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So im thinking of running a game for some newbies and im in knots what system to run. A hybrid is fine. Specifcation: Survivable 1st level characters. Or, damn it, useless 1st level but everyone starts at 2nd Epic10 ish - ie a low powered , low/mid magic world Unified xp table Milestone...

Start at 2nd level. Why? Because in 1-2-3E (cant speak for 4E), too much granularity is crammed into 0th thru 1st level. Theres not enough to differentiate between, say: the utterly helpless / the pathetic peasant / the burly farmer / the militia man / the bandit / the veteran soldier...

Im trying to capture 1E aesthetics with 3E/ d20 rules. Any constructive criticism appreciated. Setting: A three way mix of Middle Earth, Medieaval Europe, and Greyhawkesque D&D. "Low-Mid" Magic: a relatively small selection of naturally occuring humanoids and monsters: generally a low-mid...