MNblockhead
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Really? Is that fairly new? I have not played AL in a few years, so I'm really out of date, but I don't remember this being the case in the past. I'm probably not the best person to give AL advice, except that Epics are fun. Contact the organizers and ask them if they'll have new-player tables with pregens. You may want to register or get their earlier (in the past epics I attended they had online registration) to enjoy you get a slot at the tier you want.AL rules allow 5th level pregens as starter characters. Note depending upon your area and players the tier 2 tables could be highly optimized too.
I think it’ll still be worth it. I sometimes run high level AL just to marvel at the characters people bring.