Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
I think it's safe to say that your experience, if this was your experience, was distinctly anomalous. 4e isn't the first edition of D&D to have workable rules for 1st level PC's. In fact, it's the 4th (or 5th or 6th depending on how you slice an "edition").
Depends on what you consider workable..
Of passed editions I only played AD&D ... Not only dont you start a hero it was pretty explicit with experience points being many times more plentiful if you were inclined to be a coward and sneak thief that "fighting evil" was not only ultra dangerous it was out right disapproved behavior.
The hero of AD&D might have been a post 60s nerd identification hero... "fighting" is bad "see the war" ... and "wizards" will rule the world... once they do there time getting sand kicked in there face.
At least in personality and style wise your character needed to act like a sneaky frightened greedy character or end up meat on a platter fast.
I dont think there is anything technically wrong with that but it isnt heroic by my standards.
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