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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1611091" data-attributes="member: 1465">My opinion is that 1st level is the most appropriate place to start when it is the first time the players are playing with a new ruleset: this way, they have characters with a limited set of abilities to choose from, which means that they can get used to the rules more easily. It is still the best level to start from whenever you are playing a new class, so that you get used to new features in a gradual way.From the story point of view, the 1st level already takes into account some previous training or even adventuring of the characters: a Fighter is trained enough to use every martial weapon with ease, a Wizard already knows several spells, everyone can already have 4 ranks in a skill and know many languages, and so on. In fact, that's the reason why the 1st level in a core class is typicall the one which gives the larger bulk of features.Furthermore, there are several players who like to use the "apprentice level" variant rules, because they think 1st level is already too much  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> . From this point of view, if 1st level PCs may be already in their 20s, there is nothing wrong IMHO to start playing with PCs in their 40s and perhaps 10th level... it just depends how the group of players feel about it, and is used to play that characters in that ruleset.</blockquote>

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