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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abirdcall" data-source="post: 6808600" data-attributes="member: 6748898">What you aren't understanding is that it is not a penalty.If I missed a couple sessions and I was told my character was now a higher level I would be pissed. That would be a large penalty to me. Not only did I miss the games, I missed the opportunity to progress my character in the story.We play different games and have different preferences.Character creation is not influenced by what level they are going to be. We use a Tarokka deck to suggest events and traits and do random stats in order. It's not for everyone, but we find that it creates unique and interesting characters.I have never been one for high level play. In 3.x I used the e6 variant because of how the game broke down at those levels.I am excited to play higher levels in 5e though I still have no desire to go past 15. If the party is 13th level I would rather wait for the campaign to finish before introducing a new player. Irrevocable character death would be rare and if there was a TPK at that point I think it would be a good place to stop. So realistically the biggest gap would be at around 11th level. I haven't introduced new characters there, but I have a feeling that a 5th level character would be fine in a party where the highest level is 11.I know others (even in this thread) have done it and said that it was fine.</blockquote>