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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibram" data-source="post: 1610834" data-attributes="member: 17640">Its hardly cheating to start a character at 2+ levels, as long as everyone else starts has the same starting level.Honestly I dont even run 1st level games anymore, my games usualy start at 3-4 levels (I'm one of those who sees 1st level as being the realm of punk kids).As others have pointed out I cannot realy see how much impact a 1st level character would have in a party of 10 level characters.  He cannot tank for the party because most CR 10 creatures have little trouble dooing 20 damage in a round (which is more then most 1st level characters could have).  He cant be fire support with missiles or spells becaues the armor and saves of a CR 10 creature is more then enough to ingore a 1st level spell or attack.  He cant even be a buff/healing charcter: his buff spells wont last long and he wount be able to do enough healing (I cast all my healing spells so you get back 14hp! oh ok, then I'm still down 90 hp).thats not to say that if a player came to me and said that they wanted to play a 1st level I'd automaticly say no.  I'd just be very careful to explain the difficulties posed by being a punk kid following a group of master swordsmen.</blockquote>