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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3071796" data-attributes="member: 22882">5.To me, 3.5 D&D is a very good game at level five and stays that way up to around level ten.Anything lower and you can't realize a wide enough variety of character concepts (not to mention the characters themselves are less mechanically interesting), anything higher and you're missing out on part of the best part of the system's play.If advancement were changed/slowed (either slowed to around 1/4 its present speed or, better yet, to 1/10th its present speed but with additional feats and perks woven in) so that you could stay 'effectively' in the 7-12 range for much longer, I might say 7 instead of 5.I don't particularly enjoy high level play and would be reluctant to start with a character over 12th level, feeling I'd missed the best part of the game.  I can't see most PCs that would interest me spending their 'early years' (levels 1-4) adventuring, so I hate starting at low levels and am more likely to ask to wait until a game has reached 5th level (which doesn't normally take too long) before jumping in.As a GM, I've started 3.5 campaigns at 2nd, 3rd and 5th level; the players arguably seemed to prefer the 3rd level start.</blockquote>