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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 3674053" data-attributes="member: 17106">Most people want to play mighty heroes in their escapist fantasy roleplaying games. 1-2 level characters are not mighty heroes. They die too easily and are totally unable to handle a variety of challenges. They don't know much about the world or about themselves, either in character or out. Mechanically, they're boring.The question I ask myself when determining campaign starting level is like what you'd ask yourself before doing any superhero story: do you want to see their origins or not? Origin stories worked great for some of the better superhero movies, so I lean towards doing them rather than jjust starting at 3 and having everyone write detailed backgrounds of how they got there. I play low-level sessions as what I call a &quot;prologue&quot; to get the group together, establish everyone's character and get them to a power level where they can realistically have a meaningful impact on the world around them. I thus consider levels 1-2 useful but I wouldn't want to DM or play preheroic characters for more than a couple sessions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 3674053, member: 17106"] Most people want to play mighty heroes in their escapist fantasy roleplaying games. 1-2 level characters are not mighty heroes. They die too easily and are totally unable to handle a variety of challenges. They don't know much about the world or about themselves, either in character or out. Mechanically, they're boring. The question I ask myself when determining campaign starting level is like what you'd ask yourself before doing any superhero story: do you want to see their origins or not? Origin stories worked great for some of the better superhero movies, so I lean towards doing them rather than jjust starting at 3 and having everyone write detailed backgrounds of how they got there. I play low-level sessions as what I call a "prologue" to get the group together, establish everyone's character and get them to a power level where they can realistically have a meaningful impact on the world around them. I thus consider levels 1-2 useful but I wouldn't want to DM or play preheroic characters for more than a couple sessions. [/QUOTE]

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