D&D 4E What level (APL) will you start your first 4E campaign?

[tlantl]

I know that when I start using the new edition I will have everyone write new characters. I want to get the basics down and have everyone learning the rules together. When we are familiar with the game mechanics and are comfortable with everything, or have rewritten the things we don't like, I will have them convert their old characters so we can use them in new adventures, or continue where they left off if they were in the middle of something.

I like to have several different character groups going at once so I don't get burned out writing for the same characters all the time. High level adventures are a drain since they are full of added complexity and harder to design good challenges for on a weekly basis. Premade modules need too much tweaking to be of much use to me. Something one would think would be a time saver usually turns into more work than they are worth. Often it is easier to take the plot and setting and rewrite the details to fit with the lore and location of the area the party involved is playing in.

A fresh start For me and mine.

 

[just__al]

I voted first. I've been starting 3.5 campaigns at 2nd level but with 0 XP so you'd go a while before hitting 3rd level... Just for the survivability.

That's the most brilliant idea I've seen today. I can't believe it never occurred to me.

Why thank you.

 

[Black Knight Irios]

I've voted for 1st level.

But I think it will be one 1st level group I will Coop-DM with a friend and a Conversion of an old group in which I'm currently playing.

Personally I think starting at level 1 is a good thing to do in a new Edition of a game, especially if some players of your group seem to need extremely long, to get accustomed to the rules.

 

[Sun Knight]

If I was to start a new 4e campaign I would have to make the characters be below 1st level since 1st level 4e characters are over powered for being a bunch of newbies.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Like the vast majority of voters, my group will start at 1st level. I think this is the best way to learn a new system.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Nikosandros]

Another vote for 1st level. Supposedly the feel of low levels will change quite a bit and I want to see how it works.

Besides, I'm not currently playing 3.5 (except maybe for a few one shots), so I won't have anything to convert.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

If I was to start a new 4e campaign I would have to make the characters be below 1st level since 1st level 4e characters are over powered for being a bunch of newbies.

Really? Interesting. Since you've got the PHB almost a year early, would you mind emailing me the Tiefling abilities? I'd like to take inspiration from it for a racial class for a 3.5 game, and I like most of the public don't have a copy of 4e in order to make accurate judgments about its power level.

If you're cool with doing so I'll give my address. I get enough spam as it is.

 

[Sun Knight]

In another thread it was stated that the power level of a 1st level character in 4e will be the equivelent to the power of a 3rd to 4th level character, which is too powerful for a newbie.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

the power of a 3rd to 4th level character, which is too powerful for a newbie.

Yes because their head would EXPLODE.

+4 to hit! Melf's Acid Arrow? Argh! *Stabs DM in the neck*

 

[Sun Knight]

Your incoherent babble fails to impress.