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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9374958" data-attributes="member: 6684958">This.&nbsp; When you play D&amp;D and start with 1st level characters....it still feels like D&amp;D.&nbsp; A lot of this is how you play D&amp;D.&nbsp; It is common for modern players to ask to start at a level above 1st.&nbsp; A lot of players want to start at 5th, 7th or 10th level and above.&nbsp; The traditional player in a traditional game, just about always started at 1st level.And back in 1 and 2 E D&amp;D....you could be 1st level for at least a year of real time.&nbsp; And this was also the time of rolling for everything, and keeping anything rolled.....so yes you had 1st level characters with 3 or 4 hit points.&nbsp; For a year of game play.In the world of 1e/2e this was very much true.&nbsp; As first level characters, anything with a couple of points of AC was near impossible to hit.&nbsp; But the first level spell Magic Missie could hit Anything.&nbsp; Once.&nbsp; Maybe twice. And then fireball was a big deal...with it's 5d6 damage...it could take out one big monster....and much more often a group of monsters...even if it only did like 25 points of damage.Also, another thing that is not popular any more is the one class D&amp;D.&nbsp; Like a group of fighters.&nbsp; They won't have much or any magic...even more so in 1/2E when magic weapons were rare and not 3E and after when it was &quot;each character must me a Holiday Tree full of magic items&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9374958, member: 6684958"] This. When you play D&D and start with 1st level characters....it still feels like D&D. A lot of this is how you play D&D. It is common for modern players to ask to start at a level above 1st. A lot of players want to start at 5th, 7th or 10th level and above. The traditional player in a traditional game, just about always started at 1st level. And back in 1 and 2 E D&D....you could be 1st level for at least a year of real time. And this was also the time of rolling for everything, and keeping anything rolled.....so yes you had 1st level characters with 3 or 4 hit points. For a year of game play. In the world of 1e/2e this was very much true. As first level characters, anything with a couple of points of AC was near impossible to hit. But the first level spell Magic Missie could hit Anything. Once. Maybe twice. And then fireball was a big deal...with it's 5d6 damage...it could take out one big monster....and much more often a group of monsters...even if it only did like 25 points of damage. Also, another thing that is not popular any more is the one class D&D. Like a group of fighters. They won't have much or any magic...even more so in 1/2E when magic weapons were rare and not 3E and after when it was "each character must me a Holiday Tree full of magic items". [/QUOTE]

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