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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6449167" data-attributes="member: 66434">The other PCs in the group are all currently level 3 but not all at the same XP total. Whenever a player misses a game they have a choice of designating someone to run their character, which puts the character at risk, but also earns an XP share, or have that character left out of the session and remain safe. The reasoning for doing XP this way and bringing in all replacement characters at 1st level is to experiment with the system to see how well characters of differing levels can work together in 5E. Last week we had a player brand new to rpgs join. He rolled a 1st level tiefling fighter and joined right in with the rest of the gang. So far I like what I'm seeing of 5E as it relates to a multi-level party adventuring together. At some points we have had 1st ,2nd, and 3rd level characters all adventuring together and it has worked out well. When this campaign is over, I might end up trying something completely different for XP for the next game. Players are also a bit less foolhardy and reckless when they know that if they suicide their character and do dumb things they will have to work back up from level one. It is amazing what that does for the paying attention to what's going on factor. Seeing as I have 8 players at my table right now and more wanting to join (but no room ATM ) I don't think starting at 1st level is damaging anyone's fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 6449167, member: 66434"] The other PCs in the group are all currently level 3 but not all at the same XP total. Whenever a player misses a game they have a choice of designating someone to run their character, which puts the character at risk, but also earns an XP share, or have that character left out of the session and remain safe. The reasoning for doing XP this way and bringing in all replacement characters at 1st level is to experiment with the system to see how well characters of differing levels can work together in 5E. Last week we had a player brand new to rpgs join. He rolled a 1st level tiefling fighter and joined right in with the rest of the gang. So far I like what I'm seeing of 5E as it relates to a multi-level party adventuring together. At some points we have had 1st ,2nd, and 3rd level characters all adventuring together and it has worked out well. When this campaign is over, I might end up trying something completely different for XP for the next game. Players are also a bit less foolhardy and reckless when they know that if they suicide their character and do dumb things they will have to work back up from level one. It is amazing what that does for the paying attention to what's going on factor. Seeing as I have 8 players at my table right now and more wanting to join (but no room ATM ) I don't think starting at 1st level is damaging anyone's fun. [/QUOTE]

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