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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7011802" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Sorry to respond to just one part of your post here (I'll consider and respond to the rest later), but since I play with heterogenous PC levels a lot and you say that avoiding it is a critical decision factor for you avoiding something you'd like to do--because something you speak of as infeasible is something that works perfectly well for me, I'm interested to know what kind of a mess you believe it makes. I'm not saying it doesn't, just that I want to understand you more fully.As far as I can tell, heterogenous PC levels makes very little difference in 5E. You can have 14th level PCs in the same party with 8th level PCs and 3rd level NPCs, and it works, thanks to bounded accuracy. Everyone contributes, no one is useless, and even the 3rd level NPC Sorceress with a Con score of 6 (IIRC) and only 8 HP manages not to get killed.(Well, okay, she did get killed eventually, but that was due to friendly fire Fireball from an insane Grey Slaad. And somehow she got raised anyway, I forget how.)You could take your average 13th level party and drop in a 5rd level Moon Druid, and the Moon Druid would have a valuable role to play and a valuable niche. Ditto for a 3rd level Shadow Monk or a 5th level Rogue.Such is my experience anyway. I'm interested to know in what ways yours differs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7011802, member: 6787650"] Sorry to respond to just one part of your post here (I'll consider and respond to the rest later), but since I play with heterogenous PC levels a [I]lot [/I]and you say that avoiding it is a critical decision factor for you avoiding something you'd like to do--because something you speak of as infeasible is something that works perfectly well for me, I'm interested to know what kind of a mess you believe it makes. I'm not saying it doesn't, just that I want to understand you more fully. As far as I can tell, heterogenous PC levels makes very little difference in 5E. You can have 14th level PCs in the same party with 8th level PCs and 3rd level NPCs, and it works, thanks to bounded accuracy. Everyone contributes, no one is useless, and even the 3rd level NPC Sorceress with a Con score of 6 (IIRC) and only 8 HP manages not to get killed. (Well, okay, she did get killed eventually, but that was due to friendly fire Fireball from an insane Grey Slaad. And somehow she got raised anyway, I forget how.) You could take your average 13th level party and drop in a 5rd level Moon Druid, and the Moon Druid would have a valuable role to play and a valuable niche. Ditto for a 3rd level Shadow Monk or a 5th level Rogue. Such is my experience anyway. I'm interested to know in what ways yours differs. [/QUOTE]

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