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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9722355" data-attributes="member: 3400">We don't see a lot of disparity in levels in 5e these days since we level by milestone in our home games, but in cases where I have seen it (Adventurer's League) it hasn't been a particularly big deal. PCs at the lower end of the tier matched with higher end suffer only a little in the comparison and mostly just seem to need more frequent healing than anything else.This is a pretty stark contrast with 3e/PF - there, the difference is easily noticed and felt.When we played AD&amp;D (many years ago), varying levels were common. But pretty much no matter how many levels ahead they were, thieves still kind of sucked. They never really ran away with power or anything because the class was so poorly done. So 14th level thief with 8-9th level party? Worked just fine.All that said, I do prefer PCs to be the same level because it makes my job as DM easier. I'm glad WotC got rid of any attempt to balance different classes by their XP to level up - it never worked well in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 9722355, member: 3400"] We don't see a lot of disparity in levels in 5e these days since we level by milestone in our home games, but in cases where I have seen it (Adventurer's League) it hasn't been a particularly big deal. PCs at the lower end of the tier matched with higher end suffer only a little in the comparison and mostly just seem to need more frequent healing than anything else. This is a pretty stark contrast with 3e/PF - there, the difference is easily noticed and felt. When we played AD&D (many years ago), varying levels were common. But pretty much no matter how many levels ahead they were, thieves still kind of sucked. They never really ran away with power or anything because the class was so poorly done. So 14th level thief with 8-9th level party? Worked just fine. All that said, I [B]do[/B] prefer PCs to be the same level because it makes my job as DM easier. I'm glad WotC got rid of any attempt to balance different classes by their XP to level up - it never worked well in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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