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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 215062" data-attributes="member: 463">Oh no, I agree with Hong... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Yep, depending on your playing style you may well find that it's best to start PCs off at 3rd or even 4th level.  In my own campaign world Ea, I recently twice tried to start campaigns at 1st level - and the party got crushed both times.  I couldn't seem to reduce the inherent deadliness enough to make it survivable.  Eventually I started the campaign with PCs of ca 4th-5th level (depending on XP allocation after transfer from another campaign - new PCs got half the XP total of their PCs from the other campaign) and this has worked great.Also, when a new player who hadn't played 3e at all joined the existing campaign  recently, he got to play a 5th level sorcerer who soon reached 6th level - fireball heaven!  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> He got to have a fantastic time and is now totally hooked.  The hard slog up from 1st level might not have had the same effect.  I do severely limit starting magic in my game - PCs start with gear of value equal to 'typical treasure for an encounter of their level' - 1200 gp for 4th level - enough to afford decent mundane kit, but not much in the way of magic - and I think this makes starting with higher-level PCs easier; I can run adventures for a couple of levels lower than their actual level and it works ok - advancement isn't too fast, the games are tough but survivable, and the magic gained remains fairly low.</blockquote>

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