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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bandreus" data-source="post: 4099512" data-attributes="member: 60831">I don't see PoL as a great issue. You can think at it like low mid age europe. Maybe communities start rising in the most comfortable corners of the land, near rivers, lakes, the sea, where the soil makes harvesting or farming easier, near valuable resources, on hills or other locations that make self defence more effective. The known world is generally supposed to be not a densely populated place (at least by civilized/benevolent species), so settlements tend to be far from one another and mostly indipendent.OTOH, I don't think this should necessary mean coomunities are that small to lack for the most basic facilities. Given that the World is largely wild and dangerous, I find it perfectly natural, even for the small towns, to set up their own institutions. Without the strenght to train trein own forces, how could that tiny point of light survive to the surrounding darkness?Also the PoL thing does not seem to be paired with a low-magic assumption, wich would seem to fit it quite naturaly. I just took the new core setting as a way for WotC to easily bring more action and adventure to players and DMs. You can quickly mold the world to fit your needs without having to design a lot of stuff before playing.The power for 1st level chars is something more tricky. Every class is going to have a lot of power from the start so, even with good backgrounds, players who want to play their way up from the paesant to the growing hero carreer may really have an hard time. Even if we can assume that the basic folk are capable to fight for their life in a dangerous environment, what we know now tells us that 1st lvl PCs are clearly well above the average townspeople more than they were in previous editions.It would be nice to have something like optional 0lvl characters to be able to roleplay your early hero-wannabe life. But that's something I'll start to think about when I read the full classes</blockquote>

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