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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8310552" data-attributes="member: 6687260">Starting games at higher levels is always going to be an issue for people, precisely because it's higher levels.Games tend to work more efficiently closer to the beginning and lose efficiency and gain complexity as you work through them.&nbsp; It's almost impossible to avoid unless you stop giving players new things, or only give them improvements that are scaling effects of old things.&nbsp; But players don't want that, they want new things.Really, the best way to handle high level play, if you only want to focus on high level play, is to make a game where level 1 is effectively 10th level or 15th level, or in other words a starting character is as simple mechanically as a 1st level character (or more likely a 3rd level one).Short of that, it's appeal is always going to be less, and the number of players will always drop off.I do feel there is a gap in the market for a D&amp;Dalike game that focuses specifically on this tier of play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8310552, member: 6687260"] Starting games at higher levels is always going to be an issue for people, precisely because it's higher levels. Games tend to work more efficiently closer to the beginning and lose efficiency and gain complexity as you work through them. It's almost impossible to avoid unless you stop giving players new things, or only give them improvements that are scaling effects of old things. But players don't want that, they want new things. Really, the best way to handle high level play, if you only want to focus on high level play, is to make a game where level 1 is effectively 10th level or 15th level, or in other words a starting character is as simple mechanically as a 1st level character (or more likely a 3rd level one). Short of that, it's appeal is always going to be less, and the number of players will always drop off. I do feel there is a gap in the market for a D&Dalike game that focuses specifically on this tier of play. [/QUOTE]

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