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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 1812734" data-attributes="member: 1165">I start at 3rd-level, with point-buy.I think wizards and clerics don't get any really cool spells until that level anyway (1st-level clerics are especially painful in this regard), and it's hard to expect heroes to be heroic when the town guard can kick their butt. Really, why bother doing anything when there's a lot of people better than you?I was in a 2nd-level party when we were attacked by giant scorpions - I think they were Small, but that's still way too big for a scorpion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Our camels saved our butts, with the silly -5 to hit (camels are agressive) and everything. They hurt one of the scorpions, set up flanking (very necessary with our wimpy attack bonuses) and, of course, this really helped our rogue.It also makes things a little bit easier for non-humans. I was playing a human ranger, and one reason was that we started at 1st-level. Getting Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot at 1st-level is simply impossible for a 1st-level elven ranger.</blockquote>