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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2111829" data-attributes="member: 26473">Me too.I was thinking about this the other day when I was working on an 11th-level NPC for our Modern PbP game - I created his life history, gave him lots of interesting experiences, dug into his personality. He is a likeable, engaging character, flawed in some ways, extremely competent in others - he'll be a lot of fun to roleplay when the time comes to introduce him to my PCs. Still, something is missing - as interesting as the experiences I created for this character are, there isn't the same sense of "I was there!" that comes from running a character through those levels from 1st to 11th. This to me is the only disadvantage to being the GM, in my opinion - you have a whole world of characters to play, which is great, but only a very few get to grow and change the way player characters do.Some people want to start out as the hero - I like my characters to become the hero.D&D characters begin at first level in the games I GM, but in d20 Modern games the characters begin at second level, as that is my default for the run-of-the-mill adult in the campaign-world, not first level.</blockquote>