players think that's going to be sooo boring, because you've played D&D for sooo long, or whatever. After a campaign or two, you may (or may not) decide you all prefer to start at level 3, or thereabouts. But if you're all new to the 5e rules, it's totally best to ease yourselves into it, and 1st level characters are just interesting enough, and simple enough, and well balanced enough, for you all to have fun as you learn the new rules. There's actually a lot of stuff to select at first level, a lot of 'character defining' stuff. Also, if you use standard XP, you'll actually get 3rd level in a couple of sessions anyway. p.s. this also helps sort out the "will I multi-class, and how" questions players might have. Start somewhere, see how it goes; you may just change your mind. For example, personally I play an Eldritch Knight, dual-wielder, single-classed until level 7; at first level (human variant), I used a Feat to pick up some Warlock stuff, it was only around level 6 I wanted to branch my character sideways a bit so multiclassed. In the game I DM, a player has flip-flopped between Rogue and Warlock from level 2, with a plan that was more of the 'long-term' type i.e. didn't all fit together until level 6, but to be honest as an observer from level 2 or 3 on that PC feels like a warlock that mostly likes to use knives up close, it's just another PC, not OP, not UP. [/QUOTE]
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