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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7216291" data-attributes="member: 12731">You could say it's "broken" at first level, because all notions of balance and fairness are thrown out the window - the second your DM rolls a 20 on a monster attack, you're probably dead, and there's almost nothing you can do about it.But if you (non-jokingly) think it's too easy at low levels, I really can't help you - that's where the game actually works. And by works, I specifically mean that it's easy fun and straight-forward to truly challenge the players. And by challenge, I mean in combat. (Since that's where 99% of the design and balance effort is put. Out of combat you could easily argue the game works just as well - or not - at level 1 as at level 20)Also at low levels, the world around the heroes can still threaten them, meaning you don't necessarily need to pull out fantastical monsters or nasty spellcasters. (Which, as we're discussing here, gets in short supply as you level up)Low-level heroes do not yet have so many hit points and so many tricks (and so many sleeves!) that it starts to become a real problem, yet they have enough hit points and enough tricks that they usually can rebound from a set-back: getting critted doesn't necessarily mean death, your buddies can help you out when you fail an important save, and so on. The first thing is good for us DMs. The second thing is good for players, who obviously like it when failure only/mostly happens when you did something rash/stupid/in character rather than just having bad dice luck.</blockquote>

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