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There were some virtues to be found there at one time, but not enough to convince me to make the jump in, and then, well, what happened...

Ideally, they should mean the same thing in every setting. It's not like level progression or monster challenge ratings change with...

If you don't think what the game does here matters as much to many people as what the world avowedly says should happen, I'm afraid I...

Only reason I mentioned it was that at least some of the people who mandate it seem to think it should be done universally.

In the spirit if not on the technicality, my 13th Age 2nd Edition slipcase just arrived. Heroes Handbook and Gamemaster's Guide. Oh so...

In my case its a case of my not liking accumulating more backlog. I know this is a piker compared to some, but I've got something like...

Sure. I'm in a PF2e game right now, and no one would expect the GM to do all the bookkeeping. Admittedly, we're using Hero Lab Online...

Looking at the new version of the poll, I was never a Twitter user in the first place.

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...