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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 504909" data-attributes="member: 8461">If I know that the next campaign Im starting is one that will meet regularly and last for a while, I have the players start out at level 1.Beyond that, its much cooler to start with heroes who have more levels under their belt, usually at least level 5, maybe more. To me, this denotes many novels and comic books where, even in the beginning, the heroes start out with a respectable degree of power. Heck, in FCTF, one of my favorite game products to date, it talks all about this with taking Hero levels (and not letting the players take any more levels of Hero) for games with a more action-comic feel to them. I personally find it also helps for developing an exciting backstory ("now, tell us what your character did to gain those first x levels that he's starting with"), with villains, exploits, previous haunts, etc.</blockquote>