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<blockquote data-quote="Valador" data-source="post: 6719952" data-attributes="member: 6782907"><p>I'm not saying there's a problem with the system, so I'm not sure you're following the point I was trying to make. My point was that the issue was simply a personal annoyance to me, because it doesn't quite mesh well with the system, and I was asking how others dealt with it from the standpoint of non game changing methods to deal with or ignore the issue. </p><p></p><p>Here's an example. Let's just take a 30 year old character with the soldier background. They joined the military at a relatively young age of 16-17, etc. In those 14 or so years they've seen many battles (large, small, helms deep or whatever), many wars and have led many men and progressed through the ranks. For whatever plot reason they are no longer a soldier and are now a level 1 adventurer who is now all of a sudden dungeon fodder.</p><p></p><p>My example isn't as far out as yours, and can fit reasonably with the background in the PHB, the characters age and possibly some of the campaign plot. However as soon as you come to the table it's a little disappointing when the reality hits that you're level 1 and pretty weak. RP wise the system really seems more suited towards a character being some young up and coming noob than a character with some actual depth and experience.</p><p></p><p>The mechanics of the system are fine, it's just a personal annoyance that detracts me from the atmosphere of character and story in the early levels and makes everything feel very lackluster and boring until the character can start to do something that actually makes them feel like heroes.</p><p></p><p>I just disliked being pigeonholed into rolling a boring green eared child simply because it suits the nature of being low level...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Valador, post: 6719952, member: 6782907"] I'm not saying there's a problem with the system, so I'm not sure you're following the point I was trying to make. My point was that the issue was simply a personal annoyance to me, because it doesn't quite mesh well with the system, and I was asking how others dealt with it from the standpoint of non game changing methods to deal with or ignore the issue. Here's an example. Let's just take a 30 year old character with the soldier background. They joined the military at a relatively young age of 16-17, etc. In those 14 or so years they've seen many battles (large, small, helms deep or whatever), many wars and have led many men and progressed through the ranks. For whatever plot reason they are no longer a soldier and are now a level 1 adventurer who is now all of a sudden dungeon fodder. My example isn't as far out as yours, and can fit reasonably with the background in the PHB, the characters age and possibly some of the campaign plot. However as soon as you come to the table it's a little disappointing when the reality hits that you're level 1 and pretty weak. RP wise the system really seems more suited towards a character being some young up and coming noob than a character with some actual depth and experience. The mechanics of the system are fine, it's just a personal annoyance that detracts me from the atmosphere of character and story in the early levels and makes everything feel very lackluster and boring until the character can start to do something that actually makes them feel like heroes. I just disliked being pigeonholed into rolling a boring green eared child simply because it suits the nature of being low level... [/QUOTE]
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