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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6449175" data-attributes="member: 1465">In 3e my habit was to let the player start a new PC at the beginning of the lowest PC level of the party. IOW, the new character starts at the bottom of the current party.That was definitely dictated by my fears that 3e couldn't handle a party of PC with wildly different levels, but in 5e I am more confident about this possibility. As long as the game is generally low-level, I will ask my 5e players to create a new PC at level 1, then maybe if this doesn't work well I'll let them start higher.Also, in 3e after a couple of years we settled upon level 3 being the best place to start, because it gave more room for creating interesting characters compared to level 1, particularly because of feats and spells. I'm not sure but maybe later I'll have the same feeling about 5e and always start the game at level 3 or 4.BTW this has nothing to do with how much mortality I want in my games... that's another matter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6449175, member: 1465"] In 3e my habit was to let the player start a new PC at the beginning of the lowest PC level of the party. IOW, the new character starts at the bottom [I]of the current party[/I]. That was definitely dictated by my fears that 3e couldn't handle a party of PC with wildly different levels, but in 5e I am more confident about this possibility. As long as the game is generally low-level, I will ask my 5e players to create a new PC at level 1, then maybe if this doesn't work well I'll let them start higher. Also, in 3e after a couple of years we settled upon level 3 being the best place to start, because it gave more room for creating interesting characters compared to level 1, particularly because of feats and spells. I'm not sure but maybe later I'll have the same feeling about 5e and always start the game at level 3 or 4. BTW this has nothing to do with how much mortality I want in my games... that's another matter :) [/QUOTE]

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