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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5046697" data-attributes="member: 2205">Stop right there.  How is anyone's expectation altered?If I say, and I'll requote, "roll up first level characters; we'll play a few sessions, maybe level up once or twice and be done" then everybody's expectations are put forward from the get-go.  To me, this is no different than setting expections about, for instance, what campaign setting we'll be using, or something like that.  "Forgotten Realms vs. Greyhawk vs. Eberron" or whatever.More and more I've come to see the level system of D&D less as a ladder that a character is supposed to climb from 1st to 20th (or 30th if you play 4e) and more as a power-setting guide for DMs.</blockquote>