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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 6485773" data-attributes="member: 1210">Softy. I start all new pcs at 1st level with standard first-level starting gear.If you can't handle losing a character in a game in which there are rules for losing a character, perhaps you're playing the wrong game. Or perhaps you need to find a group that is more aligned with your playstyle. There's nothing wrong with that.What's wrong is insisting that yours is the only correct playstyle. Let's just stop that, please. Only that you let new pcs start at 10th level. Not in my (5 editions + basic, 34 year long) experience. Pcs come and go. I've never lost a player this way. Not once. And just about every player I've ever had in my games, with maybe a couple of very short-term players as exceptions, has lost one or more pcs over time. The fact is, I have had people move to a new town to get back into my game after I relocated. I've got a guy who wants to fly me across the country to run games for him. I've got a waiting list of people wanting in my game, and that's despite the fact that I'm running two separate groups of players and four different groups of pcs concurrently, and I've always had a waiting list, excepting a few months when I was in a new town and hadn't yet built up a network of people. Do you realize that, in the old days, a TPK was the typical way that a given group ended? There wasn't much of the modern &quot;we finished the story, hurray!&quot; stuff until 2e. Before then- for well over a decade- D&amp;D groups played until they dissolved (cuz life) or until they TPKed. And you know what happened then? Everyone grabbed the dice and rolled new characters. Oh noes! We have to make new pcs! Well, I've always wondered what a dwarf fighter/thief would be like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 6485773, member: 1210"] Softy. I start all new pcs at 1st level with standard first-level starting gear. If you can't handle losing a character in a game in which there are rules for losing a character, perhaps you're playing the wrong game. Or perhaps you need to find a group that is more aligned with your playstyle. There's nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is [i]insisting that yours is the only correct playstyle.[/i] Let's just stop that, please. Only that you let new pcs start at 10th level. Not in my (5 editions + basic, 34 year long) experience. Pcs come and go. I've never lost a player this way. Not once. And just about every player I've ever had in my games, with maybe a couple of very short-term players as exceptions, has lost one or more pcs over time. The fact is, I have had people move to a new town to get back into my game after I relocated. I've got a guy who wants to fly me across the country to run games for him. I've got a waiting list of people wanting in my game, and that's despite the fact that I'm running two separate groups of players and four different groups of pcs concurrently, and I've [i]always[/i] had a waiting list, excepting a few months when I was in a new town and hadn't yet built up a network of people. Do you realize that, in the old days, a TPK was the typical way that a given group ended? There wasn't much of the modern "we finished the story, hurray!" stuff until 2e. Before then- for well over a decade- D&D groups played until they dissolved (cuz life) or until they TPKed. And you know what happened then? [i]Everyone grabbed the dice and rolled new characters.[/i] Oh noes! We have to make new pcs! Well, I've always wondered what a dwarf fighter/thief would be like. [/QUOTE]

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