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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 7022784" data-attributes="member: 6785802">I have no problem with a Paladin or Ranger getting one 1st level spell slot at 1st level. Firstly, it's the logical deduction for a half-caster to have half the spell slots of a 1st level full-caster. Second, it does provide a little bit of the flavor that paladins and rangers have. Namely, that they are spell casters.In one campaign I ran, one of the players was a monk. The PCs could be from basically anywhere but the campaign was starting in a particular place so the players had to determine how they got there and why they would be there. The monk player was from a country hundreds of miles from the starting campaign location. He was from a not-Mongol horse culture (Ethengar Khanate from the Known World). His backstory was that his ki power manifested while in a fight and he accidentally punched a lord's son to death, so he fled.Obviously, monks don't get kit at first level. But similar to giving a paladin or ranger a 1st level spell slot I gave the monk one ki per long rest. It fit with his backstory and gave him a little flavor of his distinguishing class characteristic. Personally, I'd even consider someone who knew he was going to play an Eldritch Knight or Arcane Trickster a cantrip at 1st level.I can understand why Fifth Edition is structured the way it is with short 1st and 2nd levels to give a gradual (but not overlong) introduction of their class to new players. Alternatively, you could always start all PCs at 2nd or 3rd level and call it a day. I'd  be tempted in the future to start PCs at 2nd level but with 0 xp.</blockquote>

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