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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6111199" data-attributes="member: 61026">Here's another oddball idea about having &quot;Apprentice&quot; levels below nominal &quot;Level 1&quot;: Since most PCs will be started at what WotC is now calling Level 3 (according to the article), and WotC would want most new players to begin at the same level, so the newbies could learn the game as played by most other people who are playing it, WotC should treat the &quot;Apprentice&quot; levels as at least a Standard (and possibly an Advanced) option -- with the common starting point (called &quot;Level 3&quot; in the article) renamed to &quot;Level 1,&quot; and: Two (optional) earlier &quot;Apprentice&quot; levels numbered &quot;0&quot; and &quot;0+&quot;, with hit points allocated thus: Level 0: You're not yet a member of any class, so you don't yet have any Hit Dice. What you have, instead, is 1 hit point for being alive, plus a &quot;Racial Health Die&quot; (RHD)*. You roll you RHD and add its result to your 1 HP for being alive, and that is you number of hit points at &quot;Level 0.&quot; (You do not add your Constitution modifier, so there is no chance of dying during character creation). Level 0+: You have begun training in what will become your class, so you have gained a Hit Die; however, you don't yet maximize it. Instead, you roll you Hit Die, maximize your RHD, add your Constitution modifier, and add your 1 HP for being alive; the result is your number of hit points at &quot;Level 0+.&quot; Level 1: You're finally well-trained enough to be considered an starting adventurer having a chosen class. You add your 1 &quot;alive&quot; HP to your Constitution modifier and your maximized RHD and your maximized 1 Hit Die; the result is your number of hit points at &quot;Level 1.&quot; Could that work? * I envision Pixies as having RHD=1d4; Elves and Gnomes as having RHD=1d6; Humans and Halflings as having RHD=1d8; Dwarves as having RHD=1d10; and maybe Half-Orcs as having RHD=1d12. The scale could adjust as needed; that's just a first, &quot;off-the-top-of-my-head&quot; suggestion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6111199, member: 61026"] Here's another oddball idea about having "Apprentice" levels below nominal "Level 1": Since most PCs will be started at what WotC is now calling Level 3 (according to the article), and WotC would want most new players to begin at the same level, so the newbies could learn the game as played by most other people who are playing it, WotC should treat the "Apprentice" levels as at least a Standard (and possibly an Advanced) option -- with the common starting point (called "Level 3" in the article) renamed to "Level 1," and: Two (optional) earlier "Apprentice" levels numbered "0" and "0+", with hit points allocated thus: Level 0: You're not yet a member of any class, so you don't yet have any Hit Dice. What you have, instead, is 1 hit point for being alive, plus a "Racial Health Die" (RHD)*. You roll you RHD and add its result to your 1 HP for being alive, and that is you number of hit points at "Level 0." (You do [I]not[/I] add your Constitution modifier, so there is no chance of dying during character creation). Level 0+: You have begun training in what will become your class, so you have gained a Hit Die; however, you don't yet maximize it. Instead, you roll you Hit Die, maximize your RHD, add your Constitution modifier, and add your 1 HP for being alive; the result is your number of hit points at "Level 0+." Level 1: You're finally well-trained enough to be considered an starting adventurer having a chosen class. You add your 1 "alive" HP to your Constitution modifier and your maximized RHD and your maximized 1 Hit Die; the result is your number of hit points at "Level 1." Could that work? * I envision Pixies as having RHD=1d4; Elves and Gnomes as having RHD=1d6; Humans and Halflings as having RHD=1d8; Dwarves as having RHD=1d10; and maybe Half-Orcs as having RHD=1d12. The scale could adjust as needed; that's just a first, "off-the-top-of-my-head" suggestion. [/QUOTE]

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