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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camelot" data-source="post: 4826779" data-attributes="member: 82617">I've noticed that when starting out early in level 1, having bought equipment with 100 gp like the PH tells you, the players aren't that good, and early character death is a real danger.  When character death happens, it seems reasonable to give the player's new character equal equipment worth the value of the dead player's equipment. However, consulting the DMG, a new character at a higher level has way more stuff than a player who actually played up to that level could ever dream of having!  If you made a level 1 character using the rules in the DMG, this superchar would have two magic items levels 1 and 2 and all the starting gear they wanted.  That is way more than 100 gp worth. Now, it seems unfair when, for example, at level 3 a player dies and then the new character is superpowered from so many items compared to the others.  What if every player, at level 1 started with this abundance of items?  It would level off the playing field, and give them the level 1 items that they would never find according to the treasure parcels!  I haven't tried it out yet, but I'm thinking of proposing this as a viable idea.  What is your experience with starting gear and new characters in 4e?</blockquote>