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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6818944" data-attributes="member: 29398">You're somewhat misreading me.There's a big difference between another *player* being equal and another *character* being equal.&nbsp; And yes, I'm sometimes a bit more competitive in how I play than your group is, depending on the character I'm running at the time: some of them flat-out DO want to be bigger badder and better than the rest of the schlubs they adventure with.&nbsp; Others don't care at all about such things.As a player I don't see it as &quot;suffering&quot; if the new character I'm bringing in to an established party is a level or two below the average.&nbsp; I'm the new recruit, after all; the rookie on the team who while having some experience and training still has some ropes to learn, and so I'd better get on with learning them.&nbsp; Using someone's football analogy for a moment, if my team is losing Peyton Manning as its QB (let's say for these purposes I don't have a backup ready to jump into the starting role) I'm going to be replacing him with either a draft pick right out of college or some other team's cast-off.&nbsp; Either way it's almost certainly going to be a downgrade for a few years until and unless the new guy learns the game and becomes the next Peyton.I don't see this as unfair in the slightest.Well, not exactly right but close enough for these purposes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Whoever it was who accused me of always wanting new characters to come in at raw 1st level is, however, in error.&nbsp; Once the party average gets to around 4th the floor goes to 2nd (though if the party is all 4th a new one would come in at 3rd anyway); right now in the party I DM with a 6-9 level range the floor is 5th.Lan-&quot;thanks for the support, [MENTION=55178]Nytmare[/MENTION]&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 6818944, member: 29398"] You're somewhat misreading me. There's a big difference between another *player* being equal and another *character* being equal. And yes, I'm sometimes a bit more competitive in how I play than your group is, depending on the character I'm running at the time: some of them flat-out DO want to be bigger badder and better than the rest of the schlubs they adventure with. Others don't care at all about such things. As a player I don't see it as "suffering" if the new character I'm bringing in to an established party is a level or two below the average. I'm the new recruit, after all; the rookie on the team who while having some experience and training still has some ropes to learn, and so I'd better get on with learning them. Using someone's football analogy for a moment, if my team is losing Peyton Manning as its QB (let's say for these purposes I don't have a backup ready to jump into the starting role) I'm going to be replacing him with either a draft pick right out of college or some other team's cast-off. Either way it's almost certainly going to be a downgrade for a few years until and unless the new guy learns the game and becomes the next Peyton. I don't see this as unfair in the slightest. Well, not exactly right but close enough for these purposes. :) Whoever it was who accused me of always wanting new characters to come in at raw 1st level is, however, in error. Once the party average gets to around 4th the floor goes to 2nd (though if the party is all 4th a new one would come in at 3rd anyway); right now in the party I DM with a 6-9 level range the floor is 5th. Lan-"thanks for the support, [MENTION=55178]Nytmare[/MENTION]"-efan [/QUOTE]

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