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I agree starting with the higher levels. As to the other--that works okay for a character or two, but when it applies to a whole six...

And it would help if that then doesn't seem at odds with the default advancement rate.

I think a lot of settings could benefit from just a short sidebar about what a 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc. level character means in that setting.

Which was particularly funny since once you read the game and looked at the various racial groups, an awful lot of them looked like...

Yes, but it still looks odd when all the "veterans of the recent war" in the PC party are level 1 when your game has a range of levels...

This is where I disagree, not that it can cause confusion but it properly emulates anything, certainly not enough to be worth the bother.

Of course the usual problem regarding that concept in D&D is the resistance to starting characters above first level. You can...

I've got to say I'd find the expectation I track all conditions at both ends something I'd not want to do. If players want to play in a...

It can properly emulate the potential confusion and mistakes in position that can happen in-game, but I'm not sure that's such a...

I'd suggest that's not been true with something as structurally specific as D&D is in spots for a long time if ever.

True. The consequence of that diversity is that my elf PC may not adhere to the norms of your elves because we are viewing elves from...

But, in the real world, that's not even remotely true. It's not like Captain Cook was an orphan. Magellan was a noble. To be fair...

I think the funny thing is that the original "circus troupe" party is the Fellowship of the Ring—humans, hobbits, an elf, and a dwarf...

One PC I had was just from a family of adventurers - all still alive and a loving family but my character was just following in mom and...

There were probably a pretty fair number of ancient and medieval mercenaries who had, by the standards of the time, decent family lives...