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<blockquote data-quote="Zinovia" data-source="post: 4120866" data-attributes="member: 57373">This.&nbsp; It's fine for a group of experienced players to accept that their characters are just a bunch of red-shirts waiting to be given season contracts if they pan out, otherwise they get eaten by the alien and replaced with another up-and-coming actor.&nbsp; Players should have a good experience from the beginning, and the default should be whatever experience *most* people will find fun.&nbsp; Consider how many 3.5 games started at second or higher level compared to the number that started as escaped slaves wearing nothing but loincloths and carrying rocks.&nbsp; 4E has set the starting level such that your character is already a hero and can do some pretty neat stuff.&nbsp; It would be trivial to scale that down if you want to play commoners with barely the skill to pound dirt.&nbsp; Some people enjoy watching the growth of their characters from that stage of ineptitude, but I don't feel it should be the default.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zinovia, post: 4120866, member: 57373"] This. It's fine for a group of experienced players to accept that their characters are just a bunch of red-shirts waiting to be given season contracts if they pan out, otherwise they get eaten by the alien and replaced with another up-and-coming actor. Players should have a good experience from the beginning, and the default should be whatever experience *most* people will find fun. Consider how many 3.5 games started at second or higher level compared to the number that started as escaped slaves wearing nothing but loincloths and carrying rocks. 4E has set the starting level such that your character is already a hero and can do some pretty neat stuff. It would be trivial to scale that down if you want to play commoners with barely the skill to pound dirt. Some people enjoy watching the growth of their characters from that stage of ineptitude, but I don't feel it should be the default. [/QUOTE]

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