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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meatboy" data-source="post: 5578925" data-attributes="member: 40857">For me how "heroic" first level is is entirely dependent on the campaign. If the world operates under the assumption that most npcs are low level, with most being level one and a few being a tad higher. Then by default the heroes must be something special. They are special people taking steps into the big league. They are the ones that go out and slay the level 3 brigand leader. Why? because they are some of the few people who can. At level 3 he might not be that much of threat compared to demons or dragons but to 90% of the general population he is one bad mofo. He is not generic bandit guy. He is Theron the Crimson Fury King of Bandits! and he owns the wilds between the Ash Spire Peaks and the Low Woods and the heroes even though they are level one are the only guys around, short of an army, that can go stop him.If on the other hand you have something like Planescape where demons, angels, demigods and the like are all interacting or even something like Forgotten realms where there is a plethora of high level characters walking around taking care of business then level one characters are just mooks who without some serious love from the DM will probably meet an untimely demise at the hands, or claws, of nearly anything that meanders around the campaign setting.</blockquote>