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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpiderMonkey" data-source="post: 2947615" data-attributes="member: 11385">Almost always 1st.I've told myself that the "next game" I run is always gonna start at 3rd level, but for some reason, it feels like cheating--like somehow the character is not legitimate.  I know this isn't the case, but I can only attribute it to some neurotic holdover from when I was a kid, and the whole point of the game was to see how high a level you could go.  Heck, I remember in the early nineties when Dragon magazine kept featuring letters from people talking about their 213th level Fighter/Mage/Thief.  Where was the accomplishment if you could start at 212th?  Neurotic?  Most definitely.  Do any of you still have this feeling?I just started a new game last weekend.  We, naturally, started at 1st.  If two of the players hadn't been brand new (my wife and her sister), we might have started higher, but I wanted them to get a feel of the rules, and I think it's easiest at first level.I think what people have put forward about starting at 2nd makes a lot of sense (multi-classing, allows for a bit of a backstory, etc.) and I may incorporate it in future campaigns.  I'll just have to fight the urge that I'm somehow sneaking something in under the radar.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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