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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 308560" data-attributes="member: 413">Just to point something out...if all the lowest level characters hang back, inevitably the higher level ones will be forced up front and will die.  Then the lower level ones move up...The cycle will continue and the game will languish with the average PC level around 3rd or so.  If you want the party to get to higher levels, either the game has to be decidedly non-lethal or PCs must eventually start higher than 1st level.My advice:  As others have said, take your DM aside after a game and tell him how you feel.  Start off by telling him what you _LIKE_ about the game.  What is it that make you want to keep coming back?  Then...tell him what you don't like.  Tell him that insta-kill traps (one in every dungeon?  Really?) ruins the fun.  Playing a 1st level character in a 4th or 5th level party isn't very interesting.   As a player, we all want to feel like we make a difference.  A first level PC among mid-to-high level PCs will rarely make a difference.  The game is supposed to be fun, not the DMs vision of how it should be...If I was in a party of 5th level characters and died and was told to make a new 1st level character, I'd say "I'll just watch then."  Seriously...I would simply refuse to play saying that I want to play a hero, not a lacky.And don't forget: you players have some power here...if all the players who are unhappy with the situation refuse to take part until a better rule for creating new characters is introduced, then the DM will be forced to either find new players or compromise.</blockquote>

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