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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1481042" data-attributes="member: 1465">It obviously depends on the campaign. In different times, we started at 1st, at 4th and at 8th level.First of all it depends on the players. When playing for the first time a new RPG or edition, it is a must to start at first level, so not to be overwhelmed with options and abilities. That is the best even if only a couple of players haven't played before.When the group was already made of people who had been playing 3rd edition before, we once started from 1st anyway, but the other times we just decided to start a little later, since we were already quite accustomed to low-level spells and tactics. In general, I think that the higher the level, the more difficult to play, and therefore I noticed that experienced players often feel a little bored to start again at first level, if they plan to play their favored kind character...As a DM, there are advantages as well, likr for example that the characters already have a "history" which gives me reason to assign them quests without doing the same old tavern-meeting prologue  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Furthermore, as a DM I don't like the idea of having magic-walmarts around to world to buy any magic items you want, but instead I never let put limitations on the starting gear: this way, a player of mine can have a pearl of power / headband of intellect / bead of karma if we start at level high enough, just by coming up with a simple reason why he has it. "My granma left it to me before she died" is still better than buying it in a shop  <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" /> Another reason was to give someone the chance to play her old character from previous adventures again without going back to level 1.I would never suggest to start after level 1 if you have a beginner in the group because he/she would probably feel like she cannot catch up with the other players. If I had just one newbie in the group, I'd take advantage of starting from 1 to try some character class that I have never tried before.</blockquote>

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