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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6719935" data-attributes="member: 6701872">As a DM, let me tell you something very important: If your DM doesn't work with you to make the campaigns going on the campaigns you'd like to be playing, such that you have more than a "minor say" in what they are about and how they start (in both level and "No 'one night in the tavern' lead-ins, please' meanings), then your DM is not as good at being a DM as they could be.Don't fall prey to the old lie that you are a player and thus not able to have any say, that's what lazy DMs, DMs that would be better off writing novels rather than campaigns, and DMs that are on an extreme power trip and need a reality check want you to believe - but it isn't the truth. You have say, it's your game too - and you need to make sure your DM knows that you aren't going to just sit and take a game that isn't as cool in your opinion as it could be, you're going to arm them with the necessary tools and knowledge to really knock your socks off with an awesome campaign that you'll love more than any other before it.If it is something you care about, you have to keep asking for it. Your DM had a logical reason in not wanting to risk putting the newbies in over their heads... but next campaign, they are so new any more, and maybe they are interested in starting at a level besides 1 too....and if a DM says "should" like there is some proper way to play D&D besides having as much fun as you can with it, you need to answer it with enough conviction to show that you are no longer doing as so many RPG players do and waiving your rights to have an opinion and be considered equal to your peers - which your DM is, a peer, not some superior being better equipped to determine what you will enjoy than you are. That's a very strange thing to say in response to me telling you that my group does exactly that. As you can see, my group isn't alone either.It's been my experience that people have actually started at whatever level their group felt was best for a great many years now - and there is even this one group I heard of that picks the level they like best and that's it, no building up to it during play, no raising past it somewhere during the campaign, just "we'll play as this level, let's go have some fun."In case I got too verbose, the message in brief: Stand up for your right to have fun, your opinion counts, and if your DM thinks otherwise, they aren't as good as they could be at being a DM.</blockquote>

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