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<blockquote data-quote="Kaychsea" data-source="post: 6531259" data-attributes="member: 70176">I've had experience of both start at the beginning and current level. Back in the day (AD&amp;D) there was a campaign that ran on the other table from ours, on the rare occasion that we had no DM they were happy enough to let us in on the game, but we started with 1st level characters. As they were 10-12th level we would last half an hour or so. They also had a rule about your next character being at the same level, but at minimum experience. I think I played with then three times and never had a sniff of second level. In a 3e campaign the rule was that your next character was the same level, which lead to a race to the trap whenever someone came back with a much better optimised character for the level. One session when I wasn't at the table the DM ended up with a TPK in a bar brawl. Neither was a particularly successful experience from my perspective.In an ideal world I'd start people at first, and I have a group that are happy with that. It does seem less of an issue in 5e that 3e for instance. As a compromise starting them at the start of that tier would seem a more forgiving fit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaychsea, post: 6531259, member: 70176"] I've had experience of both start at the beginning and current level. Back in the day (AD&D) there was a campaign that ran on the other table from ours, on the rare occasion that we had no DM they were happy enough to let us in on the game, but we started with 1st level characters. As they were 10-12th level we would last half an hour or so. They also had a rule about your next character being at the same level, but at minimum experience. I think I played with then three times and never had a sniff of second level. In a 3e campaign the rule was that your next character was the same level, which lead to a race to the trap whenever someone came back with a much better optimised character for the level. One session when I wasn't at the table the DM ended up with a TPK in a bar brawl. Neither was a particularly successful experience from my perspective. In an ideal world I'd start people at first, and I have a group that are happy with that. It does seem less of an issue in 5e that 3e for instance. As a compromise starting them at the start of that tier would seem a more forgiving fit. [/QUOTE]

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