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<blockquote data-quote="belegost" data-source="post: 506449" data-attributes="member: 7571">I don't like to completely skip the early levels because, as others have pointed out, so much character definition is done at this point.&nbsp; It makes sense for a level 1 PC to be &quot;finding&quot; oneself more than a new 5th level character.&nbsp; I prefer to have mid-level characters fleshed out through game play not just background stories.In one case with an experienced group, we handled the situation by skipping ahead on the time line.&nbsp; In our campaign there was a gap of about six months (game time) where the characters were off doing some various tasks that included adventuring.&nbsp; Moving time along was important but we didn't want to roleplay the events.&nbsp; This gave us the opportunity to speed up the leveling process as experience was given to the PCs for their actions during this non-role played time.&nbsp; It was a happy medium for this group that wanted time to flesh out their characters during play but didn't want to spend all the time playing out the early levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="belegost, post: 506449, member: 7571"] I don't like to completely skip the early levels because, as others have pointed out, so much character definition is done at this point. It makes sense for a level 1 PC to be "finding" oneself more than a new 5th level character. I prefer to have mid-level characters fleshed out through game play not just background stories. In one case with an experienced group, we handled the situation by skipping ahead on the time line. In our campaign there was a gap of about six months (game time) where the characters were off doing some various tasks that included adventuring. Moving time along was important but we didn't want to roleplay the events. This gave us the opportunity to speed up the leveling process as experience was given to the PCs for their actions during this non-role played time. It was a happy medium for this group that wanted time to flesh out their characters during play but didn't want to spend all the time playing out the early levels. [/QUOTE]

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